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BEIJING — After helping shape the early years of Chinese e-commerce, followed by years of management missteps , Alibaba is betting big on artificial intelligence as it takes on a new era. This month, Alibaba led a roughly $100 million investment round in humanoid startup X Square Robot , and put $60 million into the startup behind AI video generation app PixVerse. The tech giant also announced a strategic AI partnership with smartphone company Honor. Since Nov. 2022 — just as OpenAI launched ChatGPT for consumers — Alibaba has joined deals worth more than $3.3 billion, ranging from AI model…

Burnout shows up as feeling constantly exhausted, emotionally checked out from work, and struggling to get things done effectively.Delmaine Donson | E+ | Getty ImagesBurnout is a growing concern across industries, but artificial intelligence is quietly changing the game.Recognized by the World Health Organization as an “occupational phenomenon,” burnout is more than just a personal issue — it’s a business one.According to a 2025 study in The American Journal of Preventive Medicine, burnout costs U.S. companies between $4,000 and $21,000 per employee each year — or up to $5 million annually for an average U.S. company with 1,000 employees.ChatGPT can…

 BERLIN: Ambassador of the State of Kuwait to the Federal Republic of Germany Reem Al-Khaled presented her credentials as the ambassador, extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the State of Kuwait to the Republic of Latvia to President Edgars Rinkevics at a ceremony held on Friday at the Presidential Palace in the capital, Riga.In a statement, Ambassador Al-Khaled told KUNA that she had conveyed to President Rinkevics the greetings of His Highness the Amir Sheikh Meshal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and His Highness the Crown Prince, Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah and their wishes for the Republic of Latvia and its friendly people…

KUWAIT: 1962 — Kuwait Amir Sheikh Abdullah Al-Salem Al-Sabah decrees forming Kuwait Public Transport Company (KPTC), with a KD one million (USD 3.2 million) capital.1991 — Kuwait and the United States of America sign a 10-year defense treaty stipulating the defense of Kuwait against external aggression, promotion of peace and stability in the Gulf states.1994 — Kuwait signs the Convention on Nuclear Safety (CNS) for maximum safety at nuclear reactors.2000 — The Kuwaiti shooter Fehaid Al-Daihani wins the first Olympic medal for Kuwait, ranking third in the double trap competition of the 27th Olympic tournament held in Sidney, Australia.2001 –…

The Federal Reserve is cutting interest rates again, which is good news for farmers and other business borrowers, but it remains unclear how fast and how far the Fed will move from here. At its mid-September meeting, the Fed’s Federal Open Market Committee opted for a quarter-point cut. That brought its benchmark federal fund rate to a range of 4% to 4.25%. With the job market showing signs of weakening lately, the cut was widely expected. Fed Chair Jerome Powell signaled it in a speech last month. Eleven of the 12 voting FOMC members voted for the cut, with the…

HONG KONG (AP) — Thousands of people were evacuated from their homes in Hong Kong overnight so experts could defuse a large U.S.-made bomb left over from World War II that was discovered at a construction site.Police said the bomb was 1.5 meters (nearly 5 feet) in length and weighed about 1,000 pounds (450 kilograms). It was discovered by construction workers in Quarry Bay, a bustling residential and business district on the west side of Hong Kong island. “We have confirmed this object to be a bomb dating back to World War II,” said Andy Chan Tin-Chu, a police official,…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia launched a large-scale missile and drone attack targeting regions across Ukraine early Saturday, killing at least three people and wounding dozens more, Ukrainian officials said.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said attacks took place across nine regions, including Dnipropetrovsk, Mykolaiv, Chernihiv, Zaporizhzhia, Poltava, Kyiv, Odesa, Sumy and Kharkiv.“The enemy’s target was our infrastructure, residential areas and civilian enterprises,” he said, adding that a missile equipped with cluster munitions struck a multi-story building in the city of Dnipro.“Each such strike is not a military necessity but a deliberate strategy by Russia to intimidate civilians and destroy our infrastructure,”…

GOMA, Congo (AP) — Fighting has long battered Congo’s mineral-rich east, displacing some 7 million people in the conflict that is one of the world’s largest humanitarian crises. Many have lost their limbs.In comes the Shirika la Umoja, an orthopedic center on the front line of the conflict in Goma, which produces prosthetics for the wounded despite an overwhelming surge of casualties.The center, supported by the Red Cross and run by the Catholic church, has treated over 800 amputees since early 2025. It struggles with limited resources as workers craft artificial limbs one by one to help amputees regain their…

VATICAN CITY (AP) — In the last two years, defense lawyers have acquired 3,225 pages of WhatsApp messages between two women who were tangential to the Vatican’s “trial of the century,” but were actually intimately aware of the investigation and in some ways involved.Their four years of conversations, from 2020-2024, provide a parallel, behind-the-scenes version of one of the most tumultuous periods in Vatican history, when Pope Francis authorized a trial of 10 people, including a cardinal, into alleged financial misconduct.The chats, written in Italian and translated here by The Associated Press, suggest that these two women helped persuade one…

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican’s “ trial of the century ” had it all: part Dan Brown thriller, part John Grisham legal drama, part low-brow Shakespeare tragicomedy. The financial whodunnit about the Holy See’s bungled 350 million euro investment in a London property was notable for its surreal cast of characters and exposure of Vatican vendettas, espionage and even papal ransom payments to Islamic militants. The appeals trial opening Monday could be just as explosive. WHY THIS MATTERS: The hearings could expose even more unwanted revelations about the Vatican’s inner workings, including details about Pope Francis’ hands-on role in…