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China’s online literature industry has enjoyed a boom in overseas sales, thanks to the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) technology that allows Chinese web novels to be translated quickly for foreign consumption, new…
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Unionized journalists at The Washington Post said they would stage a 24-hour strike on Thursday to protest staff cuts and what they call management’s failure to bargain in good faith in contract talks that have…
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Progress in central bank digital currencies (CBDC) in China is “already on track” and the “final stage is not very far away”, according to the former head of the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) who was speaking at a conference in Hong Kong on…
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New Delhi: The National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC), working under the aegis of the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE), on Monday announced that it has signed Memorandum of Understanding (MOUs) with Blinkit,…
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Supermarkets should freeze the price of leg ham to give families certainty ahead of Christmas Day, federal Agriculture Minister Murray Watt says.His call comes as Coles and Woolworths look set to face a parliamentary inquiry into whether…
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Sir Richard Branson has ruled out putting more money into his lossmaking space travel company Virgin Galactic, saying…
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Electric vehicles have proved far less reliable, on average, than gasoline-powered cars, trucks and SUVs, according to the latest survey by Consumer Reports, which found that EVs from the 2021 through 2023 model years encountered nearly…
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Topline Jussie Smollett is set to head back behind bars after an Illinois appeals court denied the “Empire” actor’s appeal Friday on his disorderly conduct convictions nearly five years after he lied about being a victim of a hate crime in…
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By ELLEN KNICKMEYER and COURTNEY BONNELL LONDON — The OPEC oil cartel led by Saudi Arabia and allied producers including Russia made another big swipe at propping up lagging crude prices Thursday, expanding some output cuts into next year…
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Sam Altman marked his formal return as CEO of OpenAI today in a company memo that confirmed changes to the company’s board, including a new nonvoting seat for the startup’s primary investor, Microsoft.In a memo sent to staff and shared on…
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