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Five things to watch in Asia as Trump prepares to meet China’s Xi this week
Chinese and U.S. flags flutter near The Bund, before U.S. trade delegation meet their Chinese counterparts for talks in Shanghai, China July 30, 2019. Aly Song | Reuters BEIJING — The U.S. and China are rallying their East Asia ties ahead of a highly anticipated presidential summit in Beijing later this week. Trade negotiators from […]
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CNBC Daily Open: Iran ceasefire on life support, but market volatility alive and kicking
TOPSHOT – US President Donald Trump (L) and China’s President Xi Jinping arrive for talks at the Gimhae Air Base, located next to the Gimhae International Airport in Busan on October 30, 2025. Andrew Caballero-reynolds | Afp | Getty Images Hello, this is Hui Jie writing to you from Singapore. Welcome to another edition of […]
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Google says it likely thwarted effort by hacker group to use AI for ‘mass exploitation event’
Boonchai Wedmakawand | Moment | Getty Images Google’s Threat Intelligence Group said in a report on Monday that it thwarted an effort by hackers to use artificial intelligence models to “plan a mass vulnerability exploitation operation.” The group, known by the acronym GTIG, said it has “high confidence” that it recorded hackers using an AI model […]
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‘The haters will hate’: Dan Ives predicts Nasdaq 30,000 as AI rally expands
The Nasdaq will rise to 30,000 points in the next year as a bumper earnings season continues to bolster enthusiasm for AI stocks, Dan Ives, managing director at Wedbush Securities, told CNBC’s Squawk Box Europe on Monday. A solid tech earnings season has seen investor jitters earlier this year replaced with bullishness over the AI […]
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Alphabet’s 160% rally in a year reflects value of owning ‘most of the stack’ in AI
Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Alphabet Inc., during the Bloomberg Tech conference in San Francisco, California, US, on Wednesday, June 4, 2025. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Alphabet briefly passed Nvidia by market cap in after-hours trading this week, a remarkable feat for a company that was seen as deeply at […]
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Memory chip makers are looking at a ‘supercycle’ and ‘windfall gains.’ The stocks jumped 30% in one week
Memory chip makers have been riding a wave of surging demand that’s boosted pricing power and profit projections in the historically volatile sector. Rather than a one-time shortage in need of a correction, analysts are increasingly talking about this demand as evidence of a “supercycle” in the sector. They think it could last for years, […]
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Revival of Blackberry nostalgia and keyboard fuels smartphone startups
The Clicks Communicater smartphone on display. Startup Clicks Technology makes a Blackberry phone. Clicks When Apple launched the iPhone in 2007, physical keyboards quickly lost ground to touchscreens and faded from mainstream smartphones. Now, a new wave of startups, including U.K.-based Clicks Technology and Chinese firm Unihertz, is bringing them back and carving out a […]
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Intel shares soar on Apple chip deal report. Here’s why it signals a total pivot for chipmaking
Apple and Intel are reportedly closing in on a deal that would see Intel make some of the chips for the iPhone maker’s devices, marking a major shift in the chipmaking landscape. Talks between the two companies have been brewing for more than a year, with a preliminary agreement reached in recent months, the Wall […]
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