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Samsung faces major strike after pay talks with union falls apart

Union leaders have demanded a compensation structure in which Samsung would commit to spend 15% of its annual operating profit on employee bonuses and scrap bonus caps, which are currently set at 50% of annual salaries

20 May 2026 1:16 pm
At Google I/O 2026, Alphabet rewrites search playbook, unveils Gemini 3.5 Flash

Google launched AI Mode roughly a year ago and the feature has already crossed a billion monthly active users, with queries more than doubling each quarter. In the most recent quarter, overall Google Search queries hit an all-time high.

20 May 2026 11:56 am
Jharia coal fires may burn hotter, emit more greenhouse gases than thought

While industrial emissions are subject to rigorous monitoring, fugitive emissions from uncontrolled coal fires like in Jharia are rarely part of global greenhouse gas audits

20 May 2026 8:37 am
Decoding the Musk vs. Altman verdict

OpenAI was founded as a nonprofit aiming to build ethical, open-source artificial general intelligence. Years later, Elon Musk filed a lawsuit accusing CEO Sam Altman, OpenAI president Greg Brockman, and Microsoft of manipulating him into donating to a public-interest organisation which later created a for-profit subsidiary.

20 May 2026 8:08 am
India among economies driving carbon surge from construction boom

Buildings and construction now account for around 37% of global carbon emissions, nearly 50% of global material extraction the largest of any sector and 28% of global energy consumption

19 May 2026 8:46 pm
The rise of epidemiology as a discipline and the birth of hypertension as a disease

Until the middle of the 20th century, many physicians did not consider hypertension to be a disease requiring active treatment. It took decades of scientific research for it to emerge as a major independent cardiovascular risk factor

19 May 2026 5:52 pm
Google, Blackstone to launch AI cloud venture to meet data centre demand

Thomas Kurian, chief executive of Google Cloud, said the venture would help address growing demand for TPUs by offering organisations additional ways to access computing capacity

19 May 2026 9:54 am
Samsung, labour union meet again as Seoul threatens to intervene to block strike

The two sides are under mounting pressure to prevent an imminent strike by 45,000 workers that could hurt the Korean economy and global supply chains

19 May 2026 9:41 am
Meta lays out details of May 20 restructuring in internal document

Meta Chief People Officer Janelle Gale told employees the company plans to move 7,000 employees to new initiatives related to AI workflows and to eliminate managerial roles, in a memo

19 May 2026 9:27 am
Jury to decide fate of Elon Musk's blockbuster suit against OpenAI

The three-week trial in Oakland, outside San Francisco, has seen a parade of Silicon Valley titans take the stand

18 May 2026 9:40 am