The United States economy is sending conflicting signals ahead of the Federal Reserve’s next policy meeting, leaving markets, analysts, and policymakers navigating an unusually uncertain landscape. Inflation remains stubborn in …
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The United States has once again placed global trade under pressure as the Trump administration advances an aggressive tariff agenda that is reverting supply chains, straining diplomatic relationships, and forcing …
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Interest Rate Hike Warning Puts Global Economy on Edge as Central Banks Face Inflation Crossroads
South African consumers are bracing for what economists describe as a potentially steep interest rate increase later this year, as the country’s central bank weighs persistent inflationary pressure against fragile …
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Claude’s Voice Mode Has Been Running on Its Weakest Model Since It Launched. That Changes Today.
Anthropic announced on Thursday that Claude’s voice mode now supports its Opus and Sonnet models, replacing the Haiku-only configuration that had been in place since voice mode launched last year. …
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Malaysia Wanted to Be Asia’s AI Hub. Instead, It Became Ground Zero for the Nvidia Chip Smuggling Crackdown
Malaysia entered 2026 with a specific and commercially ambitious set of expectations for itself. NEWSCENTRAL tracks the gap between those expectations and what has materialized as one of the more …
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Chinese Memory Makers Are Now Picking Clients. In Some Cases, They’re Charging More Than Samsung
ChangXin Memory Technologies and Yangtze Memory Technologies Corp, China’s leading DRAM and NAND flash producers respectively, have moved from loss-making recipients of state funding to dominant forces in their domestic …
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Nestlé’s Net Profit Fell 31%. Its Strategy Is Working Anyway. The Two Facts Are Not Contradictory.
Nestlé reported first-half 2026 results on Wednesday that present a textbook illustration of the difference between reported financials and underlying business performance. Net profit fell 31.4% to CHF 3.5 billion …
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300 Million Weekly Health Questions. OpenAI Just Made the Answer Available to Everyone – and Got Sued the Day Before
OpenAI announced on Thursday that ChatGPT Health is now available to all U.S. users aged 18 and over across all subscription tiers – Free, Go, Plus, and Pro – six …
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Mexico’s consumer price index fell to its lowest level in nearly five years, offering the clearest signal yet that the country’s monetary tightening cycle has run its course and that …
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Trump’s New Tariffs on 60 Trading Partners Signal a Permanent Shift in U.S. Global Trade Policy
The Trump administration has moved to replace expiring temporary trade duties with a new round of tariffs targeting 60 trading partners, marking a significant escalation in U.S. trade policy that …