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Activision, Microsoft extend deadline to close $69 billion deal to Oct. 18
(Reuters) -Activision Blizzard said on Wednesday it has extended the deadline for the close of its $69 billion takeover by Microsoft to Oct. 18 as the companies work to secure approval from the United...
Jul 19, 2023
Broadcom’s $69 billion VMware deal wins provisional UK clearance
LONDON (Reuters) -Britain's competition regulator provisionally cleared U.S. tech company Broadcom's $69 billion purchase of VMware on Wednesday, saying the deal would not weaken competition in the su...
Jul 19, 2023
Societe Generale obtains France’s first crypto licence
LONDON (Reuters) - French bank Societe Generale has become the first company in France to obtain a license for crypto services, as a growing number of mainstream financial companies embrace crypto glo...
Jul 19, 2023
Analysis-Fintech lenders tighten lending standards, bolstering debt financing
By Hannah Lang and Matt Tracy (Reuters) - U.S. financial technology companies are tightening their lending standards, a move that has bolstered their access to debt financing from Wall Street investor...
Jul 19, 2023
K-pop’s biggest music label HYBE looks to lift language barrier with AI
By Hyunsu Yim SEOUL (Reuters) - In a dimly lit recording studio in Seoul, producers at the K-pop music label that brought the world hit boy group BTS are using artificial intelligence to meld a South ...
Jul 19, 2023
Regulator says found no animal welfare breaches at Musk firm beyond 2019 incident
By Marisa Taylor (Reuters) - The head of the U.S. agency responsible for animal welfare has told lawmakers that it did not find any violations of animal research rules at Elon Musk's Neuralink beyond ...
Jul 19, 2023
Reddit faces first fine in Russia for not deleting ‘banned content’ -Interfax
(Reuters) - Social media site Reddit faces being fined for the first time in Russia for not deleting "banned content" that Moscow says discredits the Russian army, the Interfax news agency reported on...
Jul 19, 2023
U.S. antitrust enforcers tackle digital platforms in new merger guidelines
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New draft guidelines released by U.S. antitrust enforcers on Wednesday lay the groundwork for tougher scrutiny of planned mergers by Big Tech companies like Amazon.com and Alpha...
Jul 19, 2023
Factbox-Governments race to regulate AI tools
(Reuters) - Rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI) such as Microsoft-backed OpenAI's ChatGPT are complicating governments' efforts to agree laws governing the use of the technology. Here are t...
Jul 19, 2023
Japan needs computing power surge to stay in AI race, says govt adviser
By Tim Kelly and Sam Nussey TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan needs to rapidly expand computing power as it vies to become a global leader in artificial intelligence, said Hideki Murai, a special AI adviser to ...
Jul 19, 2023
