SYDNEY, Aug 18 (Reuters) - Google agreed on Monday to pay a A$55 million ($35.8 million) fine in Australia after the consumer watchdog found it had hurt competition by paying the country's two largest telcos to pre-install its search application on Android phones, excluding rival search engines. The fine extends a bumpy period for the Alphabet-owned internet giant in Australia,...

08:11 AM EDT, 06/25/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Goliath Resources ( GOTRF ) on Wednesday said it is increasing its 40,000 meter drill program at the Golddiger property in British Columbia to up to 60,000 meters. The drill program is fully-funded. This upsized drill program follows recent discoveries of visible gold and abundant visible gold that can be seen with a...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday planned to introduce a bill in both houses of Congress that would bar U.S. executive agencies from using artificial intelligence models developed in China, including those from DeepSeek. The introduction of the bill, dubbed the No Adversarial AI Act, comes after Reuters reported that a senior U.S. official has...

08:12 AM EDT, 06/25/2025 (MT Newswires) -- (Updates with Walmart ( WMT ) spokesperson response in the third paragraph.) Walmart ( WMT ) is piloting dark stores, which look like retail stores but are closed to the public, in a bid to accelerate deliveries, Bloomberg News reported Tuesday, citing people with knowledge of the matter. The retail giant has opened...