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(Corrects paragraph 4 in March 29 story to show the Musk Foundation is a major (not the primary) donor to FLI) By Jyoti Narayan, Krystal Hu, Martin Coulter and Supantha Mukherjee (Reuters) -Elon Musk and a group of artificial intelligence experts and industry executives are calling for a six-month pause in developing systems more powerful than OpenAI’s newly launched GPT-4, in an open letter citing potential risks to society. Earlier […]

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain has set out plans to simplify and speed up post-Brexit border checks after repeated delays that the government previously blamed on the COVID-19 pandemic and then the war in Ukraine. The new model announced on Wednesday will be backed by more than 1 billion pounds ($1.25 billion) in spending and will cut the need for physical checks “for many types of goods”, a government statement said, […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The criminal case against former President Donald Trump, unveiled on Tuesday, rests not just on his high-profile alleged affair with porn star Stormy Daniels but also on a separate liaison with Playboy model Karen McDougal. A 52-year-old former model and actress from Indiana, McDougal was a Playboy magazine Playmate of the Year in the late 1990s. She has said she had an affair with Trump in 2006 and […]

By Tom Käckenhoff, Patricia Weiss and Matthias Williams LEVERKUSEN, Germany (Reuters) – Incoming Bayer chief executive Bill Anderson says he is keeping an open mind on whether to break up the company into smaller pieces, as some fidgety investors want. Anderson, who takes over the nearly 160-year-old German drugmaker at the start of June after calls from investors to remove his predecessor, says he will spend the next two months […]

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain has set out plans to simplify and speed up post-Brexit border checks after repeated delays that the government previously blamed on the COVID-19 pandemic and then the war in Ukraine. The new model announced on Wednesday will be backed by more than 1 billion pounds ($1.25 billion) in spending and will cut the need for physical checks “for many types of goods”, a government statement said, […]

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain has set out plans to simplify and speed up post-Brexit border checks after repeated delays that the government previously blamed on the COVID-19 pandemic and then the war in Ukraine. The new model announced on Wednesday will be backed by more than 1 billion pounds ($1.25 billion) in spending and will cut the need for physical checks “for many types of goods”, a government statement said, […]

By Joseph Ax (Reuters) -The events underlying the criminal case against Donald Trump – hush money payments to suppress stories about extramarital affairs – took place nearly seven years ago. But any potential trial could be more than a year away. That raises the possibility that the former U.S. president could face a jury in a Manhattan courtroom as he seeks a return to the White House – or even […]

(Reuters) – Johnson & Johnson’s shares rose 3% before the bell on Wednesday as the company’s $8.9 billion offer to settle talc-related lawsuits gained support of thousands of claimants, easing an overhang on its plans to list consumer health unit Kenvue. Some analysts were positive about the new settlement that is far bigger than the original offer of $2 billion, as they believe it could bring an end to the […]

By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai on Wednesday will defend the Biden administration’s decision not to pursue traditional free trade deals and argue her approach of working to ease non-tariff barriers is better for workers and supply chain resilience. Ahead of a policy speech at American University, Tai said she is starting to change minds in Washington and in other capitals that the traditional approach […]