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By Valerie Volcovici Sept 19 (Reuters) - No company has announced plans for a data center in Defiance, a city of 17,000 people surrounded by soybean fields in northwestern Ohio. But people in the aptly named community are not taking any chances. After ...

By Ben Blanchard TAIPEI, Sept 19 (Reuters) - US defence tech firm Anduril's founder Palmer Luckey said on Saturday that President Donald Trump's delay in approving arms sales to Taiwan is affecting its business and that he has discussed this with Trump...

By Echo Wang, Krystal Hu and Milana Vinn Sept 18 (Reuters) - Anthropic is considering rolling out a new AI model to counter OpenAI's momentum since its launch of GPT-6 Astra, according to three sources, ahead of an expected IPO and after its CEO called...

By Jody Godoy Sept 18 (Reuters) - Paramount and states seeking to block its $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros could settle ​as soon as this weekend, with ‌independent content monitoring of CNN among the terms under discussion, sources familiar wi...

Sept 18 (Reuters) - OpenAI ​projects ‌it will burn ‌through ​almost $280 ⁠billion ⁠by the end ​of ⁠2030, ⁠the Financial ​Times ​reported on Friday. Reuters ‌could ⁠not immediately verify the ⁠report. (Reporting ‌by ⁠Mrinmay ​Dey ‌in ​Mexico City; ⁠Edi...

Sept 18 (Reuters) - Withdrawal requests at a Morgan Stanley private credit fund remained elevated in the third-quarter repurchase offer, according to a regulatory filing on Friday, as the ​investment vehicle works through its redemption queue. Investor...

Sept 18 (Reuters) - AI lab Anthropic said on Friday it would partner with Accenture for the independent evaluation of its frontier AI models, with ​the companies each committing at least $1 billion over ‌the next five years to build capacity for the wo...

(refiles to remove extraneous word from headline, no changes to body of story) By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS, Sept 18 (Reuters) - OpenAI Chief Executive Sam ​Altman will brief the United Nations Security ‌Council next week during the annual gather...

By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON, Sept 18 (Reuters) - The Russia sanctions bill signed into law by US President Donald Trump on Friday gives him new powers to impose tariffs that could last well beyond his presidency, injecting more uncertainty into the glo...

By Jarrett Renshaw Sept 18 (Reuters) - The US and China are discussing a plan to reduce or eliminate China's tariffs on American LNG as part of a broader package of energy and agriculture agreements that could be announced when Chinese President Xi Jin...

By Arasu Kannagi Basil Sept 18 (Reuters) - Nscale, a British cloud provider backed by chip giant Nvidia, said on Friday its revenue surged 1,252% in the first half of 2026, as it looks to tap investor appetite for AI stocks. The London-based company ​p...

LA PAZ, Sept 18 (Reuters) - Bolivian lawmakers approved an agreement on Friday that will allow the South American country to access $1.9 billion in financing from the International ​Monetary Fund (IMF), as the government of President Rodrigo ‌Paz faces...

Sept 18 (Reuters) - NASA is in talks with Boeing about using the aerospace manufacturer's Starliner vehicle to handle new missions, the Wall Street Journal ​reported on Friday. The discussion pertains to Starliner ‌handling 10 or more new flights in th...

By Jacob Bogage and David Shepardson WASHINGTON, Sept 18 (Reuters) - US President Donald Trump said on Friday he is banning three major news outlets - CNN, MS NOW and Politico - from the White House in his latest threat to the independent press. The mo...

Sept 18 (Reuters) - Polish parcel locker operator InPost said on Friday that 89.81% of ​its shares had been tendered ‌in the offer from a consortium made up of FedEx, Advent International and other InPost investors. The minimum ‌acceptance ​threshold o...

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, Sept 18 (Reuters) - A group representing major US airlines said on Friday it opposes Air China's bid to schedule additional flights from Beijing to New ​York and Washington as part of President Xi Jinping's ‌planned meet...

SYDNEY, Sept 18 (Reuters) - Debt-riddled Australian developer Bathla Group received a one-year extension on Friday to complete unfinished projects that were left in limbo when it ​entered administration last month. But the company would still ‌be depen...

By Jonathan Stempel and Manya Saini Sept 18 (Reuters) - Berkshire Hathaway has been synonymous with Warren Buffett. It now falls to his oldest son, Howard Buffett, to keep the conglomerate's culture alive. Friday's announcement that Warren Buffett, 96,...

By Yoruk Bahceli and Leigh Thomas LONDON/PARIS, Sept 18 (Reuters) - The premium France pays to borrow on the bond markets compared to Germany rose to more than a whole percentage point on Friday for the first time since the euro zone debt crisis, under...

By Joanna Plucinska LONDON, Sept 18 (Reuters) - With generous helpings of caviar and champagne, Air France's costly bet on luxury appears to be paying off, helping the Paris-based carrier weather the fallout ​from the Iran war, Chief Executive Ben Smit...