Thursday, October 9, Nikkei 225, ASX

Asia-Pacific markets were set to open higher Thursday, tracking Wall Street gains as investors shrugged off concerns of an artificial intelligence bubble. Nvidia shares advanced Wednesday stateside after CEO Jensen Huang said that demand for AI computing is “substantially” up in the last six months. Stocks of CoreWeave also jumped after the AI cloud provider…

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Education Department says New York school violated Title VI over Native American mascot change

The Education Department accused a New York school district of violating civil rights law by changing its Native American mascot to conform with state law, which the department said amounted to discrimination. Contequot Central School District on Long Island changed its mascot from the “Thunderbirds” to the “T-Birds”, which the department said was a violation…

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