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Japan and Indonesia Pledge Deeper Ties, Eye 2028 Diplomatic Milestone
Japan's State Minister for Foreign Affairs Nakasone met Indonesia's new ambassador in Tokyo, agreeing to strengthen the ...
Decision Models Like Jev Trade Explainability for Speed — and Shift the Burden to Developers
A new class of AI decision models returns instant structured answers without reasoning traces, forcing enterprises to ma...
Gold Slips Below $4,100 as Dollar Strength Pressures Comex Futures
December gold futures fell 0.99% to $4,072.92 an ounce on Comex as the dollar index climbed 0.73%, while silver and copp...
Natural Gas Futures Rise 2.24% as Dollar Strengthens and Crude Oil Slips
December natural gas futures climbed to $3.01 per million BTU on the NYMEX, bucking a broader commodity decline as the d...
Thinking Machines' Inkling 2 Small AI Model Offers Near-Frontier Performance on Enterprise Benchmarks
Thinking Machines has released Inkling 2 Small, a new AI model that achieves near-frontier performance on enterprise ben...
Iran's Anti-Infiltration Bill Would Criminalise Academic Collaboration, But Scholars Say Western Visa Barriers Are the Bigger Threat
Draft legislation advancing through Iran's parliament would prosecute researchers for co-authoring with foreign academic...
Lithium Battery Fires in Cabins Force Airlines to Rethink Power Bank Rules
A KLM flight turned back after a portable charger fire, as incident reports surge and new ICAO rules cap power banks at ...
Bank of France Warns an AI Stock Crash Would Cross the Atlantic
Governor Emmanuel Moulin says AI investment is now a demand shock fuelling higher global bond yields, and that European ...
Brazil's Lula Weighs Gradual Fiscal Adjustment to Cut Interest Rates and Stabilize Debt
President Lula's economic team is preparing a gradual fiscal adjustment of about 2% of GDP to reduce interest rates and ...
MarketScreener's Yield Screener: A Tool for Value Investors, Not a Story
MarketScreener Canada's yield ranking page is a functional stock-screening tool for value investors, not a news article....
Angola Courts German Capital for Lobito Corridor, PPP Infrastructure Push
Angola has presented Germany with a priority investment list covering transport, logistics, water and energy PPPs, with ...
BYD's Yangwang U9 Xtreme Breaks 500km/h Barrier, but Record Comes With an Asterisk
BYD's 2,978bhp Yangwang U9 Xtreme hit 503.17km/h in Abu Dhabi, becoming the first production car past 500km/h — though t...
Kingdee Bets AI's Real Barrier Is Corporate Cognition, Not Model Power
Chinese ERP vendor Kingdee is repositioning ERP as the 'cognitive base' for AI agents, arguing that enterprise AI transf...
Paraguay's Peña Arrested After Congress Ousts Him Over Ueno Bank Collapse
Paraguay's Congress removed President Santiago Peña in a unanimous vote and prosecutors arrested him over the collapse o...
The Hartford Appoints Ryan Nally to Lead National Energy Insurance Portfolio
The Hartford has named Travelers veteran Ryan Nally as Head of Energy in its Middle & Large Business unit, tasking him w...
Beeline Showcases AI Video Analytics and Business Assistants at Kazan Digital Week
Beeline presented AI-driven solutions for business, industry and government at Kazan Digital Week, including video analy...
STB Signals Broader Federal Preemption Over State and Local Rail Restrictions
A new Surface Transportation Board policy statement questions past decisions on customer-owned rail terminals and hints ...
Marathon Petroleum Sells Midwest Refineries to Icahn-Backed CVR in $4.2 Billion Deal
Marathon Petroleum is offloading two Midwest refineries to Carl Icahn-controlled CVR Energy for $4.2 billion, redirectin...
Trump Replaces Chief of Staff Susie Wiles With Hardline Adviser Stephen Miller
President Trump named Stephen Miller, architect of his hardline immigration policies, as White House chief of staff star...
Wolox Co-Founder Returns to Silicon Valley with a Four-Person AI Startup — and Says Everyone Is Starting from Zero
Luciana Reznik, who sold Wolox to Accenture in 2021, is back with Cedalio, an AI agent platform that automates invoice p...
NHK Drama 'Blossom' Week 7 Preview: Heroine Tamu Resumes Writing, Straining Life with Husband Mamoru
NHK's morning drama 'Blossom' enters Week 7 with heroine Tamu returning to writing, a move that brings hope but clouds h...
US Midterm 'Blue Wave' Triggers AI Selloff, But Divided-Government History Favours Stocks
A Democratic sweep of Congress sparked a 12.2% plunge in the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index and a broad US equity rout...
Brazil Sets 27-Mineral Critical List With Three-Tier Priority for State Incentives
Brazil's federal government has approved a 27-mineral critical and strategic list split into three priority tiers, steer...
Walmart and Zipline Sign Multiyear Deal to Add 300 Drone Delivery Sites Across the US
Walmart's expanded partnership with Zipline will bring 30-minute drone delivery to 300 new US locations, building on a p...
Egypt's Sisi Orders Strategic Stockpile and Crisis Data System Overhaul
President Sisi has directed Egypt's crisis management authority to build a strategic reserve of essential goods and to c...
Egypt's FRA Reports 1.7 Million Digital Verifications as Fintech Adoption Surges
Egypt's Financial Regulatory Authority says digital identity verifications jumped nearly fivefold in 2026, with digital ...
Singapore High Court Rejects Lim Family's Bid to Shield Condo from Creditors
The High Court has rejected a bid by Denzel Pak Juin Tern, grandson of former oil tycoon OK Lim, to keep a $4.5 million ...
Copper One Completes Second Hole of Phase 2 Drilling at Majuba Hill, Hits Possible Porphyry Veins
Copper One Resources reports that hole MHB-40 at its Majuba Hill copper-silver-gold project in Nevada intersected possib...
Germany Overhauls Driving Licence Training to Cut €3,400 Average Cost
The Bundestag has passed the first part of a reform to make driving licence training cheaper, more digital and less bure...
China's Richest 2026: ByteDance's Zhang Yiming Tops List as AI Wealth Surges, Total Fortune Dips to $1.3 Trillion
Zhang Yiming claims China's richest title for the first time with an $84 billion fortune, while DeepSeek's Liang Wenfeng...