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Microsoft has announced the launch of its latest chip, the Maia 200, which the company describes as a silicon workhorse designed for scaling AI inference. The 200, which follows the company’s Maia 100 released in 2023, has been technically outfitted to run powerful AI models at faster speeds and with more efficiency, the company has…

Shipping container loads dock at Tokyo Bay. Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Japan’s exports in October massively beat expectations, government data on Friday showed, as shipments to Europe and Asia saw robust growth. Exports rose 3.6% year on year compared with Reuters-polled economists’ estimates of a 1.1% growth. But it was lower than…

To the untrained eye, it looks like a chunky ring. Mina Fahmi, founder of New York start-up Sandbar, calls it something else. “It is an extension of self,” he said. Fahmi’s company recently unveiled the device it calls “Stream”, a note-taking AI ring that, when an almost imperceptible button is pressed, records what you say,…

Singapore  —  It was pushing 4 a.m. when Vignesh Sundaresan bought one of the most expensive artworks in history. Wearing his favorite T-shirt for the occasion, he had stayed up through the night on his iMac, at home alone, watching rival bids trickle in. A row of Starbucks coffee cups lined the desk beside him;…

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. NYSE U.S. Treasury yields jumped Tuesday as investors weighed renewed tariff threats from Washington that revived fears of a trade war with Europe and spurred a flight from U.S. assets. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury was last seen trading more than 6…

Warner Bros. Discovery says that it is officially reviewing a sweetened bid for the company from David Ellison’s Paramount. The details of Paramount’s revised bid were not immediately known. The company had offered $30 per share, with a “ticker” that would raise the price for every quarter the deal had not closed past the end…