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The company behind Claude has put numbers on its own disruption. Anthropic’s economics team released a technical paper and an interactive tool on Wednesday, modelling the economy as bundles of tasks that AI can leave alone, assist with, automate outright or create anew, then tracing what different rates of capability and adoption would mean for growth, wages and jobs in the US. The authors are explicit that these are not forecasts as the paper reads “the scenarios are not predictions and we attach no probabilities to them.” In the modest scenario, AI turns out to be a minor technology. GDP…
By Roselyne Min with AP Published on 11/09/2026 – 7:00 GMT+2 Tokyo’s streets could soon see a new kind of ambulance, one built not for humans but for humanoid robots. Japanese IT giant GMO Internet Group revealed a van designed to carry engineers, repair equipment, replacement parts and a spare humanoid robot to a site. The company says it is the first in Japan designed specifically for humanoid robot maintenance. “The humanoid ‘ambulance’ carries the replacement humanoid to the site and replaces it with the damaged humanoid,” said Shota Takizawa, an engineer at GMO Air. If repairs cannot be completed there, the damaged…
The northeastern United States might get most of the attention when autumn arrives, but Europe can certainly rival it as a destination for “leaf peeping”. While the famous fall colours of New England can be spectacular, the window to see them is notoriously short and unpredictable. Europe, meanwhile, has the advantage of everything from high Alpine peaks and deep river valleys to vast forests, meaning autumn arrives at different times across the continent. The result? If you know where to look, you can chase fiery reds, golden yellows and burnt oranges for weeks – and sometimes months – rather than…
For his part, Trump incorrectly presumed, during his only public comments about Connolly, that she was a man. For their first face-to-face meeting, Connolly’s team is strictly limiting who can attend the official handshake and greeting inside the Áras. Unlike previous U.S. presidential visits, Trump isn’t expected to join the Irish president in ringing a symbolic peace bell outside. Likewise, whereas previous U.S. presidents have addressed the joint houses of Ireland’s parliament, an honor most recently bestowed on Biden in 2023, the building will remain closed for Trump’s visit. “We have the convenient excuse that it’s a weekend,” said the…
Published on 10/09/2026 – 9:51 GMT+2•Updated 10:12 As Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrives in Canada for talks with leader Mark Carney, Russia and Ukraine continue to exchange fire. At least three people were killed in Russian overnight attacks. Ukraine’s Armed Forces reported that Moscow attacked Ukraine with 149 drones overnight from Wednesday into Thursday, 128 of which were intercepted. The statement added that they had been launched from Russian cities including Kursk, Millerovo and from the temporarily occupied region of Donetsk and Hvardiiske in Crimea, striking 13 locations. A late Russian attack on a shopping center car park in Sumy…
Published on 11/09/2026 – 4:54 GMT+2 A Hong Kong court sentenced three Tiananmen vigil activists to prison for five to seven years on Friday for national security crimes, following a trial that has drawn international condemnation. Lee Cheuk-yan, 69, Chow Hang-tung, 41, and Albert Ho, 74, have been behind bars since their initial charges in 2021. Their convictions, handed down under a sweeping national security law imposed by Beijing on Hong Kong, have drawn condemnation from the United Nations, human rights organisations, and foreign governments. A court ruled in August that the activists breached the Chinese constitution by calling for…
Qatar Airways is preparing for the busy winter travel season and planning the next phase of its growth. After months of regional disruptions, including the temporary suspension of flights in February, the Doha-based airline has had to adapt its operations to offer passenger support, expand its routes and remain resilient. And now, Hamad Ali Al-Khater, Chief Executive Officer at Qatar Airways Group, said that “passenger numbers have recovered to around 90%-95% of last year’s levels”, with Hamad International Airport currently handling more than 140,000 passengers a day as international carriers gradually return to Doha. This includes British Airways, which resumed…
Neun Tage vor den Wahlen in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern und Berlin schrillen im Konrad-Adenauer-Haus die Alarmglocken. Angesichts historisch schlechter Umfragewerte analysieren Rixa Fürsen und Hans von der Burchard die politische Zukunft von Friedrich Merz. Im Raum stehen drei konkrete Szenarien für eine mögliche Machtablösung. Vom freiwilligen Rücktritt bis zum konstruktiven Misstrauensvotum. Im 200-Sekunden-Interview stellt sich der CDU-Spitzenkandidat in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Daniel Peters, der drängenden Vertrauensfrage. Er erklärt, warum die Partei trotz drohender Einstelligkeit an ihrem Kurs festhalten will und welche Rolle die Polarisierung durch SPD-Ministerpräsidentin Manuela Schwesig im aktuellen Wahlkampf spielt. Zudem richtet sich der Blick auf den 25. Jahrestag der Terroranschläge vom…
Published on 10/09/2026 – 10:26 GMT+2 Singapore’s ministers, already among the world’s highest-paid, are getting a raise for the first time in 15 years, Prime Minister Lawrence Wong said, explaining that the government cannot attract top talent into politics if salaries remain unchanged. Wong told Parliament on Tuesday that under a revised salary framework, the benchmark annual pay for a minister at the lowest grade will rise to 1.8 million Singapore dollars (€1.2 million), from Sg$1.1 million (€747,564). The prime minister’s benchmark salary will jump to Sg$3.6 million (€2.4 million) from Sg$2.2 million (€1.5 million), he said. Ministers’ pay has…