Saudi chases AI ambitions with homegrown firm pitched to global investors
Riyadh (Saudi Arabia) (AFP) - Powered by its sovereign wealth fund of nearly $1 trillion, Saudi Arabia is backing its ...
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Stocks slide as investors digest Trump-Xi talks, earnings
London (AFP) - Stock markets mostly retreated Thursday as traders digested a high-stakes meeting between the US and Chinese presidents, ...
China vows massive high-tech sector development in next decade
Beijing (AFP) - China will develop its high-tech sector on a massive scale in the next decade, top officials vowed ...
Alaska Airlines grounds entire fleet over IT outage
San Francisco (United States) (AFP) - Alaska Airlines said Thursday it had temporarily suspended all flights due to a tech ...
Online search a battleground for AI titans
New York (AFP) - Tech firms battling for supremacy in artificial intelligence are out to transform how people search the ...
Servers, software and data: how the cloud powers the web
Paris (AFP) - The outage that hit the world's leading cloud provider Amazon Web Services on Monday has highlighted global ...
Stocks higher as traders weigh China-US row, tech earnings
London (AFP) - Global stock markets mostly rose on Thursday as investors weighed strong tech earnings and hopes that the ...
Exiting TED leader clings to tech optimism
San Francisco (United States) (AFP) - Chris Anderson took over TED 25 years ago, when the internet was young and ...
Chipmaker Nexperia says banned from exporting from China
The Hague (AFP) - Chipmaker Nexperia said Tuesday the Chinese government had banned it from exporting goods from China, after ...
Europe cannot let US, China be ‘technological leaders’: Nobel laureate Aghion
Stockholm (AFP) - One of the winners of this year's Nobel economics prize, France's Philippe Aghion, on Monday warned Europe ...
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