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Groq challenges Nvidia's AI chip dominance with $6 billion valuation bid

California-based startup Groq eyes global expansion as it raises fresh funding, strikes a major West Asia deal, and accelerates revenue growth

China eyes next TikTok boom as firms boost video production with AI

Analysts say AI video tools could transform content creation by boosting efficiency and making production more accessible

Trump fired America's economic data collector. History shows the perils.

Economists say that reliable, independently produced statistics are critical to good decision making in both the public and private sector

Trump tariffs jolt Malaysia, disrupting solar exports, China trade ties

Once a cog in the Malaysian economy, the solar industry profited from Chinese investment. Now it's becoming a case study of what happens when the United States closes its markets

At least 68 migrants die, 74 still missing after boat sinks off Yemen coast

The tragedy occurred Saturday night when a smuggling boat carrying 154 Ethiopian migrants capsized around 11 pm due to severe weather conditions and strong winds in the waters off Abyan province

A year after bloody revolt, Bangladesh still far from political stability

Human Rights Watch in a statement on July 30 said the interim government is falling short in implementing its challenging human rights agenda

Ozempic maker's plight shows why managing markets matter for pharma giants

Novo's shares plunged amid rising competition, missed expectations, and governance issues, exposing the risks of neglecting market sentiment in high-growth pharma bets

Why Asia's 'scamdemic' is everyone's problem that demands global action

Scams-once random nuisances-have become a trillion-dollar global industry, fuelled by forced labour hubs in Southeast Asia's lawless borderlands

Butter's 47% global price surge finds explanation in a cult novel

Butter by Asako Yuzuki, a 2024 English bestseller, blends cooking, murder, and feminist themes on body image and anomie in modern Japan-think Julie & Julia meets Silence of the Lambs

Open to US trade talks if Brazil treated as an equal, says Lula da Silva

'We want to negotiate. We want to negotiate on equal terms,' Lula said Sunday at an event for his leftist Workers' Party in Brasilia

80 years after Hiroshima bombing, search for missing goes on nearby island

Decades later, people in the area look for remains of the missing, driven by a desire to account for and honour victims & bring relief to survivors who are tormented by memories of missing loved ones

Ukrainian drone hits Russian oil depot as Zelenskyy announces prisoner swap

Russia's Defence Ministry said its air defences shot down 93 Ukrainian drones over Russia and the Black Sea overnight into Sunday

Taiwan defence ministry detects Chinese military activity around territory

Sharing the details in a post on X, MND said that these were detected up until 6 AM (UTC +8), and four out of the five sorties crossed the median line and entered Taiwan's northern ADIZ

Asia shares sideswiped by US economic jitters, retreat in oil prices

Some early resilience in US stock futures and a continued retreat in oil prices did help limit the losses, but the bleak message from the July payrolls report was hard to ignore

Russian university creates world's first anti-drone rifle simulator

Each virtual device is an exact copy of its real counterpart. To create such detail, the developers used the powerful Unreal Engine game engine

Earthquake of magnitude 4.2 strikes Myanmar, no damage reported so far

Myanmar is vulnerable to hazards from moderate and large magnitude earthquakes, including tsunami hazards along its long coastline

Opec+ countries to boost oil production by 547,000 barrels per day

The group met virtually on Sunday and announced that eight of its member countries would increase oil production by 547,000 barrels per day in September

US policymakers may start relying on Trump tariffs for federal revenue

Trump has routinely cited the tariff revenue as evidence that his trade approach, which has sowed uncertainty and begun to increase prices for consumers, is a win for the United States

Israeli forces kill over 20 people seeking food in Gaza, say witnesses

Southern Gaza's Nasser Hospital said they had received bodies from near multiple distribution sites

Pak, Iran agree to increase bilateral trade volume to $10 billion annually

Sharif also said that Iran has the right to the peaceful use of nuclear energy, which had been at the heart of the current conflict with Israel