Norway investigates former PM Jagland over alleged Epstein linksNurPhoto via Getty ImagesThorbjørn Jagland's lawyer promised his client's full co-operation with the investigationPolice in Norway have opened a corruption investigation into the country's former Prime Minister Thorbjørn Jagland over his alleged links to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. A special Norwegian police...

US must be prudent when supplying arms to Taiwan, Xi tells TrumpReutersTrump and Xi last met in October, on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation in South KoreaChina's leader Xi Jinping called Taiwan "the most important issue" in China-US relations during a phone call with US President Donald Trump on Wednesday. Xi had told Trump to be "prudent" when supplying weapons to the...

K2 to launch its first high-powered satellite for space compute An ambitious satellite builder will launch one of the highest-powered spacecraft ever built in the weeks ahead to demonstrate technology that will be required to build data centers in orbit. K2, founded by brothers and former SpaceX engineers Karan and Neel Kunjur in 2022, has packed its satellite Gravitas into a SpaceX Falcon 9...

Chinese brain interface startup Gestala raises $21M just two months after launch Elon Musk’s Neuralink and OpenAI-backed Merge Labs are pushing forward with brain–computer interface (BCI) technology in the U.S. Meanwhile, Chinese serial entrepreneur Phoenix Peng is building rival efforts through two startups: NeuroXess, which develops implantable BCI systems, and a second company, Gestala,...

The Pentagon's Anthropic Feud 'Should Be a Wake-Up Call for Congress'The contract dispute between the US Department of Defense and the AI developer Anthropic that boiled over at the end of February exposed in stark terms how laws and regulations have failed to keep up with the capabilities of artificial intelligence.The Pentagon wanted to be able to use Anthropic's Claude AI for "all lawful...