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(Reuters) – The seventh game of the chess world championship took an unexpectedly dramatic turn when China’s Ding Liren froze under time pressure and lost to Russian Ian Nepomniachtchi from a potentially winning position on Tuesday. Ding had the initiative with the black pieces but found himself with less than three minutes to make nine moves and reach move 40 when 60 minutes are added to the players’ clocks. Instead […]

(Reuters) – Microsoft Corp is developing its own artificial intelligence chip code-named “Athena” that will power the technology behind AI chatbots like ChatGPT, the Information reported on Tuesday, citing two people familiar with the matter. The company, which was an early backer of ChatGPT-owner OpenAI, has been working on the chip since 2019 and it is being tested by a small group of Microsoft and OpenAI employees, the report said. […]

(Reuters) – The seventh game of the chess world championship took an unexpectedly dramatic turn when China’s Ding Liren froze under time pressure and lost to Russian Ian Nepomniachtchi from a potentially winning position on Tuesday. Ding had the initiative with the black pieces but found himself with less than three minutes to make nine moves and reach move 40 when 60 minutes are added to the players’ clocks. Instead […]

By Khalid Abdelaziz, Nafisa Eltahir and Humeyra Pamuk KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Sudan’s rival commanders agreed a 24-hour ceasefire from Tuesday evening, after pressure from U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken over deadly fighting that has engulfed the capital Khartoum and saw shots fired at a U.S. diplomatic convoy. The conflict between Sudan’s armed ruling factions broke out four days ago and has killed at least 185 people across the country, […]

(Reuters) – Inter Milan coach Simone Inzaghi said he had no qualms being a lightning rod for criticism after their Serie A form nosedived as long as his players are protected ahead of a Champions League quarter-final that could define their season. Inter have not won in their last five league games, suffering four defeats to fall out of the top four and sit two points behind fourth-placed AC Milan, […]

By Alan Baldwin LONDON (Reuters) -Formula One stewards have dismissed Ferrari’s bid to review an Australian Grand Prix penalty that left the Italian team without points from this month’s race. The stewards who made the decision in Melbourne held a virtual meeting on Tuesday to consider a petition for review of the five-second penalty that dropped Carlos Sainz from fourth to 12th. Ferrari needed to present a “significant and relevant […]

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s leading opposition figure, Alexei Navalny, faces the prospect of new criminal charges after in effect being forced to break the rules of the maximum security penal colony where he is being held, one of his lawyers said on Tuesday. Vadim Kobzev said on Twitter that a foul-smelling inmate with poor hygiene had been placed in Navalny’s cell on Monday in a “provocation” while he was doing […]

(Corrects paragraph 7 to say deposits for consumer unit, not full company. The error appeared in previous versions of the story) By Manya Saini and Saeed Azhar (Reuters) -Bank of America Corp’s profit beat analysts’ estimates in the first quarter as it collected hefty interest payments from customers, while the lender’s traders extended their winning run. Rival banking giants JPMorgan Chase and Co and Citigroup Inc also reaped windfalls from […]

By Dan Peleschuk and Guy Faulconbridge KYIV/MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin has met his commanders in two regions of Ukraine that Moscow claims to have annexed, while Russian forces stepped up heavy artillery bombardments and air strikes on Tuesday on the devastated Ukrainian city of Bakhmut. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, meanwhile, visited troops in the eastern town of Avdiivka, about 70 km (43 miles) southwest of Bakhmut, and […]