SoftBank Group, OpenAI and Oracle have announced that they are forming a $500 billion joint venture in order to fund artificial intelligence infracture in the United States with a new joint venture dubbed ‘Stargate’. The announcement was made by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son and Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison in the prescence…
Mumbai: Donald Trump’s sabre-rattling before and after his swearing-in sent the Indian markets scurrying for cover on Tuesday, with benchmarks Nifty 50 and S&P BSE Sensex tumbling to their respective seven-month lows. Investors were already in a sombre mood, thanks to sluggish corporate earnings, foreign investor sell-offs, and pre-budget jitters. The uncertainty sparked by the…
The general mood is upbeat at this year’s World Economic Forum (WEF), though day one at Davos coincided with a flurry of executive orders by US President Donald Trump immediately after he took oath. As several sessions at WEF are on climate change and global collaboration on artificial intelligence (AI) and sustainability, President Trump’s executive…
US stock indices opened higher on Tuesday, as investors’ focus shifts on President Donald Trump’s executive orders on energy and immigration, while awaiting his trade policy. At the opening bell, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 40.8 points, or 0.09%, to 43,528.65. The S&P 500 rose 17.5 points, or 0.29%, to 6,014.12, while the Nasdaq…
Last week, the Supreme Court upheld a federal law requiring the popular social media app TikTok to be divested in favour of non-Chinese ownership by its China-based parent company, ByteDance, or be banned. The court rejected the social media company’s argument that the law violated the First Amendment rights of TikTok and its content creators. …
Donald Trump and Melania Trump dance | Video Credit: The Hindu Shortly after being sworn-in as the 47th President of the United States of America, Donald Trump and US First Lady Melania Trump danced during the Commander-in-Chief Ball at the Walter E. Washington Convention Centre in Washington. They were joined by Vice President JD Vance…
The canal is an 82-km artificial waterway that connects the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans through Panama and is critical to U.S. imports. File. | Photo Credit: AP Newly sworn-in President Donald Trump vowed on Monday that the United States would take back the Panama Canal as he delivered an inauguration speech in which he invoked…
Soon after being sworn is as the 47th President of the United States, Donald Trump has granted TikTok a lifeline via an executive order. Trump signed an executive order giving TikTok 75 more days to comply with a federal law passed last year that asks the popular short videos app to either cut ties with…
As US president, Trump is expected to alter American and global norms on trade, migration, climate change, relations between government and business, the use of military might and more. His avowed goal is to make America great again (MAGA). It is risky. Trumpian policies might hurt the US itself and the world at large. Also…
President of the United States of America, Donald Trump’s wife, Melania Trump, launched her official cryptocurrency meme called $MELANIA on Monday, January 20. “The Official Melania Meme is live! You can buy $MELANIA now,” said Melania Trump in a social media post on platform X. Donald Trump became the 47th President of the United States…
