WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday said the EU’s move to set up talks was positive and that he hoped Europe would “open up” to trade with the U.S. even as he reiterated his threat to unilaterally impose trade terms if no agreement emerges. “I have just been informed that the E.U. has…
(Reuters) -Data cloud analytics company Snowflake has been appointed the official data collaboration provider for the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Los Angeles as well as Team USA, the American company said on Tuesday. The Bozeman, Montana-based company said the partnership will enable data collaboration across Olympic and Paralympic Games for critical functions, which…
(Reuters) – Elon Musk’s social media platform X was largely restored for most users after an outage that impacted tens of thousands of users in the United States on Saturday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com, following which he said that he is “back to spending 24/7” at his companies. At its peak around 8:51…
By Katie Tam, Angie Teo and Ann Wang TAIPEI (Reuters) -With an admission letter in hand, Taiwanese student Yu-hsuan Lin was ready to attend her dream school, Harvard University, this September. But the decision of U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration to revoke Harvard University’s ability to enrol foreign students made her feel anxious and helpless,…
TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Sunday said Tokyo aims to advance tariff talks with the United States, with the goal of achieving an outcome during the Group of Seven summit next month. Japan’s top tariff negotiator Ryosei Akazawa held a third round of Japan-U.S. talks in Washington on Friday. Speaking to reporters…
By Sabine Siebold BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany’s Chief of Defence, Carsten Breuer, has ordered the German military to be fully equipped with weapons and other material by 2029, a document seen by Reuters on Sunday shows. By 2029, Russia may have reconstituted its forces sufficiently to attack NATO territory, according to estimates by Breuer and other…
By Christian Martinez (Reuters) -A fifth person has been arrested on suspicion of helping some of the 10 inmates who staged a daring escape from a New Orleans jail that was caught on security video, authorities said on Friday. Authorities apprehended Casey Smith, 30, who allegedly helped two escapees who had broken out of the…
By Greg Bensinger (Reuters) -Amazon.com investors at its annual meeting again rejected all outside shareholder resolutions, including three meant to address the online retail giant’s impact on climate change. Voters approved the reelection of 12 directors and proposed executive compensation. Shareholders put forth eight proposals, all of which Amazon encouraged investors to vote against. Last…
(Reuters) -Microsoft said on Wednesday its Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) filed a legal action against Lumma Stealer last week, after it found nearly 400,000 Windows computers globally infected by the information-stealing malware in the past two months. Lumma is capable of stealing data from various browsers and applications, such as cryptocurrency wallets, and installing other…
(Reuters) -OpenAI is buying Jony Ive’s startup io Products in a $6.5 billion deal and will bring the chief designer of early iPhones on board as creative head to develop devices tailored for the generative artificial intelligence era. LoveFrom, the design firm founded by Ive after leaving Apple, has been working with OpenAI for two…
