Bloomberg Hyundai Motor Co. will invest 10.5 trillion won ($8.5 billion) over the course of 2023, according to an exchange filing, as it moves to electrify more of its fleet to sate rising consumer demand for cleaner cars. The money will be spent primarily on research and development and on building a new plant in Georgia, the Seoul-based automaker …

  Bloomberg Microsoft Corp is investing heavily in artificial intelligence (AI), but don’t expect the magic of OpenAI’s ChatGPT to show up in its signature Word program quite yet. The software giant announced a $10 billion investment in OpenAI, whose AI tool ChatGPT is trained on troves of data to generate human-like responses to prompts in seconds. Microsoft plans to …

Bloomberg Oil rose along with many other commodities as optimism over Chinese demand countered concerns over a global economic slowdown. West Texas Intermediate increased as much as 1.5% on Friday, and were heading for a third straight weekly gain. Trafigura group sees “a lot of upside” for oil markets as pent-up demand is unleashed, esp cially as Chinese consumption rebounds. …