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(Reuters) -Apple is in early talks to use Google’s Gemini AI to revamp the Siri voice assistant, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. Alphabet’s shares were up 3.7% while Apple’s stock was up 1.6%, both extending gains in afternoon trading following the report. Apple recently approached Alphabet’s Google to develop …

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By Alexander Hübner MUNICH (Reuters) -The head of the works council at ProSiebenSat.1 on Friday demanded that the German media group’s likely takeover by Italian suitor MFE must not result in job losses.  Owned by the family of late Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, MFE is courting ProSieben shareholders to sell their holdings over the …

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(Reuters) -Britain’s FTSE 100 closed at a fresh all-time high on Friday for a fourth consecutive session, as global stocks rallied after U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell hinted at an imminent rate cut. The blue-chip index ended up 0.2% at 9,321.4, to cap off the week with a near 2% gain, benefiting from a …

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By Twesha Dikshit and Sukriti Gupta (Reuters) -European shares closed at their highest level in more than five months on Friday after U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell pointed to a possible September interest rate cut in his Jackson Hole Symposium speech. The pan-European STOXX 600 index closed 0.4% higher, less than 1% away from …

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By Manuel Ausloos EPERNAY, France (Reuters) -French wine and spirits producers are bracing for a 15% tariff on their exports to the United States, a crucial market, even as the European Commission pledges to keep pressing for a preferential rate for the sector. Details of an EU-U.S. trade deal released on Thursday after months of …

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DUSSELDORF, Germany (Reuters) -DHL said on Friday Deutsche Post and its German parcel service would suspend the shipment of standard parcels for businesses to the U.S. in line with similar moves by European peers deterred by looming U.S. customs duties for low-value packages. U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration said last month it would suspend the …

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(Corrects Dmitry Tatyanin’s title to Chairman in paragraph 17) By Alexander Marrow LONDON (Reuters) -EU tariffs on Russian fertiliser imports that aim to cut funding for Moscow’s war in Ukraine have so far hit European farmers, raising costs and risking higher consumer prices while Russian companies say they can divert exports to other markets. “We’re …

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