By Supantha Mukherjee (Reuters) – OpenAI has no plans to leave Europe, CEO Sam Altman said on Friday, reversing a threat made earlier this week to leave the region if it becomes too hard to comply with upcoming laws on artificial intelligence. “We are excited to continue to operate here and of course have no…
PARIS (Reuters) – France confirmed its aim to launch a vaccination programme against bird flu in the autumn after results from a series of tests on the vaccination of ducks showed “satisfactory effectiveness”, the farm ministry said. A severe strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza, commonly called bird flu, has ravaged poultry production around the…
By Liangping Gao and Ryan Woo BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s new home prices will see a slower growth this year, according to a Reuters poll, suggesting pent-up demand after the country’s economic reopening is fading though a slew of stimulus policies boosted confidence. New home prices are expected to rise 1.4% year-on-year in 2023, slowing…
By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia moved ahead on Thursday with a plan to deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, whose leader said the warheads were already on the move, in the Kremlin’s first deployment of such bombs outside Russia since the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union. The U.S. State Department denounced the deployment…
By Joanna Plucinska and Allison Lampert LONDON/MONTREAL (Reuters) – Nikoleta Dodova is among a growing number of dissatisfied airline customers. Having bought her mother and niece airline tickets from Sweden to Macedonia last year, their flight was cancelled and they ended up at an airport over two hours away. She is still waiting for compensation….
By Mike Dolan LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s interest rate horizon skyrocketed this week on another alarming inflation reading that some fear entrenches the economy as outlier among Western peers – and yet the pound didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. Unlike its dire reaction to UK bond market ructions surrounding last September’s government budget…
By Shankar Ramakrishnan and Nell Mackenzie (Reuters) -A measure of U.S. default risk is flashing red as talks over the government’s debt ceiling drag on, with speculation driven by the lure of a quick profit inflating the value of the derivative, market strategists and investors said. Spreads on U.S. government one-year credit default swaps (CDS)…
By Curtis Williams HOUSTON (Reuters) -This year’s Atlantic hurricane season will bring an average number of ocean storms and hurricanes, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said on Thursday. NOAA forecasters estimate 12 to 17 named storms of which five to nine of those will develop into hurricanes and one to four will become…
By Navya Mittal and Himanshi Akhand (Reuters) -Australia’s Latitude Group on Friday forecast a steep fall in fiscal 2023 earnings due to higher credit losses and provisions associated with a recent cyberattack, sending its shares nearly 10% lower. The company, which provides credit cards and personal loans for some of Australia’s biggest retailers, said in…
(Reuters) – A Mississippi family on Thursday demanded a police officer be dismissed and charged with aggravated assault for shooting an 11-year-old boy when police responded to the child’s own domestic disturbance call at his home. Aderrien Murry, who called police at the request of his mother, was unarmed and following instructions from Indianola officer…
