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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain plans to split responsibility for governing artificial intelligence (AI) between its regulators for human rights, health and safety, and competition, rather than creating a new body dedicated to the technology. AI, which is rapidly evolving with advances such as the ChatGPT app, could improve productivity and help unlock growth, but there are concerns about the risks it could pose to people’s privacy, human rights or safety, […]

By Karen Freifeld NEW YORK (Reuters) – The New York grand jury hearing evidence about former President Donald Trump’s role in a hush-money payment to a porn star is not expected to meet on Wednesday and is unlikely to consider the case again this week, a law enforcement source said. It is unclear when the grand jury would take up the matter again, said the source, who was granted anonymity […]

By Jose Luis Gonzalez CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (Reuters) -At least 40 migrants from Central and South America died after a fire broke out late on Monday at a migrant detention center in the Mexican northern border city of Ciudad Juarez, apparently caused by a protest over deportations, officials said Tuesday. Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said authorities believed the blaze in the city opposite El Paso, Texas, broke out […]

By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Tuesday denied Donald Trump’s bid to throw out E. Jean Carroll’s defamation claim from next month’s high-profile trial over whether Trump raped the former Elle magazine columnist in the mid-1990s. U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan rejected Trump’s claim that “absolute litigation privilege” immunized the former president for allegedly defaming Carroll last Oct. 12 on his Truth Social […]

By Josh Horwitz SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China is ramping up efforts to develop home-grown semiconductor talent as it seeks to rapidly fill a shortage of expertise that has been made worse by U.S. efforts to limit Beijing’s access to advanced chip technology.     Enrolments for undergraduate and post-graduate courses have surged over the past five years thanks to new funds for top universities as well as a boom in smaller […]

By Pete Schroeder and Hannah Lang WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A top U.S. regulator told a Senate panel on Tuesday that Silicon Valley Bank did a “terrible” job of managing risk before its collapse, fending off criticism from lawmakers who blamed bank watchdogs for missing warning signs. In the first congressional hearing into the sudden collapse of two U.S. regional lenders and the ensuing chaos in markets, both Democratic and Republican lawmakers […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden said on Tuesday he hoped Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would jettison the judicial reform law that has sparked protests in Israel and a political crisis for its government. “I hope he walks away from it,” Biden told reporters at the White House. (Reporting by Jeff Mason; Editing by Chris Reese) Brought to you by www.srnnews.com

By Caroline Valetkevitch (Reuters) – U.S. stocks ended slightly lower on Tuesday as investors weighed comments from a top U.S. regulator on struggling banks and sold shares of technology-related names after their recent strong run. Michael Barr, the Federal Reserve’s top banking regulator, told a Senate panel that Silicon Valley Bank did a “terrible” job of managing risk before its collapse. Shares of Apple and Microsoft along with other technology-related […]

By Andrea Shalal DURHAM, North Carolina (Reuters) -President Joe Biden on Tuesday condemned a “sick” epidemic of gun violence against children, one day after a school shooting left three students and three adult staff members dead in Nashville, where he plans a visit. “I never thought when I started my public life that guns would be the number one killer of children in America,” Biden told an audience in North […]