(Reuters) -AT&T is in talks to acquire Lumen Technologies’ consumer fiber operations, in a deal that could value the unit at more than $5.5 billion, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, citing people with knowledge of the matter. Shares of Lumen were down more than 14% after the report. The terms, which are not yet finalized,…
By Marianna Parraga (Reuters) -Loading of Venezuela’s heavy crude at its main oil ports slowed this week after the U.S. imposed a tariff on trade with countries buying the South American nation’s oil and producer Chevron began reducing its tanker fleet there, according to shipping data and a document seen on Tuesday. On Monday, U.S….
BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek released a major upgrade to its V3 large language model, intensifying competition with U.S. tech leaders like OpenAI and Anthropic. The new model, DeepSeek-V3-0324, was made available through AI development platform Hugging Face, marking the company’s latest push to establish itself in the rapidly evolving AI market….
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – Ripple Labs agreed to settle a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission civil lawsuit over the alleged sale of unregistered securities and pay just $50 million of a previously imposed $125 million fine, the cryptocurrency company’s chief legal officer said on Tuesday. The accord would end one of the…
