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article NEW YORK, UNITED STATES – January 28: A view of the New York Stock Exchange building in New York City, New York, U.S. on January 28, 2025. (Photo by Mostafa Bassim/Anadolu via Getty Images) DALLAS – The New York Stock Exchange, part of Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (NYSE: ICE), announced on Wednesday plans to launch…
Crew members assigned to the Philippine Coast Guard vessel BRP Sindangan say they knew their mission would involve facing off against huge, numerous, intimidating Chinese vessels in the contested waters of the South China Sea. But that did not fully prepare them for the reality. “My heart beats up every time a clash is imminent,”…
More leading American scientists have had papers retracted than the number of Chinese, British, Japanese and German researchers combined, according to a study published in PLOS Biology on January 30. Among scientists included in the Stanford Elsevier career-long list of the world’s top 2 per cent of scientists last year, some 2,322 US-affiliated elite researchers…
A Chinese spy balloon that passed over the United States last year was packed with American technology that could have enabled it to spy on Americans, Newsweek reported, citing sources with direct knowledge of a technical analysis conducted by the US military. The huge balloon with a large payload of electronics flew over the US…
Convened by a House subcommittee on transportation and maritime security, the hearing focused on how China’s presence in ports in Panama, Peru and Brazil could affect Washington’s interests in the region. US congressman Carlos Gimenez of Florida said Hong Kong-based company Hutchison Ports’ operations in two ports on the Atlantic and Pacific sides of the…
Starkly divergent views of the US under Donald Trump and Xi Jinping’s China came into focus in Washington on Tuesday, when a lawmaker said Beijing was part of an “axis of evil” and a Chinese academic suggested Trump was trying to carve up the world to the detriment of America’s allies. Delivering a keynote address…
The US refused to sign an “inclusive” and “sustainable” artificial intelligence declaration on Tuesday, as Washington criticised Europe for excessive AI regulation and warned China not to use the cutting-edge technology to tighten its grip on power. The message, conveyed by US Vice-President J.D. Vance at the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris, was delivered…
Has DeepSeek blazed a new trail in artificial intelligence (AI) model training? Are the start-up’s models superior to those developed by OpenAI or Meta Platforms? And has the Chinese company rewritten the scaling law and proved that Nvidia’s AI chips are unimportant in training AI models? The answer to these questions is “no”, according to…
S&P 500 firms could see an 8% hit to earnings if Mexico and Canada retaliate on tariffs, BofA says. Wall Street expects an EPS drawdown to dent the S&P 500’s rally. US earnings are otherwise set for strength amid upbeat corporate sentiment. A tit-for-tat trade war between the US and its neighbors could spell real…