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BYD logs record EV sales in 2025

It sold 2.26m EVs vs Tesla's 1.22 by Sept end.

Google to invest $6.4bn

The investment is its biggest-ever in Germany.

Pfizer poised to buy Metsera

The pharma giant improved its offer to $10bn.

Ozempic maker lowers outlook

The company posted tepid Q3 results.

Kimberly-Clark to buy Kenvue

The deal is valued at $48.7 billion.

Google infuses Gemini generative AI into home gadgets

Paris, France -- Google said Wednesday it was adding its Gemini generative AI assistant to its smart home devices, saying...

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AI robots pluck weeds in California fields, make up for shortage of laborers

Los Banos, United States -- Oblivious to the punishing midday heat, a wheeled robot powered by the sun and infused...

Japan plans ‘world first’ deep-sea mineral extraction from Jan

Tokyo, Japan -- Japan will from January attempt to extract rare earth minerals from the ocean floor in the deepest...

Microsoft laying off several thousand employees

San Francisco, United States -- Microsoft on Wednesday said it was slashing a little less than four percent of its...
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Indonesia begins $5.9 bn EV battery project despite environment fears

Jakarta, Indonesia -- Indonesia broke ground Sunday on a $5.9 billion megaproject for EV battery production backed by Chinese giant...
  • Indonesia is the world's largest nickel producer and it is trying to capitalize on its vast reserves.
  • The EV battery project will include a $4.7 billion investment on the eastern island of Halmahera and a $1.2 billion investment in West Java.

AI is learning to lie, scheme, and threaten its creators

In one particularly jarring example, under threat of being unplugged, Anthropic's latest creation Claude 4 lashed back by blackmailing an...
  • Meanwhile, ChatGPT-creator OpenAI's o1 tried to download itself onto external servers and denied it when caught red-handed.
  • For now, this deceptive behavior only emerges when researchers deliberately stress-test the models with extreme scenarios.

James Webb Telescope captures first direct image of exoplanet TWA 7b

The telescope, which can see farther into the universe than anything before it, has turbocharged the search for planets beyond...
  • The discovery of exoplanet TWA 7b, revealed in a study in the journal Nature, "represents a first for the telescope", France's CNRS research center said in a statement.
  • Most of the nearly 6,000 exoplanets found so far have been identified from the light they blot out when they pass in front of their star, rather than from direct images of planet.