By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) – The founder of a cryptocurrency financial services firm pleaded guilty on Friday to U.S. charges that he participated in a wide-ranging scheme to manipulate the market for digital tokens on behalf of client companies. Aleksei Andriunin, the founder and CEO of cryptocurrency “market maker” Gotbit, and his company entered…
By Dawn Chmielewski and Katie Paul NEW YORK (Reuters) -White House-led talks on the future of TikTok are coalescing around a plan for the biggest non-Chinese investors in parent company ByteDance to up their stakes and acquire the short video app’s U.S. operations, according to two sources familiar with the discussions. The plan entails spinning…
(Reuters) – Barclays won the dismissal on Friday of two U.S. securities fraud lawsuits stemming from the British bank’s unauthorized sale of $17.7 billion more securities than U.S. regulators allowed. U.S. District Judge Lewis Liman in Manhattan said investors who acquired Barclays’ iPath Series B S&P 500 VIX Short-Term Future exchange-traded notes (“VXX”) could not…
(Reuters) – Apple is shaking up its executive ranks to get its AI efforts back on track after months of delays, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday citing people familiar with the situation. Some AI improvements to voice assistant Siri will be delayed until 2026, Apple had said earlier this month without giving any reason for…
By Stephen Nellis SAN JOSE, California (Reuters) -Nvidia will open a quantum computing research lab in Boston, where it plans to collaborate with scientists from Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, CEO Jensen Huang said on Thursday. Huang made the announcement at Nvidia’s annual software developer conference in San Jose, California, where Nvidia held…
By Rishika Sadam HYDERABAD (Reuters) -Eli Lilly launched its blockbuster diabetes and weight-loss drug Mounjaro in India on Thursday, beating rival Novo Nordisk for a much-awaited entry into the world’s most populous country grappling with increasing rates of obesity and diabetes. U.S.-based Lilly and Danish Novo Nordisk have seen skyrocketing global demand for their innovative…
By Jaspreet Singh and Akash Sriram (Reuters) -Perplexity AI is in talks to raise funds at an $18 billion valuation, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters on Thursday, as the Nvidia-backed startup looks to grow and capture soaring demand for its search tools. The jump in valuation doubles the previous $9 billion figure,…
By Jody Godoy (Reuters) -More than two dozen Democratic U.S. senators called on President Donald Trump on Wednesday to rescind his termination of the two Democratic members of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota sent the letter to the White House asking for the reinstatement of Democratic Commissioners Alvaro Bedoya…
By Nicolás Misculin BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) -Argentina’s lower house on Wednesday gave its stamp of approval for the government to kick off talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), a key hurdle for the program the country needs to get its finances in order. The lower Chamber of Deputies, in a divided vote, passed a…
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…
