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Walmart adding Apple Pay, other tap-to-pay options

Walmart announced Friday that some of its stores and Sam's Club locations will add tap-to-pay options in the U.S. beginning Monday.Why it matters: Tap-to-pay has eluded Walmart customers, who instead had to rely on the company's Walmart Pay system, which required scanning QR codes at checkout.What they're saying: "We want customers and members to ha

U.S. trade chief calls trying to change China's economy "crazy"

As Europe grapples with its own China shock, the U.S. has largely given up on trying to persuade Beijing to change the export-heavy economic model that's helping fuel it.It's a sharp break from years of U.S. economic diplomacy — including most recently during the Biden administration. <stron

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China’s telecoms giants bet on ‘token factories’ as AI drives revenue growth

China’s three state-owned telecoms giants have made billable artificial intelligence tokens a key focus of their growth strategies, as AI adoption accelerates across the country and computing demand soars. China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom all pointed to AI and computing operations as key growth drivers in their first-half financial disclosures released this month, presenting usage of tokens – the fundamental unit of data processed by AI models – as a central metric alongside others..

A dumpling shop becomes a poster child of AI adoption in China

Business owner quotes Deng Xiaoping as motivator: “Science and technology are a primary productive force.”

Naspers: From South African publisher to global tech investor

A roadmap for safeguarding against AI bioweapons

AI-enabled bioweapons are a potentially catastrophic yet manageable risk — if government, the scientific community, the public health sector and leading tech companies can develop appropriate safeguards, a new report argues.Why it matters: The debate over AI and public safety isn't one that the health care or research communities can ignore.Driving the news: A <a href="https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA4999-1.html" target="_blank

Alibaba signals faster AI payoff, margin gains halfway through US$56 billion capex plan

Alibaba Group Holding is expected to further accelerate cloud growth, expand operating margins and achieve faster payback on artificial intelligence investments, analysts say, as the Chinese tech giant reaches the halfway mark of its massive 380 billion yuan (US$56 billion) AI infrastructure spending plan. “The most important incremental message, in our view, is that cloud growth has not yet peaked,” Nomura analysts said in a research note on Friday. The comment followed Alibaba’s Thursday...

Abandon ship: Can scale solve both climate adaptation and mitigation?

Africa's voluntary carbon market: How do you price what was never for sale?