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Google finally releases a Finance Android app, promises iOS version later in 2026

Google Finance is not a new product—it has been around for 20 years, long enough that it initially relied on Flash to display charts and graphs. The website has gotten a few major updates over the years, but it has never had a mobile app until now. Google has released the first standalone app for […]

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Massive AI spending and higher interest rates: What’s behind the tech sell-off?

Tech stocks around the world fell on Tuesday, with the flagship Nasdaq index closing 2.2 percent down at the end of the session. In this edition, we look at how markets reacted this Wednesday and some of the reasons why investors sold their shares: massive projected capital expenditure on AI, as well as the prospect

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World risks ‘losing control of technology’ without AI governance, Chinese PM warns

Chinese Premier Li Qiang on Wednesday warned of “serious consequences” if governments fail to step up regulation of artificial intelligence as he addressed the World Economic Forum in Dalian known as the “summer Davos”.

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UN chief calls on AI firms to ‘come clean’ on environmental costs

As Europe swelters under a major heatwave, the high energy consumption of artificial intelligence has come into the spotlight. At a climate conference in London, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres called on AI companies to disclose the environmental impact of their systems. Plus, Iran rejects the US’s claim that any potentially unfrozen Iranian assets would be controlled

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As heatwave sweeps across Europe, UN urges AI firms to ‘come clean’ on environmental footprint

UN chief Antonio Guterres called on June 23 for faster action on global warming, challenging AI firms to “come clean” about their environmental footprint and warning that fossil fuels were driving climate and energy crises. This comes as Europe bakes under a second heatwave in as many months. A UN study earlier in June found

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In South Korea, AI chip workers become top marriage prospects

In South Korea, the AI frenzy has sent the value of the country’s top chipmakers skyrocketing. Korea’s Samsung Electronics and its chief rival SK Hynix have been trading places as the world’s most valuable producer of memory chips. Following some strident union organizing at the firms, their workers have become some of the country’s highest-paid

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