Robots can outrun humans, but can they plug in a cable?

Backed by Uber and powered by Chinese company Pony.ai, Croatia’s Verne has rolled out robotaxi services in the capital city Zagreb since spring 2026. Marko Perkov | Afp | Getty Images BEIJING — U.S. ride-hailing giant Uber is ramping up its global robotaxi coverage with operator Pony.ai. The companies plan to deploy 2,000 of Pony.ai’s…

To become a financial hub, the sultanate needs the infrastructure that a major custodian can provide. U.S. custody giant State Street is expanding into Oman, a vote of confidence in the Gulf’s smallest aspiring financial center. At the Oman Capital Market Conference in Muscat in early June, the bank signed an agreement with Riyadh-based Jadwa…

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With AI having become the frontline of an intense global competition for economic and geopolitical power, speed is rewarded, scale is celebrated, and market dominance is prized above all else. Under such conditions, we risk forgetting the most important question: Whom is this intelligence ultimately meant to serve? NEW DELHI—The defining question of our time…

“She was a teacher at a school district, so didn’t put much into Social Security.”