01:33 PM EDT, 06/23/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Microsoft ( MSFT ) said Monday it launched an on-device, task-specific small language model called Mu that powers the artificial intelligence agent recently added to the Windows settings menu for task automation. The encoder-decoder language model, available to Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel with Copilot+ PCs, is offloaded onto the neural processing...

NEW YORK (Reuters) -Visa defeated a proposed class action lawsuit on Monday by consumers who accused the world's largest card payments network of failing to warn that its prepaid Vanilla gift cards were susceptible to being drained by thieves. U.S. District Judge Gregory Woods in Manhattan said it was unreasonable for consumers to consider gift cards impervious to scams, or...

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,...

MEXICO CITY, June 23 (Reuters) - Mexican energy firm Fiemex has raised 85 billion pesos (about $4.5 billion) by placing an instrument known as a Fibra E that specializes in energy and infrastructure investments, the country's stock exchange said on Monday. The exchange said the placement was the largest of its kind on the local market in the past 13...