Opinion | China’s rare earth export control regime is blowback from US policy
To justify his threat of a 100 per cent tariff on imports from China, US President Donald Trump framed China’s tightening of its export controls on…
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Factbox-What is Chewy, the pet products website ‘Roaring Kitty’ is championing?
By Granth Vanaik and Siddharth Cavale (Reuters) – Keith Gill, the meme stock trader “Roaring Kitty,” thrust Chewy Inc into the spotlight when he made a $245 million bet on the online pet products retailer on Monday. What is Chewy and why has it attracted Gill’s interest? WHAT’S THE BUSINESS? Chewy is an $11 billion…
Meta exploring AI-assisted earbuds with cameras, The Information reports
(Reuters) – Meta Platforms is exploring making earphones powered by artificial intelligence with cameras, The Information reported on Monday citing employees familiar with the matter. A slew of companies, from startups to conglomerates including Meta, are looking to develop AI-based wearable devices to capture growing interest in the sector. The Facebook-parent expects the device, being…
Meta’s Threads hits 175 million users ahead of one-year anniversary
By Yuvraj Malik and Jaspreet Singh (Reuters) – Meta Platforms’ newest social media offering Threads has over 175 million monthly active users, CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed on Wednesday, ahead of its first anniversary. A challenger to X, formerly known as Twitter, Threads hit app stores on July 5 last year, timed to win users from…
American Airlines’ flight attendants prepare to strike
(Reuters) – A union representing flight attendants for American Airlines Group said on Thursday they are preparing to strike after contract negotiations with the carrier failed to produce an agreement this week. The Association of Professional Flight Attendants (APFA), which represents about 28,000 American Airlines flight attendants, said after a year of mediated talks with…
Walmart, Capital One end credit card agreement
(Reuters) – Walmart has ended its agreement with Capital One Financial, which was the exclusive issuer of Walmart consumer credit cards, the companies said on Friday. The world’s largest retailer had previously accused Capital One of being too slow to post many transactions to cardholders’ accounts, and failing to promptly replace many lost cards. The…
Exclusive-IPOs of Walmart’s Flipkart, PhonePe could take couple of years, Walmart exec says
By Siddharth Cavale BENTONVILLE, Arkansas (Reuters) – Initial public offerings of Walmart’s Flipkart marketplace and PhonePe digital payments platform could take a couple of years, a Walmart executive said. “This is something we’re looking at over the next couple of years,” Walmart’s executive vice president for corporate affairs, Dan Bartlett, said on the sidelines of…
Apple to power AI servers with its chips, Bloomberg News reports
(Reuters) – Apple will deliver some of its upcoming artificial intelligence features this year through data centers powered by its own in-house chips, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, as the iPhone maker looks to integrate generative AI in its products. The company is putting its chips in cloud-computing servers capable of processing advanced AI tasks…
Gold set for best week in five on renewed US rate-cut hopes
By Ashitha Shivaprasad (Reuters) – Gold prices firmed on Friday, poised for their best week since April 5, following recent economic data that boosted bets of an interest rate cut from the Federal Reserve. Spot gold gained 0.2% at $2,350.87 per ounce by 0212 GMT after hitting a more than two-week high earlier. Prices have…
US proposes targeted restrictions for AI and tech investment in China
By Andrea Shalal, David Lawder and Karen Freifeld WASHINGTON/NEW YORK(Reuters) -The United States on Friday issued what it described as targeted draft rules for banning or requiring notification of certain U.S. investments in artificial intelligence and other technology sectors in China that could threaten U.S. national security. The U.S. Treasury Department published the proposed rules…