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By Supantha Mukherjee STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Top artificial intelligence executives including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Tuesday joined experts and professors in raising the “risk of extinction from AI”, which they urged policymakers to equate at par with risks posed by pandemics and nuclear war. “Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war,” more than 350 […]

MADRID (Reuters) – Spain’s centre-right and business-friendly party Ciudadanos (“Citizens”) on Tuesday said it would neither run in the upcoming snap general election on July 23 nor support any other party following weak results in Sunday’s local voting. “The most intelligent way to defend liberal ideals and the liberal space is not to run in this electoral cycle,” the party’s secretary-general, Adrian Vazquez, told a news conference. Ciudadanos had earned […]

By Supantha Mukherjee STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Top artificial intelligence executives including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Tuesday joined experts and professors in raising the “risk of extinction from AI”, which they urged policymakers to equate at par with risks posed by pandemics and nuclear war. “Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war,” more than 350 […]

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Disagreements over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine won’t hinder U.S. relations with India, Washington’s ambassador to New Delhi, Eric Garcetti, told news channel CNN-News 18 on Tuesday. Garcetti’s comments come ahead of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s state-visit to the U.S. from June 21-24. Garcetti also said India had helped to keep the price cap on Russian oil imposed by the Group of Seven economies, the European […]

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said Tuesday it is closing its investigation into 580,000 Tesla vehicles over the automaker’s decision to initially allow games to be played on the front center touchscreen. Shortly after NHTSA opened its investigation into Tesla’s “Passenger Play” in December 2021, Tesla agreed to stop allowing video games to be played on vehicle screens while its cars are […]

By John Revill ZURICH (Reuters) -Switzerland’s Social Democratic Party has drawn up a proposal to shrink UBS assets after its takeover of Credit Suisse to reduce the risk of another expensive state-backed rescue, its lawmaker was quoted as saying on Tuesday. It was not clear, though, how much traction the proposal, which was presented by Samira Marti in an interview with Swiss newspaper Aargauer Zeitung, can get. The combined bank […]

By Richa Naidu and Eva Mathews (Reuters) – Unilever Plc said on Tuesday Chief Financial Officer Graeme Pitkethly would leave the consumer goods giant by the end of May 2024 after more than two decades. Pitkethly, who has been with the maker of Dove soap since 2002, succeeded Jean-Marc Huët as finance chief in 2015. The 56-year-old previously served as executive vice president of Unilever’s UK and Ireland business, including […]

(Reuters) – Nvidia Corp is close to breaching $1 trillion in market capitalization, making it the first U.S. chipmaker to join the trillion-dollar club. The gaming and AI chip company, whose shares rose 3.8% in trading before the bell on Tuesday, was valued at $998 billion. Meta Platforms Inc , valued at about $670 billion as of last close, clinched the trillion-dollar market capitalization milestone in 2021, while Apple Inc, […]

By Ian Ransom MELBOURNE (Reuters) – An independent panel investigating historical allegations of mistreatment of Indigenous players at 13-time champions Hawthorn made “no adverse findings” against coaching staff at the Australian Football League club, the AFL said on Tuesday. The governing body of Australian Rules football formed a panel last October to investigate “extremely serious” allegations from former players through 2008 to 2016, including one footballer who said coaches had […]