03:13 PM EDT, 08/25/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Microsoft ( MSFT )-backed (MSFT) OpenAI's President Greg Brockman is supporting the launch of a $100 million political action committee to influence US artificial intelligence regulations, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday, citing the initiative's leaders. The initiative, called Leading the Future, is backed by venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and other tech...

(Reuters) -The Trump administration's order to halt work on a major wind farm under construction off the coast of Rhode Island threatens grid reliability and jobs, energy and labor officials said on Monday. ISO New England, which operates the grid in six states, and North America's Building Trades Unions made those criticisms in statements after President Donald Trump's Interior Department...

WASHINGTON, Aug 25 (Reuters) - The U.S. Commerce Department said on Monday that one of its agencies will take over operational responsibility to oversee $7.4 billion in semiconductor research funds, saying that the private non-profit established under the Biden administration to handle that function served as a semiconductor slush fund. The National Institute of Standards and Technology will assume operational...

Aug 25 (Reuters) - Kraft, Mondelez ( MDLZ ), Coca-Cola and several other major food companies have beaten a lawsuit accusing them of designing ultra-processed foods to be addictive to children, causing chronic disease, after a Pennsylvania federal judge dismissed the lawsuit, which was seen by legal experts to be a key test case of the claims. (Reporting by Diana...