LONDON, May 22 (Reuters) - Seven-times Grand Slam champion Venus Williams and Australian soccer player Mary Fowler are among nine athletes to get a Barbie doll in their likeness as toy maker Mattel ( MAT ) seeks to shine a light on women sports role models ahead of the Paris Olympics. Mattel ( MAT ) unveiled the dolls on Wednesday,...

May 22 (Reuters) - Following are the top stories in the Wall Street Journal. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy. - Investment giant Blackstone will grant equity to most employees at its large U.S. buyouts. - Lululemon Athletica ( LULU ) on Tuesday said it was implementing a new integrated design structure and...

BEIJING, May 22 (Reuters) - Artificial intelligence (AI) firm iFlytek on Wednesday entered a brewing price war between some of China's biggest tech companies, after it made some versions of its Spark large-language model (LLM) free or five times cheaper than similar products from competitors. The move comes a day after Chinese tech giants Alibaba ( BABA ) and Baidu...

ROME (Reuters) - G7 finance chiefs meeting in Italy this week will attempt to find common ground over how to use frozen Russian assets to help Ukraine's war effort and how to address China's growing export strength in key markets, officials said. Finance ministers and central bankers from the Group of Seven wealthy democracies - the United States, Japan, Germany,...