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,...

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* Kenya, Barbados, Benin, Somalia also back plan * Announced at major UN development conference * Aim is to 'foster international solidarity', Spanish PM says By David Latona and Simon Jessop SEVILLE, Spain June 30 (Reuters) - A group of countries including France, Kenya, Spain and Barbados pledged on Monday to tax premium-class flying and private jets in a bid...

01:54 PM EDT, 06/30/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Meta Platforms ( META ) Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said the company is reorganizing its artificial intelligence group with a focus on developing AI superintelligence, referring to systems that can perform tasks as well as or better than humans, Bloomberg reported Monday, citing an internal memo. The new unit, called Meta Superintelligence Labs,...