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San Francisco (United States) (AFP) - Microsoft and OpenAI announced Tuesday a sweeping overhaul of their landmark artificial intelligence (AI) partnership, giving both companies greater independence while maintaining their close...

Washington (AFP) - A jury began deliberations on Tuesday in the trial of a former Illinois police officer charged with murder for the shooting of a Black woman inside her...

San Francisco (United States) (AFP) - Uber and Nvidia on Tuesday announced an alliance to deploy 100,000 robotaxis starting in 2027. "Together with Uber, we're creating a framework for the...

(AFP) - Around two dozen US states run by Democrats sued President Donald Trump's administration Tuesday over its refusal to tap emergency funds to preserve vital food aid threatened by the government shutdown. Now...

Washington (AFP) - Climate change "will not lead to humanity's demise," billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates has said in a long memo in which he argued that tackling global disease and...

Kingston (Jamaica) (AFP) - Ferocious winds and torrential rain tore into Jamaica Tuesday as Hurricane Melissa made landfall, the worst storm ever to strike the island nation and one of...

Kingston (Jamaica) (AFP) - Hurricane Melissa was only hours away Tuesday from expected landfall on Jamaica, bringing devastating flooding and winds that officials warn will smash the small Caribbean nation's...

San Francisco (United States) (AFP) - US online retail and cloud computing giant Amazon said Tuesday that it is reducing its workforce by 14,000 posts to streamline operations as it...

San Francisco (United States) (AFP) - Amazon will lay off tens of thousands of office workers as the e-commerce and tech giant trims costs amid ramped-up investments in artificial intelligence,...

Caracas (AFP) - Venezuela claimed Monday to have dismantled a CIA-financed cell plotting a false-flag attack on a US warship deployed to the southern Caribbean, as Washington stepped up pressure...