By Jeffrey Dastin MOUNTAIN VIEW, California (Reuters) – The financial report you read, the apparel marketing you see and the chat assistant you engage may soon reflect a common origin: artificial intelligence from Google. The cloud division inside Alphabet Inc is lining up customers to put its newest technology to the test, so-called generative AI…
(Reuters) – China has dramatically increased use of the yuan to buy Russian commodities over the past year, with nearly all of its purchases of oil, coal and some metals now settled in the Chinese currency instead of dollars, people familiar with the matter said. Chinese imports of major commodities from its northern neighbour totalled…
By Jeffrey Dastin and Greg Bensinger MOUNTAIN VIEW, California (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s Google is rolling out more artificial intelligence for its core search product, hoping to create some of the same consumer excitement generated by Microsoft Corp’s update to rival search engine Bing in recent months. At its annual I/O conference in Mountain View,…
By Anna Tong (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s Google on Wednesday demonstrated an updated core search product that embeds more AI in its answers as the company looks to banish doubts that it is losing ground to Microsoft Corp’s OpenAI-powered Bing search. Google already has a Bard chatbot that competes with ChatGPT, the chatbot from OpenAI…
DUBAI (Reuters) -Emirates airline said on Thursday it had committed $200 million to a research fund focusing on reducing the impact of fossil fuels in commercial aviation, because hitting net zero emissions targets would not be possible with currently available options. Emirates President Tim Clark said the biggest impediment for airlines in reducing their environmental…
DUBAI (Reuters) -Emirates airline said on Thursday it had committed $200 million to a research fund focusing on reducing the impact of fossil fuels in commercial aviation, because hitting net zero emissions targets would not be possible with currently available options. Emirates President Tim Clark said the biggest impediment for airlines in reducing their environmental…
By Lucy Craymer WELLINGTON (Reuters) – New Zealand’s Prime Minister Chris Hipkins will head to Papua New Guinea on May 21 to attend the United States-Pacific Summit, his office said in a statement on Thursday. U.S. President Joe Biden will meet leaders of 18 Pacific countries and territories including Hipkins, who have been invited to…
By Agnieszka Pikulicka-Wilczewska WARSAW (Reuters) – Danil Yugoslavsky had long hated Vladimir Putin. The tech worker says he protested for fair elections in Russia for several years before he left his homeland in despair in 2017 and eventually settled in Spain. Even so, he never suspected his yearning to topple the Russian president would one…
(Reuters) – Share prices of COSCO SHIPPING Ports Ltd rose to as much as a three-month high on Thursday, after the German government cleared it to buy part of a Hamburg port-based container terminal, amid a political row over Chinese investment. The Hong Kong-listed subsidiary of China’s state-owned conglomerate China COSCO SHIPPING Corporation Limited rose…
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Kevin Buckland. U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is highlighting three core priorities at the start of the G7 finance ministers’ three-day meeting in Niigata, Japan today: reining in global inflation, bolstering long-term economic resilience, and redoubling a commitment to Ukraine. But almost everyone…
