LONDON, Oct 6 (Reuters) – Three Iranian men spied on British-based dissident journalists on behalf of Iran’s foreign intelligence service in order to attack them “as retribution for their criticism of the Iranian regime”, prosecutors told a London jury on Tuesday. The trio are accused of surveilling
By Echo Wang, Ross Kerber and Isla Binnie NEW YORK/BOSTON, October 6 (Reuters) – Dario Amodei made $18 million last year as CEO of Claude AI developer Anthropic, the company’s IPO filing shows, putting him in the middle ranks of top executives at major technology firms in terms of compensation. Anth
By Nora Buli and Gwladys Fouche OSLO, Oct 6 (Reuters) – The Nobel Peace Prize committee is closely watching the reshaping of a world order in turmoil, and those fostering new ways of cooperating that match the award’s goals, its secretary says. Kristian Berg Harpviken, secretary of the five-member N
Oct 6 (Reuters) – Shares in ASOS dropped more than 11% on Tuesday after media reports said its customers were sent push notifications saying the British online fashion retailer was hacked. Reuters could not immediately verify the reports. An ASOS spokesperson said it was aware of the reports but did
By Niklas Pollard, Johan Ahlander and Simon Johnson STOCKHOLM, Oct 6 (Reuters) – Belgian-American particle physicist Francis Halzen won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work creating an observatory to detect some of the universe’s most elusive particles – high-energy neutrinos – and trying to
By Federico Maccioni ABU DHABI, Oct 6 (Reuters) – French AI company Mistral’s newest model outperforms Chinese models on cybersecurity, CEO Arthur Mensch told a conference in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday, adding the product would be unveiled later in the day. “The model we’re actually announcing today is ac
By Max A. Cherney SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 6 (Reuters) – Software startup Vinci said on Tuesday it raised $250 million at a $1.5 billion valuation and is seeking to expand its suite of software used to simulate elements of chip and other hardware design. The Palo Alto, California-based company is entering
By Pietro Lombardi and Corina Pons VILLANUEVA DE GALLEGO, Spain, Oct 6 (Reuters) – Aragon, a sparsely populated region of northeast Spain, has become one of Europe’s fastest-growing digital infrastructure hubs due to what tech companies hail as its agile local permitting laws and swift decision maki
Oct 6 (Reuters) – Britain’s regulator said on Tuesday it has opened an investigation into whether Meta Platforms breached UK online safety laws by failing to properly assess risks posed by its Instagram Instants feature before launching it in May. Instants allows content shared by users in social me
By Field Level Media Oct 06 (Field Level Media) – Jamie Benn and Jason Robertson recorded a goal and an assist apiece for the host Dallas Stars, who unloaded on the short-handed San Jose Sharks 5-0 on Monday to earn their first victory of the season. Moments before the opening faceoff, the Sharks an
Oct 6 (Reuters) – Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is close to securing at least 80 billion yuan ($11.93 billion) in its latest round of funding, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter. Here are more details: • Chinese battery maker CATL and Tencent Holdings have commi
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 6 (Reuters) – Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said on Tuesday that around 10,000 Myanmar nationals have been sent back to their country since January, part of efforts to repatriate refugees who fled a civil war. • Myanmar has been in turmoil since a 2021 coup triggered a nat
By Lucy Craymer WELLINGTON, Oct 6 (Reuters) – The flydubai co-pilot who stabbed his captain in an alleged attempt to crash a plane last week was in New Zealand seven years ago to complete a portion of his flight training for a U.K.-based company, New Zealand police said in a statement on Tuesday. Po
NEW DELHI, Oct 6 (Reuters) – Dozens of Indian opposition lawmakers began a march on Tuesday seeking the resignation of the election chief over a controversial revision of voter lists, as hundreds of security personnel kept vigil in the heart of the Indian capital and barricades were thrown up. Parti
By Stanley Widianto JAKARTA, Oct 6 (Reuters) – Indonesia’s pick to lead the World Health Organization, its health minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin, told Reuters that the United States should rejoin the agency after its exit at the start of this year. A banker with stints at IBM and major Indonesian bank
Oct 5 (Reuters) – American medical technology company Becton Dickinson has agreed to invest $3 billion to bring manufacturing of essential medical products to the United States, President Donald Trump said on Monday in a post on the Truth Social website. BD will invest more than $1 billion in Nebras
SYDNEY, Oct 6 (Reuters) – Australia’s conservative opposition coalition has proposed to slash temporary and humanitarian visas while prioritising skilled workers in what it called the “biggest cut to immigration” in the nation’s history. The Liberal-National Coalition’s migration policy would cut te
By Field Level Media Oct 06 (Field Level Media) – Veteran defensive end Marcus Davenport confirmed his retirement Monday, NFL Network reported. Davenport, 30, saw action in one game with the Chicago Bears this season, recording one tackle in 12 defensive snaps in Sunday’s 23-12 home victory over the
By Field Level Media Oct 06 (Field Level Media) – The PGA might have ended its relationship with the Plantation Course at Kapalua Resort, but the LPGA is moving in, taking the Lotte Championship to Kapalua as part of a two-tournament Hawaii swing in 2027. The PGA’s Sentry event was held at the Plant
SEOUL, Oct 6 (Reuters) – South Korea is preparing a response to force North Korea to apologise for a mine blast in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) that seriously wounded two South Korean soldiers, a defence ministry spokesperson said on Tuesday. South Korea is also calling on Pyongyang to come to the t
By Gram Slattery WASHINGTON, Oct 5 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump encouraged supporters on Saturday and again on Monday to vote by mail if they wanted, a change of tone for the US president, who has for years described mail-in voting as a practice rife with fraud. Speaking to reporters at the Wh
By Field Level Media Oct 06 (Field Level Media) – The injury-plagued Los Angeles Clippers sustained another blow on Sunday in their preseason opener. Max Strus sustained a partial tear of his right plantar fascia as the Clippers beat the Golden State Warriors 104-101 in Honolulu, and he will be out
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, Oct 5 (Reuters) – The family of an 18-year-old Black man whose body was found on a Mississippi barrier island following a Fourth of July trip with friends called on Monday for a federal investigation into his death after a grand jury declined to indict anyone. Here are
By Jana Winter and Raphael Satter WASHINGTON, Oct 5 (Reuters) – The Federal Bureau of Investigation removed an Accenture contractor on Monday over their role in a damaging data breach that exposed sensitive personal details of thousands of bureau employees, two sources familiar with the matter told
SYDNEY, Oct 6 (Reuters) – The Australian national broadcaster rejected a suggestion on Tuesday that it was too hard for AI companies to strike licencing deals to access its content and said the tech giants had probably already “scraped” its output for model training. After ChatGPT maker OpenAI and C
RIO DE JANEIRO/SAO PAULO, Oct 5 (Reuters) – Senator Flavio Bolsonaro received on Monday endorsements from Ronaldo Caiado and Romeu Zema, two right-wing politicians who ran against him in Sunday’s first-round vote, for the runoff against President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva later this month. • Caiado,
MOSCOW, Oct 5 (Reuters) – Ukrainian drones attacked two facilities at the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southeastern Ukraine overnight on Monday, but there is no threat to nuclear safety, the head of Russia’s state nuclear corporation said. Alexei Likhachev, director general of Ro
SYDNEY, Oct 6 (Reuters) – An Australian army soldier has died and five others have been injured during a training exercise in the Northern Territory of Australia, the Defence Department said on Tuesday. The incident occurred at the Mount Bundey Training Area on October 5, the department said in a me
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, Oct 5 (Reuters) – An envoy of President Donald Trump met the head of Sudan’s army over the weekend in Egypt as the US and other intermediaries have sought to end a devastating war that has created one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises. DETAILS: • “We also reaffir
Oct 6 (Reuters) – Singapore-based data center developer Zerra DC has secured an investment from Macquarie Capital to expand its hyperscale platform across Asia-Pacific, the company said on Tuesday. Here are some more details: • Financial terms of the investment were not disclosed. • The investment b
