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Jensen Huang, NVIDIA founder and CEO, has a Q&A session at a press conference during the APEC CEO summit on October 31, 2025 in Gyeongju, South Korea.Woohae Cho | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesNvidia CEO Jensen Huang may not be a member of K-pop band BTS, but the interest in his visit to South Korea has reached levels one might expect of a global celebrity.A website named “Jensen Huang’s Footprints” in Korean shows a map and timeline of his expected locations and meetings over the four-day visit, which starts Friday. Meals of smoky Korean barbecue and soju drinking sessions…
A category of exchange-traded funds offering eye-catching coupons is creating buzz among the income-seeking set, but investors who want to dabble in these offerings should prepare to do their homework. Enter the autocallable ETF, an offering that aims to bring a strategy that’s normally for the institutional set to the retail investor. These funds can tout weighted average coupons that are upward of 10% — but the mechanisms that are behind these rates are complex. “The yield is definitely one of the biggest draws to these products,” said Zachary Evens, manager research analyst at Morningstar. “In the derivative income category,…
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Open-weight models, including Nvidia’s Nemotron and Alibaba’s Qwen, showed strong results comparable to Anthropic’s best models. GPT-5.4—the best-performing model from OpenAI—also performed relatively well on the benchmark, providing “Exemplary” responses on 54 percent of questions and achieving an 88.9 mean score. Unsurprisingly, recent frontier models showed a much stronger tendency to resist Russian propaganda than models from just a few years ago. Claude 3.5 Haiku—the highest-rated model released in 2024—received a mean rating of just 73.1 on the benchmark. That mark would put it in the bottom third of models released in 2026 on this metric. Detailed benchmarks for Google’s…
A pedestrian walks past an electronic quotation board displaying the Nikkei 225 stock prices on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Tokyo on March 23, 2026. Kazuhiro Nogi | Afp | Getty ImagesSouth Korea stocks plunged Friday, leading losses in the region, as the slump in Wall Street tech names overnight spread into Asia, dragging benchmark indexes lower.The Kospi was last down 4.11%, with heavyweights Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix dropping 6% and 8%, respectively. The small-cap Kosdaq index fell 2.41%. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 lost 1.1%. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 was 0.2% lower.Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index was down 0.46%, while the CSI…
Exclusive-South Korea labour minister calls on tech firms to share excess AI profits with suppliers, staff Source link
Corporate America is trying to figure out how to rein in rising artificial intelligence spending. That’s helping payment software giant Ramp.The spend-management company announced a $750 million funding round at a $44 billion valuation on Thursday. The round was led by ICONIQ, GIC and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, and marks a roughly 38% step up in Ramp’s valuation. The New York-based company crossed $1 billion in annualized revenue, with positive free cash flow, according to CEO Eric Glyman. The growth, in part, is coming from corporate clients grappling with AI spending that is eating up a larger portion of budgets.…
A circuit board displayed inside the Texas Instruments (TI) semiconductor wafer plant in Sherman, Texas, US, on Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025. Desiree Rios | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesAsian tech shares on Friday tracked losses in U.S. chip stocks after a downbeat earnings report from Broadcom sparked a rotation out of artificial intelligence-linked names into more defensive sectors.The weakness was pronounced in South Korea’s chip-heavy market. Samsung Electronics fell nearly 7%, while SK Hynix dropped more than 8%. Other tech-related names also came under pressure, with Samsung SDI down over 7%, LG Display falling 7.4%, LG Innotek losing 6.1%, and Seoul…
Stocks drop as AI rally pauses, US-Iran peace talks stall Source link
During oral arguments, justices expressed skepticism of AT&T and Verizon’s claims and seemed to agree that FCC fine decisions are nonbinding until enforced by a court. Justice Brett Kavanaugh described the case as a victory for carriers either way, because the government acknowledged its orders are nonbinding without a jury trial. “It seems like you’ve won on the law going forward, one way or the other,” Kavanaugh told the attorney representing the carriers. Carriers “tried to dodge all accountability” Today’s decision is important for upholding the FCC’s ability to investigate and propose penalties that can be enforced in court, said…