BUSINESS
AMD takes on Nvidia in India with expanded Tata AI partnership
AMD’s push in India underscores a wider strategy to supply end-to-end AI infrastructure to governments and companies racing to build local computing capacity.
BUSINESS
National Highways Authority of India plans Infra Trust IPO in March
Proceeds from the offering will be used to provide debt or equity funding to the project’s special purpose vehicle, according to IPO prospectus.
BUSINESS
Gold slips back below $5,000 an ounce as traders book profits
With markets in China closed this week for the Lunar New Year holiday, liquidity is thinner than usual during Asian trading hours.
WORLD
Niche corner of the oil market is rocked by huge bet — on tankers
Demand for non-sanctioned tankers has soared in recent months as a flood of supplies hits global oil markets, at the same time that a chunk of the fleet is subject to western sanctions
COMPANIES
Merger involving $61 billion of debt to help India credit market
The government announced that it will combine state-owned Power Finance Corp. and unit REC Ltd
WORLD
Rich world’s growing civil unrest comes with an insurance sting
Claims tied to SRCC — strikes, riots and civil commotion — are emerging as a growing headache for insurers
INDIA
India seeks role in shaping AI future with summit of tech chiefs
World leaders, tech moguls, AI founders and investors are expected to arrive in New Delhi for the India AI Impact Summit, potentially the largest gathering of AI luminaries to date
ECONOMY
India seeks to revive private investment in high-speed roads
The government is preparing new rules that promise revenue protection for developers and invite global funds to bid for projects to accelerate expressway expansion
BUSINESS
JSW MG plans $441 million expansion to triple India capacity
The outlay is among the most significant capital expansion since billionaire Sajjan Jindal’s JSW Group joined forces with SAIC in 2024, signaling the joint venture’s ambition to become a leading NEV manufacturer in India. The
WORLD
Warner Bros. weighs reopening sale negotiations with Paramount
Members of the Warner Bros. board are discussing whether Paramount could offer a path to a superior deal
BUSINESS
Japan’s economy ekes out anemic growth as Takaichi eyes spending
Japan’s real gross domestic product grew 0.2% on an annualized basis in the three months through December, according to a Cabinet Office report Monday. That was weaker than economists’ median estimate of 1.6% growth.
BUSINESS
Asian stocks edge up after US CPI lifts mood
Shares opened higher in Japan, where gross domestic product eked out growth in the fourth quarter of 2025, reversing from a deep contraction in the previous period.
BUSINESS
A stock market doom loop is hitting everything that touches AI
One is that AI is poised to disrupt entire segments of the economy so dramatically that investors are dumping the stocks of any company seen at the slightest risk of being displaced by the technology.
WORLD
Macron to meet PM Modi as tech, defense ties deepen
Macron is among heads of state, policymakers and AI leaders across the world who will be at the summit, which starts on Monday in Delhi, according to a statement by India’s Ministry of External Affairs.
WORLD
Epstein’s girlfriend married a woman, showing how he gamed immigration
Epstein sponsored and paid fees for multiple women, according to emails, Skype messages and bank statements.
BUSINESS
Turkish broker with 2,400% stock surge reports huge profit jump
The Istanbul-based brokerage reported net income of 37.4 billion liras ($856 million) for the year, up from 531.7 million liras in 2024, according to an exchange filing late Friday.
WORLD
Italy likely to join Trump Board of Peace as observer: Meloni
The board is meeting in Washington on Feb. 19 and Italy was invited as an observer country, Meloni said in an interview with local media.
BUSINESS
Wall Street banks are paying their CEOs like it’s 2006 again
Such outsize paychecks for bank CEOs haven’t been seen since before the financial crisis.
WORLD
'Eva Dubin gave me your email': How Jeffrey Epstein got into hedge funds
Epstein would pour millions of dollars into the fund for years until his arrest and death in 2019, long after some other institutions had cut ties with him, according to a trove of documents released by the US Justice Department.
BUSINESS
Coinbase surges as dip buyers bet on crypto market bottom
The stock surged almost 17% to $164.32 on Friday, the biggest intraday increase since May 2025. Coinbase had stumbled around 8% yesterday, and is down about 45% in the past year.
BUSINESS
SpaceX said to weigh dual-class IPO shares to empower Musk
SpaceX is seeking to hold an IPO later this year, in a deal that could raise as much as $50 billion to fund AI data centers in space and a factory on the moon.
BUSINESS
Gold reclaims $5,000 as cooling inflation lifts Fed easing bets
Gold surged to a record above $5,595 in late January as a wave of speculative buying pushed the rally to a breaking point, before a rapid rout at the end of the month that pulled it back below $5,000 an ounce.
BUSINESS
OpenAI claims DeepSeek distilled US models to gain an edge
In the memo, sent Thursday to the House Select Committee on China, OpenAI said that DeepSeek had used so-called distillation techniques as part of “ongoing efforts to free-ride on the capabilities developed by OpenAI and other US frontier labs.”
BUSINESS
DP World CEO Bin Sulayem resigns amid fallout over Epstein files
DP World named Yuvraj Narayan as the new chief executive officer and Essa Kazim as chairman, it said in a statement on Friday.
