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E-Commerce Sites Must Reveal Goods’ Country of Origin: India
E-Commerce Sites Must Reveal Goods’ Country of Origin: India

Delhi wants a mandatory declaration of where products are made so people can easily determine if they are domestic goods and will boost the government's self-reliance initiative

Meta Making Billions From Fraudulent Ads, Documents Say
Meta Making Billions From Fraudulent Ads, Documents Say

Tech giant made billions while failing to stop a flood of ads that exposed Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp users to investment and e-commerce scams, fake ads and banned products, Reuters says

DeepSeek Researcher Pessimistic About AI’s Impact on Humanity
DeepSeek Researcher Pessimistic About AI’s Impact on Humanity

Chen Deli believed AI could be a great aid to humans as it improved over the short term, but feared it could become a "massive challenge" in the future

Concern Rising About ‘Security Loopholes’ in Chinese Buses
Google to Build AI Data Centre on Island off Northwest Australia
China’s Exports Sink in Worst Trade Downturn Since February
Trump to Host Five Central Asian Leaders, as US Seeks Minerals
India Says It’s Keen to Create Bigger Banks, Possibly Via Mergers
Supreme Court Defeat Seen Adding to Uncertainty on Trump Tariffs
Nvidia Joins $12bn India Push To Back AI, Robotics, Chip Firms

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ASML in the Centre of the Chip War

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