On The Ground newsletter: Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly international news dispatch The girlfriend of a Norwegian Olympian who confessed to infidelity on live television has responded – and she is far from impressed by his public apology. Moments after securing

Broadcom could be the biggest winner from Alphabet’s surge in capex spending. Alphabet (GOOGL 1.77%) (GOOG 1.78%) shocked investors when the company set a capital expenditure (capex) budget of between $175 billion and $185 billion for 2026 when it reported its fourth-quarter results. That’s a massive increase from the $91 billion in capex it spent

Analysts at Goldman Sachs expect big tech giants to spend over half a trillion dollars on AI-related capital expenditure in 2026. And much of that money is going to data center hardware like AI accelerator chips, high-bandwidth memory devices, and various types of networking equipment. The eye-popping level of hardware spending contrasts with low profits

US President Donald Trump, who did not attend this year’s Super Bowl after appearing in the stands last year, called Bad Bunny’s set “absolutely terrible, one of the worst, EVER!” Writing on his social media platform Truth Social, he said it was “an affront to the Greatness of America” and “nobody understands a word this

The TWZ Newsletter Weekly insights and analysis on the latest developments in military technology, strategy, and foreign policy. The head of U.S. Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC) has downplayed the current significance of Chinese efforts to develop new long-range strike aircraft with more global reach. He said that China remains, at best, a regional

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Tuesday abruptly cut short a briefing with reporters after a reporter asked about Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s relationship

The commerce secretary had previously told Congress that he cut ties with Epstein in 2005 after the late financier – a neighbor of Lutnick’s in New York – used sexual innuendo to explain why he owned a massage table in a room of his home. In Tuesday’s testimony, he said: “Over the next 14 years,

Micron Technology is benefiting from surging artificial intelligence spending. While Micron Technology (MU 2.54%) stock has become popular with some tech enthusiasts, the company is not as widely known among investors as many other tech giants. Certainly it doesn’t have the name recognition of other leading artificial intelligence (AI) chip stocks like Nvidia. But Micron

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email An immigration court judge has terminated deportation proceedings against Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts University scholar whose arrest last March by masked ICE agents on the

The world will be a darker place in a decade, a period in which an increasingly powerful China will become more aggressive and the war in Ukraine will become a frozen conflict: Those are among the results of a survey of around 450 geopolitics experts conducted by the Atlantic Council and shared first with Semafor.