June 25 (Reuters) - Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has hired three OpenAI researchers to join his superintelligence team, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, days after OpenAI CEO Sam Altman accused the Facebook owner of trying to poach its employees. An OpenAI spokesperson confirmed the departure of the three employees from the company, without giving further details. Meta did...

June 25 (Reuters) - Oscar-nominated Denis Villeneuve will direct the next James Bond film, Amazon's ( AMZN ) MGM Studios said on Wednesday, taking charge of one of Hollywood's most enigmatic spies and longest-running movie series. Villeneuve, the Canadian film director and writer, has earned critical acclaim for films such as Sicario, Dune, Dune: Part Two, Blade Runner 2049, and...

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,...

NAIROBI (Reuters) -China's practice of securing its loans to low-income nations through commodity revenue streams and cash held in restricted escrow accounts is curbing their ability to manage their finances effectively, a study published on Thursday showed. China has lent hundreds of billions of dollars for infrastructure and projects in developing countries, but has been criticised for using earnings of...