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,...

SANTIAGO (Reuters) -Chilean lithium miner SQM has begun laying off workers in its Chilean operations, according to a union memo to workers seen by Reuters on Wednesday. A union source said the dismissals would amount to 5% of its workforce nationwide. SQM employs 8,344 people in Chile and elsewhere, with three-quarters working at the northern Chile operations where it extracts...

(Reuters) -Microsoft has been hit with a lawsuit by a group of authors who claim the company used their books without permission to train its Megatron artificial intelligence model. Kai Bird, Jia Tolentino, Daniel Okrent and several others alleged that Microsoft used pirated digital versions of their books to teach its AI to respond to human prompts. Their lawsuit, filed...

12:01 PM EDT, 06/25/2025 (MT Newswires) -- John Sheldon Peters, Chief Insurance Officer, on June 23, 2025, sold 6,543 shares in Lemonade (LMND) for $294,435. Following the Form 4 filing with the SEC, Peters has control over a total of 106,115 common shares of the company, with 106,115 shares held directly. SEC Filing: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1691421/000169142125000099/xslF345X05/wk-form4_1750866966.xml Price: 42.20, Change: -2.74, Percent Change:...