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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…

JAKARTA, Dec ‌30 : The Indonesian government will cut mining output quotas in order to support the prices of commodities like coal, Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Bahlil Lahadalia said in an interview with local news channel TvOne on…

Dec ‌30 : Warner Bros Discovery will likely reject Paramount Skydance’s amended $108.4 billion hostile bid for the storied Hollywood studio despite a personal guarantee from billionaire Larry Ellison backing the media giant’s offer, according…

SEOUL, ‌Dec 31 : South Korea’s foreign exchange authorities sold a net $1.745 billion in currency ‌market intervention transactions ‌in the third quarter, more than double the amount sold in ‍the second quarter, central bank data showed…

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…