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By Byron Kaye SYDNEY (Reuters) – A regional Australian mayor said he may sue OpenAI if it does not correct ChatGPT’s false claims that he had served time in prison for bribery, in what would be the first defamation lawsuit against the automated text service. Brian Hood, who was elected mayor of Hepburn Shire, 120km (75 miles) northwest of Melbourne, last November, became concerned about his reputation when members of […]

By Michael Martina and David Brunnstrom LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen is set to meet U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Wednesday in the first such meeting on U.S. soil, a plan that has drawn threats of retaliation from China, which claims self-ruled Taiwan as its own. McCarthy, a Republican who through his House position is number three in the U.S. leadership hierarchy, is due to host […]

By Diana Mandia (Reuters) -French catering and food services group Sodexo plans to spin off and list its Benefits & Rewards Services (BRS) business during 2024, it said on Wednesday, as it focuses on divisions that serve faster-growing markets. Sodexo last May scrapped a plan to sell a minority stake in BRS, which delivers vouchers and benefit cards to businesses for employees. It now intends to spin off and list […]

(Reuters) -AstraZeneca on Wednesday said a combination of its cancer drugs Imfinzi and Lynparza met the main goal in a late-stage trial in patients with advanced ovarian cancer. The drugmaker said treatment with a combination of those drugs, along with chemotherapy and bevacizumab – the existing standard of care – improved progression-free survival in newly diagnosed patients with advanced ovarian cancer without certain mutations. Lynparza, jointly developed with U.S.-based Merck […]

By Ariba Shahid KARACHI (Reuters) – Seven-year-old Saad Umer joined a crowd in a poor neighbourhood in the Pakistani city of Karachi rushing to get a handout of flour and a little cash from a charity trying to help the most vulnerable cope with runaway prices. But in the surge, a melee broke out and some people fell. Saad and 10 others, all women and children, were killed in the […]

By Ariba Shahid KARACHI (Reuters) – Seven-year-old Saad Umer joined a crowd in a poor neighbourhood in the Pakistani city of Karachi rushing to get a handout of flour and a little cash from a charity trying to help the most vulnerable cope with runaway prices. But in the surge, a melee broke out and some people fell. Saad and 10 others, all women and children, were killed in the […]

By Ariba Shahid KARACHI (Reuters) – Seven-year-old Saad Umer joined a crowd in a poor neighbourhood in the Pakistani city of Karachi rushing to get a handout of flour and a little cash from a charity trying to help the most vulnerable cope with runaway prices. But in the surge, a melee broke out and some people fell. Saad and 10 others, all women and children, were killed in the […]

By Ariba Shahid KARACHI (Reuters) – Seven-year-old Saad Umer joined a crowd in a poor neighbourhood in the Pakistani city of Karachi rushing to get a handout of flour and a little cash from a charity trying to help the most vulnerable cope with runaway prices. But in the surge, a melee broke out and some people fell. Saad and 10 others, all women and children, were killed in the […]

LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s Ofcom said it planned to ask the competition regulator to investigate cloud services, a market dominated by Amazon and Microsoft. The communications regulator said on Wednesday it had uncovered practices and features that made it more difficult for customers to switch and use multiple cloud suppliers, prompting it to refer the issue to the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority for further investigation. Amazon and Microsoft have a […]