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Nvidia CEO unveils robot training tech, Toyota deal and new gaming chips
ARTIFICIAL intelligence (AI) to better train robots and cars, as well as new gaming chips dominated Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s keynote speech at the CES 2025 conference on Monday...
Tencent SDRs fall nearly 7% after US designates tech giant as ‘Chinese military’ firm
TENCENT’S Singapore-listed shares, or Singapore Depository Receipts (SDRs), fell nearly 7 per cent on Tuesday (Jan 7) morning after the US categorised it as a “Chinese military” company.The US...
Hong Kong eases investment thresholds to attract family offices
HONG Kong is easing the requirement of its capital investment entrant scheme, bolstering efforts to attract family offices and lift the city’s status as a global wealth hub.Investments made...
China’s biggest shipping line added to US military blacklist
COSCO Shipping Holdings, China’s biggest marine transport line, has been blacklisted by the US government for alleged links with the People’s Liberation Army.The shipping line was named in a...
Toyota aims to open its futuristic city in Japan this year
TOYOTA Motor plans to move in the first 100 residents of a futuristic city at the base of Mount Fuji in Japan by as soon as this fall.The initial...
Bridgewater cuts 7% of staff in effort to remain ‘nimble’
BRIDGEWATER Associates dismissed 7 per cent of its workforce on Monday (Jan 6) as the world’s biggest hedge fund seeks to remain lean and maintain the flexibility to hire...
The unravelling of Hin Leong and OK Lim’s fall from grace
ONCE a giant in Singapore’s oil trading industry, the collapse of Hin Leong Trading (HLT) exposed a web of fraud, forgery and financial mismanagement. Founder Lim Oon Kuin –...
TikTok ban thrusts Apple, Google into US-China geopolitical fray
TIKTOK creators are posting videos promoting ways to get around a looming shutdown of the app in the US, which could spell trouble for Apple, Alphabet’s Google and other...
Stocks to watch: Straits Trading
THE following company saw new developments that may affect trading of its securities on Tuesday (Jan 7): The Straits Trading Company: The investment company has launched the second series...
Google to bring Gemini AI to TV sets running its software
ALPHABET’s consumer team will give TV sets running its Google TV operating system an artificial intelligence (AI) upgrade by adding Gemini to its Google Assistant voice-control system. At the...
