Global stocks plunge as fears over US AI slowdown spread to Asia and Europe

China’s pure-play artificial intelligence chipmakers crossed an important milestone in the third quarter as several firms swung into profit, but severe supply chain hurdles and soaring memory costs cloud their long-term growth prospects. Domestic graphics processing unit (GPU) developers including Moore Threads, MetaX and Iluvatar CoreX are racing to fill the market void left by Nvidia, whose high-end processors face strict US export controls. These home-grown firms are competing fiercely to win...

An aerial view of the 200-foot-tall front of the Getz Ice Shelf with cracks, in Antarctica, in this 2016 handout image. NASA/Handout via REUTERSBeijing has approved a law to improve China's Antarctic research and ​strengthen regulation of its exploration activities, the ‌official Xinhua...

Among those elected to Congress on Tuesday are a mathematician, a microbiologist and a chemical engineer. They plan to take on a White House that has threatened funding cuts to research.

The Trump administration is scaling back or stalling investments that help vulnerable places harden themselves to rising flood and fire threats.

India is focused on becoming the artificial intelligence (AI) "application capital" of the world, Union Electronics and Information Technology Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said.

Motorola Signature 27 has debuted in global markets with a 200MP periscope camera, 7,000mAh battery, Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 chipset and a 12,000-nit AMOLED display. Priced at $1,599 (approximately ₹1.51 lakh), the flagship is expected to launch in India soon.

China’s stocks pared weekly gains and the benchmark 10-year bond hit a record low as the global artificial intelligence (AI) stock bubble burst following the US Democrats’ landslide win in midterm elections. The CSI 300 equity index fell 1.4 per cent, weighed down by AI-related shares. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index dropped 1.3 per cent. The yield on China’s 10-year sovereign bond touched an intraday low of 1.58 per cent, according to Bloomberg, spurred by investor demand for safe-haven assets and...

Mirai, a company specializing in technology to boost hotels’ direct sales, has integrated with Mews Payments, Mews’ native payment gateway. Hotels that work with Mews can now collect payments for their website bookings through Mews Payments. This new development expands the integration with Mews that Mirai announced in February 2025, which syncs rates, inventory, availability, and bookings in real time between the Mews PMS and Mirai’s booking engine.

Holafly, the global leader in travel eSIMs, today announced key insights from its 2026-2027 Global eSIM & Travel Report ahead of the World Travel Market, revealing a powerful shift in how people connect, work, and plan their journeys abroad. According to the global report, a new kind of traveller is reshaping global mobility. Travel has fully emerged into a new era of digital fluency and intentional exploration. Today’s global travellers value relaxation and peace of mind, prepared with smart technology that makes seamless global mobility achievable and borderless experiences the new standard.

There was advice on marketing for those already entrenched in the travel industry and on careers for those just starting out during the final day of World Travel Market London 2026, part of RX Global. Meanwhile, new AI assisted-booking technology, sure to be a hot topic at next year’s show, was showcased in a live demonstration. Warnings on making assumptions on audience emerged at the Trends stage in a session on the ‘Contradiction Economy’. Abi Best, Managing Director of Lemongrass Marketing advised: “A woman aged 30 may have more in common with an 80-year-old depending on where their interests are… You need to be really specific and relevant to your audience.”

Strategic risk-taking was a key theme at the ITT Future You Summit as it returned to WTM to offer inspiration and advice on a career in travel. Angela Riseam-Smith, Head of Learning and Development at Hays Travel, outlined the independent travel agency chain’s various apprenticeships and management programmes, covering in-branch sales to head office opportunities in marketing, finance and HR.

Blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis has revealed that its ongoing investigation into the agentic cyber attack targeting its systems also exposed names, usernames, password hashes and live tokens for all users. "While we investigated, we removed access to Reactor and Data Solutions," the company said. "At this time we continue to have no evidence that any investigations data has been accessed