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WASHINGTON, ‌Dec 30 : President Donald Trump’s administration has lifted sanctions on three executives tied to the spy software consortium Intellexa, according to a notice published to the U.S. Treasury’s website.

The move partially reverses the…

NEW YORK, Dec 30 : ‌U.S. stocks slumped on Tuesday, while gold bounced back on the penultimate trading day of 2025.

All three indexes dipped into negative territory in a light-volume pre-holiday session in a subdued ending to a volatile…

Dec ‌30 : SoftBank Group said it completed a $41 billion investment in OpenAI, one of the largest-ever private funding rounds that would give the Japanese firm a stake of about 11 per cent in the ChatGPT maker.

SoftBank Chief Executive…

BANGKOK, Dec ‌30 : Thailand’s economy in November expanded compared to the previous month, supported by higher exports and investment, but consumption fell over the period, the central bank said on Tuesday.

Though overall domestic demand…

Dec 30 : ‌The attorney general of the U.S. Virgin Islands has sued Meta Platforms, accusing the Facebook and Instagram owner of deliberately profiting from advertisements for scams and failing to keep its social media platforms safe for…

JERUSALEM, Dec 30 : ‌Nvidia is in advanced talks to buy Israel-based AI startup AI21 Labs for as much as $3 billion, the Calcalist financial daily reported on Tuesday.

Nvidia declined to comment, while AI21 was not immediately available to…

TAIPEI: Taiwanese tech titan TSMC has started mass producing its cutting-edge 2-nanometre semiconductor chips, the company said in a statement seen by AFP on Wednesday (Dec 31).

TSMC is the world’s largest contract maker of chips, used in…

BEIJING: China’s ‌manufacturing activity unexpectedly grew in December, snapping eight straight months of decline, giving policymakers some confidence as they raced to meet their economic growth target for the year.

The manufacturing purchasing…

LIMITS OF TODAY’S MACHINES

Still, for all the excitement, the limits of today’s machines are just as real.

At the start of the year, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang predicted that we’re about 15 to 30 years away from quantum computers being very…

Dec 30 : ‌Elon Musk said on Tuesday his artificial intelligence startup xAI has bought a third building to expand its infrastructure, aiming to boost training capacity to nearly 2 gigawatts of compute power.

The latest expansion underscores…