Qualcomm (QCOM) struck an AI chip deal with ByteDance, Bloomberg reports

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Wall Street banks are lobbying the Federal Reserve to formalise its supervisory pullback to prevent reversal by future administrations, Reuters reports

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Qualcomm (QCOM) struck an AI chip deal with ByteDance, Bloomberg reports

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Qualcomm has agreed to supply ByteDance with millions of application-specific integrated circuits for AI data centres supporting AI agent software
The deal marks a significant step in Qualcomm's push to expand beyond smartphone processors into AI infrastructure, Bloomberg reports

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