Tech & Science

By Maria Demertzis On December 8, the EU finally concluded talks on the Artificial Intelligence act, which aims to govern the big artificial intelligence (AI) models that may pose systemic risks ...

Toshiba (6502.T) was delisted on Wednesday after 74 years on the Tokyo exchange, following a decade of upheaval and scandal that brought down one of Japan’s biggest brands and ushered ...

Panasonic Energy, a unit of Panasonic Holdings (6752.T), on Wednesday said Oklahoma was no longer a candidate for a new electric vehicle battery plant in the United States. The decision ...

Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) Google said this week it will restrict the types of election-related queries its chatbot Bard and search generative experience can return responses for, in the run ...

Elon Musk says prototypes are easy, production is hell. And when it comes to the long-awaited Cybertruck, Tesla’s hell is its pioneering 4680 battery. Tesla delivered the first of its ...

China, the world’s top processor of rare earths, banned the export of technology to extract and separate the critical materials on Thursday, the country’s latest step to protect ...

A US computer scientist on Wednesday lost his bid to register patents over inventions created by his artificial intelligence system in a landmark case in Britain about whether AI can ...

Tesla (TSLA.O) is not offering its employees yearly merit-based stock awards, Bloomberg News reported earlier this week. Tesla did not immediately respond to Reuters’ request for comment. The news ...

German online takeaway food company Delivery Hero (DHER.DE) said this week that it would close its global tech hubs in Turkey and Taiwan and adjust the headcount at its ...

Nissan Motor (7201.T) has announced that it would sell China-developed electric vehicles (EVs) globally as it struck a deal with the country’s top university to leverage local resources to ...

IBM (IBM.N) on Monday said that it would buy Software AG’s (SOWGn.DE) enterprise technology platforms for 2.13 billion euros ($2.33 billion) to bolster its artificial intelligence and hybrid cloud ...

Mercedes Benz (MBGn.DE) said on Monday it would carry out level 3 autonomous driving tests on designated highways in Beijing, without giving an exact time frame. The German automaker said ...

Better use of grass-covered areas across the EU can protect nature and strengthen agriculture. By Vedrana Simicevic German farmers in the Lower Oder Valley National Park on the eastern border ...

Electric vehicle charging companies in Europe and the US have started fighting over the best spots for fast public chargers, and industry watchers predict fresh rounds of consolidation as more ...

Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) Google, Meta Platforms (META.O), Qualcomm (QCOM.O) and seven other tech companies on Wednesday teamed up to push for open digital ecosystems in response to ...

South Korea will provide 38 trillion won ($29 billion) in financing to strengthen its battery industry over the next five years, as global competition to secure battery supply chains remains fierce, the ...

Meta Platforms’ (META.O) lawyers had warned it about the legal perils of using thousands of pirated books to train its AI models, but the company did it anyway, according ...

“Fortnite” maker Epic Games won a major antitrust trial against Alphabet’s Google (GOOGL.O) in San Francisco, persuading a federal jury on Monday that some of the technology giant’...

A federal judge in Virginia has rejected cybersecurity company Centripetal Networks’ patent infringement claims against Cisco Systems (CSCO.O) in a multi-billion-dollar fight over network-security technology. A different judge in ...

Elon Musk’s social media platform X’s 2023 ad sales are projected to fall to about $2.5 billion, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday. Several companies including Comcast (CMCSA.O) and Walt ...

Warner Bros Discovery (WBD.O) said on Tuesday that music streaming giant Spotify (SPOT.N) would host the media conglomerate’s podcasts as part of its monetization drive. Spotify’s ...

Tesla (TSLA.O) is recalling just over 2 million vehicles in the United States fitted with its Autopilot advanced driver-assistance system to install new safeguards, after a federal safety regulator said ...

Cyprus National Cybersecurity Coordination Centre, in conjunction with the Research and Innovation Foundation (RIF), this week announced the launch of a new support scheme that aims to strengthen cybersecurity in ...

Electric vehicle drivers hoping to top up their batteries at one of Repsol’s (REP.MC) 1,600 Spanish charging stations might well be disappointed, with nearly half lying dormant because they ...