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Reddit stock jumps after OpenAI partnership
The partnership, announced on Thursday, allows Reddit to leverage OpenAI's technology to build tools and features, and OpenAI's ChatGPT platform to integrate Reddit's content in a "real-time, structured" manner. OpenAI will also become an advertising partner for Reddit.
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'As long as it takes': Georgia's Gen Z leading street protests
In a hip coffee shop in Georgia's capital Tbilisi, 21-year-old Tekla Jailava is serving her last few cappuccinos before heading for a third night of protests against an anti-NGO law she fears will ruin the Black Sea country's ties with the West.Salome Zurabishvili, the country's pro-EU president, has said she will veto the law.
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Saudi crown prince seeks soft power in game hub Japan
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman visits Japan next week, where he will hold talks on energy while hunting more opportunities in gaming as he seeks to improve Saudi Arabia's image."The Saudi Crown Prince finds Japanese soft power, particularly in gaming and eSports, highly appealing," said Mohammed Soliman from the Middle East Institute in Washington.
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India bond traders hanker for short-term borrowing cuts as buybacks fail
Most Indian bond traders are looking for a cut in the government's short-term borrowing as a better way to regulate banking system liquidity after two consecutive attempts to buy back debt failed, several traders said. Government spending has been low due to an ongoing national election, leading to a build-up in the government's cash balances and a subsequent cash deficit in the banking system. Despite the lackluster outcome the government announced a third buyback to be held on May 21, which
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Hong Kong allows China's digital yuan to be used in local shops
Hong Kong will allow mainland China's pilot digital currency to be used in shops in the city, the head of its de facto central bank said on Friday, marking a step forward for Beijing's efforts to internationalise the yuan amid rising geopolitical tensions. The programme, backed by Beijing, will allow mainland Chinese and Hong Kong residents to open digital yuan wallets via a mobile app developed by China's central bank and will permit them to make payments in retail shops and some online stores
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Israel says S.Africa 'genocide' case at UN court 'totally divorced' from facts
Israel lashed out Friday at South Africa's case before the UN's top court, describing it as "totally divorced" from reality, as Pretoria urges judges to order a ceasefire in Gaza.A top lawyer for Israel painted the South Africa case as a "mockery" of the UN Genocide Convention it is accused of breaching.
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China offers to buy up commercial housing to boost property market
China cut the minimum down payment rate for first-time homebuyers on Friday and suggested the government could buy up commercial real estate, in some of Beijing's most ambitious moves yet to lift the ailing housing market out of an unprecedented debt crisis.The moves are some of Beijing's most ambitious yet in seeking to reverse a chronic crisis in the housing market.
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