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By Rae Wee SINGAPORE (Reuters) – The dollar eased on Friday but remained near a two-month high against its major peers, buoyed by expectations that U.S. interest rates could remain higher for longer. Debt ceiling negotiations between U.S. President Joe Biden and top congressional Republican Kevin McCarthy also continued to cast a shadow over the market mood, though news that the two are closing in on a deal aided investor […]

(Reuters) – A Mississippi family on Thursday demanded a police officer be dismissed and charged with aggravated assault for shooting an 11-year-old boy when police responded to the child’s own domestic disturbance call at his home. Aderrien Murry, who called police at the request of his mother, was unarmed and following instructions from Indianola officer Greg Capers when Capers shot him in the chest early Saturday morning, family attorney Carlos […]

CANNES (Reuters) – Celebrities including Queen Latifah, Jeffrey Wright and Heidi Klum escaped the Cannes Film Festival’s crowded Croisette Boulevard for a night to attend a fundraiser for AIDS research at a secluded luxury hotel in the nearby resort town of Antibes. “I wanted to be here tonight because I think it’s such a beautiful charity and just to be able to do what I can,” said Bebe Rexha, one […]

Austin Riley hit a pair of tape-measure home runs and Travis d’Arnaud drove in two runs with a pinch-hit go-ahead single in the eighth inning to lift the Atlanta Braves to an 8-5 win over the visiting Philadelphia Phillies on Thursday in the opener of a four-game series. With the bases loaded, d’Arnaud lined a single to left field against reliever Gregory Soto (1-4) to drive in Ozzie Albies and […]

By Naomi Rovnick LONDON(Reuters) – Experienced tech investors are hunting for undervalued opportunities in an over-valued space.      At stake is how best to invest in the potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI), which took a leap forward in November when Microsoft-backed OpenAI released its ChatGPT bot, without buying into a bubble. Shares in Nvidia, which makes computer chips that train AI systems, have almost doubled since ChatGPT’s launch. The company’s […]

By Naomi Rovnick LONDON(Reuters) – Experienced tech investors are hunting for undervalued opportunities in an over-valued space.      At stake is how best to invest in the potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI), which took a leap forward in November when Microsoft-backed OpenAI released its ChatGPT bot, without buying into a bubble. Shares in Nvidia, which makes computer chips that train AI systems, have almost doubled since ChatGPT’s launch. The company’s […]

By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss, Saeed Azhar and Davide Barbuscia NEW YORK (Reuters) – Anxiety is increasing in parts of Wall Street that rely on Treasury securities to function, with some traders starting to avoid U.S. government debt that comes due in June and others preparing to deal with securities at risk of default. U.S. President Joe Biden and top congressional Republican Kevin McCarthy are closing in on a deal that would […]

By Martin Coulter and Supantha Mukherjee LONDON/STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -For months, Sam Altman, CEO of Microsoft-backed OpenAI has urged lawmakers around the world to draw up new rules governing the technology. On Wednesday, he threatened the ChatGPT maker may leave the EU if the bloc “overregulated”.     Altman has spent the past week crisscrossing Europe, meeting top politicians in France, Spain, Poland, Germany and the UK to discuss the future of […]

By James Pomfret HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong authorities on Friday condemned a British government call for the removal of a China-imposed national security law that Britain said had been used to persecute, “silence and discredit” pro-democracy opposition figures. Britain’s Foreign Secretary James Cleverly wrote in his government’s latest six-monthly report on Hong Kong that he had highlighted at a U.N. hearing in February how Hong Kong authorities had […]