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By Deepa Seetharaman OAKLAND, California, May 19 (Reuters) – OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman beat Elon Musk in federal court on Monday, but the win came at the cost of hearing his former colleagues call him a liar – repeatedly – under oath.  A federal jury threw out former OpenAI co-founder Musk’s case that the nonprofit was improperly turned into a for-profit corporation, ruling that the world’s richest person waited […]

By Helen Coster and Rich McKay NEW YORK, May 19 (Reuters) – Mali Hightower’s answer to high gas prices is a toy he fished out of someone’s trash. The 30-year-old handyman from Ellenwood, Georgia stuck a two-gallon, one-piston engine from a power washer into a broken pink Power Wheels Barbie Dream Camper – a battery-operated toy car less than four feet tall. One pull of the lawnmower-like rip cord and […]

By Sahil Pandey May 19 (Reuters) – Relay Therapeutics said on Tuesday a mid-stage trial showed its experimental treatment can shrink vascular malformations and improve symptoms in patients with rare vascular disorders. • Relay’s zovegalisib reduced lesion size by at least 20% in about 60% of patients at 12 weeks. • Nearly all patients showed some reduction in lesion size and remained on treatment at the data cut-off, the company […]

By Lucinda Elliott VENTANILLA, Peru, May 19 (Reuters) – Heading to her fourth straight Peruvian presidential runoff, Keiko Fujimori is betting that voter fears over spiraling crime will revive support for a brand of leadership closely associated with her father, who dominated the country’s politics in the 1990s. In previous elections, Keiko had distanced herself from the late Alberto Fujimori, who was jailed for human rights abuses and remains one of […]

GÖRLITZ, Germany (AP) — Rescue teams in eastern Germany searched Tuesday morning for three people who were missing after a building collapsed in the eastern city of Görlitz near the Polish border. Police said a gas explosion may have been the cause for the collapse of the building, which took place Monday night. Emergency responders proceeded with great caution at the scene in case of gas leaks, German news agency […]

MALE, Maldives (AP) — Three Finnish divers on Tuesday will attempt to recover the bodies of two of the four Italians who died deep inside an underwater cave in an atoll in the Maldives, five days after they were reported missing. The bodies were located on Monday, when searches resumed after being suspended following the death of a local military diver during a perilous mission to try to reach them. […]

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand’s government will lay off nearly 9,000 workers, amounting to 14% of public sector jobs, by mid-2029 as part of a bid to slash billions in spending, Finance Minister Nicola Willis said Tuesday. Willis said her administration would also enact three consecutive years of budget cuts for most public agencies, “significantly reduce” the number of departments, and demand faster uptake of AI technology across […]

GENEVA, May 19 (Reuters) – The head of the World Health Organization on Tuesday expressed concern at the speed and scale of the Ebola outbreak, as number of cases rises.   There are at least 500 suspected cases and 130 suspected deaths from Ebola since the new outbreak began, WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said. That is in addition to one confirmed death and one confirmed case in Kampala, Uganda, […]

By Heejin Kim SEOUL, May 19 (Reuters) – The head of Starbucks Korea has been fired after a marketing campaign sparked public outrage and boycott calls for evoking painful memories of a brutal military crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in 1980. Shinsegae Group, the retail conglomerate that licenses and manages the U.S. coffee chain in South Korea, said it had sacked Sohn Jeong-hyun, the head of Starbucks Korea, for carrying out […]