1+ mon, 1+ day ago   (468+ words) As Europe comes to grips with its fifth heat wave of the year, the research arm of Swiss Re AG is warning of far-reaching consequences. “Record heat underscores Europe’s chronic heat risk,” the authors of the Swiss Re Institute report…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (478+ words) A Swedish court on Wednesday ordered Alphabet’s Google to pay about $1.5 billion in damages to PriceRunner, the price comparison business owned by payments platform Klarna, for favoring its own shopping service in search results. The award, equivalent to around 14.3 billion…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (340+ words) OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will push his vision for public-private collaboration on artificial intelligence during a visit to Washington on Wednesday, part of a broader policy agenda that also includes creating a vehicle to pass AI’s potentially vast financial windfall…...

4+ mon, 34+ min ago   (213+ words) PayPal Holdings Inc. has agreed to resolve a U.S. Justice Department probe into allegations the company had violated federal civil rights laws when it started an initiative to support minority-owned businesses. Under terms of the settlement, PayPal agreed to forgo about…...

4+ mon, 6+ day ago   (741+ words) U.S. Ambassador to the EU Andrew Puzder said Washington will implement 25% tariffs on cars and trucks from the European Union “relatively soon” if the bloc doesn’t swiftly ratify a long-delayed trade deal. “Unless we see some substantial progress, I think you…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (355+ words) Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Microsoft Corp. and xAI have agreed to give the U.S. government early access to their artificial intelligence models to assess the systems’ capabilities and help improve their security before the technology is released to the public....

5+ mon, 1+ week ago   (13+ words) Secret Codes and Yuan Fees Get Ships Through Iran’s Hormuz Tollbooth Claims Journal...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago   (428+ words) A former Deutsche Bank AG manager who says he was wrongfully blamed for the Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena SpA accounting scandal has sued the German lender in a London court for at least £473 million ($624 million) in damages. Michele…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago   (269+ words) First Central Group Ltd., the U.K. vehicle and home insurer, has appointed investment banks as it prepares for a potential initial public offering in London, according to people familiar with the matter. The company has lined up Deutsche Bank AG and…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago   (470+ words) Elon Musk and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission are in talks to settle the regulator’s lawsuit accusing the world’s richest person of waiting too long in 2022 to disclose his initial purchases of Twitter, which he eventually bought for $44 billion and…...