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,...

(Reuters) - Australian miner Fortescue posted higher third-quarter iron ore shipments on Thursday in line with analyst expectations, as output recovered from a train derailment in the same quarter a year earlier. The iron ore producer, chaired by its billionaire founder Andrew Forrest, posted quarterly iron ore shipments of 46.1 million metric tons (mt), compared with 43.3 million mt reported...

April 29 (Reuters) - Chinese tech giant Alibaba Group ( BABA ) launched Qwen 3 on Tuesday, an upgraded version of its flagship artificial intelligence model that introduces new hybrid reasoning capabilities. The launch comes as competition in China's AI sector intensifies, spurred by the breakout success of local startup DeepSeek earlier this year, which claimed to have built high-performing...

(Reuters) -Chinese tech giant Alibaba Group ( BABA ) launched Qwen 3 on Tuesday, an upgraded version of its flagship artificial intelligence model that introduces new hybrid reasoning capabilities. The launch comes as competition in China's AI sector intensifies, spurred by the breakout success of local startup DeepSeek earlier this year, which claimed to have built high-performing models at lower...