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Major Taiwan computer chipmaker TSMC said Thursday it plans to spend another $100 billion on expanding its manufacturing capacity in the United States. The world's largest contract chip manufacturing and one of the world’s most valuable companies, TSMC’s results are seen as a barometer for the global chip industry and for AI at a time when worries about a potential AI bubble have been buffeting financial markets. As AI-related demand continues to surge, it has been expanding chip fabrication plants in the U.S., Japan and Taiwan.

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Uber Technologies agreed to acquire Germany’s Delivery Hero in a deal that values the German food-delivery company at $14.8 billion and seeks to strengthen the U.S. tech company’s footprint in international markets. The San Francisco-based company said Thursday that it entered into a combination agreement with Delivery Hero under which it will offer 41.50 euros a share in cash.

Uber on Thursday launched a public takeover offer for Delivery Hero that values the German food delivery company at $14.8 billion and would create the world's ‌largest food-delivery firm outside China. The acquisition advances the U.S. ride-hailing firm's efforts to build a global ‌presence in the food-delivery business as it faces intensifying competition from rivals such as DoorDash, which has been expanding aggressively abroad. Uber, which has made the acquisition conditional on a minimum acceptance threshold of 50% plus one share, will offer €41.50 ($47.58) in cash per share.

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The world’s largest contract chip maker posted its fifth straight quarter of record earnings amid voracious global appetite for artificial-intelligence infrastructure.

TSMC, the world's largest ‌contract chipmaker, posted ‌a 77% jump in second-quarter ​net profit on Thursday, beating market forecasts and hitting a record, ‌riding ⁠the wave of surging global demand for ⁠its artificial intelligence processors. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing ​Co, whose ​customers ​include Nvidia and ‌Apple, saw April-June net profit rise to T$706.6 billion ($21.99 billion). The profit handily beat a T$632.6 ‌billion LSEG ​SmartEstimate, which ​is ​weighted toward forecasts ‌from analysts who are ​more ​consistently accurate.

Despite rising debt levels, Oracle’s large backlog, lower valuation compared to peers, and a sector-wide increase amid lower inflation have boosted investor sentiment.

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The technology sector was dragging markets on Wall Street and around the world mostly lower Thursday and oil prices fell despite a flurry of military strikes between the U.S. and Iran. Chip and memory companies were getting hit the hardest, with Western Digital and SanDisk leading the way down with losses of more than 7%. Despite the heavy investment in artificial intelligence, investors remain concerned that stock prices have shot too high and that the demand may not be sustainable if AI doesn’t deliver as much profit and productivity as expected.

A near-14% annual yield with monthly payouts sounds like a retirement dream, but the hidden cost of owning QQQI could leave long-term holders waiting decades just to break even after the next major crash.

Airbus said on Thursday it had signed a multi-year agreement ‌with Iliad-owned Scaleway to provide cloud infrastructure for sensitive industrial ‌and defence applications, supporting the deployment of AI tools developed with French startup Mistral. The ​European planemaker said Scaleway would host critical applications spanning aircraft design, engineering, industrial production and corporate operations. Airbus signed a partnership with Mistral in May to co-develop customised AI tools for aerospace and defence.

TOKYO, July 16 (Reuters) - Nvidia said on Thursday it was partnering with Japanese companies including Fanuc and Yaskawa Electric to advance the development of robotics and AI.

Investors didn't seem to think so after the company published it.

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Asia-Pacific equities mostly declined, as a pullback in U.S. chip stocks fueled concerns about the longevity of artificial-intelligence enthusiasm and weighed on chip-heavy South Korea.

Ever since ChatGPT exploded in popularity, investors have worried that artificial intelligence could weaken Google’s most important business. Instead of searching for information and clicking through Google’s advertising-heavy results, consumers can increasingly ask an AI chatbot for a direct ...

By Stella Qiu SYDNEY, July 16 (Reuters) - Asian shares fell on Thursday as chipmakers stumbled ahead of results from bellwether TSMC, while bonds benefited from another benign reading on U.S.

South Korea's central bank hikes rates to 2.75% to fight 3.2% inflation, pressuring the won, stocks, and crypto.

South Korea's top financial regulator will announce new measures on single-stock leveraged exchange-traded funds soon, its chief ‌said on Thursday, amid worries about the effects of such instruments on financial ‌market stability. The Financial Services Commission will "closely inspect and review improvement measures" on the ETFs soon, Chairman Lee Eog-weon said ​in a radio interview on Thursday, when asked how the product affected the high volatility of South Korea's stock market. In a separate move, South Korea's finance minister will hold a meeting on Thursday afternoon to discuss the marketss, the ministry said ⁠without elaborating further.

JPMorgan, Goldman and other big banks are raking in trading revenue this year as “the market is clearly extremely risk-on.”

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Few companies have a clearer view of where the AI boom is heading than TSMC. And of course, with that, investors increasingly look to the company for answers. Earlier in June, speaking at the company's annual shareholders' meeting in Hsinchu, Taiwan, CEO C.C. Wei was precise and notably candid. It ...

June’s Producer Price Index (PPI) declined 0.3% from the previous month, marking its steepest drop in more than a year.

Violent threats against artificial-intelligence companies are rising and spilling over into real-world security incidents.

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Record net revenues of $21.3 billion drove a 62% earnings-per-share surge.

AI demand drives 30% capacity expansion plans for advanced lithography tools.

While we are still in the opening stages of the Q2 reporting cycle, the early results strongly reinforce the robust corporate earnings trend we've been seeing, with the big banks starting off the Q2 earnings season with remarkable momentum.