BANGKOK — Thailand’s ruling conservative Bhumjaithai Party on Friday moved closer to forming a new government after the Pheu Thai Party, the third place finisher in the country’s general election, agreed to join it in a proposed ruling coalition. Bhumjaithai won 193 seats in the 500-member House of Representatives in Sunday’s election, according to unofficial...

This report is from this week’s The Tech Download newsletter. Like what you see? You can subscribe here. The core Earnings season has seen endless spending commitments from tech companies as they scramble to build out data center capacity amid the AI boom. Hyperscalers, including the likes of Amazon, Microsoft, Meta and Alphabet, announced capital...

Four new crew members are on their way to the International Space Station after launching into orbit early Friday morning. They will arrive at an unusually quiet orbiting lab. NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, European Space Agency astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Russian cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev were originally going to overlap in space with...

The White House calls it the largest deregulation in US history, but environmentalists say it will prove costly for Americans. Source link

JOHANNESBURG — South Africa’s president said Thursday that the country would send its troops into communities to help police fight the scourge of illegal mining and gang violence in its two provinces with the two biggest cities. According to South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, “organized crime is now the most immediate threat to our democracy,”...

An aerial view of Singapore’s skyline. Tong Thi Viet Phuong | Moment | Getty Images Asia-Pacific markets traded mostly lower Friday, tracking Wall Street declines, as fears over artificial intelligence disruption drove the S&P 500 to a third straight day of losses. Certain pockets of the U.S. stock market have been hit this year by...