The 2020s are shaping up to be big years for governments’ antitrust legislation all over the world. Earlier this month, Germany’s Bundeskartellamt (Federal Cartel Office FCO) regulator designated Apple a “company of paramount significance for competition across markets,” adding Apple Inc. to Google and Meta which were determined with binding effect the same on May […]
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The transformative potential of blockchain technology has been compared to that of the internet in the 1990s. Blockchains, like the internet, have the potential to drive dramatic institutional efficiency gains, save billions through reduced operational, financial, legal, and governance costs, create widespread process redundancy, significantly reduce counterparty, and market risk, and reshape the financial market […]
The recent announcement of UBS Group’s acquisition of Credit Suisse Group has sent shockwaves through the Swiss banking industry. The combination of the country’s two largest banks is expected to create a dominant player in the domestic market, with a pro forma market share of about 30% of domestic deposits and 25% of domestic loans, […]
AI systems pose a lot of risks on their own, but they also inadvertently affect other existential risks. Every major tech company is working on its own artificial intelligence (AI) systems. And despite the technology being in its infancy still, it will not stay so for long. In fact, researchers expect our generation to witness […]
Before most people realized what was going on, China had surpassed the United States as the world leader in manufacturing and purchasing EVs. And the trend hasn’t slowed: in the last two years, the number of EVs sold in China has risen from 1.3 million to a stunning 6.8 million, making 2022 the eighth consecutive […]
National Public Radio (NPR) will no longer post content to its 52 official Twitter feeds in protest against a label by the social media platform that implies government involvement in the U.S. organization’s editorial content. NPR said on Wednesday Twitter refused its repeated requests to remove the inaccurate label of “state-affiliated media”, now changed to […]
China’s exports unexpectedly surged in March, with officials flagging rising demand for electric vehicles, but analysts cautioned the improvement partly reflects suppliers catching up with unfulfilled orders after last year’s COVID-19 disruptions. Exports in March shot up 14.8% from a year ago, snapping five straight months of declines and stunning economists who predicted a 7.0% […]
Italy’s data protection agency set out a list of demands on Wednesday which it said OpenAI must meet by April 30 to address the agency’s concerns over the ChatGPT chatbot and allow the artificial intelligence service to resume in the country. Almost two weeks ago Microsoft Corp-backed OpenAI took ChatGPT offline in Italy after the […]
Apple Inc is in talks with suppliers to make MacBooks in Thailand as part of the company’s ongoing efforts to expand its manufacturing presence beyond China, Nikkei reported on Thursday. Suppliers who are participating in these talks have existing manufacturing complexes in Thailand for other clients, and are discussing possible assembly and production of components […]
Asian stocks struggled on Thursday, dragged down by tech and property selling in Hong Kong, while the dollar was under pressure as softening U.S. inflation seemed to suggest the Federal Reserve’s rate hike cycle was nearing its end. Early in the Asia day the euro hit a 2-1/2 month top at $1.10. Investors are positive […]