HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's Baidu ( BIDU ) said on Sunday it has launched two new artificial intelligence models, the multimodal ERNIE 4.5 and a new reasoning-focused model called X1, as it vies to stand out in a fiercely competitive AI race. Chinese AI startup DeepSeek's roll-out of AI models which it says is on par with, or even...

HONG KONG, March 16 (Reuters) - China's Baidu ( BIDU ) said on Sunday it has launched two new artificial intelligence models, the multimodal ERNIE 4.5 and a new reasoning-focused model called X1, as it vies to stand out in a fiercely competitive AI race. Chinese AI startup DeepSeek's roll-out of AI models which it says is on par with,...

(Reuters) - -More than 1,300 Voice of America employees were placed on leave on Saturday and funding for two U.S. news services that broadcast to authoritarian regimes was terminated, one day after President Donald Trump ordered the gutting of the government-funded media outlet's parent and six other federal agencies. Michael Abramowitz, Voice of America's director, said nearly his entire staff...

NEW YORK, March 13 (Reuters) - For the first time in over a year, the U.S. stock market is in a correction. The question now is whether the slide is set to get worse. The benchmark stock index closed down more than 10% from its February 19 closing high, meeting the widely used definition of a correction. The S&P 500's...