ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkish Airlines (THY) on Saturday held talks with Airbus to discuss a potential order of 355 new aircraft, the state-run Anadolu news agency said. During the meeting, which took place in Istanbul, officials from Turkish Airlines discussed buying 75 wide-body A350-900 and 15 wide-body A350-1000 aircraft as well as 250 narrow-body A321neo …
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Saturday backed the candidacy of Spanish acting Economy Minister Nadia Calvino for the post of president of the European Investment Bank (EIB). “I think she will be a very good president of the EIB,” Scholz said in an address to a weekend congress of the Party of …
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By Krystal Hu (Reuters) – Alphabet’s Google is in talks to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in Character.AI, as the fast growing artificial intelligence chatbot startup seeks capital to train models and keep up with user demand, two sources briefed on the matter told Reuters. The investment, which could be structured as convertible notes, …
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Facebook owner Meta Platforms and social media company Snap have been given a Dec. 1 deadline by the EU to give more information on how they protect children from illegal and harmful content, the European Commission said on Friday. The request for information on the measures the companies have taken to improve …
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By Foo Yun Chee and Supantha Mukherjee BRUSSELS/STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Elon Musk’s X social media platform has just 2,294 content moderators to ensure users comply with EU online content rules, significantly fewer than Google and TikTok, a senior European Commission official said on Friday. Adopted recently, the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA) requires 19 very …
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By Rajesh Kumar Singh and David Shepardson CHICAGO (Reuters) – Southwest Airlines expects Boeing’s 737 MAX 7 plane will get certification from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration by April, allowing the carrier to start flying the aircraft in October and November 2024, a company executive told Reuters. Dallas-based Southwest is the largest customer of the …
(This Nov. 9 story has been corrected to say Avery Klemmer is an investor, not a partner, in paragraph 7) By Krystal Hu (Reuters) – OpenAI’s announcement on artificial intelligence “apps” do not spell the death knell for nascent startups building AI products, two OpenAI investors said at a Reuters NEXT conference on Thursday. Investors …
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MILAN (Reuters) – Moschino’s newly-appointed creative director Davide Renne has died, Italian fashion group Aeffe said in a statement on Friday. Renne, Gucci’s former head designer for womenswear, took on the role at Moschino on Nov. 1. “There are no words to describe the pain we are experiencing at this dramatic time. Davide joined us …
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By Emilio Parodi MILAN (Reuters) -Travel website Booking.com has agreed to pay about 94 million euros ($100.25 million) to settle a tax dispute in Italy, Genoa prosecutors said on Friday. The announcement marks another high-profile tax deal between multinationals and Italian authorities, who previously settled cases with luxury groups such as Kering and U.S. tech …
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PARIS (Reuters) -CMA CGM said on Friday its profit fell in the third quarter as a COVID-era boom in shipping continued to fade, but its volumes picked up as a destocking trend in the United States was offset by brisk demand in other parts of the world. The French-based shipping giant was cautious about next …
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