SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) – El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele holds a large lead ahead of his bid next month to win reelection as president, a poll showed on Tuesday, as one Latin America’s most popular leaders rides a wave of support for his hardline security policies. The poll gives Bukele a …

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Artificial intelligence lab OpenAI is forming a new team to create democratic processes to shape how its AI software should be governed to address bias and other factors, the Microsoft-backed company said in a blog post on Tuesday. The “Collective Alignment” team is a continuation of …

WOKING, England (Reuters) – McLaren’s preparations for the 2024 Formula One season are going to plan with the team confident they can continue last year’s impressive performance gains, according to principal Andrea Stella. The former champions were fourth overall last year after a slow start to the campaign, with Britain’s …

(Reuters) – A Russian woman accused of assassinating a prominent pro-war blogger told a court on Tuesday she had thought the package she handed to him in a St Petersburg cafe contained a listening device, not a bomb. Darya Trepova said she was acting under orders from a man in …

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Sakana AI, a Tokyo-based artificial intelligence startup founded by two prominent former Google researchers, said on Tuesday it had raised $30 million in a seed financing round led by Lux Capital, with participation from Khosla Ventures. Sakana AI seeks to put Tokyo on the map as …

WOKING, England (Reuters) – McLaren see Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri as their long-term driver pairing in Formula One and believe they can convince the Briton to stay beyond next year, according to the team’s chief executive Zak Brown. Norris, 24, is set to start his sixth season with McLaren …

PARIS (Reuters) – France saw the lowest number of births since World War Two last year, the national statistics agency INSEE said, in a blow to its traditionally strong demographic profile. France registered 678,000 births last year, representing a decrease of 7% from 2022 and down 20% since peaking in …

(Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged the West on Tuesday to tighten sanctions pressure on Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin and to step up its support for Kyiv to ensure that Moscow did not succeed in its war. Western hesitation in its backing for Kyiv and fears of an escalation in …

(Reuters) – Big Tech’s “Year of Efficiency” may be over but recent layoffs at Google and Amazon have signaled the firms will keep cutting jobs in 2024 as they make big investments in generative AI. Analysts and industry experts believe the layoffs would be smaller and more targeted this year, …

(Reuters) – Italy centre Tommaso Menoncello, who missed last year’s Rugby World Cup through injury, was included in the country’s Six Nations squad as new head coach Gonzalo Quesada selected his players on Tuesday. A new era begins for Italian rugby after the Argentine took over from Kieran Crowley, who …