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Baidu also said earlier this week it will soon finish internal testing for a ChatGPT alternative called 'Ernie Bot'
Kazuo Ueda, a 71-year-old former BOJ board member, is the 'surprise' nominee to be Japan's next central bank governor. He is expected to spur a prompt change in BOJ interest rate policy
The US carmaker's aggressive price cuts earlier this year helped it to stoke demand amid rising inventories
The centre will be tasked with exploring blockchain’s potential for the government, Chinese citizens and industries
Investors continued to be distracted by the US Fed’s rate hike threats while news on a new BOJ chief unsettled traders in Tokyo
The discovery comes at a time when India is looking to strengthen its supply of critical minerals that will be crucial for furthering its electric vehicle plans
Washington is confident that the maker of the Chinese spy balloon has a 'direct relationship' with the People's Liberation Army, a senior official said
The market regulator is investigating if investors in the Group's aborted $2.5-billion share sale were related entities or broke securities laws, while MSCI has cuts its index weighting on 4 Adani firms
Some analysts say equities will offer better profits as China recovers from its zero-Covid years, while other markets also offer strong returns
Both carmakers gained from a plunge in the yen in October last year, even as a shortage of chips and soaring costs of raw materials squeezed global carmakers
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With a market cap of$240 billion, chipmaker ASML is Europe’s most valuable tech company. Its market-leading position comes from its monopoly in Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography (EUV) machines which allow chipmakers to make smaller, faster and smarter semiconductors
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Oil & GasIndia Is Likely Exporting Refined Russian Oil to the WestIndia’s fast-rising Russian oil imports are being matched by its rising oil exports suggesting it may be reselling Russia’s oil to the West.
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MarketsApple Asks Suppliers in Taiwan to Meet China Label StandardsUS tech giant Apple told its Taiwan suppliers that products moving to China must be labelled to state that the island is a part of China and not an independent nation
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MarketsIndian-Owned Tech Firms See Sharp Growth in UKDespite a moribund British economy and heavy corporate tax, Indian-owned tech firms are growing in the UK.
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MarketsChina Becomes World’s Second-Biggest Bitcoin Mining HubThe Bitcoin mining ban in China last year had collapsed its crypto markets. Despite that, the country has reemerged as a major bitcoin mining hub, according to research by the UK's University of Cambridge.
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