Global Market: Alibaba shares slide after $10.2 billion share placement to fund AI expansionAlibaba shares fell as much as 10% after the company launched a $10.2 billion share placement to fund AI expansion. The discounted offering...
24 Aug, 2026, 10.09 AM IST
SoftBank plans $6.29 billion corporate bond issuance amid AI fundraising boomSoftBank is gearing up for a historic bond issuance aimed at securing funding for its robust investments in artificial intelligence. This a...
24 Aug, 2026, 08.55 AM IST
SoftBank plans $6.29 billion corporate bond issuance amid AI fundraising boomThe issuance is SoftBank's largest ever and nearly twice the size of its previous record - a 600 billion yen offering issued in April 2025.
24 Aug, 2026, 08.48 AM IST
Alibaba stock slumps in Hong Kong after $10.2 billion share placement to fund AIAlibaba said on Sunday its HK$80 billion ($10.21 billion) share placement finalised at HK$112.70 apiece - an 8.4% discount to its Friday cl...
24 Aug, 2026, 08.02 AM IST
Global Market Today: Asian stocks dip with AI in focus, oil declinesMSCI’s Asia Pacific equities gauge dipped 0.1%, with the Kospi Index in South Korea — a bellwether for AI investments — falling 1.2%. Howev...
24 Aug, 2026, 06.33 AM IST
Ox Alpha stealth model appears on OpenRouter, sparks guessing game over its creatorOx Alpha, an unidentified AI model that recently appeared on OpenRouter as a “stealth model”, is drawing attention from developers because ...
23 Aug, 2026, 06.06 PM IST
Alibaba proposes $10 billion share placement to fund global AI driveThe Hangzhou-based firm has been ploughing tens of billions of dollars into AI, with its shareholders eager to see how it will monetise the...
23 Aug, 2026, 04.38 PM IST
Global Market: Unitree shares soar nearly six-fold in Shanghai debut as robotics boom gains momentumUnitree shares surged nearly six-fold in their Shanghai debut, marking a landmark listing for China’s rapidly expanding robotics industry. ...
19 Aug, 2026, 12.05 PM IST
Baidu CEO vows to return Ernie to AI frontier as revenue miss sinks sharesIts Ernie large language model has gone months without a major upgrade, while competitors such as Alibaba and Moonshot have continued to r...
19 Aug, 2026, 11.29 AM IST
Global Market: Trump-backed World Liberty partners with platform offering Chinese AI modelsTrump-backed World Liberty Financial is collaborating with Hong Kong-based WorldClaw, which offers access to Chinese and US AI models. The ...
18 Aug, 2026, 12.45 PM IST
How Trump and his family are profiteering from Chinese AI which his administration labels as dangerous for the USAmid increasing scrutiny, the Trump family's business dealings with Chinese AI companies come into the spotlight. The partnership between W...
18 Aug, 2026, 12.16 PM IST
Trump crypto firm backs venture offering AI from restricted Chinese companiesWorldClaw, founded earlier this year, offers customers access to a suite of AI models and accepts World Liberty's crypto tokens as payment....
18 Aug, 2026, 10.47 AM IST
Resilient Asset to offload 4.98% stake in Paytm parentResilient Asset Management plans to sell nearly five percent of Paytm shares. This stake sale is valued at approximately five thousand cror...
18 Aug, 2026, 07.07 AM IST
Vijay Shekhar Sharma's Resilient Asset to sell 4.98% Paytm stake; Antfin to retain economic proceedsResilient Asset Management plans to sell up to 4.98% stake in Paytm parent One 97 Communications through a block deal worth Rs 5,000 crore....
18 Aug, 2026, 12.01 AM IST
Apple trains its own AI model for China market with Alibaba's supportThe AI model was developed in partnership with Alibaba Group and trained with the Chinese tech giant's support, the people said, declining ...
14 Aug, 2026, 10.04 AM IST
Apple says Mac users in China can connect to Alibaba's Qwen AI serviceApple published a guide for Chinese Mac users to connect Alibaba's Qwen AI service. This integration allows enhanced Siri responses and Wri...
08 Aug, 2026, 06.23 PM IST
Alibaba plans to charge big users of its next open-source AI modelLike last month's blockbuster model release from Chinese AI startup Moonshot, Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max model is an open-source, open-weight mo...
07 Aug, 2026, 08.12 AM IST