Erlangen, GERMANY, Oct 19 (Reuters) – AI could help preserve manufacturing jobs in high-wage countries such as Germany by boosting factory automation to as much as 80%, Siemens executive board member Cedrik Neike said on Monday. Speaking at the company’s electronics plant in Erlangen, Neike said man
WASHINGTON, Oct 19 (Reuters) – Meta apologized for suspending the Instagram account of the “No Kings” protest movement over the weekend, attributing the shutdown to a sharp increase in activity that looked like automated bot traffic rather than human exchanges. Demonstrators gathered at thousands of
By Stephen Nellis SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 19 (Reuters) – Amazon.com is introducing a new tool that allows its custom AI chips to run code written in the most popular AI coding language without modification, seeking to erode the advantage that underpins Nvidia’s dominance in the AI computing market. Torch
OSLO, Oct 19 (Reuters) – Norway’s planned social media ban for children will include provisions targeting “harmful platforms”, the government said on Monday, naming messaging and gaming services Roblox, Snapchat and TikTok among those affected. The Nordic country said in April it would present a bil
STOCKHOLM, Oct 19 (Reuters) – Sweden’s parliament speaker said on Monday he has asked Centre Party leader Elisabeth Thand Ringqvist to explore the grounds for the formation of a new government, giving her one week to meet with other parties. Last month’s election gave the centre-left a narrow majori
Oct 19 (Reuters) – India’s L&T Technology Services expects a robust second half of fiscal year 2027 on improving order backlogs and several large deals, as it reported a jump in second-quarter revenue on Monday. The company’s strong showing in the three months ended September 30 was on the back of e
Oct 19 (Reuters) – Netflix investors are expecting details on how the streaming giant plans to sustain growth when it reports third-quarter results on Tuesday, as competition intensifies and user engagement shows signs of fatigue. Ted Sarandos, the co-CEO of Netflix, recently admitted the company “i
By Raphael Satter WASHINGTON, Oct 19 (Reuters) – Over the past couple of weeks, a cybersecurity researcher watched as a Chinese-speaking hacker broke into websites belonging to more than 100 companies, including farm equipment maker Deere, home appliance company SharkNinja and engine manufacturer Cu
The Legislative Ethics Commission chair said last week that the commission will meet soon and discuss whether to recommend changes to state ethics laws during the upcoming veto session, which begins in about a month. But the chair of the bipartisan commission, Representative Jeff Keicher, R-Sycamore
LONDON, Oct 19 (Reuters) – Uber on Monday said it had won its bid to throw out two linked lawsuits valued at around £340 million ($453 million) brought by thousands of London black cab drivers and two former private hire companies. The ride-hailing app was sued in 2024 over allegations about how it
By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON, Oct 19 (Reuters) – Early voting has been underway for weeks ahead of the November 3, 2026, midterm elections, when US voters will elect members of the House of Representatives and Senate and governors in states across the country. Held in the middle of each four-year pre
AMSTERDAM, Oct 19 (Reuters) – Ahold Delhaize’s Albert Heijn, the largest supermarket chain in the Netherlands, will not resume online deliveries before Thursday at the earliest, according to a message in its app on Monday, extending to at least 11 days an outage caused by what the company has called
By Stefan Gardawski and Marta Maciag SOPOT, Oct 19 (Reuters) – Polish satellite maker Creotech Instruments plans to raise its production capacity by up to tenfold by 2029, CEO Grzegorz Brona said on Friday, while warning Europe would remain reliant on US rockets to put its satellites into orbit for
By Alexander Marrow and Denis Balibouse LONDON/VERSOIX, Switzerland, Oct 19 (Reuters) – From cherry and banoffee pie to tabasco and sesame, the list of food aromas popping up in luxury fragrances keeps growing. Now some perfume makers are starting to ask if weight-loss drugs might be reshaping what
By Naveen Thukral and Bernadette Christina SINGAPORE/JAKARTA, Oct 19 (Reuters) – Muhamad Yasin, a 63-year-old parking attendant in central Jakarta, says he has cut back on meals as rising prices have put food staples beyond his reach. “I used to be able to get rice, tempeh and tofu for 7,000 to 8,00
Oct 18 (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin has proposed a summit next month with US President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping to negotiate an end to the four-year-old Ukraine conflict that would favour Moscow, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing people familiar wit
SANO, Japan, Oct 19 (Reuters) – Subaru said on Sunday it plans to launch software-defined vehicles (SDVs) in the second half of this decade and cut vehicle development times by about 40% as it seeks to speed up model launches. • Subaru will gradually deploy a newly developed integrated electronic co
BEIJING, Oct 19 (Reuters) – China’s economic growth rebounded to 4.5% year-on-year in the third quarter, beating expectations and easing the pressure on policymakers to deliver more aggressive stimulus measures to meet the annual target. Analysts polled by Reuters had forecast 4.4% growth in gross d
By Gregor Stuart Hunter SINGAPORE, Oct 19 (Reuters) – The dollar edged up from near its lowest levels of the month in subdued Asian trading on Monday as violent protests in France put pressure on the euro. The euro fell 0.1% to $1.1230. The common currency has the biggest weighting in the dollar ind
By Ankur Banerjee, Yantoultra Ngui and Karin Strohecker SINGAPORE/HONG KONG/LONDON, Oct 16 (Reuters) – A warning from MSCI that it may exclude Indonesia from its stock market indexes — benchmarks used by global financial investors — risks cutting the nation off from international capital and relegat
(Washington, DC) — Maine Democratic Senate candidate Troy Jackson says he won’t apologize after he told Republican Senator Susan Collins to “shut up.” While on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday, Jackson said he believed Collins was talking “down to him,” and he won’t apologize. It happened during
Austrian Airlines Flight From Israel Diverts to Bulgaria After Bomb Threat By The Media Line Staff An Austrian Airlines passenger plane flying from Tel Aviv to Vienna made an emergency landing in Sofia, Bulgaria, on Sunday evening, October 18, after a reported bomb threat prompted Bulgarian fighter
By Field Level Media Oct 19 (Field Level Media) – Atlanta Falcons rookie linebacker Kendal Daniels left the field on a stretcher following a lengthy delay in the third quarter of Sunday’s 31-23 home loss to the Chicago Bears. According to the Falcons, Daniels was conscious and had full movement of a
By Field Level Media Oct 18 (Field Level Media) – The New York Rangers hope they can effectively convert their power-play chances, avoid a third straight loss and stay unbeaten at home Monday night when they play host to the Anaheim Ducks. The Rangers are around NHL average in power-play effectivene
By Amanda Stephenson CALGARY, Oct 18 (Reuters) – A fire at an Alberta military base that killed at least four people and seriously injured dozens started with a smoldering grass fire that was whipped into a wall of flames by high winds, Canada’s Globe and Mail newspaper reported on Sunday. The fire
By Ali Sawafta and Steven Scheer TAYBEH, West Bank/JERUSALEM, Oct 18 (Reuters) – US diplomats visited a Christian Palestinian town in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Sunday following attacks by militant Israeli settlers on European diplomats and an American photojournalist in the previous two days
Oct 18 (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday he had spoken with US peace envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner as part of “virtually nonstop communication” between the two countries’ teams aimed at the “next steps in diplomacy”. “Had a conversation with the American Pre
By Doina Chiacu and Alexander Cornwell WASHINGTON/TEL AVIV, Oct 18 (Reuters) – US President Donald Trump on Sunday endorsed his ally Benjamin Netanyahu as the longtime Israeli prime minister struggles for an edge in next week’s parliamentary election. Trump praised Netanyahu as a “great warrior prim
Oct 18 (Reuters) – Egypt is ready to provide Saudi Arabia with the support it needs to defend its security and stability, the presidency said on Sunday, as Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis intensify their attacks on the world’s largest oil exporter. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi requested an u
SEOUL, Oct 18 (Reuters) – Samsung Electronics will use TSMC’s 3-nanometre process to produce base dies for Nvidia’s next-generation custom high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chips, the Seoul Economic Daily reported on Sunday. The move would mark the first time Samsung has worked with the Taiwanese contract
