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(Reuters) -Billionaire Elon Musk is working on launching an artificial intelligence start-up that will rival ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, the Financial Times reported on Friday citing people familiar with his plans. Twitter-owner Musk is assembling a team of AI researchers and engineers, according to the report, which added he is also in discussions with some investors in SpaceX and Tesla Inc about putting money into his new venture. Musk did not immediately […]

By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has written to Russia, Ukraine and Turkey to raise concerns about the implementation of a deal that allows the safe wartime export of grain from several Ukrainian Black Sea ports, a U.N. spokesman said on Friday. The United Nations has said no ships were inspected on Tuesday under the deal – agreed in July last year – “as the […]

By Elizabeth Pineau, Layli Foroudi and Ingrid Melander PARIS (Reuters) -French President Emmanuel Macron’s flagship pension reform will enter into force swiftly, officials said on Friday after it received the Constitutional Council’s approval despite months of street protests and strikes. The legislation, which pushes up the age at which one can draw a pension to 64 from 62, remains deeply unpopular, and spontaneous protests broke out when the Constitutional Council’s […]

By Tatiana Bautzer and Mehnaz Yasmin (Reuters) -Citigroup Inc’s first-quarter profit beat Wall Street expectations as it earned more from borrowers paying higher interest on loans. While its net interest income rose 23% to $13.3 billion, Citi also set aside $241 million to cover potential loan losses, from $138 million a year earlier, according its results reported on Friday. Citi earned $1.86 per share in the first quarter, beating analysts’ […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Jack Douglas Teixeira was arrested on Thursday for allegedly leaking a trove of highly classified documents online. Here is what we know about him. FAMILY BACKGROUND The 21-year-old was arrested by a team of heavily-armed FBI agents at his mother and stepfather’s house in North Dighton in Massachusetts on Thursday, and appeared before a federal judge in Boston Friday. Teixeira served with the Air National Guard in […]

By Ross Kerber and Sarah N. Lynch DIGHTON, Massachusetts (Reuters) – The FBI on Thursday arrested Jack Douglas Teixeira, a 21-year-old member of the U.S. Air National Guard, over the leaks online of classified documents that embarrassed Washington with allies around the world. Federal agents in an armored car and military gear swooped in on Teixeira, dressed in gym shorts, a T-shirt and trainers, at his home in Dighton, Massachusetts, […]

(Reuters) – The National Basketball Association fined the Dallas Mavericks $750,000 on Friday for resting multiple players during a game last week that had draft implications and while they were not mathematically eliminated from playoff contention. The NBA said Dallas violated the player resting policy and demonstrated through actions and public statements a desire to lose the contest in order to improve their chances of keeping their first-round pick in […]

By Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber GENEVA (Reuters) – Wearing her blue and yellow tracksuit from the 1994 Olympics, former figure skater Oksana Baiul-Farina displays the gold medal she won for Ukraine at those Games as a 16-year-old. That Olympic gold — Ukraine’s first after it gained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991 — carries even more meaning for Baiul-Farina, with the prospect of seeing athletes from Russia and Belarus competing at […]

BALLINA, Ireland (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden broke down in tears on Friday after a chance meeting at an Irish church with the priest who performed the last rites on his son Beau, a priest who accompanied Biden during the visit said. Father Richard Gibbons, who led Biden on a tour of the Catholic shrine of Knock, said he had not known that one of his colleagues, ex-US Army […]