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HONG KONG (AP) — China on Monday blocked Meta’s acquisition of the artificial intelligence startup Manus, which has Chinese roots but is Singapore-based. In a short statement, China’s National Development and Reform Commission, the country’s top planning agency, said it was prohibiting a foreign acquisition of Manus and had required all the parties to withdraw from the deal. It did not specifically name Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram. The […]

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Archbishop of Canterbury, Sarah Mullally, arrived at the Vatican on Monday for an audience with Pope Leo XIV, making her first foreign visit since being installed as the first woman leader of the Church of England and spiritual leader of millions of Anglicans around the world. Mullally, whose appointment has split the already divided Anglican Communion, arrived early to meet with Leo in his library. […]

NEW TAIPEI CITY, Taiwan (AP) — A court in Taiwan sentenced a former employee of Japanese computer chip equipment maker Tokyo Electron to 10 years in prison on Monday in a landmark case over trade secrets of the island’s leading chipmaker TSMC. Tokyo Electron was also fined 150 million new Taiwan dollars ($5 million) and four other people were sentenced to up to six years in jail. The heavy sentencing […]

Wolves on a remote island in Lake Superior appear to be thriving, but they’re making deep dents in the moose population that they rely on as a leading food source, according to a report released Monday. Isle Royale is a 134,000-acre (54,200-hectare) national park in far western Lake Superior between Grand Marais, Minnesota and Thunder Bay, Canada. The island is a natural laboratory, offering scientists a rare opportunity to observe […]

By Deepa Seetharaman and Jonathan Stempel April 27 (Reuters) – The bitter legal fight between Elon Musk and the leading artificial intelligence firm, OpenAI, led by Sam Altman, may come down to a few pages in one executive’s personal diary.  “This is the only chance we have to get out from Elon,” wrote Greg Brockman, OpenAI’s president and a co-founder, in the fall of 2017. “Is he the ‘glorious leader’ that […]

April 27 (Reuters) – Wall Street futures were muted early on Monday as peace talks between the U.S. and Iran stalled, while investors awaited a flood of earnings as well as commentary from the Federal Reserve meeting this week. With a peace agreement still out of reach, investors have drawn reassurance from solid earnings so far. Of the 139 companies in the S&P 500 that reported results as of Friday, […]

MOSCOW, April 27 (Reuters) – An employee of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, controlled by Russian forces, was killed in a Ukrainian drone attack, the Russian-installed management of the station said in a Telegram post on Monday. “A driver was killed today when a Ukrainian Armed Forces drone struck the transport department at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant,” the post said. The International Atomic Energy Agency said its team on […]

By Gus Trompiz and Naveen Thukral PARIS/SINGAPORE, April 27 (Reuters) – Farmers around the world are facing the second surge in fertiliser prices in four years due to the Iran war. But with grain prices too low to cushion the blow from the deeper supply crunch this time around, many are rethinking planting plans, putting global food production at risk. The Middle East is a leading fertiliser production hub, and […]

SINGAPORE, April 27 (Reuters) – Banks in Singapore are working with the city-state’s industry body to monitor emerging threats posed by frontier artificial intelligence models, the director of the Association of Banks in Singapore said on Monday. Here are some details: • ABS is working with member banks to monitor emerging threats, share intelligence and coordinate the development of risk mitigation efforts, its director Ong‑Ang Ai Boon said in a […]