China reported Monday that its second-quarter GDP increased by 6.3% year on year, falling short of estimates. In June, the unemployment rate among young individuals aged 16 to 24 was 21.3%, a new high. The second-quarter GDP figure of 6.3%… Read More ›
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New Research Says Inflation Expected To Trigger The First Fall In Back-To-School Spending In Nine Years
According to a Deloitte survey released on Wednesday, back-to-school spending is anticipated to decline for the first time in nine years as consumers of all income levels prioritise essentials over non-essential purchases in the face of persistent inflation. According to… Read More ›
SoftBank Is Thinking About Listing Its PayPay Company In The US: Reuters
SoftBank is thinking about listing its PayPay payments division on the New York Stock Exchange. If successful, this would be the second American listing for Masayoshi Son’s vast tech conglomerate after Arm, claimed a Reuters report quoting information from sources. … Read More ›
Meta’s Threads Touches 100 Million Users, Traffic On Twitter Is Becoming Static
Since the debut of Meta’s text-based platform Threads last week, which has already crossed 100 million sign-ups since its debut, user activity on Twitter has decreased. The U.S. version of Threads began on Wednesday, and executives from Meta, including Instagram… Read More ›
Thailand’s EV Growth, Driven By China, Threatens Japan’s Control Of A Crucial Market
With a plant that could produce four cars a day, Siam Motors of Thailand teamed up with Nissan Motors in 1962, beginning a successful, long-lasting partnership with Japanese firms that turned it from a car dealer to an automotive pioneer…. Read More ›
Future Companionship Roles For AI Robots In Nursing Homes Are Possible
A professor who worked on the creation of Nadine, a social robot driven by artificial intelligence (AI) and equipped with human-like movements and expressions, believes that she may one day play a significant role in caring for the old and… Read More ›
OpenAI, The Company Behind ChatGPT, Claims It Is Intensifying Efforts To Stop AI From “Going Rogue”
OpenAI, the company that developed ChatGPT, announced on Wednesday that it will devote major resources to the effort and establish a new research team to examine how to make artificial intelligence that eventually controls itself safe for people. “The vast… Read More ›
Japan’s Businesses Provide The Largest Pay Increases In 30 Years, And Wage Growth Broadens
According to the largest trade union in Japan, companies this year delivered the largest wage increases in three decades. Economists predict that this move would help boost sluggish consumer demand. A Rengo study revealed that wage increases that were first… Read More ›
TSMC’s Founder Says National Considerations Are Trumping Globalisation In Technology
According to the retiring founder of Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC, globalisation is taking a backseat to concerns like national security and technological leadership, and U.S.-China relations are more about rivalry than cooperation. Morris Chang, who founded Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd… Read More ›
Deeper Slump In US Manufacturing, Subdued Pressure On, Factory Gate Prices
Even though U.S. manufacturing fell even more in June, to levels last seen when the country was still recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic, pricing pressures at the factory gate kept falling, which was good news for the economy. According to… Read More ›