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Google, Microsoft CEOs called to AI meeting at White House

By Nandita Bose and David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The chief executives of Alphabet Inc’s Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic will meet with Vice President Kamala Harris and top administration officials to discuss key artificial intelligence (AI) issues on Thursday, said a White House official. The invitation seen by Reuters to the CEOs noted President Joe …

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Man arrested outside Buckingham Palace, police conduct controlled explosion

By Farouq Suleiman LONDON (Reuters) -Police arrested a man outside Buckingham Palace on Tuesday for throwing what they believe were shotgun cartridges and officers also carried out a controlled explosion in the area, days before King Charles’ coronation ceremony. Police said the man had approached Buckingham Palace gates and thrown items, suspected to be shotgun …

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Soccer-Wrexham paint town red with open-top bus parade after promotion to EFL

(Reuters) -Wrexham’s Hollywood owners Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney ditched the star-studded Met Gala to join the Welsh soccer club’s open-top bus victory parade on Tuesday as they celebrated promotion to the English Football League. Wrexham last month secured a fairytale return to the EFL following a 15-year absence by beating Boreham Wood 3-1 to …

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Russia summons Polish diplomat over embassy school ‘seizure’

(Reuters) – Russia said on Tuesday it had summoned Poland’s chargé d’affaires to protest against what it called the “seizure” of its embassy school building in Warsaw last week. Poland took over the building on Saturday, arguing that Russia was illegally occupying Polish state property. Russia called the move an “illegal seizure”. “These steps by …

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Apple fights $2 billion London lawsuit for ‘throttling’ millions of iPhones

By Sam Tobin LONDON (Reuters) – Apple Inc urged a London tribunal on Tuesday to block a $2 billion mass lawsuit accusing it of hiding defective batteries in millions of iPhones by “throttling” them with software updates. The tech giant is facing a lawsuit worth up to 1.6 billion pounds plus interest, brought by consumer …

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