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The White House meeting between President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping this week ended without any breakthrough agreement on artificial intelligence, though the two leaders agreed on a new name for the technology both say they favour. Trump told reporters outside the White House on September 26 that the United States would not slow down its AI development. "The United States of America is not going to be putting on brakes," he said, estimating that the US leads China in the technology by a year or two. What the two sides said During the visit, Xi said on September 24 that the US and China must "ensure that the development of AI is always under human control." Trump, however, played down the need for joint guardrails...

India is enjoying one of its finest Asian Games campaigns at Aichi-Nagoya 2026, with the country's athletes piling up medals across shooting, kabaddi, cricket, athletics and more. The standout moment so far has been kabaddi, where both the men's and women's teams struck gold by defeating Iran in their finals. The women's kabaddi team edged Iran 37-34 in a tense final to retain their title, extending India's unbeaten record in the event ever since women's kabaddi was introduced at the Asian Games in 2010. The men followed with an equally commanding performance, beating Iran 40-34 to claim gold. Shooting has been India's biggest medal factory. Suruchi Singh and Kamaljeet — paired at the last minute — won gold in the 10m air pistol mixed...