(Reuters) - The European Patent Office (EPA) received a record number of patent applications last year, with the biggest share of fillings coming from the United States, Germany, Japan and China, the office's register showed on Tuesday. The office said it received 199,275 applications in 2023, 2.9% more than a year ago. China's Huawei filled the largest number of applications...

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HOUSTON (Reuters) - The U.S. must improve its mine permitting process if it hopes to boost domestic supplies of critical minerals to power the clean energy transition, the CEO of copper giant Freeport-McMoRan ( FCX ) said on Monday. The U.S. government needs to stop giving lip service to permitting, Richard Adkerson told Reuters on the sidelines of the CERAWeek...

SAN FRANCISCO, March 18 (Reuters) - Nvidia ( NVDA ) on Monday announced a hardware and software platform for building human-like robots that includes generative artificial intelligence features. The new platform will consist of a computer system that will power the robot and AI, plus a package of software including genAI and other tools in order to build robots that...