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Australian, New Zealand dollars seesaw on greenback, extend gains on yen
[SYDNEY] The Australian and New Zealand dollars steadied on Wednesday after their US peer enjoyed a broad bounce overnight, while both currencies extended gains on the yen as expectations...
Low Keng Huat controlling shareholders up offer price to S$0.78 per share, extend closing date
Revised offer represents an increase of 8.3% or S$0.06 over the initial offer price[SINGAPORE] The offerors for Low Keng Huat have raised the offer price for the property developer...
You can buy Steve Jobs’ bow ties, desk and other bits of Apple history at this auction
In March 1976, Apple cofounders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak both signed a $500 check weeks before the official creation of a California company that would transform personal computing...
Elon Musk’s Grok bot restricts sexual image generation after global outcry
Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot on Thursday started restricting the ability for non-paying users to create deepfake, sexualized images after global pushback from users and governments. Late last month, some...
New VR documentary puts you in the devastation of the L.A. fires — and might help you heal
A snapshot of fire-ravaged Altadena is laid out before me, hovering like a diorama. My eyes zero in on a red door, its frame one of the few surviving...
Holiday shoppers spent a record amount online, searching out deals amid economic anxiety
Consumers splurged this last holiday season, enticed by good deals even as they worried about growth and inflation. Online shoppers spent a record $257.8 billion during the holiday season...
Elon Musk company bot apologizes for sharing sexualized images of children
Grok, the chatbot of Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI, published sexualized images of children as its guardrails seem to have failed when it was prompted with vile user...
The biggest startups raised a record amount in 2025, dominated by AI
The excitement around artificial intelligence led to a record year for certain types of fundraising. Silicon Valley’s AI companies secured record funding in 2025, even as investors advised startups...
Southern California’s unlikely AI mecca is this very industrial city
Five miles south of downtown Los Angeles, a single industrial block in Vernon is drawing as much electricity as a small town.Inside a three-story, 242,000-square-foot building known as LAX01,...
Wall Street opens flat ahead of Christmas break
[NEW YORK] Wall Street indexes opened nearly flat in shortened Christmas Eve trading on Wednesday (Dec 24), as traders wait to see whether stocks can extend record gains in...
