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Europe’s bid for AI standard faces long road, EU lawmakers say
By Foo Yun Chee STRASBOURG (Reuters) - Europe's effort to set a standard for artificial intelligence will likely take more than a year, with the debate focusing on whether facial recognition should be...
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VW CEO sees widespread autonomous driving within 25 years
(Reuters) - Volkswagen Chief Executive Herbert Diess expects the car industry to see widespread autonomous driving within 25 years, the manager said on Wednesday in a question-and-answer session on th...
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Exclusive-Brazil eyes tax exemption for foreign investors in corporate bonds, Economy Ministry says
By Marcela Ayres BRASILIA (Reuters) -Brazil's government is considering an income tax exemption for foreigners investing in domestic corporate bonds, hoping to lower financing costs for local firms at...
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Paramount shares slump as investments to beef up streaming spook investors
By Eva Mathews and Tiyashi Datta (Reuters) - Shares of ViacomCBS Inc, rebranded as Paramount Global, plunged 21% on Wednesday to their lowest in over a year, after the media company's earnings miss an...
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Jared Kushner ally pardoned by Trump pleads guilty to attempting to spy on ex-wife
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - Ken Kurson, a former editor of the New York Observer newspaper who was pardoned in January 2021 by then-U.S. President Donald Trump, pleaded guilty on Wednesda...
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Bank of Canada will forcefully tackle inflation if need be – deputy governor
OTTAWA, Feb 16 (Reuters) - The Bank of Canada will be nimble and potentially "forceful" in tackling uncomfortably high inflation, a senior official said on Wednesday, setting the stage for an aggressi...
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EU states agree on need to build own satellite constellation
PARIS (Reuters) - European Union ministers, meeting on space policy in Toulouse, on Wednesday agreed that the bloc needed an autonomous satellite constellation infrastructure for high-speed internet a...
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Yara buys 14% stake in Brazil farm trade platform Orbia
By Ana Mano SAO PAULO (Reuters) - A unit of Norwegian plant nutrition company Yara International ASA has acquired for an undisclosed sum a 14% stake in Brazilian online farm products trade platform Or...
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City: downtown rental housing almost full, more to be developed
PEORIA, Ill. – The City of Peoria says 98 to 99 percent of any available rental unit in what they consider the downtown area is occupied, and there’s an appetite for more. That’s the...
Will Stevenson Feb 16, 2022
Minneapolis ex-police officer trusted colleague’s use of knee in deadly Floyd arrest
By Jonathan Allen ST. PAUL, Minn. (Reuters) - Tou Thao, one of three former Minneapolis police officers on trial for violating George Floyd's civil rights, testified on Wednesday that he trusted his e...
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