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 …
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Top Allkem Ltd shareholder Toyota is “quite positive” about a $10.6 billion tie-up plan with U.S.-based lithium chemicals maker Livent Corp, Allkem’s CEO said on Thursday as shares in his Australian-listed company surged. Allkem Ltd and Livent said on Wednesday they would combine in an all-stock deal to create the world’s third-largest …
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LA PAZ (Reuters) – Bolivia’s president expressed openness to the use of the Chinese yuan for international trade during a press conference on Wednesday, citing similar moves by Argentina and Brazil to tap the Asian currency for transactions with China. International trade transactions tend to be priced in U.S. dollars, especially for major commodity markets …
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By Andrea Shalal NIIGATA, Japan (Reuters) – Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Thursday will underscore the United States’ commitment to continue supporting Ukraine for as long as needed, while working with other rich nations to degrade Russia’s ability to wage war against its neighbor. Yellen identified redoubled support for Ukraine as one of her three …
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By Panu Wongcha-um and Panarat Thepgumpanat BANGKOK (Reuters) – Adored by millions and reviled by many, Thai billionaire ex-Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has towered over his country’s turbulent politics for more than two decades – even though he’s lived mostly in self-exile since the army overthrew him in 2006. Now, Thaksin’s announcement of plans to …
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By Chris Prentice and Michelle Price WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. accounting watchdog found unacceptable deficiencies in audits of U.S.-listed Chinese companies performed by KPMG in China and PricewaterhouseCoopers in Hong Kong, the government agency said on Wednesday. The U.S. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB)published the findings of its inspections after gaining access to …
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By Jamie McGeever (Reuters) – A look at the day ahead in Asian markets from Jamie McGeever. Wall Street and world markets cheered below-consensus U.S. inflation on Wednesday, but they may not be so accommodating if Chinese inflation on Thursday also undershoots forecasts. Easing U.S. price pressures are a sign that inflation is on its …
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By Kate Lamb LABUAN BAJO, Indonesia (Reuters) – Southeast Asian leaders pledged on Wednesday to crack down on online scams operated by human traffickers to prey on vulnerable job seekers, particularly in the poorest countries of the region. Meeting in Indonesia for a summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, the leaders called for …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The House Judiciary Committee was set to consider a bill on Wednesday to pressure the OPEC oil production group to stop making output cuts that can result in higher fuel prices for U.S. drivers. The committee was expected to vote on the so-called No Oil Producing and Exporting Cartels, or NOPEC, bill, …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – A man in China’s Gansu province has been detained for allegedly using ChatGPT to generate a fake story about a train crash, marking China’s first arrest in an AI-related probe as Beijing tightens deepfake technology. The story, which claimed the crash killed nine construction workers in a city in China’s northwestern Gansu, …
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