By Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden will meet Chinese President Xi Jinping face-to-face for the first time in a year on Wednesday, the White House said, in high-stakes diplomacy aimed at curbing tensions between the world’s two superpowers. The closely watched interaction, on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in…
By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. House of Representatives Republicans aim to release a stopgap measure to avert a partial government shutdown on Saturday, the morning after the Moody’s credit agency lowered its outlook on the government’s credit ratings to “negative.” A knowledgeable source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said plans for the release…
By Krystal Hu (Reuters) – Alphabet’s Google is in talks to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in Character.AI, as the fast growing artificial intelligence chatbot startup seeks capital to train models and keep up with user demand, two sources briefed on the matter told Reuters. The investment, which could be structured as convertible notes,…
By James Pearson LONDON (Reuters) -Internal data from Boeing, one of the world’s largest defence and space contractors, was published online on Friday by Lockbit, a cybercrime gang which extorts its victims by stealing and releasing data unless a ransom is paid. The hackers in October said they had obtained “a tremendous amount” of sensitive data…
(This Nov. 9 story has been corrected to say Avery Klemmer is an investor, not a partner, in paragraph 7) By Krystal Hu (Reuters) – OpenAI’s announcement on artificial intelligence “apps” do not spell the death knell for nascent startups building AI products, two OpenAI investors said at a Reuters NEXT conference on Thursday. Investors…
By Brijesh Patel and Ashitha Shivaprasad (Reuters) – Palladium prices have tumbled to five-year lows below $1,000 an ounce this week, hastening a retreat triggered by expectations of surpluses due to the rapid spread of electric vehicles and automakers choosing cheaper platinum for their autocatalysts. Prices of the metal, used by automakers in engine exhausts…
