May 27, 2023
Biden sounds hopeful on debt ceiling, Treasury warns of June 5 default

By Steve Holland, Moira Warburton and Rami Ayyub WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Democratic President Joe Biden and a Republican negotiator said on Friday they were working on a deal to raise the U.S. government's $31.4 trillion debt ceiling after the Treasury Department…

May 25, 2023
Wall Street ends higher as Nvidia sparks rush for AI stocks

By Noel Randewich and Shreyashi Sanyal (Reuters) - Wall Street ended sharply higher on Thursday after a blowout forecast from Nvidia sent the chipmaker's stock soaring and fueled a rally in AI-related companies, while investors watched for signs of progress…

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 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 18, 2023
Genome data sheds light on how Homo sapiens arose in Africa

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Our species arose in Africa more than 300,000 years ago, with the oldest-known Homo sapiens fossils discovered at a site in Morocco called Jebel Irhoud, located between Marrakech and the Atlantic coast. But the…

May 16, 2023
OpenAI chief concerned about AI being used to compromise elections

By Diane Bartz, Zeba Siddiqui and Jeffrey Dastin WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The CEO of OpenAI, the startup behind ChatGPT, told a Senate panel on Tuesday the use of artificial intelligence to interfere with election integrity is a "significant area of concern",…