By Katie Paul MENLO PARK, California (Reuters) – Meta Platforms used public Facebook and Instagram posts to train its new Meta AI virtual assistant, but excluded private posts shared only with family and friends in an effort to respect consumers’ privacy, the company’s top policy executive told Reuters in an interview. Meta also did not …
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By Max A. Cherney (Reuters) -France’s competition authority raided Nvidia’s local offices this week on suspicion the chipmaker engaged in anticompetitive practices, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. The French competition authority, which disclosed the dawn raid on Wednesday, did not say what practices it was investigating or which company it had targeted, beyond …
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By Amy-Jo Crowley and Pablo Mayo Cerqueiro LONDON (Reuters) – Travelex’s owners are exploring a sale of the British currency exchange, which fell into administration in 2020, after bolstering its finances, four sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. The owners, which include former bondholders that took control of Travelex through a debt restructuring, are …
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By Alistair Smout and Sachin Ravikumar LONDON (Reuters) -Britain announced on Thursday it was sticking to a previous timetable to phase out cars that burn fossil fuels by 2035, limiting the impact of last week’s five-year delay to a requirement that petrol and diesel cars have hybrid engines. The announcement means that last week’s policy …
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By Sinead Cruise LONDON (Reuters) -BNP Paribas has told London-based staff it will track their entry-gate swipes against logins to the bank’s computer network to ensure employees meet targets for working from the office, a staff memo seen by Reuters shows. The Sept. 25 notice to staff in the French bank’s London unit said the …
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By Siddarth S and Shristi Achar A (Reuters) – UK’s commodities-heavy FTSE 100 edged higher on Thursday, buoyed by rising oil and mining stocks, though gains were kept in check with yields on British government bonds moving higher. The blue-chip index inched 0.1% higher, with industrial miners up 2.2%, as zinc and other base metal …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian state conglomerate Rostec said on Thursday it had restored normal operations at its Leonardo air booking system following what it called a “massive cyberattack from abroad”. “The cyberattack has been successfully repelled,” Rostec said in a statement. It described the incident as a Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Attack”, in which the attacker floods …
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By Christoph Steitz FRANKFURT (Reuters) -Volkswagen said on Thursday that a major IT outage, which had caused most of its German plants to halt production, was resolved overnight and its global production network was up and running again. The incident, which VW said began at 1030 GMT on Wednesday and was disclosed late that evening, …
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LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s competition regulator said it planned to assess a transatlantic partnership deal between British Airways-owner IAG, American Airlines and Finnair in the context of the post-COVID recovery of the aviation market. The Competition and Markets Authority’s interest in competition on UK-U.S. airline routes stretches back to 2010. The regulator had been due to …
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(Reuters) -Ryanair announced on Thursday cuts to its winter schedule due to delays in the delivery of Boeing aircraft, but Europe’s largest airline by passenger numbers said its full-year traffic forecast was unaffected “as yet”. Ryanair said in a statement that it had expected to receive delivery of 27 aircraft between September and December. But …
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