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20.02 / 05:19

Google security Apple Trade Photos Justice information Theft of trade secrets is on the rise—and AI is making it worse

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. A former Google employee accused of stealing trade secrets related to the company’s Pixel phones was indicted Thursday, adding to cases highlighting the security threats companies face in an era of rapidly evolving technology. The employee, who worked as a Google hardware engineer from 2019 to 2023, was charged with six theft-related charges.

19.02 / 10:01

markets Trade President show country Updates Beijing’s BRI isn’t in retreat and ‘debt trap’ warnings are falling on deaf ears in the Global South

China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is not in retreat, although many have been predicting its untimely demise for some time. Far from shrinking, President Xi Jinping’s signature lending plan is adapting, and in doing so becoming harder to counter. It’s shifting from financing megaprojects to becoming a long-term development partner, particularly for fast-growing economies in the Global South.

19.02 / 10:01

markets UPS ETF Research Trade country International The reign of the dollar is coming to an end. What investors can do about it.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The dollar is in decline, and investors have to learn to live with it. The past 12 months were tough for the greenback.

18.02 / 12:43

markets UPS Manufacturing Strategy Mobile ICE International Steel, paint, power and cars: Inside JSW’s ‘Chaebol-style’ strategy to disrupt the auto market

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi/Mumbai: In December 2024, industrialist Sajjan Jindal declared that steelmaker JSW would soon have its own automobile brand. “Our idea is not to be an outpost of a Chinese company to sell products in India," Jindal told the Financial Times.

18.02 / 02:25

markets UPS Progressive Action Racing reports Updates With China and America in an AI-catapulted space race, the world needs a global treaty on AI warfare

India opened its space sector to private players at a time of covid paralysis. Since then, some progress has indeed been made. Poised for a breathtaking leap into space, however, might be China.In the last week of December, Beijing notified the UN’s International Telecom Union of its plan to put over 200,000 satellites in orbit within a decade.

18.02 / 02:25

markets Manufacturing Platform Trade innovations reports Ford might look East for innovation. That’s a bad idea.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Ford Motor might be considering helping Chinese auto makers establish a beachhead in the lucrative American car market. It sounds like a bad idea.

17.02 / 02:35

UPS Digital economy wellness Healthcare country inclusion New Delhi’s AI Impact Summit should get more ambitious: Aim for substance beyond the spectacle

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Governments love global summits. They signal ambition, draw CEOs and leaders, and create the impression of shaping the future rather than chasing it.

16.02 / 14:39

COST Progressive security wellness electronic reports testing One year, 12 startups: India AI Mission faces its first real test

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. NEW DELHI: India’s AI Impact Summit 2026 is emerging as an early gauge of whether the country’s state-backed artificial intelligence (AI) startups can demonstrate meaningful progress in a rapidly shifting global AI landscape, as companies backed under the government’s India AI Mission prepare to showcase their models this week.

16.02 / 08:41

Gap Trade President Universities War social Decline of the American empire? Why educational self-injury may turn out to be worse than financial

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Even as US President Donald Trump imposes his will at home and abroad, there is talk about various stages of imperial decline and how the American Empire is now at one of its last few—fifth out of seven by one estimate. Empires as commonly understood were based on force and political control.

16.02 / 04:51

UPS Manufacturing Strategy Hyundai wellness Interviews International JSW MG Motor bets on a $400 million offensive for new products, capacity

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. NEW DELHI : JSW MG Motor India Ltd will invest about $400 million over the next four years to nearly triple its manufacturing capacity and accelerate its electric and hybrid vehicle push, managing director and chief executive Anurag Mehrotra told Mint in an interview. The Gurugram-based carmaker—a joint venture between Mumbai-headquartered JSW Group and China’s SAIC Motor—plans to expand capacity at its Halol plant in Gujarat from around 110,000 units annually to over 300,000 units in the next 12 to 18 months.

16.02 / 01:11

markets COST UPS Digital security Research country Mint Primer | Why is there the hype around AI summit in India?

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India’s big-ticket push for global prominence in artificial intelligence begins on 16 February. The AI Impact Summit has driven hotel prices higher across New Delhi, and attendance rates for global heads of state match those seen when India hosted the G20 summit in 2023.

15.02 / 13:17

markets Manufacturing CEO Platform Strategy beautiful social China’s Gen Zers love knockoffs. Luxury retailers regret their big bet.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The logo-obsessed Chinese consumer who powered a decade of luxury growth is disappearing. In their place: a new generation that wears their shopping savvy as a badge of honor.

15.02 / 10:15

markets UPS Target Sustainability country rights International Silver’s price upshoot confirms a sustained solar panel boom even as the metal heads for oversupply

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Did we just pass peak solar? That’s the claim now circulating among many analysts. Hitting net zero will require 630GW of panels to be installed every year between 2030 and 2050, the International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates.

15.02 / 10:15

COST Progressive Aware Enterprise wellness Experts innovations No DeepSeek-like splash: India will showcase small AI, early startups at Summit starting tomorrow

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. NEW DELHI : Despite global attention, India’s artificial intelligence (AI) startups and policymakers do not expect a “DeepSeek moment" to emerge from New Delhi’s weeklong AI gala beginning tomorrow.

15.02 / 07:17

Target Career Death show gatherings Investigations China watchers are trying to spot the next target of Xi’s purges

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Beijing’s recent announcement of an investigation into its top general was a bombshell with a mystery at its heart: What pushed Chinese leader Xi Jinping to purge a friend he had entrusted to overhaul the military? Official newspaper editorials have condemned Gen. Zhang Youxia for allegedly undermining Xi’s authority, abetting corruption and damaging efforts to develop China’s combat effectiveness.

15.02 / 01:39

UPS Google ByteDance TikTok voice Videos TikTok’s Chinese parent has an app to replace Hollywood

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. SINGAPORE—The company behind TikTok has developed an artificial-intelligence model that can turn a single text prompt into a high-quality video with a story line, scene changes and distinctive characters. The new AI video-creation model from Beijing-based ByteDance is generating buzz in China and a backlash in Hollywood over copyright issues.

13.02 / 09:45

UPS Manufacturing Fighting War country social innovations What’s worse for innovation: MAGA or Mao?

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. PITY THE young, for the world is run by old men. President Donald Trump (79) and China’s ruler, Xi Jinping (72), talk a good game about AI, robots and other futuristic marvels.

13.02 / 04:13

COST Apple DELL Nintendo Xiaomi electronic A memory-chip shortage is squeezing consumer tech—and it's set to get worse

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Facing soaring memory-chip prices, the world’s biggest electronics companies are staring at a list of unpalatable responses: charging consumers more, eating the costs or rejiggering product specs. Such is the supply-chain disruption wrought by the global drive into artificial intelligence, which requires fleets of data centers with servers needing gargantuan amounts of memory.

13.02 / 01:17

Digital Platform wellness country social reports Courts Mint Explainer | India’s AI rules and the elusive quest for online safety

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India notified its artificial intelligence (AI) rules this week, cutting the deadline for taking down sexual content to within two hours of reporting. For other content, the time given is three hours.

12.02 / 08:01

markets Action security Align wellness Trade country A US-led critical minerals alliance presents India with opportunities as well as challenges

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The Critical Minerals Ministerial Meeting convened in Washington D.C. last week underscored the extent to which resource security has become central to contemporary geopolitics.

12.02 / 06:51

markets economy Trade show country social Rethink 1991: India can’t become a developed country without a course correction in economic policy

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The general consensus seems to be that the budget for 2026-27 was not bad, but not good enough. It’s a safe budget.

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