By Courtney Rozen WASHINGTON, Oct 8 (Reuters) – The four leaders of US President Donald Trump’s AI task force are slated to meet on Thursday, task force vice chair Scott Kupor told Reuters, adding that he expects the full committee to convene next week as pressure builds on Washington to take action
UK Insists East Jerusalem Mission Will Stay Open Under New Name Amid Closure Threats By The Media Line Staff British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband said Thursday that Britain’s 200-year-old consulate in East Jerusalem will remain open under a new name with sharply reduced staffing, after Israel order
French PM Addresses Student Demands as Protests Shut Hundreds of Schools, Lead to 6,000 Detentions By The Media Line Staff French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu sought Wednesday evening to ease a growing national school crisis, rejecting accusations of a police crackdown and promising a comprehens
(New York, NY) — Former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife are expected to be hit with new charges this morning. They’ve been held in New York since their capture by U.S. forces at the beginning of the year. Several outlets are reporting that federal prosecutors could announce charges
(SRN NEWS) – Filmmaker Tim Mahoney’s movie “PATTERNS OF EVIDENCE: THE ISRAEL DILEMMA” delves into the belief that modern-day conflict in Israel is rooted in Biblical prophecies by Moses…supported by recent archeological findings. And it’s just one film in Mahoney’s long-running PATTERNS OF EVIDENCE
By Will Dunham Oct 8 (Reuters) – About 165 million years ago, a furry critter that swam like a platypus, hunted like an otter and had a tail similar to a beaver’s frolicked in the lakes and rivers of what is now China pursuing fish and salamanders, the oldest-known example of a semiaquatic lifestyle
Oct 8 (Reuters) – Spotify said on Thursday it had signed a new multiyear licensing agreement with podcaster Joe Rogan for “The Joe Rogan Experience”, extending a partnership that began in 2020. The renewal has similar terms to Rogan’s previous deal, which carried an estimated earnout of $250 million
By Hannah Lang Oct 8 (Reuters) – Digital asset company Securitize is launching blockchain-based tokenized stock trading in major listed companies like Apple, Nvidia and Microsoft, with tokens backed by underlying shares, the company said on Thursday. • Securitize will initially launch its tokenized
By Greg Bensinger SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 8 (Reuters) – Amazon on Thursday unveiled a slate of higher-end tablets that for the first time feature its Alexa+ voice assistant and run on Google’s Android operating system, a bet that consumers will pay more for premium devices after years of focusing on the
By Toby Sterling AMSTERDAM, Oct 8 (Reuters) – A successor to ASML’s most advanced chipmaking machine could be ready in about 10 years, engineers for the company and its optics partner Carl Zeiss said in a peer-reviewed paper. The tool, dubbed “Hyper NA”, would print smaller circuitry while re-using
Oct 8 (Reuters) – GlobalFoundries on Thursday said it has reached a $2 billion agreement to make a key component used to link AI processors and memory chips for TSMC at its New York facility. Known as a silicon interposer, the component sits beneath processors and memory chips inside advanced AI pac
WASHINGTON, Oct 8 (Reuters) – US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said on Thursday the US is sticking to its stance in trade talks with Canada, saying a recent election in Quebec province is preoccupying Ottawa. “We speak with our Canadian counterparts frequently, including at the highest levels.
By Kavya Balaraman Oct 8 (Reuters) – Technology companies and utilities are increasingly exploring ways to make power-hungry data centers more flexible in when and how they consume electricity, helping ease the strain on US power grids as AI-driven demand surges. The strategy, called “demand respons
By P.J. Huffstutter CHICAGO, Oct 8 (Reuters) – American farmers are borrowing more money than ever before to operate — but the rise in non-traditional and vendor credit has created some gaps in the federal government’s current ability to measure and track farm debt, US Department of Agriculture offi
Oct 8 (Reuters) – British online fashion retailer ASOS said on Thursday that a cybersecurity breach earlier this week had exposed some customers’ personal information, including names and contact details, according to its investigation. They also had access to certain non-personal account-related in
Oct 8 (Reuters) – Hedge fund WorldQuant said on Wednesday registrations for this year’s flagship global quant research contest have almost doubled from a year earlier, as increased adoption of AI has helped more university students build trading models. Here are more details: • The International Qua
ZURICH, Oct 8 (Reuters) – Swiss federal pension fund Publica said on Thursday it was exposed to a data leak after an external software provider suffered a cyber attack at the end of September. • Publica, which manages pensions for Swiss federal employees and affiliated organisations, said the compan
Oct 8 (Reuters) – Tencent is considering raising up to $5 billion via an offshore bond sale, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, as the Chinese technology giant ramps up spending on AI and computing infrastructure in line with its peers. Here are the details: • The bonds could be issued in US dolla
Oct 8 (Reuters) – Butterfly Effect, the parent company of AI startup Manus, said on Thursday it completed a funding round of more than $500 million as the firm resumed independent operations after unwinding Meta’s $2 billion-plus acquisition. The round was co-led by Boyu Capital and IDG Capital, wit
OSLO, Oct 8 (Reuters) – French AI infrastructure group Sesterce said on Thursday it plans to develop a data centre site in Finland costing more than €10 billion ($11.21 billion), the latest in a series of foreign technology investments in the Nordic country. • The first phase, with works planned to
TAIPEI, Oct 8 (Reuters) – TSMC, the world’s largest contract chipmaker, reported on Thursday record third-quarter revenue of T$1.49 trillion ($46.71 billion), beating the market forecast and up 50% on the year-earlier period due to surging demand for AI applications. An LSEG SmartEstimate, drawn fro
By Munsif Vengattil BENGALURU, Oct 8 (Reuters) – India defended its satellite internet approval process as fair and non-discriminatory on Thursday, hours after billionaire Elon Musk accused unnamed “oligarchs” of blocking Starlink’s launch in the South Asian nation. Starlink was being blocked by “ce
By Greg Bensinger SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 7 (Reuters) – Amazon confirmed on Wednesday it had cut what it said were a small number of jobs, primarily in its Stores unit which oversees the main e-commerce website. The layoffs to its retail unit coincide with one of Amazon’s biggest shopping days, which it
Oct 7 (Reuters) – Blue Origin is likely to pursue an initial public offering in the coming years, billionaire founder Jeff Bezos said on Wednesday, after the space company raised $10 billion from outside investors for the first time in a funding round. “I think, someday, Blue Origin will have an IPO
By Kyu-seok Shim and Brenda Goh SEOUL, Oct 8 (Reuters) – The suspect behind recent cyberattacks targeting South Korea’s financial sector may be a 26-year-old based in China’s Guangdong province who used a Chinese-developed AI agent tool called ARTEX and Anthropic’s Claude Code, US cybersecurity firm
By Heekyong Yang and Joyce Lee SEOUL, Oct 8 (Reuters) – Samsung Electronics on Thursday projected a nearly nine-fold jump in third-quarter operating profit from a year earlier, beating analysts’ estimates as booming demand for artificial intelligence chips drove strong memory earnings. The world’s l
By Diana Novak Jones Oct 7 (Reuters) – TikTok ran an experiment on thousands of users who tried to turn on a safety feature on the platform, giving them non-functional versions of the tool, according to allegations in New York’s lawsuit against the company unsealed on Wednesday. In the so-called “gh
Oct 7 (Reuters) – Applied Digital’s first-quarter revenue more than quadrupled, while its net loss widened from a year earlier as the company stepped up investments to meet growing demand for data center services. Shares of the Dallas, Texas-based company, which develops and operates data centers to
By Layli Foroudi SAINT-DENIS, France, Oct 7 (Reuters) – In a video that has gone viral on social media, Bally Bagayoko, the mayor of the French town of Saint-Denis, stands facing police at a march in Paris on Tuesday, shielding young protesters and shouting “stop.” Bagayoko said he has been supporti
By AJ Vicens Oct 7 (Reuters) – Leak data posted to the internet has exposed payments made to a hacking group known for extorting large sums of money from law firms, blockchain investigations firm Chainalysis said on Wednesday. The findings come after an unknown party posted troves of data allegedly
