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India's Modi meets Foxconn chief amid govt probe into hiring practices
By Aditya Kalra NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Foxconn Chairman Young Liu to discuss the latter's investment plans on Wednesday, weeks after New Delhi started investigat...
Thomson Reuters Aug 14, 2024
Hollywood union strikes deal for advertisers to replicate actors' voices with AI
By Danielle Broadway and Dawn Chmielewski (Reuters) - The Hollywood actors' union SAG-AFTRA announced on Wednesday a deal with online talent marketplace Narrativ that enables actors to sell advertiser...
Thomson Reuters Aug 14, 2024
Shake Shack, Serve Robotics roll out autonomous sidewalk robot delivery in Los Angeles
(Reuters) - Fast-food chain Shake Shack and Serve Robotics are partnering to use autonomous sidewalk robots to deliver orders placed on Uber Eats, the companies said on Wednesday. The partnership will...
Thomson Reuters Aug 14, 2024
Global banks' tech revival sparks hope for $254 billion Indian IT sector
By Sai Ishwarbharath B and Haripriya Suresh BENGALURU (Reuters) - Global banks have started reviving the technology projects they put on ice in 2023, raising hopes for the $254 billion Indian IT secto...
Thomson Reuters Aug 14, 2024
Meta's Instagram failed to curtail hate speech against women politicians, report says
(Reuters) -Meta Platforms' Instagram failed to remove abusive comments aimed at female politicians who are potential candidates for the 2024 U.S. elections, according to a report by the non-profit Cen...
Thomson Reuters Aug 14, 2024
Tencent's Q2 revenue up 8% on recovery in gaming business
BEIJING (Reuters) -China's Tencent Holdings reported an 8% rise in second-quarter revenue on Wednesday, driven by a recovery in its gaming business after a launch of a new mobile game in May that got ...
Thomson Reuters Aug 14, 2024
Huawei readies new AI chip to challenge Nvidia in China, WSJ reports
(Reuters) - China's Huawei Technologies is close to introducing a new chip for artificial intelligence use to challenge Nvidia in China amid U.S. sanctions, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday...
Thomson Reuters Aug 14, 2024
Samsung Electronics' main South Korea union to strike over pay from Thursday
(Repeats story to fix formatting issue in a bullet point.) SEOUL (Reuters) -Samsung Electronics' biggest workers' union in South Korea said on Tuesday it would begin a four-day strike from Thursday to...
Thomson Reuters Aug 14, 2024
Apple supplier Foxconn's quarterly profit jumps 6% on AI boom
By Yimou Lee and Faith Hung TAIPEI (Reuters) -Apple supplier Foxconn on Wednesday surpassed expectations with a 6% rise in quarterly net profit driven by a boom in demand for AI servers, and stood by ...
Thomson Reuters Aug 14, 2024
Norway wealth fund posts $138 billion profit in H1 as AI demand lifts tech
ARENDAL, Norway (Reuters) -Norway's $1.7 trillion sovereign wealth fund, the world's largest, said on Wednesday it had posted a profit of 1.48 trillion Norwegian crowns ($138 billion) in the first hal...
Thomson Reuters Aug 14, 2024

