MANCHESTER, England, Dec 8 (Reuters) - Dan Ashworth has left his role as sporting director at Manchester United ( MANU ) after five months in the job by mutual agreement, the Premier League club said on Sunday. The 53-year-old was recruited from Newcastle United and arrived in July to much fanfare the decision was made to part ways after a...

(Reuters) -The U.S. government has approved the export of advanced artificial intelligence chips to a Microsoft-operated facility in the United Arab Emirates as part of the company's highly-scrutinized partnership with Emirati AI firm G42, Axios reported on Saturday, citing two people familiar with the deal. Microsoft invested $1.5 billion in G42 earlier this year, giving the U.S. company a minority...

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By Kanjyik Ghosh (Reuters) -The president and financial chief of China's Ant Group, Cyril Han, will take over from Eric Jing as chief executive from March 1, showed an internal memo seen by Reuters which was confirmed by a spokesperson. Han will continue to report to Jing who will remain as chairman, the memo showed. Han became president in March...