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Chair of the Taiwan Stock Exchange on the index's near future
Nick Gordon here. Sherman Lin, chair of the Taiwan Stock Exchange Corporation, took a little while to get going when I talked to him on a Zoom call over the summer. But he got animated when I asked him what makes Taiwan's stock market different…
Family offices are clamoring for AI investments
For the wealthy families who manage their own money through a family office, the math right now is simple, according to Djoann Fal, a family office advisor and investor at the private wealth platform Atlas Capital in San Francisco. A family office…
ByteDance spin-off Anew Labs raises US$290m amid AI drug design fundraising boom
China is seeing a fresh fundraising boom for AI drug developers, with start-ups including a ByteDance spin-off raising hundreds of millions of dollars this week as investors rush to back domestic challengers to Anthropic and Isomorphic Labs. Anew…
More than 100 Democratic operatives urge party leaders to reject AI cash
More than 170 Democratic organizers and campaign staff members are calling on the party's leaders to reject campaign donations from the pro-artificial intelligence super PAC Leading the Future (LTF) as the debate over AI safety and regulations…
Gersh Signs Business & Culture Creator Jaclyn Johnson
EXCLUSIVE: Gersh has signed Jaclyn Johnson, the business, investment and culture content creator. Johnson is known as the founder of Create & Cultivate, a women's global media and events platform that launched back in 2011 as a retreat for 25…
India moves closer to 'product nation' status as home-grown chips enter global markets: Ashwini Vaishnaw
India is moving towards becoming a “product nation” in semiconductors, with domestically designed chips beginning to find applications in defence and other strategic sectors, while semiconductor units in the country are increasingly…
Why Pittsburgh's tech scene is finding its niche
Locals often say Pittsburgh shouldn't be like Boston or San Francisco, and the region's tech industry leaders are starting to agree. Why it matters: Pittsburgh's tech sector has been trying to grow beyond being a secondary player to places like…
Employers aren't giving up on computer science grads. Here's what they want instead
Not long ago, a computer science degree was widely seen as a golden ticket to a lucrative career. Over the past year, a different narrative has taken hold: In the age of artificial intelligence, that path is collapsing. From coders working at…
AI Is a Kitchen-Table Issue
Bluesky The Republican Party sports a glaring weakness in the pitched battle over regulating the rapidly multiplying abuses of AI, and its name is Donald John Trump. The president sought to dismiss the growing furor about the multitude of threats…
The U.S. says China's AI progress is down to 'distillation.' But is it that clear cut?
U.S. companies and Washington have accused Chinese labs of using distillation to gain ground, denouncing their efforts as theft. But a growing chorus of voices is casting doubt on how important distillation is to Chinese AI model development.
What 25,000 Startup Applications Reveal About The New Rules Of Seed-Stage Startups
Ten years ago, a seed-stage startup needed a product, a team and a pitch deck to raise capital. Today, that's just the start. Technology and strategy have become inseparable, each fueling the other, and the rules that once defined success have…
Speech by Vice Chair for Supervision Bowman on initial findings from independent review of Silicon Valley Bank
Today I am announcing the initial findings of the independent review of the failure of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB). In June 2023, I called for an independent review of SVB's failure to supplement the internal review. After I was confirmed as Vice…
SK hynix launches SK hynix Ventures in Silicon Valley
SK hynix said Friday it had launched SK hynix Ventures, a corporate venture capital brand in Silicon Valley, as the memory chipmaker expands its investment activities into artificial intelligence technologies and next-generation AI infrastructure.
Rethinking Silicon Valley Bank's failure
A new independent review of Silicon Valley Bank's collapse contradicts the Federal Reserve's initial postmortem over the role that looser regulations played in the bank's supervisory failures. Why it matters: Regulators are still trying to diagnose…
Why Kai-Fu Lee thinks companies need an AI boss
Kai-Fu Lee's AI Superpowers, an influential book published in 2018, largely predicted the current tech battle between the US and China. Now, Lee's forecasting that AI will unleash more radical changes inside the world's companies than most CEOs…
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