(Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s 25% tariff on auto imports may cost American consumers more than $30 billion in higher vehicle prices and reduced car sales in the first full year, consultancy firm Anderson Economic Group said in a report on Thursday. WHY IT’S IMPORTANT Manufacturers are expected to bear some of the tariff…
(Reuters) – AI video startup Runway said on Thursday it had raised $308 million in a new funding round, led by private equity firm General Atlantic, to expand its new media ecosystem. The latest funding round valued the New York-based company at over $3 billion, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter. Runway, however,…
By Max A. Cherney and Stephen Nellis SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Artificial intelligence group MLCommons unveiled two new benchmarks that it said can help determine how quickly top-of-the-line hardware and software can run AI applications. Since the launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT over two years ago, chip companies have begun to shift their focus to making…
By Gianluca Lo Nostro PARIS (Reuters) -Four of Europe’s biggest electric vehicle charging firms said on Wednesday they were teaming up to create the largest public charging network on the continent. Italy’s Atlante, Germany’s Ionity, the Netherlands’ Fastned and France’s Electra will create a new alliance called Spark aimed at sharing their networks. It will…
By Dawn Chmielewski (Reuters) – Amazon.com has put in a last-minute bid to buy TikTok, a U.S. administration official said on Wednesday, just days ahead of an April 5 deadline for the short-form video app to find a non-Chinese buyer or face a ban in the country. U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to discuss…
(Reuters) – Alphabet’s Google is replacing Sissie Hsiao, who led the development of the artificial intelligence chatbot Bard, now known as Gemini, the company told staff in its AI division on Wednesday. Hsiao will step down immediately, a company spokesperson confirmed. Josh Woodward, who leads Google Labs and oversaw the launch of NotebookLM — the…
MILAN (Reuters) – Tesla’s new car registrations in Italy rebounded sharply in March after a plunge the previous month to stand down 7% year-on-year in the quarter as a whole, data from the Transport Ministry showed on Tuesday. The quarterly number adds to signs that drivers are shunning Elon Musk’s electric vehicle brand as competition…
(Reuters) – Meta Platforms’ head of artificial intelligence research, Joelle Pineau, plans to leave the company, at a time when the tech giant is aggressively investing and competing in the AI space. Pineau, who has been with the company for eight years and has led Meta’s Fundamental AI Research group (FAIR) since 2023, will depart…
(Reuters) – Artificial intelligence startup CoreWeave’s shares were up 17% at $43.50 on their third day of trading on Tuesday, above their initial public offering price of $40. On Friday, the Nvidia-backed stock debuted for trading at $39, giving the AI infrastructure firm a valuation of $23 billion on a fully diluted basis. CoreWeave had…
By Patricia Zengerle and Mike Stone WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is planning an executive order that would ease rules governing exports of military equipment, and could announce it as soon as Tuesday or Wednesday, four sources familiar with the discussions said. The sources, some in government and some in industry, said they…
