Factbox-Details of 110 billion euros in investment pledges at France’s AI summit

    PARIS (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday announced investment pledges to bolster France’s artificial intelligence sector totalling 109 billion euros ($112 billion)over the coming years. The financing, unveiled during the Paris AI summit, includes plans by Canadian investment firm Brookfield to invest 20 billion euros in AI projects in France and financing from…

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    Amazon loses court fight against record $812 million Luxembourg privacy fine

    By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Amazon lost its fight against a record 746 million euro ($812.4 million) fine handed out by Luxembourg’s privacy regulator four years ago as a court sided with the watchdog, according to a statement on the regulator’s website. The Luxembourg National Commission for Data Protection (CNPD) said the country’s…

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    Zelenskiy says he had substantive call with Trump discussing partial ceasefire, air defences

    (Reuters) – Ukrainian and U.S. teams could meet in Saudi Arabia in the coming days to discuss technicalities of partial ceasefire, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said after what he described as “very substantive” call with U.S. counterpart Donald Trump. “We instructed our teams to resolve technical issues related to implementing and expanding the partial ceasefire. Ukrainian…

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    Nvidia CEO says orders for 3.6 million Blackwell GPUs exclude Meta

    (Reuters) -Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said on Wednesday that orders for some 3.6 million of its flagship “Blackwell” chips from four top cloud service providers “under represented” demand, since they did not include orders from key customer Meta. Facebook-owner Meta Platforms is among the largest buyers of Nvidia chips and Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of the…

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