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ROME (Reuters) – The Italian government is willing to work with Stellantis NV on the carmaker’s future strategy provided it keeps jobs and factories in the country, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Sunday. “We evaluate the economic cases on their own merits,” Meloni told an event of her Brothers of Italy party in Rome …

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BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s Social Democrats plan to introduce a “Made in Germany” premium in the next government to boost investment in Europe’s largest economy, the party’s election manifesto showed on Sunday ahead of a likely early election next year. The plan includes a direct tax refund of 10% on equipment investments by businesses, according …

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(Reuters) – Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup, xAI, said on Saturday that its new version of the Grok-2 chatbot will be available for free to all users of the social media platform X. “As always, Premium and Premium+ users get higher usage limits and will be the first to access any new capabilities in the …

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DUBAI (Reuters) – The Iranian currency extended its fall on Saturday, hitting a new all-time low against the U.S. dollar amid uncertainties about Donald Trump’s imminent arrival in the White House and tensions with the West over Tehran’s nuclear programme. The rial plunged to 756,000 to the dollar on the unofficial market on Saturday, compared …

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(Reuters) – The Slovak Finance Ministry has criticised a credit downgrade announced by ratings agency Moody’s late on Friday, saying it was based on an incorrect political evaluation. Moody’s cut the country’s rating by one notch to A3 and changed its outlook to stable from negative, alongside a cut in the rating of France. It …

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ROME (Reuters) – Italy expects to be a central part of Stellantis’ future strategy and wants the Fiat automaker to safeguard the factories on its territory, Industry Minister Adolfo Urso said on Saturday. “There must be an assertive Italy plan within Stellantis’ industrial plan that protects national factories,” Urso told an event in Rome ahead …

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By Jeffrey Dastin VANCOUVER (Reuters) – Former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, one of the biggest names in artificial intelligence, had a prediction to make on Friday: reasoning capabilities will make technology far less predictable. Accepting a “Test Of Time” award for his 2014 paper with Google’s Oriol Vinyals and Quoc Le, Sutskever said a …

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