Day: October 2, 2026

For an industry built on the mantra of relentless forward motion, the past fortnight has been unusually sobering. OpenAI’s decision not to release GPT-6.1 Astra marks a rare moment where a frontier AI developer chose caution over competition, and the reasoning behind it says a great deal about where the

When a co-pilot allegedly stabbed his captain and tried to send a Flydubai jet carrying 174 passengers plummeting into the Arabian desert on 30 September, the images that followed were the stuff of genuine heroism: an Indian pilot, badly wounded, forcing open a locked cockpit door with his last reserves

Toyota’s decision to invest $1.34 billion in a fully electrified vehicle plant in Zárate, Buenos Aires province, is more than a single corporate announcement, it is the clearest sign yet that legacy automakers are moving from defence to offence in a region where Chinese brands have spent the past two

Where the Growth Actually Came From Oil and gas revenue rose 41.7 percent to Shs326.27 billion, the fastest-growing component by far, while mining revenue climbed to Shs336.97 billion. Direct government revenue from the sector increased from Shs481.27 billion to Shs606.36 billion, though that still represents only about 2.18 percent of

A Sector in Slow Retreat This was not a one-quarter stumble. Manufacturing has now lost 35,000 jobs over the past year, a 2.7 percent annual decline, with cuts spread across food and beverages, textiles, chemicals, metals and transport equipment, according to Stats SA. Business services lost 13,000 positions, trade shed