Posts by Liam Redmond
AI Layoffs Push Workers Toward Starting Businesses
AI has become the most common reason U.S. employers give for layoffs this year, according to a contributor analysis in Entrepreneur, republished on October 18. The piece says roughly one in five announced 2026 layoffs pointed to AI, while new business filings climbed too. For a young founder, that pairing is both a warning and…
Read MoreNetflix’s ‘La Bola Negra’ movie makes the case for queer historical speculation
“This country has too many love stories buried in the fields.” This line, featured in the trailer for La Bola Negra, neatly sums up the thesis of this epic queer romance from Spain. Too much of queer history—too many true stories of queer romance—have been lost to time, because gay men and women have been…
Read MoreChina’s CATL profit growth slows in third quarter as competition intensifies
Published Tue, Oct 20, 2026 · 08:46 PM [BEIJING] China’s CATL on Tuesday (Oct 20) reported slower profit growth in the third quarter, hit by fierce competition in the electric vehicle battery market as China’s auto sales growth cooled. Net profit at the world’s largest EV battery maker rose 14.5 per cent from a year…
Read MoreGoogle Cloud services down in UK; Revolut, other banks and public services report issues
Published Tue, Oct 20, 2026 · 08:29 PM A DISRUPTION at Google‘s cloud operations in London on Tuesday (Oct 20) affected the websites and mobile apps of several banks, financial firms and public service providers in the region, highlighting how businesses and services have become critically dependent on digital infrastructure. British digital bank Revolut has suffered…
Read MoreGM shares sink as full-year profit forecast misses Wall Street estimates
Published Tue, Oct 20, 2026 · 08:01 PM GENERAL Motors’ third-quarter core profit rose sharply on the back of strong pickup truck sales, but its shares fell on Tuesday (Oct 20) after the automaker’s earnings-per-share forecast for the full year fell short of analyst expectations. The company said quarterly earnings before interest and tax, not…
Read MoreExclusive | Over 300K visas revoked so far in Trump’s second term, State Department announces
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has revoked more than 300,000 visas since the 47th president took office last year, The Post has learned. A State Department official said that the revocations were done as a consequence for criminal activity, threats to public safety or immigration violations such as fraud or misrepresentation. At least 4,000 visas…
Read MoreWee Hur secures option to acquire Sydney site for 471-bed student accommodation project
[SINGAPORE] Mainboard-listed Wee Hur has secured an unconditional option to acquire a site in Sydney, Australia, for a proposed 471-bed student accommodation development. The 2,744 square metre site at 35 to 51 Nicholson Street in Wollstonecraft is earmarked for a 12-storey, purpose-built student accommodation development. It will comprise studios, en suite rooms and two-bedroom apartments,…
Read MoreExclusive | How Val Chmerkovskiy is handling ‘DWTS’ suspension after Carrie Ann Inaba’s complaint
Val Chmerkovskiy is waltzing his way through his “Dancing with the Stars” suspension. “Val will be watching the show tomorrow night at home,” a source close to production exclusively told Page Six. “The suspension took Val by surprise, but he took it gracefully and he understood. He fully expects to be back next week for…
Read MoreSingapore shares end lower as local banks decline; STI slips 0.2%
Jardine Matheson leads gainers on Singapore’s blue-chip index while Yangzijiang Shipbuilding falls the most Published Tue, Oct 20, 2026 · 06:48 PM [SINGAPORE] Singapore stocks ended lower on Tuesday (Oct 20) as the benchmark Straits Times Index (STI) lost 0.2 per cent or 7.98 points to finish at 5,404.02. Jardine Matheson led the gainers on…
Read MoreKansas Dem Adam Hamilton, who made millions on Big Tech stocks, now running away from AI data center boom
WASHINGTON — Kansas Senate Democratic candidate Adam Hamilton has expressed skepticism that artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming a “Tower of Babel” but holds as much as $4 million worth of stocks in the companies building out AI infrastructure and data centers across his state. The Methodist minister, who is running to unseat Republican Sen. Roger Marshall,…
Read MoreByteDance, Alibaba, Tencent place over US$35 billion worth of Nvidia chip orders
The orders underscores the ongoing appetite among Chinese companies for Nvidia hardware despite US curbs Published Tue, Oct 20, 2026 · 05:42 PM BYTEDANCE, Alibaba and Tencent have ordered more than 3 million of Nvidia’s new RTX PRO 5500 graphics cards with a collective sticker price of over US$35 billion, two people familiar with the…
Read MoreSingtel fined S$1 million over March outages affecting 720,000 subscribers
[SINGAPORE] Singapore’s telecommunications regulator has imposed a S$1 million penalty on Singtel over a series of mobile service disruptions in March that affected around 720,000 consumer and business subscribers. In a statement on Tuesday (Oct 20), the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) said that its investigations found the outages on Mar 16, 18 and 19…
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