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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced plans for a new campus in Taiwan during an employee meeting on May 27, 2026.NvidiaNvidia is expanding heavily in Taiwan with a new campus and a tenfold increase in annual spending, CEO Jensen Huang announced Wednesday, as the chipmaker plans for artificial intelligence-powered growth.Taiwan’s Taiex stock index climbed 1.7% to a record close on Wednesday. Also helping gains was news that South Korea’s SK Hynix and U.S.-based Micron became the latest chip-related companies to reach $1 trillion in market value.”Now we’re spending $100 [billion], going to $150 billion in Taiwan each year,” Huang said in…

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A customer fills up a vehicle with fuel at a BP Plc petrol station in London, UK, on Monday, Aug. 4, 2025.Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesFormer BP Chairman Albert Manifold has pushed back against accusations over his conduct following his shock departure from the British energy major.In an emailed statement to CNBC, Manifold said he’d been removed from his post “without warning and without explanation” and that he disputes “entirely the characterisation” of his conduct.His comments come after BP’s board on Tuesday announced the removal of Manifold due to “serious concerns” relating to governance standards, oversight and conduct. Amanda…

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Investing.com —  reported a sharp fall in annual profit on Wednesday but said it was comfortable with market expectations for a recovery in the year ahead, sending its shares up over 4%. The British pet retailer posted pretax profit of £92.8 million for the year ended March 2026, down from £133 million a year earlier. The result came in ahead of the £92 million the company had outlined in March and within the £90 million to £100 million range it had set out in September 2025. The company said it was “comfortable” with consensus pretax profit of £98 million for…

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Up until a decade ago, China had never launched as many as 20 orbital rockets a year. But beginning in 2022, the Asian country launched 64 rockets and last year reached a record total of 93, marking it as the second-most productive space power in the world. Further growth is anticipated from both the company’s state-owned enterprises as well as a rapidly expanding number of private launch companies. There is nothing wrong with this, as China’s rapid growth in launch has been mirrored by the United States and, in particular, SpaceX. However there is an issue with these launches, as…

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Anne Keast-Butler, director of GCHQ, pictured during CYBERUK 2024 on May 14, 2024, in Birmingham, England.Matthew Horwood for CYBERUK | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesBritain and its allies have a “narrowing window” to keep ahead of security risks posed by China, Russia and other adversaries, the U.K.’s top intelligence agent will warn on Wednesday. In a rare public speech, Anne Keast-Butler, the director of GCHQ — the U.K.’s intelligence, cyber and security agency — will say Britain is at a “moment of consequence,” with the country facing increasingly brazen behavior from hostile nations.”China is now a science and tech…

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A Ukrainian soldier of the 24th brigade prepares equipment of FPV drones as the Russia-Ukraine war continues.Anadolu Agency | Getty ImagesRussia has passed a law authorizing its central bank and other financial institutions to repel drone attacks with their own defense systems, as the country struggles to defend against Ukrainian strikes.The law, passed by Russia’s lower house of parliament on Tuesday, will allow staff at Russia’s central bank to be armed and to operate the systems used to down unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV, or drone) attacks without the involvement of special forces. Ukraine’s military has increasingly opted for longer-range drone…

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MUNICH—One of the defining car industry trends of the early 21st century was the global, or world, car. Spread the development costs out across multiple markets, the thinking went, and efficiency takes care of the rest. At least that was the idea; post-COVID, post-Ever Given, and in a world now erupting into trade wars and actual shooting wars, plans need to change. “With Audi, we have to be flexible on a global perspective,” said Audi AG CEO Gernot Döllner, and the new Q9 is an example of that. “It’s really the car where US requirements were at the center of…

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