Former Meta global public policy director Sarah Wynn-Williams leveled some serious allegations against the Mark Zuckerberg-led company earlier this week. In testimony on Capitol Hill earlier this week, Williams told senators that Meta worked “hand in glove” with the Chinese Communist Party to build a censorship system to silence critics on its platform. Williams, who…
China’s yuan closed at its weakest level in over 17 years on Wednesday, following a record-low drop in its offshore counterpart overnight, as tensions from the escalating U.S.-China trade war shook currency markets. The onshore yuan ended domestic trading at 7.3498 per dollar — the lowest closing since December 2007. The currency slide coincides with…
With America’s sudden trade onslaught taking the world to the brink of commercial chaos, the economic outlook for India, like for other countries, has taken a turn for the worse. So, it is not surprising that the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) attention has turned decisively to supporting growth. On Wednesday, its monetary policy committee…
The loudly trumpeted aim of US President Donald Trump is to revive America’s economic mojo. That balanced foreign trade was not all rhetoric but a real part of his agenda hit home only on 2 April, when the US erected a tariff regime that left other countries aghast and economists agape. What dropped jaws wasn’t…
Market crashes around the world in response to the US president’s harsh levies, it seems, have been the trigger. Also Read: Mint Quick Edit | Monday’s market mayhem was no surprise Billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, Republican Senator Ted Cruz and even Elon Musk are among those who have expressed qualms over what the…
US President Donald Trump announced plans to sign an executive order to keep TikTok operational for an additional 75 days, as his administration works on a deal to save the app amidst ongoing trade tensions with China over tariffs. Source link
India, poised to surpass 900 million Internet users, would find itself vulnerable without proper policy implementation to combat disinformation. Representational file image. | Photo Credit: Reuters The World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Global Risks Report 2025 underscores misinformation and disinformation as the highest ranked short-term global threat. The WEF defines “global risk” as an event that…
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the US military has begun to upgrade its operations in Japan to a new “war-fighting” command, highlighting the Trump administration’s focus on China as its primary security challenge. In Tokyo, the final stop on a swing through the Asia-Pacific region that’s been overshadowed by revelations that Hegseth gave advance details…
The surge also comes exactly five years after India imposed a nationwide pandemic lockdown, a day when the Nifty saw losses since the start of the month touch 33%. On Monday, the Nifty rose 1.32% to 23,658.35, while the Sensex rallied 1.4% to 77984.38. However, the Sensex fell short of erasing its losses by 155…
Tencent Holdings Ltd. unveiled an upgraded AI reasoning model, the latest bid by China’s most valuable company to compete for leadership in the country’s crowded artificial intelligence field. The Shenzhen-based company rolled out the latest iteration of Hunyuan T1, which debuted last month in its chatbot app Yuanbao. T1 operates similarly to DeepSeek’s R1, the…
