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Apple Inc.’s market capitalisation has topped the $4-trillion mark for the first time, as surging demand for its iPhone 17 models offset feard of slow progress in a global AI race.Apple is the third company to achieve a market cap of $4 trillion after Nvidia Corp. and Microsoft Corp. (Bloomberg)On Tuesday, Apple’s share price rose 0.2% to an all-time high of $269.2 giving the company a market cap of $4 trillion. The stock has gained about 13% since the iPhone 17 series launched on 9 September, after struggling for most of the year due to tauncertainty around US tariff impact…

Nvidia Corp. has decided to make a billion-dollar investment in Nokia Oyj, as the world’s most-valued company looks to spread its AI net far and wide.Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. (AFP)The Finnish telecom hardware maker will issue 166,389,351 new shares to the American AI chipmaker for $6.01 apiece, according to a statement on Tuesday (28 October 2025). That pegs the value of the Nvidia-Nokia stake sale deal at $1 billion for a 2.9% stake. As part of the deal, Nvidia’s chips will be used to accelerate Nokia’s software for 5G/6G networks and Nvidia will explore ways to use Nokia’s data-centre technology…

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Bharti Singh, who is back from a month-long trip to Switzerland, is currently dealing with jet lag and finding it difficult to adjust to her life in India. “Ever since we have come back from Switzerland, we have not been able to get our sleep on track. Hum log 3 baje sote hai, 11 baje uththe hai. (We sleep at 3, wake up at 11 am). Aap bataiye, hum apni life aur neend track par kaise laaye? (How do we get our life and sleep on track?),” Singh asked on her YouTube vlog. The comedian, pregnant with her second child,…

In what may fuel demands for “rationalisation” and “proportional representation” in the new reservation policy for Jammu and Kashmir, a reply submitted in the Assembly Tuesday points to huge discrepancies in the same. The data shared by the government points to a sharp difference in the number of certificates issued between the Jammu and Kashmir regions, across all categories, including Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribe (ST) and EWS, among others. The reply was submitted by the Revenue Department in response to a question by PDP MLA Waheed Para. As per the reply, over the past two years, while over 69,000…

In September this year, Laura Wolvaardt posted a couple of pictures holding her graduation degree from the University of South Africa on social media, along with a montage of assignments on her MacBook and tablets.“Cricket has taken me to some amazing places the last few years, but this degree has been as big of a journey. I probably spent the same amount of hours on this as what I did on the cricket field,” she wrote. After finishing high school, Wolvaardt decided to take the plunge into cricket full-time but completed a Bachelor of Sciences (Life Sciences) course over the…

Thousands of dead satellites and rocket fragments now orbit Earth at 28,000 km/h — turning our skies into a junkyard that threatens the very technology we rely on every dayWhen you look up at the night sky, you might imagine a vast emptiness sprinkled with stars. But around Earth there’s a growing cloud of human-made trash — defunct satellites, fragments of rockets, paint flakes and metal shards — hurtling around at some 28,000 km/h. One former NASA orbital-debris specialist put it succinctly: “This is trash. It’s garbage. And there are millions of pieces of it.” That garbage isn’t far away…

OpenAI is giving its long-time backer Microsoft Corp. a 27% stake as part of a restructuring plan that took nearly a year to negotiate. That removes a major uncertainty for both companies and clears the path for the ChatGPT maker to become a for-profit business.OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (left) and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella (AFP)According to the revised Microsoft-OpenAI deal, Microsoft will get a stake in OpenAI worth about $135 billion. That gives Microsoft access to OpenAI’s technology until 2032, including AI models that may achieve Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) by then.Sam Altman, OpenAI’s co-founder and chief executive officer, is…

Two Amazon employees talk at one of the entrances to the company’s East Coast headquarters in Virginia. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images Amazon is laying off thousands of corporate workers in an effort to slim down while it spends big on the AI race. In a note on Tuesday, Amazon human-resources executive Beth Galetti said the tech giant would cut about 14,000 corporate jobs, or about 4% of its workforce. She cited a goal of “reducing bureaucracy, removing layers, and shifting resources to ensure we’re investing in our biggest bets and…

Earlier this year, the Trump administration shut down USAID and slashed spending on international aid and development. Development advocates worried — and continue to worry — that this will hurt the economies of developing nations and have deadly consequences for some of the poorest people on Earth. That story generated tons of headlines earlier this year. But Dean Yang, an economist at the University of Michigan, argues “the anti-immigration actions of the Trump administration are likely to have an even bigger negative effect on the economic development of the world’s poor countries” — and that story has gotten much less…