Business Today Sri Lanka - June 2025

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According to Forbes magazine’s real-time list of the world’s wealthiest people for 2025, there are more women billionaires than ever before. Still, women are barely 13.5 percent of the entire list.

After three years of impressive double-digit growth and a surge in global travel spending following the COVID-19 lockdowns, the market continues to expand, though more modestly.

The meteoric rise of companies like Nvidia and Supermicro has turned stock investing into a gold rush with the promise of staggering returns. With online brokerage platforms and commission-free trading, buying and selling shares seems simple and quick, which has opened the markets to millions of new investors, many with little experience or understanding of the risks involved.

With its signature mix of mind-bending innovation and heart-piercing humanity, TED2025 was not just about ‘ideas worth spreading’— it was about ideas that could quite literally reshape the future of civilization.

ChatGPT consumes a lot of energy in the process, reportedly nearly ten times more than traditional Google searches.