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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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The biggest lesson is that both humans and AI are bad at sizing bets. The authors note that even ChatGPT and Claude were lucky as well as skilful in this respect. (Unsplash)
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Why macro trading is hard

How much would you have paid ten years ago, as votes were counted for Britain’s Brexit referendum, to glimpse the next morning’s headlines and trade…

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To set this up, you’ll need the TP-Link Deco app on your iPhone or Android phone. (Vishal Mathur | HT picture)
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TP-Link Deco BE25 proves future-proofing your home Wi-Fi doesn’t cost a fortune

The world is healing, slowly. A fairly priced Wi-Fi 7 standard mesh system for homes is very much a reality. This is because of TP-Link’s…

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Google sculpts AI for India, and witnessing Meta’s theatre

Cognitive warmup. Norway intends to ban the use of generative AI tools by elementary school children, with Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere warning (correctly, if…

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More U.S. CEOs last year crossed the once-rare pay threshold than in any year since 2021—and nearly a dozen topped $200 million. (Unsplash)
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Top-Paid CEOs Smash the $200-Million Payday

The $100-million-plus CEO is back with a bang, just a year after nine-figure pay packages seemed to be fading. More U.S. CEOs last year crossed…

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