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,...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Woodside Energy, Australia's top natural gas producer, said on Tuesday it would seek to sell a further 20%-30% stake in its $17.5 billion Louisiana LNG project. Liz Westcott, chief operating officer for Australia, told the Macquarie Australia Conference the selldown of its holding company would to allow Woodside to achieve its 50% target. Woodside gave the final...

(Reuters) -OpenAI has agreed to buy artificial intelligence-assisted coding tool Windsurf for about $3 billion, Bloomberg News reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter. The deal has not yet closed, the report added. OpenAI and Windsurf did not immediately respond to Reuters' requests for comment. Windsurf, formerly known as Codeium, had recently been in talks with investors including...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -A U.S. lawmaker plans to introduce legislation in coming weeks to verify the location of artificial-intelligence chips like those made by Nvidia after they are sold. The effort to keep tabs on the chips, which drew bipartisan support from U.S. lawmakers, aims to address reports of widespread smuggling of Nvidia's chips into China in violation of U.S....