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By Karen Freifeld (Reuters) – U.S. Commerce department bureaus informed staffers in recent weeks that Chinese artificial intelligence model DeepSeek is banned on their government devices, according to a message seen by Reuters and two people familiar with the matter. “To help keep Department of Commerce information systems safe, access to the new Chinese based …

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(Reuters) – Honda and Suzuki will pool carbon emissions with U.S. electric vehicle maker Tesla in 2025 to comply with European Union rules, an EU filing showed on Monday. The pool also includes Stellantis, Toyota, Ford, Mazda and Subaru, the filing shows. If not met, EU 2025 intermediate carbon reduction targets, or so-called CAFE standards, …

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By Pratima Desai LONDON (Reuters) – U.S. firms are buying cobalt metal produced in Indonesia by China’s Lygend Resources that does not incur the tariffs placed by the Trump administration on imports direct from China, three sources with direct knowledge of the matter said. U.S. President Donald Trump has imposed extra import tariffs on Chinese …

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TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese automaker Honda Motor will procure batteries for its hybrid vehicles from Toyota Motor’s plant in the United States in an effort to reduce tariff risks under the Trump administration, the Nikkei newspaper reported on Monday. From fiscal 2025, Japan’s second-biggest automaker will take in Toyota’s U.S.-made batteries for about 400,000 vehicles, …

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