E.P.A. to Loosen Methane Rules for Oil Firms

New York Times - Oct 27, 2026

The Biden administration had sought to crack down on methane leaks, a big driver of climate change. Those rules are now being scaled back.

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Long before artificial intelligence became the next big thing in the tech industry, Wang Jian was crafting the foundational infrastructure that would eventually power it. In 2008, he joined Alibaba Group Holding – owner of the South China Morning Post – as chief architect and founded Alibaba Cloud in 2009, convincing the company’s leadership to invest heavily in building a cloud computing infrastructure from scratch. Today, Wang’s purview has expanded considerably. As an academician at the...

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Are China’s increasingly powerful open-weight AI models a cybersecurity threat, or could restricting them ultimately make the internet less secure? The dilemma has become a growing concern as Chinese developers including DeepSeek, Z.ai and Alibaba Group Holding – owner of the South China Morning Post – continue to challenge their American rivals by releasing models that anyone can download, modify and deploy. The growing impact of advanced AI on global cybersecurity has also forced governments...

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While few dispute that China is narrowing the gap with the United States in developing artificial intelligence (AI) models, there is one area where Chinese firms are already the undisputed leaders: video. China has seen a proliferation of advanced generative AI video models – systems trained on visual data to generate or edit video content based on user inputs such as text prompts, images and audio. The country’s vast short-video ecosystems and looser copyright rules have helped give Chinese...

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Majority of homes in NI have power restored after Storm Boelo

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Northern Ireland Electricity Networks (NIE) said around 12,500 properties were without power at one stage.

Data centre debate heats up ahead of US midterms - here's what you need to know

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Why cloud computing pioneer Wang Jian thinks space is the next AI frontier

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Man killed by falling tree as Storm Boelo batters Scotland

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I've exorcised 50,000 people... and I believe the devil is now using technology in the fight for our souls

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