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,...

* Kerrville, on flooded river, accounts for most fatalities * At least 28 children among dead; 10 summer campers still missing * State public safety chief predicts death toll will climb higher * Trump disputes notion that job cuts contributed to disaster By Sergio Flores and Evan Garcia KERRVILLE, Texas, July 7 (Reuters) - Search teams plodded through mud-laden riverbanks...

BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) -Huawei's artificial intelligence research division has rejected claims that a version of its Pangu Pro large language model has copied elements from an Alibaba model, saying that it was independently developed and trained. The division, called Noah Ark Lab, issued the statement on Saturday, a day after an entity called HonestAGI posted an English-language paper on code-sharing platform...

(Reuters) -Australia's TPG Telecom said on Monday that Macquarie-backed Vocus Group has secured the final approval for its A$5.25 billion ($3.42 billion) acquisition of TPG's enterprise, government and wholesale fixed-line and fibre assets. The deal, first announced in 2024, received approval from Australia's competition regulator in March, positioning Vocus as one of the country's largest owners of underground fibre infrastructure....