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Australia's benchmark equities index extended losses through mid-session Tuesday, giving back a portion of the gains built over the prior two sessions. The selling came despite constructive signals out of European markets, with Wall Street offering no overnight direction to anchor sentiment in the Asia-Pacific session.
Shifting to technology and the longer-term labor picture, Nvidia's Jensen Huang is telling parents to stop stressing over their children's college majors in the age of artificial intelligence. Huang argues that storytelling, creativity, and sound judgment will hold their value as AI absorbs routine tasks, effectively pushing human workers toward more complex and demanding roles.
And in the defense space, Russia's state-owned Rostec says it is developing the ZAK-thirty Citadel, an anti-drone turret designed to fire programmable airburst rounds that calculate their own detonation point mid-flight. The system uses onboard sensors to track incoming drone trajectories and relay that data to the round itself before firing, a capability that reflects how rapidly counter-drone technology is evolving on the modern battlefield.
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