(Reuters) – A rebound in the advertising businesses of Google and Snap have signaled that the rising adoption of artificial intelligence was drawing marketers to digital platforms even in an uncertain economy, boding well for Facebook-parent Meta Platforms. Alphabet and Snap surpassed third-quarter revenue expectations on Tuesday, with the tech …

PARIS (Reuters) – England flanker Tom Curry has been on the receiving end of relentless online abuse this week and captain Owen Farrell, usually a player who says the minimum in his media dealings, took to the microphone on Wednesday to say it was unacceptable. During last week’s World Cup …

STOCKHOLM/LONDON/MILAN (Reuters) – European Union lawmakers agreed on a critical part of new rules on artificial intelligence in a meeting late on Tuesday, as they inched closer to a broader agreement on the landmark AI Act, according to five people familiar with the matter. After two years of negotiations, the …

THE Nasdaq and the S&P 500 were set to open lower on Wednesday as tech giant Alphabet slumped after its cloud division missed revenue estimates, while other mega-cap stocks also edged lower pressured by rising U.S. Treasury yields. Google-parent Alphabet slid 5.9% in premarket trading as its cloud business crawled …

ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkey’s Constitutional Court ruled on Wednesday that the imprisonment of newly elected opposition lawmaker Can Atalay violated his rights to security, liberty and the right to be elected. Atalay, 47, was sentenced to 18 years in prison in April 2022 after being convicted of trying to overthrow …

KUALA SELANGOR: Two teenagers have been sentenced to community service of washing toilets for 100 hours over a period of six months by the Magistrate’s Court here for causing mischief by fire involving a public toilet in Bandar Puncak Alam here in 2022. Magistrate Siti Hajar Ali also ordered a …

KUALA LUMPUR: The use of the national language for correspondence in government offices is in line with the provision in Article 152 (6) of the Federal Constitution, which emphasises the role of Bahasa Melayu as the official language in the three levels of administration in the country. Senator Prof Datuk …

(Reuters) – Sam Bankman-Fried has little to lose by bucking conventional wisdom and taking the stand at his criminal fraud trial, following weeks of testimony that he stole billions of dollars from unwitting customers of his FTX cryptocurrency exchange. Doing so would expose Bankman-Fried to probing cross-examination by prosecutors who …

KUALA LUMPUR: Axis Real Estate Investment Trust (Axis-REIT) has proposed to acquire an industrial premise from BSS Development Sdn Bhd (BSS) and Matrix IBS Sdn Bhd for RM48mil cash. Both BSS and Matrix IBS are wholly owned subsidiaries of Matrix Concepts Holdings Bhd. The industrial premise, located in Sendayan Techvalley …

PARIS (Reuters) – Next year’s Tour de France will be a treacherous affair featuring two treks through the Alps as organisers avoid Paris ahead of the Summer Olympics, while the women’s race will have a grand finale at L’Alpe d’Huez in August. For the first time since its creation in …