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NASDAQ:BIDU News 27 June 2025 - 5 December 2025

Hang Seng Index Rises 0.9% This Week as Fed Cut Bets Clash With Crash Warnings

Hang Seng Index Rises 0.9% This Week as Fed Cut Bets Clash With Crash Warnings

HONG KONG – December 5, 2025 – Hong Kong’s stock market ended a volatile week on a positive note, with the Hang Seng Index (HSI) edging higher even as analysts warned that deepening property stress, weakening factory data and bearish technical signals leave the benchmark vulnerable to a sharp correction. Hang Seng Index ends choppy week higher Hong Kong stocks advanced on Friday, with the Hang Seng Index closing up 0.6% at 26,085.08, taking its gain for the week to 0.9%. The tech-heavy Hang Seng Tech Index added about 0.8%, while mainland benchmarks also firmed, with the CSI 300 and
5 December 2025
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Baidu unveils M100 & M300 AI chips and ‘natively multimodal’ ERNIE 5.0 at Baidu World 2025, plus new ‘Tianchi’ supernodes

Baidu unveils M100 & M300 AI chips and ‘natively multimodal’ ERNIE 5.0 at Baidu World 2025, plus new ‘Tianchi’ supernodes

Beijing — November 13, 2025 — Updated same day Baidu used its annual Baidu World conference in Beijing to roll out two homegrown AI processors, a fresh generation of its ERNIE model, and a new class of supernode systems designed to stitch thousands of accelerators together—moves aimed at hardening China’s AI stack against tightening export controls and spiraling compute costs. Reuters+1 The hardware: Kunlunxin M100 and M300 At the center of today’s announcements are two in‑house semiconductors from Baidu’s Kunlunxin unit: Baidu framed the chips as “powerful, low‑cost, and domestically controlled” compute to serve Chinese enterprises that have struggled to
13 November 2025
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Wall Street Feels the Heat (and Thrill): Fed Cuts, Tariffs & Mega-Mergers Set NYSE Buzz

Stock Market Today 24.10.2025

ENDEDLive coverage has endedEnded: October 26, 2025, 6:00 AM EDT Ripple Prime Officially Introduced as Hidden Road Rebrands to Global Prime Broker October 24, 2025, 1:18 PM EDT. Ripple has rebranded Hidden Road as Ripple Prime after the acquisition, positioning the group as the first to operate a global prime broker for crypto. With Brad Garlinghouse and founder Marc Asch on the briefing, the new unit will leverage Ripple's infrastructure and use the regulated RLUSD stablecoin as collateral for prime-brokerage products. The move follows Ripple's aggressive M&A, including Rail for about $200 million and, more recently, GTreasury for roughly $1
24 October 2025
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Baidu’s AI-Powered Revival: Latest Stock Surge, Tech Breakthroughs, and 2025 Outlook

Baidu’s AI-Powered Revival: Latest Stock Surge, Tech Breakthroughs, and 2025 Outlook

Baidu Inc. (BIDU) Stock and Business Overview as of September 24, 2025 Latest News and Recent Developments Baidu has seen a flurry of noteworthy developments leading up to September 24, 2025. In late August, the company delivered strong quarterly results (for Q2 2025), beating estimates on both revenue and profit. Revenue grew in the low teens percentage YoY – a clear sign that Baidu’s business has regained momentum post-pandemic. Management credited a recovery in online advertising demand as well as rapid growth in its AI-driven businesses for the upbeat results. This marked the second consecutive quarter of double-digit top-line growth,
24 September 2025
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AI Superpower Showdown: U.S. vs. China vs. Europe – Who’s Winning the Global AI Race?

AI Superpower Showdown: U.S. vs. China vs. Europe – Who’s Winning the Global AI Race?

AI Research & Academic Output: Publications, Patents and Breakthroughs China has emerged as the global research powerhouse in AI by volume. A 2025 analysis shows China’s AI publication output in 2024 matched the combined output of the US, UK, and EU digital-science.com. Chinese researchers not only publish the most papers, they also garner the largest share of citations (over 40% globally) – a sign that China leads in influential AI research digital-science.com. The country’s academic ecosystem for AI is vast: China boasts some 30,000 active AI researchers and hundreds of institutions conducting AI research, far dwarfing other nations digital-science.com. It
22 September 2025
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AI Chip Boom, Google’s New Tricks, and Hollywood’s Robot Wars – Today’s AI News Roundup

AI Chip Wars: USA vs China vs Taiwan – Inside the Trillion-Dollar Race to 2030

Introduction The race for dominance in AI chips – the specialized processors that power artificial intelligence – has become a core battleground in technology and geopolitics. In 2025, the United States, China, and Taiwan stand as key players, each with a different role: the U.S. is home to the leading chip designers, China is a massive and ambitious consumer and emerging producer, and Taiwan is the manufacturing epicenter. AI chips are not only critical for flashy applications like generative AI (think ChatGPT or image generators) but also for a wave of smart devices and autonomous machines. As a result, nations
17 September 2025
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AI Stocks Shaken by Selloff, Bold Chip Gambits & New Launches – Aug 20-21, 2025 Roundup

AI Stocks Shaken by Selloff, Bold Chip Gambits & New Launches – Aug 20-21, 2025 Roundup

On August 20, the Nasdaq Composite fell about 0.7% as investors rotated out of AI leaders amid warnings from OpenAI’s Sam Altman that AI stocks may be in a bubble and a MIT study showing 95% of companies see no returns on AI spending. Palantir plunged roughly 16% from its recent highs amid the AI stock pullback. The White House confirmed it is working on a deal for the government to acquire a 10% equity stake in Intel. Nvidia is developing a new B30A AI chip for China based on its Blackwell architecture, with sample units expected as early as
21 August 2025
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Understanding How AI Works in 2025: Core Concepts, Breakthroughs, and Societal Impact

Understanding How AI Works in 2025: Core Concepts, Breakthroughs, and Societal Impact

By 2023, the U.S. FDA had approved 223 AI-powered medical devices, up from 6 in 2015. GPT-4, released in 2023, is described as having over 100 trillion parameters and powers ChatGPT-like capabilities. The Transformer architecture was introduced in 2017 with the paper “Attention Is All You Need,” enabling self-attention and the training of very large models. Diffusion models such as DALL-E 2, Stable Diffusion, and Midjourney, introduced in 2022–2023, revolutionized image generation. AlphaFold solved the protein folding problem in 2021, and by 2025 its database provides structures for nearly all catalogued proteins. By 2025, 78% of organizations report using AI
18 July 2025
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China’s July 2025 Tech Shockwave: AI Supercomputers, Chip Wars & EV Showdowns

China’s July 2025 Tech Shockwave: AI Supercomputers, Chip Wars & EV Showdowns

Moonshot AI released its open-source large language model “Kimi K2” in July 2025, claiming it outperforms other open models and rivals top U.S. models in coding and complex tasks. Beijing filings showed 39 new data centers in Xinjiang and Qinghai planned to deploy Nvidia H100/H200 GPUs. The plan to build a massive AI supercomputing network in western deserts involves over 115,000 Nvidia chips. Moore Threads and MetaX filed for IPOs on Shanghai’s STAR Market in July to raise about ¥12 billion ($1.65 billion). Biren Technology raised ¥1.5 billion in July and was reportedly eyeing a Hong Kong listing. Huawei offered
13 July 2025
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Global AI Language Technology & NLP Update (June–July 2025)

Global AI Language Technology & NLP Update (June–July 2025)

Baidu open-sourced Ernie 4.5 LLM family under Apache 2.0, releasing 10 variants from 300M to 424B parameters and claiming the 300B model outperforms rivals at half the size. ElevenLabs released an alpha of its v3 model with 70+ languages and partnered with Cisco to embed lifelike voice AI into Webex contact centers. Apple announced Live Translation at WWDC 2025, delivering real-time on-device translation across iOS 16, FaceTime, and calls using Apple’s foundation language model. MIT researchers published on June 17, 2025 a study identifying the root cause of position bias in transformers and proposed architectural fixes to improve topic-tracking in
9 July 2025
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Quantum Computing Trends 2025: Major Breakthroughs, Key Players, and Global Insights

Quantum Computing Trends 2025: Major Breakthroughs, Key Players, and Global Insights

In 2025, researchers unveiled the first topological quantum processor, an 8-qubit device using Majorana particles. D-Wave’s Advantage quantum annealing computer solved a complex magnetic simulation in minutes, a problem that would take classical supercomputers millions of years. In late 2024 Google debuted the 105-qubit Willow superconducting chip with unprecedented error-correction performance. IBM crossed the 1,000-qubit milestone with its Condor processor. IonQ surpassed 99.9% two-qubit fidelity on a prototype trapped-ion system. PsiQuantum announced ultra-low-loss photonic chips and detectors in 2025 and aims for a million-qubit fault-tolerant photonic computer in the second half of the 2020s. D-Wave is upgrading to a 7,000-qubit
27 June 2025
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AI Trends 2025: Emerging Technologies, Market Insights, and Industry Outlook (Updated: June 27th, 2025)

AI Trends 2025: Emerging Technologies, Market Insights, and Industry Outlook (Updated: June 27th, 2025)

OpenAI’s ChatGPT service is now one of the world’s top websites, with over 5 billion visits per month as of May 2025. In 2024, 78% of organizations reported using AI in at least one business function, up from 55% in 2023. U.S. venture funding for AI in 2024 reached $109 billion, nearly 12× China’s $9.3B and 24× the UK’s $4.5B. Global private funding for generative AI in 2024 was $33.9B, an 18.7% increase from 2023. Alphabet’s Waymo provides 150,000 self-driving rides per week in U.S. cities, while Baidu’s Apollo Go operates across numerous Chinese urban centers. The FDA approved 223
27 June 2025
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Stock Market Today

Toyota stock price rises on CEO shake-up and higher profit outlook as buyout deadline nears

Toyota stock price rises on CEO shake-up and higher profit outlook as buyout deadline nears

7 February 2026
Toyota shares rose 2% to 3,780 yen Friday after the company raised its full-year profit forecast and announced CFO Kenta Kon will replace CEO Koji Sato on April 1. Third-quarter net revenues climbed 6.8% to 38.087 trillion yen, but North America posted a 5.6 billion yen operating loss. Toyota’s U.S. ADRs closed up 2.9%. The tender offer for Toyota Industries shares closes Feb. 12.
HSBC share price bounces back after BoE split vote — what to watch before Feb 25 results

HSBC share price bounces back after BoE split vote — what to watch before Feb 25 results

7 February 2026
HSBC shares closed up 2.2% at £13.06 on Friday, reversing Thursday’s drop as traders weighed possible Bank of England rate cuts and awaited the bank’s annual results on Feb. 25. The FTSE 100 rose 0.6%, with major UK banks also gaining. HSBC is also preparing to cut some banker bonuses and push out underperformers amid a cost reset. Key UK, U.S., and euro zone economic data are due next week.
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