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Global markets and policymakers faced a turbulent start to the week as Australia mourned a deadly antisemitic attack at Sydney\u2019s Bondi Beach, and China reported fresh signs of economic slowdown.<\/p>\n
Nvidia moved to deepen its AI infrastructure with a key acquisition, and Bitcoin slid below $87,000 amid heavy liquidations.<\/p>\n
The developments underscore rising geopolitical, economic, and market uncertainty heading into year-end, with investors turning cautious across equities, crypto, and global growth outlooks.<\/p>\n
Australia mourns deadly Bondi Beach attack<\/p>\n
Australia is reeling after one of the country\u2019s deadliest mass shootings in nearly three decades, following a terrorist attack at a Hanukkah celebration on Sydney\u2019s Bondi Beach on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Authorities say 16 people were killed when a father and son opened fire on a crowd of around 1,000 people gathered for the event.<\/p>\n
The older suspect, a 50-year-old man, was killed at the scene, while his 24-year-old son was critically injured.<\/p>\n
Between 40 and 43 others were wounded, including two police officers. Victims ranged in age from just 10 to 87.<\/p>\n
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese condemned the attack as an antisemitic \u201cact of pure evil,\u201d saying the country is united in grief and anger.<\/p>\n
He also signaled that the government would look at strengthening gun laws further, building on the sweeping reforms introduced after the 1996 Port Arthur massacre.<\/p>\n
China\u2019s growth slows as demand weakens<\/p>\n
China\u2019s latest economic data points to a continued loss of momentum as the year winds down.<\/p>\n
Industrial output grew 4.8% in November compared with a year earlier, slightly lower than October\u2019s 4.9% and short of the 5% economists were expecting.<\/p>\n
That marks the slowest pace in about 15 months. Consumer activity looked even weaker.<\/p>\n
Retail sales rose just 1.3%, a sharp drop from 2.9% in October and well below forecasts, making it the softest reading since China scrapped zero-COVID restrictions in late 2022.<\/p>\n
A steep 8.5% fall in car sales was a major drag.<\/p>\n
Investment isn\u2019t offering much support either. Fixed-asset investment fell 2.6% over the January\u2013November period, reflecting ongoing stress in the property sector and the toll it\u2019s taking on household confidence.<\/p>\n
Nvidia buys Slurm developer SchedMD<\/p>\n
Nvidia is making another strategic move to strengthen its AI infrastructure stack, announcing the acquisition of SchedMD, the company behind the open-source Slurm workload manager.<\/p>\n
SchedMD, based in Utah, was founded in 2010 by Slurm\u2019s original developers, Morris Jette and Danny Auble.<\/p>\n
The firm has around 40 employees and works with major customers such as CoreWeave and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center.<\/p>\n
Nvidia has partnered with SchedMD for more than a decade, and the company says Slurm will continue to be distributed as open source following the deal.<\/p>\n
At its core, Slurm is the software that helps schedule and manage massive computing jobs across large data centers, exactly the kind of workloads needed for high-performance computing and training large generative AI models.<\/p>\n
By bringing Slurm in-house, Nvidia tightens the integration between this widely used scheduler and its own hardware, while complementing its proprietary CUDA software platform.<\/p>\n
Bitcoin slides below $87,000<\/p>\n
Bitcoin took a sharp dip on Monday, sliding below the $87,000 mark in what was a quick but painful move for the market.<\/p>\n
In thin holiday trading, the world\u2019s largest cryptocurrency fell nearly 2% to around $86,751, its lowest level since early December, wiping roughly $40 billion off its market value, which now sits near $1.73 trillion.<\/p>\n
The drop quickly snowballed.<\/p>\n
According to Coinglass, about $200 million in leveraged positions were liquidated within an hour, and almost all of that, around $197 million, came from long bets.<\/p>\n
As stop-losses kicked in and forced selling accelerated, the downside pressure intensified.<\/p>\n
The weakness wasn\u2019t limited to Bitcoin. Ethereum, Solana, and XRP all fell between 3% and 4%, reflecting a broader risk-off mood across crypto markets.<\/p>\n
Traders pointed to a mix of factors behind the selloff, including caution ahead of key US economic data and fading enthusiasm around expectations of crypto-friendly deregulation tied to Donald Trump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Global markets and policymakers faced a turbulent start to the week as Australia mourned a deadly antisemitic attack…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,343,344,85,46,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-186562","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}