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The stocks of big Australian miners have benefited from a lack of options for investors wanting to put their money behind the AI theme.
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Tech volatility, dollar strength reverberate through mining stocks

Shares in some of the world’s biggest mining companies have fallen victim to cracks in two of Wall Street’s most powerful trades: artificial intelligence and…

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America’s carmakers cannot escape Chinese EVs for ever

The Art Deco skyscrapers of downtown Detroit, built when money flooded into the Motor City in the 1920s, attest to the early years of America’s…

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Apple said it had till now “shielded” its customers but could not continue to do so. (Getty Images via AFP)
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Apple hikes product costs by 20-42%: Check full list of new prices for MacBooks, Ipads

Apple has hiked the prices of its products, including Macs and iPads, across the globe, including in India. While announcing the increase in prices, which…

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The 14-inch MacBook Pro equipped with the M5 Pro chip now starts at  ₹2,99,900, up from its original launch price of  ₹2,49,900. (REUTERS)
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Apple hikes MacBook, iPad prices by 20–42% amid rising semiconductor chip costs

Apple has significantly increased the base prices of several MacBook and iPad models globally, including in India, with hikes ranging between 20% and 42% compared…

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Whether or not Silicon Valley’s AI labs become white-collar advisers, they have a great deal to learn from studying them. (PEXEL)
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Silicon Valley has much to learn from the spreadsheet jockeys it despises

The most important question in financial markets can be put thus: will companies like JPMorgan Chase and Walmart find artificial-intelligence models useful enough to buy…

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Beyond the regular noise, a closer look at personal technology. (Representative image)
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Wired Wisdom: Best phones of 2026 thus far, featuring Xiaomi, Samsung and more

A policy intervention where necessary, and this was necessary. The UK government has set in motion a sweeping social media ban for individuals under the…

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New Delhi, Jun 24 (ANI): Adani Group Chairman Gautam Adani addresses during the Annual General Meeting 2026 (Adani Group/ANI)
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Adani Group targets 10 GW nuclear energy by 2035

Adani Group chairman Gautam Adani on Wednesday announced the group’s entry into nuclear energy, setting a target of 10 gigawatts capacity by 2035 as part…

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The money will expand total AI computing capacity, measured in the amount of power consumed by data centres, from just under 12GW in America currently to as much as five times that amount by the end of the decade (see map). And almost everywhere across the country, people of all political stripes are furious about it. (Unsplash)
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America’s data-centre backlash puts the AI boom at risk

FROM THE top of the slide, which curves into a little backyard pool, the view as recently as April would have been of lush Ohio…

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The average U.S. gasoline price stood at $3.928 per gallon on Wednesday, down from $4.515 a month ago.
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Trump Calls for Probe Into U.S. Gasoline Prices After Oil Falls

President Trump said he instructed the Justice Department to look into major oil companies, accusing them of “gouging” customers by not lowering gasoline pump prices…

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Commerce minister Piyush Goyal with US Ambassador to India Sergio Gor and US trade representative Jamieson Greer, in New Delhi. ( Sergio Gor/X via ANI)
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India, US talk trade again: The story so far and a deadline that could yield breakthrough

Commerce minister Piyush Goyal and US trade representative Jamieson Greer this week resumed talks in New Delhi aimed at clearing the last hurdles to an…

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