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FRANKFURT (Reuters) – German diversified group Bayer said its 2023 results would likely come in at the lower bound of its target range, hurt by cost inflation and the reversal of last year’s price boost for its glyphosate-based weedkillers. “Overall, we expect target attainment to come in at the lower end of our guidance,” CEO Werner Baumann, who will be succeeded by former Roche executive Bill Anderson in June, said […]

PARIS/BEIJING (Reuters) – French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna and her Chinese counterpart Qin Gang agreed on the need to “develop an economic relationship that is both stronger and more balanced”, the foreign ministry in Paris said after they met on Wednesday. The meeting followed French President Emmanuel Macron’s visit to China in April and came weeks after comments by China’s Paris ambassador about Ukraine sparked a diplomatic rift. Colonna reminded […]

By Jeffrey Dastin MOUNTAIN VIEW, California (Reuters) – The financial report you read, the apparel marketing you see and the chat assistant you engage may soon reflect a common origin: artificial intelligence from Google. The cloud division inside Alphabet Inc is lining up customers to put its newest technology to the test, so-called generative AI that produces human-like prose or other content from past data. Deutsche Bank AG, Uber Technologies […]

By Jeffrey Dastin and Greg Bensinger MOUNTAIN VIEW, California (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s Google is rolling out more artificial intelligence for its core search product, hoping to create some of the same consumer excitement generated by Microsoft Corp’s update to rival search engine Bing in recent months. At its annual I/O conference in Mountain View, California, on Wednesday, Google offered a new version of its namesake engine. Called the Search […]

By Jeffrey Dastin and Greg Bensinger MOUNTAIN VIEW, California (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s Google is rolling out more artificial intelligence for its core search product, hoping to create some of the same consumer excitement generated by Microsoft Corp’s update to rival search engine Bing in recent months. At its annual I/O conference in Mountain View, California, on Wednesday, Google offered a new version of its namesake engine. Called the Search […]

(Reuters) -German silicon wafer supplier Siltronic AG reported on Thursday first-quarter sales that slightly exceeded guidance, despite an economic slowdown, geopolitical uncertainty, a lower wafer area sold and a stronger euro. The company posted quarterly revenue of 404.4 million euros ($445.16 million), down 14% from the previous quarter, but less than a 15% drop the company had expected. The global tech industry has been battling a sharp and sudden downturn […]

By Anna Tong (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s Google on Wednesday demonstrated an updated core search product that embeds more AI in its answers as the company looks to banish doubts that it is losing ground to Microsoft Corp’s OpenAI-powered Bing search. Google already has a Bard chatbot that competes with ChatGPT, the chatbot from OpenAI that has generated huge excitement among users with its humanlike responses. SO WHEN DO YOU […]

DUBAI (Reuters) -Emirates airline said on Thursday it had committed $200 million to a research fund focusing on reducing the impact of fossil fuels in commercial aviation, because hitting net zero emissions targets would not be possible with currently available options. Emirates President Tim Clark said the biggest impediment for airlines in reducing their environmental impact was currently fuel. “It’s clear that with the current pathways available to airlines in […]

By Agnieszka Pikulicka-Wilczewska WARSAW (Reuters) – Danil Yugoslavsky had long hated Vladimir Putin. The tech worker says he protested for fair elections in Russia for several years before he left his homeland in despair in 2017 and eventually settled in Spain. Even so, he never suspected his yearning to topple the Russian president would one day see him join a far-right paramilitary group founded by a former soccer hooligan known […]