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Nvidia's Jensen Huang criticises US AI chip export rules
Washington has sought in recent years to curb exports of state-of-the-art chips to China, concerned that they could be used to advance Beijing's military systems and otherwise undermine American dominance in AI
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Google supercharges search with Generative AI integration
CEO Sundar Pichai, speaking at the company's annual developers event, said Google's search engine would feature a new AI mode
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Elon Musk to curb political spending amid growing scrutiny
Musk, the richest person on Earth, spent hundreds of millions of dollars to help Trump win the 2024 presidential election, and questions were rife in Washington whether his largesse would continue
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Fortnite's AI Darth Vader draws fire in actors' union lawsuit
Fortnite announced last week it had got permission from the family of James Earl Jones to make a chatty "Star Wars" villain based on the late actor's voice work in the smash hit space opera series
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Record rate cuts from China's central bank signal growth worries
The People's Bank of China said Tuesday that the one-year Loan Prime Rate (LPR), the benchmark for the most advantageous rates lenders can offer to businesses and households, would be cut from 3.1 percent to 3.0 percent
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China's Xiaomi plans major $7 billion chip investment
Xiaomi, which sells goods from smartphones to vacuum cleaners and EVs, is one of China's most prominent consumer electronics firms
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Operation Boycott
Turkey and Azerbaijan are off the tourist and destination wedding map. And until there's more clarity at a diplomatic level, traveller hesitation is likely to continue
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$TRUMP dinner exposes blurred boundaries of political branding
$TRUMP saw a spike in value when it announced the dinner, but reports said that many of the winners of the offer, which closed on May 12, are now selling their memecoins
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China's factory output surpasses expectations despite tariff pressures
Industrial production in the export powerhouse grew 6.1 percent on-year in April, according to figures published by the National Bureau of Statistics
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Moody's downgrade sparks pushback from US Treasury
Speaking on CNN, Bessent sought to lay blame for the downgrade-stripping the United States of its last triple-A credit rating-on the prior administration of Joe Biden
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From Amitabh Chaudhry's bid to challenge top banks to Dell's AI pivot, our top stories of the week
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