Asian stocks today: Markets mixed as AI rally loses steam, oil prices and inflation worries weigh on sentiment

Asian markets traded mixed on Wednesday as fading momentum in artificial intelligence-linked stocks, elevated oil prices and concerns over persistent inflation kept investors cautious.Japan’s Nikkei 225 edged up less than 0.1% to 62,774.94, while South Korea’s Kospi gained 0.9% to 7,708.05 after recovering some recent losses.Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 slipped 0.3% to 8,645.80.Hong Kong’s Hang Seng…

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Transporters plan chakka jam against increase in green levies | Gurgaon News

Gurgaon: All India Motor Transport Congress (AIMTC) is planning a symbolic “chakka jam” over various demands.The recent policy decisions pose a “direct threat” to the sector’s viability and the country’s supply chain, AIMTC president Harish Sabharwal said on Wednesday, warning of the protest scheduled on May 21-23.Sabharwal was referring to “steeply increasing” environment compensation charge…

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UP woman held ‘captive’ for 5 years, raped by Army jawan; accused arrested | Lucknow News

LUCKNOW: A 28-year-old married woman has accused a man of abducting her from outside her parental home in Lucknow, keeping her captive for nearly five years, and repeatedly sexually assaulting her at different locations across Uttar Pradesh. Police have registered a case at Sarojininagar police station and arrested the main accused.According to the FIR lodged…

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‘Put it together, ran towards ballroom’: Volunteer recalls WH gunman assembled ‘long weapon’ in ‘makeshift room’

Cole Allen identified as suspect in White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting incident (ANI) A White House Correspondents’ Dinner volunteer said the suspected gunman was able to assemble a “long weapon” inside an unsecured, lightly monitored area near a terrace-level entrance before the attack unfolded near the ballroom.The witness, Helen Mabus, a volunteer working the event…

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New device may make computers 1,000 times faster without overheating while reducing data center power consumption |

Inside a modern data centre, performance is already constrained less by raw transistor capability and more by heat removal. Server racks packed tightly together push thermal systems to their limit, and operators often throttle workloads not because chips can’t compute faster, but because cooling systems can’t keep up. Against that backdrop, the claim that processors…

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