(Reuters) -Google DeepMind staff in Britain plan to unionise to challenge the company’s decision to sell its artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to defence groups with ties to the Israeli government, the Financial Times reported on Saturday. About 300 London-based staff of Google (NASDAQ:GOOGL) DeepMind have been seeking to join the Communication Workers Union (CWU) in recent weeks, the re ...
(This April 25 story has been refiled to add back words dropped from the headline)By Karen Freifeld(Reuters) - President Donald Trump’s nominee for NASA administrator, Jared Isaacman, was arrested on fraud charges in 2010 and faced lawsuits in two states for writing $2 million in bad checks to casinos, according to government records and court filings.Isaacman is a billionaire pilot and astronau ...
RAMALLAH (Reuters) -Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas named close confidant Hussein al-Sheikh as his deputy and likely successor on Saturday, the Palestine Liberation Organisation said, a step widely seen as needed to assuage international doubts over Palestinian leadership.Abbas, 89, has headed the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) and the Palestinian Authority (PA) since the death o ...
Investing.com – Russia stocks were higher after the close on Saturday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Power and Telecoms sectors led shares higher.At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia Index rose 2.10%.The best performers of the session on the MOEX Russia Index were NOVATEK PJSC (MCX:NVTK), which rose 5.25% or 65.60 points to trade at 1,314.60 at the close. Meanwhile, IPJSC YANDEX (MCX:YDEX) a ...