May 24, 2023
‘Queen of rock ‘n’ roll’ Tina Turner dies at 83

By Mike Davidson (Reuters) -Tina Turner, the American-born singer who left a hardscrabble farming community and abusive relationship to become one of the top recording artists of all time, died on Wednesday at the age of 83. She died peacefully…

May 24, 2023
EU, U.S. to seek stopgap standards for AI – EU tech chief

By Philip Blenkinsop BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union and the United States are set to step up cooperation on artificial intelligence with a view to establishing minimum standards before legislation enters force, the EU's tech chief Margrethe Vestager said…

May 22, 2023
First Citizens sues HSBC for hiring away Silicon Valley Bank staff

By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) -First Citizens BancShares Inc, which acquired Silicon Valley Bank following its collapse, sued HSBC Holdings PLC on Monday, accusing it of poaching more than 40 of the failed bank's employees in order to launch its own…

May 22, 2023
Regulators dust off rule books to tackle generative AI like ChatGPT

By Martin Coulter and Supantha Mukherjee LONDON/STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - As the race to develop more powerful artificial intelligence services like ChatGPT accelerates, some regulators are relying on old laws to control a technology that could upend the way societies and…

May 12, 2023
France lands battery gigafactory with sweeteners, zero-carbon power

By Gilles Guillaume and Elizabeth Pineau PARIS (Reuters) -France beat competition from Germany and the Netherlands for ProLogium's first overseas car battery plant thanks to lobbying from President Emmanuel Macron, deal sweeteners and competitive power prices, executives from the Taiwanese…

May 12, 2023
Analysis-Jet orders boom as airlines fear shortage

By Tim Hepher PARIS (Reuters) - Planemakers can't build them but airlines can't stop buying them. Even as they wrestle with industrial problems preventing the delivery of jets sold before the pandemic, Airbus and Boeing are totting up billions of…