Daily Brief: What’s happening in tech?
Here's your AnewZ Technology Daily Brief for the 13th of November. This week, a Microsoft outage hit Australian agencies, Google restricted map...
The S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at record highs on Thursday (28 August), after Nvidia’s quarterly report fell short of investors’ lofty expectations but confirmed that demand for artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure remains strong.
Nvidia shares dipped 0.8%, following Sino-US trade uncertainties which led the leading AI chipmaker to exclude potential China sales from its quarterly forecast. The company’s 56% year-on-year revenue growth highlighted that interest in AI technology continues to be robust.
The S&P 500 ended the session at 6,501.86 points, marking a record close for the second consecutive day. The Nasdaq rose 0.53% to 21,705.16 points, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average increased 0.16% to 45,636.90 points, surpassing its previous record close from 22 August.
European leaders gathered in Dublin on Thursday, 12 November, for the ninth European Political Community (EPC) summit, with security, defence and energy high on the agenda. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev held talks focused on peace, trade and regional cooperation.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres delivered a stark warning at this year's COP31 summit, saying the climate crisis iss advancing faster than governments' efforts to contain it.
Iran will not let a single particle of its enriched nuclear material leave the country, and any new U.S. attack would be met with strikes on distant American bases, Iranian security chief Mohsen Rezaei has said.
Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang is stepping down amid reports linking him to a woman suspected by U.S. authorities of spying for China, throwing the future of the $4 trillion chipmaker into uncertainty.
Four million workers across Spain joined a general strike on Wednesday over the country’s deepening housing crisis, unions said, bringing disruption to factories, ports, shops and public transport just weeks before a snap general election.
Azerbaijan's non-oil and gas exports, excluding non-monetary gold, rose 20.8 per cent year-on-year to $3.6 billion in the first 10 months of 2026, according to preliminary figures released by the Center for Analysis of Economic Reforms and Communication (CAERC) on Thursday.
Nvidia's board is scheduled to meet to decide whether to remove CEO Jensen Huang following reports of extramarital affairs, including one involving a woman suspected of links to Chinese intelligence, as U.S. lawmakers intensify scrutiny of the chipmaker's exports to China.
Calls for Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to resign are growing amid national security concerns, raising questions about the future of the AI chip giant. With billions in quarterly revenue, no announced successor and investors already reacting to the controversy, what happens if its co-founder steps down?
Azerbaijan is seeking international investment to develop more than four gigawatts (GW) of offshore wind power in the Caspian Sea, as part of plans to expand renewable energy and establish electricity export routes to Türkiye and Europe.
The FBI is investigating Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's relationship with a Chinese businesswoman suspected of passing information to Beijing, U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday, 9 November.
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