French Government Pleads Ignorance Regarding the Microsoft-Mistral AI Collaboration LeapRate

February 29, 2024 BY Elizabeth Anderson

French Government Pleads Ignorance Regarding the Microsoft-Mistral AI Collaboration

On Monday, 26 February 2024, Microsoft announced it had struck a multi-year deal with Mistral AI. The US tech titan invested $16m in the French company to introduce its specific AI protocols through the Azure cloud computing platform. In its press statement, Microsoft wrote: This partnership with Microsoft enables Mistral AI with access to Azure's…

February 29, 2024 BY Elizabeth Anderson

Chinese property market miseries continue as Country Garden faces liquidation petition

Ever Credit Limited, a division of Kingboard Holdings (0148.HK), lodged the filing against Country Gardens with the High Court of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. The hearing has been scheduled for 17 May 2024. Economists believe that the petition will renew doubts about the debt management capabilities and liquidity of China’s property sector. This…

February 28, 2024 BY PureContent

Zoom beats earnings prediction and announces share buyback scheme

With predicted revenue for Q1 listed at $1.13bn, these positive results led to a surge in the ZM share price on the Nasdaq, taking the market cap to $20.76bn in the process. As part of the results announcement, ZM also confirmed that it will be buying back up to $1.5bn of its shares. While the…

February 28, 2024 BY Elizabeth Anderson

Viking Therapeutics’ weight loss drug boosts its share price

Companies such as Novo Nordisk (NVO) and Eli Lilly and Company (LLY) saw their respective share prices soar after successes with drugs such as Ozempic, Wegovy, and Mounjaro. This spurred smaller organisations, such as Viking, to test the anti-obesity market. Based on CNBC data, the obesity drug sector could total a value of roughly $100bn…

February 28, 2024 BY Elizabeth Anderson

Prominent Buyers Purchasing Cryptocurrencies

The world’s largest cryptocurrency, which currently has a market value of just over $1tn, ended Tuesday trading at $57,071. From the start of February, bitcoin gained 32%, putting it on track for its most significant monthly gain since January 2023. Don’t miss out the latest news, subscribe to LeapRate’s newsletter Rallies exceeding 10% were influenced…

February 27, 2024 BY PureContent

Lloyds Makes £450m Provision to Cover Possible Regulatory Issues

The FCA investigation was launched in January this year, following complaints from members of the public who believe they were charged too much commission to arrange finance for car purchases. According to the Financial Ombudsman, around 17,000 complaints have been received so far. This raises the prospect of the bank being forced to pay compensation…

February 27, 2024 BY Elizabeth Anderson

Berkshire Hathaway heading for a $1tn market cap

Should the Omaha-based organisation pass the $1tn mark, it would be the first US non-tech company to do so. At one stage, Berkshire’s value rose above $925bn. In 2023, the company’s stock increased by 15%. In his yearly address to shareholders, Buffett justified the company’s conservative financial approach and added: The ‘margin of safety’ approach…

February 27, 2024 BY Elizabeth Anderson

AWS plans for an infrastructure region in Mexico

This AWS Mexico Region will allow businesses, the government, education facilities and nonprofits more flexibility in app usage and data storage. This latest initiative from Amazon aims to offer updated and secure cloud computing. Mexico’s Secretary of Economy, Raquel Buenrostro, said: Cloud services are an essential part of everyday life, helping us to digitally and…

February 26, 2024 BY PureContent

NVIDIA Sets Single-Day Record for Market Value Increase

This massive gain overtook the previous best day of trading set by Facebook owner Meta Platforms Inc. (META) when it added $196bn to its value on February 2 this year. Analysts had hotly tipped NVDA to make huge profits thanks to its groundbreaking artificial intelligence (AI) technologies; however, even those analysts were taken aback by…

February 26, 2024 BY Elizabeth Anderson

US judge accepts Binance’s $4.3bn guilty plea

The penalty includes $1.81bn criminal and $2.51bn forfeiture fines. Binance already submitted its guilty plea in November 2023 and this legal approval, which was given on Friday, 23 February 2024, brings the matter to a close. According to Reuters, the plea resolved an extensive probe that investigated Binance’s failure to report over 100,000 transactions attached…

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