WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The head of a House of Representatives panel on China told U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick that resuming sales of Nvidia's H20 chips to China threatens to advance Beijing's AI capability, stepping up his criticism of the decision and saying the original ban was the right call. Republican Representative John Moolenaar, in a letter to Lutnick on Friday,...

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,...

July 20 (Reuters) - Alaska Airlines has requested a ground stop for all its mainline aircraft, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration status page said on Sunday. The reason for the request was not immediately clear. ...

MELBOURNE, July 21 (Reuters) - BHP Group ( BHP ) has opted to sell its interest in the $2.5 billion Kabanga nickel project in Tanzania to its partner Lifezone Metals ( LZM ) for as much as $83 million, Lifezone said. The NYSE-listed company will acquire BHP's 17% equity interest in Kabanga Nickel Limited (KNL), the majority owner of the...