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By Kantaro Komiya and Supantha Mukherjee TOKYO (Reuters) – Leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) nations on Saturday called for the development and adoption of technical standards to keep artificial intelligence (AI) “trustworthy”, saying governance of the technology has not kept pace with its growth. While the G7 leaders, meeting in Hiroshima, Japan, recognised that the approaches to achieving “the common vision and goal of trustworthy AI may vary”, […]

By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) – A federal judge in Illinois has dismissed a lawsuit accusing Mondelez International Inc of deceiving consumers into believing its Trident “Original Flavor” gum contained real mint. U.S. District Judge Iain Johnston said it was “fanciful” to believe reasonable consumers would expect the gum to contain mint or peppermint because its packaging featured an “unnaturally blue” leaf with condensation bubbles. He said the proposed class action […]

By Lananh Nguyen NEW YORK (Reuters) – When James Gorman made one of the biggest announcements of his career on Friday — that he would be stepping down as Morgan Stanley CEO within a year — he still managed to crack a joke. “An issue of paramount importance to shareholders, employees and clients is, of course, succession — and no, I’m not just talking about the TV series,” Gorman told […]

By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -A judge said on Friday he would decide by the end of the month whether a JPMorgan Chase & Co lawsuit should proceed against a former executive who it accuses of entangling the bank with late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff in Manhattan spoke after a one-hour hearing over whether to let the largest U.S. bank sue […]

By John Irish and Sakura Murakami HIROSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) -Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskiy brought his call for support against Russia’s invasion to a Group of Seven (G7) summit on Saturday to Japan, where leaders agreed to tighten sanctions against Moscow and pare back exposure to China. The Ukrainian president’s attendance at the G7 summit in Hiroshima, the first city to suffer a nuclear attack, put in sharp relief western concerns over […]

HIROSHIMA (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy met with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on the sidelines of the Group of Seven (G7) summit in Hiroshima on Saturday. They embraced each other warmly upon meeting and sat side by side to engage in discussions before media was ushered out. Zelenskiy met with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni earlier in the day. (Reporting by Sakura Murakami in Hiroshima; Editing by William […]

By Trevor Hunnicutt and Jeff Mason HIROSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) -The Group of Seven (G7) rich nations, concerned by tensions with Beijing, on Saturday outlined a shared approach towards China, looking to “de-risk, not decouple” economic engagement with a country regarded as the factory of the world. The heads of the world’s leading democracies meeting in the Japanese city of Hiroshima said they were prepared to build “constructive and stable” relations […]

By Rory Carroll LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Brittney Griner returned to the WNBA hardwood on Friday night in Los Angeles to cheers from a raucous crowd that included U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris. The mood was celebratory as Griner, who was released from a Russian penal colony in a high profile prisoner exchange with the U.S. late last year, was embraced by Harris on the court before the game. Griner […]

By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU (Reuters) – Mount Everest is losing snow and turning “dry and rocky”, British climber Kenton Cool, who made his 17th ascent of the world’s highest peak this week, the most by a foreigner, said on Saturday. The 49-year-old Cool, who climbed the 8,849-metre (29,032 foot) peak for the first time in 2004, said the giant mountain appears to be drying now. “If you go back to […]