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Alphabet's Q12026 sales at $94.7 bn, Google Cloud sees 63% revenue surge

Alphabet shares jumped 7.6% to $376.35 in early trading in New York on Thursday. The stock had risen 12% this year through Wednesday's close

Iran conflict creates two-speed diesel market across Asian economies

Asia typically sources most of its diesel from plants within the region, which in turn rely on flows of crude from West Asia for a substantial share of their input

White House opposes Anthropic plan to expand Mythos AI technology access

Members of US President Donald Trump's administration have told Anthropic that they don't agree with the company's plan to grant access to its Mythos technology to roughly 70 companies

RBI's rupee defence faces fresh pressure as capital inflows weaken

The Reserve Bank of India took aggressive steps recently to curb speculation, yet the currency fell to a record closing low on Wednesday

Anthropic weighs funding offers at over $900 billion valuation, tops OpenAI

Anthropic had previously resisted several inbound proposals from investors for a new round at a valuation of $800 billion or more

Indians become Australia's largest migrant group, overtaking English

Some 971,020 people in Australia - or 5.2 per cent of the population - were born in India, narrowly surpassing the 970,950 born in England, according to data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics

King Charles meets top company CEOs in bid to promote US-UK investment

The British monarch and his wife, Queen Camilla, focused on economic and cultural exchanges on the third day of a visit timed to mark the 250th anniversary of America's independence

Pentagon says Iran war cost $25 bn so far amid heated Congress hearing

Democratic lawmakers cast the conflict as a costly war of choice that President Donald Trump blundered into without a clear plan

Taiwan's equity market overtakes Canada's to become world's sixth largest

Taiwan surpasses Canada as the sixth-largest equity market, powered by AI-driven chip stocks and the meteoric rise of TSMC

Trump rejects Iran's Hormuz offer, to keep blockade until deal is reached

Trump said he had rejected a recent proposal from Iran to reopen the strait but that would have delayed talks on the nuclear issue until later

Adani's giant copper plant hit by technical setbacks in first year

Adani Enterprise Ltd.'s Kutch plant has yet to produce meaningful volumes of copper as a result of the engineering trouble, and closed for repair work in late March

Samsung dynasty's wealth doubles to $45 bn in just one year amid AI boom

An AI-driven upswing in semiconductor valuations has helped the family cement its grip and grow richer than ever

Japan's MUFG to foray into Indian real estate, expand forex derivatives

Japan's biggest bank is setting up a team which will start operations this financial year, Shashank Joshi, MUFG India's deputy chief executive officer said

India's real estate sector set to face reality of agentic AI disruption

After a four-month, $115 billion rout, investors are losing faith in a business model centered on the most-populous nation's army of young engineers, which gave it a wage advantage

Musk testifies he's suing OpenAI to stop Altman's 'looting' of a charity

The closely watched trial is the culmination of years of animosity and public feuding over the startup the three men worked together to found in 2015, before their relationship soured and they became

King Charles urges US to reject 'isolationism' in landmark speech

Charles used his remarks to a joint session of Congress - the first such address by a British monarch in more than three decades - to argue for preserving the alliance between the UK and US

US ends probe into claims WhatsApp chats were reportedly not private

Through much of 2025, the special agent had been looking into claims that some Meta employees and contractors could see the content of encrypted WhatsApp messages

BP profit more than doubles as Iran conflict boosts oil trading profits

BP suspended its share buyback program in February to clear the decks for the incoming CEO, and that was maintained

Airtel eyes $2 billion London IPO of mobile money unit, says report

The listing could value Airtel Money at as much as $10 billion, the people said, a valuation that would put it among the largest IPOs on a European exchange in recent years

OpenAI missed sales, user targets, fueling spending concerns: Report

Its ChatGPT chatbot also didn't hit the company's target of one billion weekly active users by the end of 2025, the newspaper said