On Tuesday, at Capital Markets Day 2025, Shell PLC ( SHEL ) disclosed several strategic updates and investments. The company plans to increase shareholder distributions from 30%-40% to 40%-50% of cash flow from operations (CFFO) throughout economic cycles. In particular, the company expects to focus on share buybacks while maintaining a 4% annual progressive dividend policy. Shell plans to prioritize...

06:39 AM EDT, 03/25/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek has rolled out DeepSeek-V3-0324, an upgrade to its V3 large language model, according to a post on artificial intelligence development platform Hugging Face's website Tuesday. The announcement added that the new model has notable improvements over the previous model in several key areas, including enhanced benchmark performance, front-end...

March 25 (Reuters) - Britons could be making satellite calls using their ordinary smartphones later this year after the country's telecoms regulator proposed allocating radio frequencies to enable services to begin. Specialised equipment, such as the terminals used on ships and aircraft, is currently required to make satellite calls, although some smartphones can use low-bandwidth connections to send texts, for...

06:42 AM EDT, 03/25/2025 (MT Newswires) -- The Chilean Central Bank (BCCh) decided by unanimity to leave the policy rate steady at 5%, in line with Deutsche Bank's consensus-matching expectation. The bank read the policy statement as striking a slight hawkish tone. On the external front, the BCCh noted the substantial surge of uncertainty stemming from geopolitical developments, import tariffs...