Israel Gaza war: Latest news from BBC News
<div>Israel Gaza war which started after armed attack by Hamas on 7 October 2023</div>
<div>Israel Gaza war which started after armed attack by Hamas on 7 October 2023</div>
<div><img src="https://s.yimg.com/lo/mysterio/api/0A381994344CF8C0AA3A618AE2F427CFCE666576191D74602A6B30FC254A7165/subgraphmysterio/resizefill_w1200_h800;quality_80;format_webp/https:%2F%2Fmedia.zenfs.com%2Fen%2Freuters.com%2Fbb4d394ff0e7e1d362f5c27af95abfff.jpg" style="width: 100%;" /><div>LONDON, Aug 12 (Reuters) - Hedge funds upped short bets on AI-related stocks in July, according to a Wednesday report from data platform Hazeltree, part of a broad shift in the month that saw</div></div>
Kenya Bids to Become First African Nation to Host World Athletics Championships
<div><img src="https://s.yimg.com/cv/apiv2/cv/apiv2/social/images/yahoo-finance-default-logo.png" style="width: 100%;" /><div>Investing.com -- CoreWeave shares jumped more than 15% on Tradegate Tuesday after the cloud-computing company posted its fifth consecutive quarter of record revenue and beat Wall Street estimates, underscoring continued strength in demand for AI computing.</div></div>
A 7.4 quake in Colombia partially collapsed the Hospital Universitario del Valle in Cali on Monday, forcing patients outside as rescuers search for hundreds feared trapped.
Shops and opticians across Europe are running short of certified eclipse glasses ahead of Wednesday’s total solar eclipse, with queues forming in Paris, London and Brussels as demand surges.
Asian stocks rose and US equity-index futures advanced as CoreWeave reported stronger-than-expected sales growth and Super Micro's revenue forecast topped estimates. Bloomberg's Neil Campling reports.
<div><img src="https://img.digitimes.com/newsshow/20260812vl220_files/4_2b.jpg" style="width: 100%;" /><div>Nvidia's Spectrum-6 co-packaged optics (CPO) switches are in production and shipping, Gilad Shainer, senior vice president of networking at Nvidia, stated at the OCP APAC Summit 2026 — and the manufacturing chain behind them runs heavily through Taiwan.</div></div>
<div><img src="https://img.digitimes.com/newsshow/20260812vl221_files/1_2b.jpg" style="width: 100%;" /><div>Nvidia is intensifying its open-source strategy through its upcoming trillion-parameter model in the Nemotron 4 family, which is meant to compete with the world's leading open-source models, according to . While this may put it in the awkward position of vying against its customers, the chipmaker's advocacy for open-source AI could see the company benefit from more chip sales across the board.</div></div>
<div><img src="https://s.yimg.com/lo/mysterio/api/F8451BFC1F6EACCEDC16BAD4F8CB9946BDEB52908F78B2128FC3E6A3DE578225/subgraphmysterio/resizefill_w1200_h742;quality_80;format_webp/https:%2F%2Fmedia.zenfs.com%2Fen%2Fafp.com%2Fd7040ed040d0598929e527452994196c.jpg" style="width: 100%;" /><div>Taiwanese tech hardware titan Foxconn reported on Wednesday a forecast-busting second quarter net profit, as exploding demand for artificial intelligence servers needed in data centres powered the company's growth.This has turbocharged business for Foxconn, which makes the servers used in the data centres.tpj/amj/fox</div></div>
<div><img src="https://images.barrons.com/im-27251103/social" style="width: 100%;" /><div>Cerebras Systems stock has had a wild ride in a crowded field. But its Wafer-Scale Engine shows promise as AI enters a new era.</div></div>
The United States Senate has approved a two-year extension of the African Growth and Opportunity Act, maintaining duty-free access on more than 1,800 products from eligible countries.
<div><img src="https://img.digitimes.com/newsshow/20260812pd219_files/2_2b.jpg" style="width: 100%;" /><div>Tesla's Full Self-Driving (FSD) system has entered a critical stage in seeking European Union (EU) market approval, but the review has shifted from a technical issue into a broader European policy debate.</div></div>
<div><img src="https://img.digitimes.com/newsshow/20260812vl217_files/2_2b.jpg" style="width: 100%;" /><div>Microsoft sources roughly 70% of the hardware content in its cloud infrastructure from Taiwan and the wider Asia-Pacific region, executives said at the OCP APAC 2026 summit here. The company is shifting from buying discrete components to co-designing entire AI systems from the silicon up.</div></div>
<div><img src="https://images.barrons.com/im-64990432/social" style="width: 100%;" /><div>Buying call options that expire soon after the central bank’s late-August symposium is a simple bet that stock prices will keep rising.</div></div>
At least 14 artisanal miners were killed and eight others injured when the walls of an illegal mine collapsed in on them, South African police said on Tuesday.
<div><img src="https://content-media.investing.com/news/LYNXNPEC5T0GI_L.jpg" style="width: 100%;" /><div>Japan’s Turing plans U.S. expansion, $10 bln valuation in potential IPO - WSJ</div></div>
<div><img src="https://content-media.investing.com/news/news_arrow_up_2_800x533_L_1414401475.jpg" style="width: 100%;" /><div>M3 shares surge after Oasis Management discloses 5% stake</div></div>
<div><img src="https://content-media.investing.com/news/LYNXMPEA620A7_L.jpg" style="width: 100%;" /><div>Sanrio shares plunge as quarterly profit underwhelms</div></div>
One of the things that surprised this tourist in Oslo last February was the vast number of electric vehicles. EVs were everywhere. Every taxi I rode in was electric. I shouldn’t have been surprised. Norway has long been a leader in adopting electric cars. Last year, encouraged by government subsidies, EVs accounted for 95.9% of […]The post Detroit knows China’s eating its EV lunch but can’t change course appeared first on Asia Times.