Oct 22 (Reuters) – Tesla’s shares slid 5% in premarket trading on Thursday as the EV maker’s reduced capital spending forecast raised questions about the pace of investment behind Elon Musk’s AI, robotics and autonomous-driving ambitions. The company on Wednesday lowered its 2026 capital spending fo
By Cassell Bryan-Low and Hyunjoo Jin Oct 22 (Reuters) – A possible merger between Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX and carmaker Tesla may face bigger obstacles from politics than from regulation, drawing scrutiny in Beijing and potentially igniting a battle between US President Donald Trump and the
ANKARA, Oct 22 (Reuters) – Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan will host his counterparts from Egypt, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Britain, France and Germany in Istanbul on Friday for talks on regional conflicts, a Turkish diplomatic source said on Thursday. The seven countries will meet in this format
By Lisandra Paraguassu BRASILIA, Oct 22 (Reuters) – Rony Amaral, 71, is terrified right-wing Brazilian presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro will slash healthcare and pension spending if he wins Sunday’s runoff vote, so he is supporting leftist Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva instead. Amaral and his 91-
By Stanley Widianto and Gibran Naiyyar Peshimam JAKARTA, Oct 22 (Reuters) – Indonesia should reconsider its involvement in US President Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan because it is being shaped by Israel and the US and lacks a Palestinian voice, the United Nations special rapporteur on human rights
ROME, Oct 22 (Reuters) – Italy and Spain have agreed to lift border controls on each other’s citizens, the interior ministry in Rome said on Friday, ending a three-month dispute triggered by the rush of migrants into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta. Italy’s right-wing government first suspended its ope
Oct 22 (Reuters) – The London Stock Exchange Group on Thursday agreed to buy financial data firm Octus for about $3.54 billion, its biggest acquisition since the 2019 deal for Refinitiv as the group seeks to cement its stronghold in data and analytics. Here is a timeline of key events at the British
Oct 22 (Reuters) – The London Stock Exchange Group on Thursday agreed to buy financial data firm Octus for about $3.54 billion, its biggest acquisition since the 2019 deal for Refinitiv as the group seeks to cement its stronghold in data and analytics. LSEG, which operates the London Stock Exchange
OSLO, Oct 22 (Reuters) – Norway’s $2.3 trillion sovereign wealth fund, the world’s largest, reported on Thursday a loss of 278 billion Norwegian crowns ($29.71 billion) for the third quarter, with a return of minus 0.5% on its global investments. “The fund’s return was close to flat, ending slightly
By Sybille de La Hamaide PARIS, Oct 22 (Reuters) – France on Thursday reported the first human case of the Shamonda virus usually found in livestock in a patient who later died, with authorities adding there was no risk to the general population at this stage. It is suspected that the victim was bit
By Wen-Yee Lee and Fanny Potkin TAIPEI/SINGAPORE, Oct 22 (Reuters) – Taiwan’s TSMC is exploring alternatives to rare-earth components in factory equipment, three people familiar with the matter said, aiming to reduce the risk that Beijing’s export controls could disrupt operations at plants that mak
TOKYO/BEIJING, Oct 22 (Reuters) – Companies and governments around the world raced on Thursday to patch vulnerabilities in the widely used PHP programming language, as experts reported a surge in hacking attempts following their disclosure. The rush came after government websites in Europe and elsew
By Pesha Magid and Lina Obeid LUBBAN AL-GHARBI, West Bank, Oct 22 (Reuters) – Brought to tears as he recalled Israeli settlers hitting his cherished olive trees with sticks and taking off with the olives, Palestinian Ahmed Salem said he feared being attacked if he tried to intervene. Settlers have i
By Elizabeth Piper and Andrew MacAskill LONDON, Oct 22 (Reuters) – Flush with money from billionaire donors, Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has started hiring staff for a YouTube-based TV channel to bypass established broadcasters and capitalise on fundraising unrivalled by any major political party in Eu
Oct 22 (Reuters) – Elon Musk’s potential mega-merger of Tesla and SpaceX would likely face a China-shaped hurdle from regulators on both sides of the Pacific over concerns about national security and the sharing of data and technology. The world’s richest person said on Tuesday his two companies had
By Andrew Gray BRUSSELS, Oct 22 (Reuters) – US software company Palantir sought to reassure Europeans that its military AI system used by NATO has no “kill switch”, after disruptions to Ukraine’s Starlink services heightened concerns about reliance on US tech firms. Ukraine reported last week that i
By Francesco Guarascio HANOI, Oct 22 (Reuters) – Developers of a new US-backed undersea data cable linking Malaysia, Vietnam, Singapore and Thailand will this month select a cable supplier between Japan’s NEC and France’s Alcatel Submarine Networks, a project executive told Reuters. The 16-fibre-pai
Oct 22 (Reuters) – BE Semiconductor Industries on Thursday reported third-quarter orders that exceeded analyst expectations, driven by demand linked to AI data centres, but said its revenue would be flat quarter-on-quarter in the last three months of 2026. Quarterly order intake, the industry’s most
By Milana Vinn NEW YORK, Oct 22 (Reuters) – Elon Musk’s public endorsement this week of a potential $3.5 trillion merger between SpaceX and Tesla has rattled some insiders involved in the discussions, who worry his comments could invite shareholder scrutiny and delay the process by several weeks, ac
Oct 21 (Reuters) – China beat the US in the women’s team final at the World Gymnastics Championships in the Netherlands on Wednesday, handing the Americans their first loss since 2010. With China needing 12.600 for victory in the final event of the night, the floor exercise, Qiu Qiyuan sealed the wi
By Kane Wu HONG KONG, Oct 22 (Reuters) – Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is wrapping up its latest funding round having generated about 100 billion yuan ($14.98 billion) from existing and new investors, two people with knowledge of the matter said on Thursday. Battery maker Contemporary Amperex Technolo
Oct 21 (Reuters) – Epic Games said its shooter title “Fortnite” will return to Apple’s App Store in Australia on Thursday after a federal court ordered the iPhone maker to open up its iOS operating system, having found it violated competition law. Apple said it disagreed with many of the court’s fin
By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES, Oct 21 (Reuters) – Ultra-endurance athlete Catherine Breed this week became the first person to swim California’s entire 900-mile (1,448 km) coastline, completing the journey from Oregon to Mexico in less than four months. Breed, 33, a San Francisco Bay Area native, conf
By Field Level Media Oct 22 (Field Level Media) – Seventh-seeded Stefanos Tsitsipas needed just over an hour to dispatch Kazakhstan wild card Mikhail Kukushkin 6-1, 6-2 and reach the Almaty Open quarterfinals on Wednesday in Kazakhstan. Tsitsipas fired eight aces and converted four break points, end
SYDNEY, Oct 22 (Reuters) – A class action lawsuit has been filed in an Australia court against Meta Platforms’ Facebook and Instagram, alleging the social media platforms exposed children to harmful content and kept them addictive through algorithms. The lawsuit, filed in the Federal Court, Australi
BEIJING, Oct 22 (Reuters) – All countries should enjoy freedom of navigation in the Red Sea and through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, China and Djibouti said in a joint statement following a meeting of their foreign ministers in Beijing, expressing concern about the deteriorating security situation. Dji
The Illinois Valley Community College Board approved a two-year contract with its faculty union, including a 5.5 percent increase in the first year.
Oct 21 (Reuters) – A Chinese-linked hacking group used an AI-driven penetration testing tool to compromise IT services firm ConnectWise as part of a campaign that targeted hundreds of organizations globally, Microsoft said on Wednesday. ConnectWise did not immediately respond to a request for commen
By Sanskriti Shekhar Oct 21 (Reuters) – Walmart on Wednesday intrduced new tools that will allow artificial intelligence agents to shop and complete transactions for customers, as the retailer seeks to position itself in the growing use of AI-powered assistants in online commerce. The move underscor
By Will Dunham Oct 21 (Reuters) – Crocodilians — today’s crocodiles, alligators, caimans and gharials and their many extinct relatives — have been a roaring success since debuting more than 240 million years ago. And new research identifies one important factor in their success — stubbornly keeping
