- El Dorado Hills, United States -- Matt James has collected gold nuggets for years from the hills and riverbeds of...
Though the value has fluctuated, it has effectively doubled in the last two years, reaching an all-time high of more than $4,380 an ounce in October.
The Gold Rush transformed California, known as the Golden State, and many towns in the Sierra Nevada are working to keep that moment in history alive.
- Dubai, UAE - Deloitte Middle East has announced the launch of its Middle East Centre of Excellence for Oracle AI...
The center offers a dedicated regional hub to develop and deploy Oracle AI Agents across public and private sectors
It combines global expertise with local industry experience to advance agentic AI in the Middle East
- New York, United States -- Meta raised $30 billion in debt on Thursday, as tech giants flush with cash turn...
Meta raised $30 billion in debt and demand for its bonds was reportedly four times greater than supply.
The $30 billion in bonds scheduled to be repaid over the course of decades is intended to provide money to continue a breakneck pace of AI development.
- San Francisco, United States - Amazon's share price skyrocketed by more than ten percent on Thursday after the online retail...
The e-commerce giant's Amazon Web Services division, which recently suffered a global outage, saw revenues jump 20 percent to $33 billion in the third quarter
Amazon's major rivals in the cloud computing space, Microsoft and Google, on Wednesday also reported sales increases in their cloud computing business
- Paris, France -- French oil and gas giant TotalEnergies reported on Thursday a sharp increase in third-quarter net profit despite...
The company said net income grew around 61 percent to $3.7 billion compared to the same period last year, even as oil prices fell by more than $10 per barrel year-on-year.
TotalEnergies shares were down 1.4 percent in afternoon trading while the Paris stock exchange's blue-chip CAC 40 index was 0.7 lower.
- New York, United States -- AI chip juggernaut Nvidia became the world's first $5 trillion company on Wednesday, as investors...
By way of comparison, the level was greater than the GDP of France or Germany or higher than that of Tesla, Meta (Facebook), and Netflix combined.
Microsoft and Apple, the two other largest global market capitalizations, only just exceed $4 trillion in valuation each.
- San Francisco, United States - Microsoft and OpenAI announced Tuesday a sweeping overhaul of their landmark artificial intelligence (AI) partnership,...
OpenAI has also committed to purchasing $250 billion in Azure cloud services from the tech giant, though Microsoft no longer holds first refusal rights as OpenAI's compute provider
The partnership began in 2019 when Microsoft invested $1 billion in what was then a small AI research organization founded in 2015 by tech luminaries including Elon Musk
- Amazon will lay off tens of thousands of office workers as the e-commerce and tech giant trims costs amid ramped-up...
The reduction will represent nearly 10 percent of the approximately 350,000 office jobs at Amazon but is reported not to affect the distribution and warehouse workforce
Amazon chief executive Andy Jassy has lauded the potential of AI to streamline workplace operations, from engaging with customers online to making offices more efficient





















