Intel Corp. is rolling out a new version of its artificial intelligence chip, aiming to challenge Nvidia Corp. in one of the fastest-growing parts of the semiconductor industry. The updated processor, called Gaudi 3, will be widely available in the third quarter, Intel said at a company event early Tuesday. …

JOHANNESBURG: South Africa has spent more than a year frustrating its biggest trade partner and largest foreign investor, the European Union (EU), by failing to respond to requests for a high-level summit, according to people familiar with the situation. The EU requested South Africa to schedule the so-called EU-South Africa …

NEW YORK: A jailed trader accused of stealing US$110mil on the Mango Markets exchange faces a criminal trial this week that will test the reach of a US crackdown on cryptocurrencies.Prosecutors charged Avraham Eisenberg with manipulating Mango Markets futures contracts on Oct 11, 2022, to boost the price of swaps …

ZURICH (Reuters) – Influential newspapers in Switzerland on Wednesday criticised a climate change ruling against the Swiss government by Europe’s top human rights court, saying it risked undermining democracy and the political clout of environmental groups. Tuesday’s ruling by the European Court of Human Rights in favour of over 2,000 …

TAIPEI (Reuters) -Taiwan chipmaker TSMC reported a 16.5% rise in first-quarter revenue on Wednesday, beating market expectations and at the high end of the company’s own guidance as its sales boom on demand for artificial intelligence applications. The world’s largest contract chipmaker, whose customers include Apple and Nvidia, has benefited …

IPOH: Perikatan Nasional has identified its candidate for Kuala Kubu Baharu and will make an official announcement soon, says Datuk Seri Ahmad Faizal Azumu. The coalition’s deputy chairman said it was aware that it would be going into the by-election as an underdog but added that it is confident it …

(Reuters) – More than 300 homes were flooded in the Russian city of Orenburg after the Ural River rose half a metre beyond its bursting point, officials said on Wednesday, as swiftly melting snow from the Ural Mountains triggered the worst flooding in decades. The deluge of meltwater overwhelmed swathes …

STOCKHOLM/BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Independent browser companies in the European Union are seeing a spike in users in the first month after EU legislation forced Alphabet’s Google, Microsoft and Apple to make it easier for users to switch to rivals, according to data provided to Reuters by six companies. The early …

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Two-time world boxing champion Nikhat Zareen is ready to step out of fellow Indian MC Mary Kom’s shadow with a medal at the Paris Olympics, coach Blas Iglesias Fernandez has said. Six-time world champion MC Mary Kom has been the face of women boxing in India …

PETALING JAYA: Inta Bina Group Bhd’s RM349mil building works project, which is the first construction job secured by the company this year, is expected to lift its total outstanding order book to about RM1.3bil, equivalent to 2.1 times financial year 2023’s (FY23) revenue, TA Research says. Apart from this, the …