May 15, 2023
AI in Washington’s crosshairs but consensus far from certain

By Diane Bartz and Jeffrey Dastin WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. lawmakers are grappling with what guardrails to put around burgeoning artificial intelligence, but months after ChatGPT got Washington's attention, consensus is far from certain. Interviews with a U.S. senator, congressional staffers,…

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
U.S. regional bank stocks creep higher in skittish trading

(Reuters) -Shares of major U.S. regional lenders edged higher on Friday, reversing early losses in skittish trading as investors bought some battered stocks but remained uncertain about the financial stability of mid-sized banks. Western Alliance rose 2.1%, Synovus Financial gained…

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…

May 11, 2023
U.S. House passes Republican bill tightening border security

By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday approved Republican legislation intended to stop immigrants and illegal drugs crossing the nation's southwestern border with Mexico, leaving it to the Senate to attempt a broader, bipartisan immigration…

May 11, 2023
Big US banks to pay billions to replenish failure fund

By Pete Schroeder WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Large U.S. lenders will bear most of the cost of replenishing a deposit insurance fund that was drained of $16 billion by the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and two other lenders, although mid-sized banks…