(Reuters) -OpenAI launched an artificial intelligence agent for its popular chatbot ChatGPT on Thursday that can complete complex tasks as the Microsoft-backed startup looks to get ahead of competitors in the AI race. AI agents - considered to be an evolution of an assistant - have been embraced across the tech world with large firms, including Microsoft, Salesforce and Oracle,...

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* Mark Johnson led an HSBC foreign exchange desk * Johnson accused of front-running' Cairn Energy trade * Fraud theories underlying conviction invalid or weak * US Attorney's office in Brooklyn declined to comment By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK, July 17 (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Thursday voided the 2017 fraud conviction of a former HSBC executive who...

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,...