June 27 (Reuters) - Tesla has hired former Cruise executive, Henry Kuang, as the automaker's AI director, according to a report by news website Electrek on Thursday, as the company looks to expand robotaxi operations in the United States. Kuang was the head of autonomy at General Motors' ( GM ) self-driving unit, Cruise, till last year, according to his...

* Spielberg open to AI for budgeting, planning tasks * The director's films have yet to use AI technology * 'I don't want AI making creative decisions,' director says By Dawn Chmielewski LOS ANGELES, June 27 (Reuters) - When Steven Spielberg directed the film A.I. Artificial Intelligence, the technology was the stuff of science fiction -- a device to tell...

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,...

11:30 AM EDT, 06/27/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Tyson Foods ( TSN ) union workers at a beef processing plant in Amarillo, Texas, voted to authorize a strike for higher wages and improved benefits. This facility is essential to the beef supply chain, Al Brito, Teamsters Local 577 president, said Friday in a statement. The union has filed a number of...