For decades, Sri Lanka’s national airline has occupied an uneasy place in the country’s public life: a source of national pride on one hand and a continuing financial burden on the other.
Unconventional AI, the new venture launched by former Databricks head of AI Naveen Rao, has confirmed a massive $475 million seed round at a valuation of $4.5 billion — one of the
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China’s Premier Li Qiang warned on Tuesday that the “mutually destructive consequences of tariffs have become increasingly evident” over 2025, during a “1+10 Dialogue” attended by heads of the IMF, World Trade
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When Owen Willis left school at 18 and landed his first marketing job at a construction firm, he thought he was getting a foothold in adult life. Instead, his £14,400 apprenticeship salary
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It was, as Bloomberg reported, “the straw that broke the highly-optimized camel’s back.” On the evening of Dec. 2, just three days before India’s largest airline would lose control of its operations
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India’s battle to contain a rapidly weakening rupee has entered a new, more aggressive phase as the Reserve Bank of India deploys highly unpredictable intervention tactics that are reshaping currency trading and
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Wall Street’s enthusiasm for artificial intelligence companies is undergoing a dramatic reversal, with OpenAI losing favor while Alphabet Inc. rises in prominence, according to Bloomberg. OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, is facing
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by Our Correspondent in New Delhi In the cutthroat world of aviation, where margins are wafer-thin and operational missteps unforgiving, leadership is not just important—it is everything. And yet, in a stunning
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Asian companies and governments are rapidly expanding their reliance on euro-denominated financing, signaling a significant shift in global funding patterns and raising questions about the durability of US dollar supremacy. According to
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Meta Platforms Inc. is preparing to significantly scale back its once-flagship metaverse ambitions, with Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg weighing budget cuts as steep as 30 percent for the division responsible for virtual
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Phoebe Gates, daughter of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates, is raising $30 million in new funding for her artificial intelligence shopping startup, Phia, according to a pitch deck viewed
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The head of the UK’s Office for Budget Responsibility resigned on Monday after the fiscal watchdog accidentally published its full analysis of Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ budget moments before she was due to
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India’s current account deficit widened sharply in the July–September quarter after US President Donald Trump’s 50% tariff on Indian goods weakened export performance. The deficit rose to $12.3 billion, or 1.3% of
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Asia’s manufacturing engines lost further steam in November as slow global demand and persistent uncertainty surrounding international trade dragged down factory output across several key economies. According to data reported by Reuters,
More Credit-rating companies have raised concerns over Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves’ decision to push the bulk of her fiscal tightening to the end of the decade, casting doubt on whether the
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OpenAI may need to raise more than $200 billion in fresh capital by the end of the decade to keep pace with soaring computing demands and global AI competition, according to new
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