BEIJING (Reuters) – New bank loans in China rose more expected in March from the previous month due to strong corporate and household demand, as the central bank walks a tightrope between supporting the rapidly recovering economy and containing debt risks. Chinese banks extended 2.73 trillion yuan ($416.62 billion)in new yuan loans in March, up…
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In Brief Posted: 10:05 AM PDT · August 2, 2026 Image Credits:TechCrunch The Malaysian government has ordered the shutdown of a startup-centric community called the Network School, according to The Wall Street Journal. Billing itself as “a frontier community for techno-optimists,” the Network School reportedly grew out of entrepreneur and investor Balaji Srinivasan’s conviction that…
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it. To get this in your inbox, sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! TechCrunch covered a couple of stories this week that illustrate the countervailing forces at play…
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Nexus Data Centers is closing in on $15 billion in financing to build an AI campus in Hubbard, Texas, which Anthropic will lease, with Morgan Stanley leading the bank group behind the deal, according to CNBC. The loan is going to Nexus, a data center developer few investors had heard of a year ago…
Last update: March 1, 2026, 12 A.M. EDTElon Musk is no longer a trillionaire. And there’s a new third richest person in the world.Elon Musk became the world’s first trillionaire when SpaceX went public on June 12. But his four-comma-fortune didn’t last long, as his rocketmaker’s once soaring stock came crashing back to earth and…
For five consecutive quarters, Meta Platforms did something that very few companies at its scale manage to pull off. It beat earnings expectations every single time, while simultaneously ramping one of the most aggressive AI spending programs in corporate history. The market rewarded both things. …
Jim Cramer urged investors to stop using borrowed money for artificial intelligence stocks as U.S. margin debt climbed above $1.5 trillion. A lot of the biggest advances in the industry have been in AI infrastructure. Jim Cramer thinks investors who are borrowing to pursue those returns are taking …
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