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Support for an Alaska pipeline is one of a few energy deals Tokyo is considering for when PM Shigera Ishiba meets with Donald Trump, to ease trade friction concerns
Carmakers of both EVs and Japanese firms like Toyota have had to offer big discounts as they are locked in a bruising price war, while the economy is sluggish
Social media accounts run by Chinese state media, plus embassies highlighted DeepSeek's 'breakthrough' prior to the stock crash on Monday and push Beijing's narrative on surpassing the US in critical areas of competition, report says
The global energy transition needs to average $5.6 trillion a year from 2025 to 2030 to meet net zero emissions by 2050; current investment levels are only 37% of what's required despite topping $2 trillion
"Qwen 2.5-Max outperforms ... almost across the board GPT-4o, DeepSeek-V3 and Llama-3.1-405B," Alibaba's cloud unit claimed on Wednesday
US executives say limiting the 'distillation' process from open-source models, in which one AI system learns from another, may be difficult to stop
The investment will be made by the Singapore unit of TikTok's parent Bytedance and the data centre will support companies affiliated with the popular short-video site
PM says: “We will urgently look at whether we need to make more cooperative plans and future assistance programmes for the industrial sector."
Microsoft's security researchers observed that "individuals they believed to be connected to DeepSeek" were involved in an unauthorized data transfer several months ago
Satellite photos show China appears to be building a large laser-ignited fusion research centre in a southwestern city
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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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