HOUSTON (Reuters) -Chevron on Tuesday said recent testing indicates that zinc levels in flagship U.S. offshore crude Mars' production stream were now within expected levels.  The start-up of an offshore well caused zinc contamination in Mars crude, Chevron had said earlier this month, leading to  tightening crude oil supply in the key Gulf Coast refining hub and the government releasing...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The White House released an artificial intelligence (AI) policy plan on Wednesday spelling out priorities for the U.S. to achieve global dominance in the sector. U.S. President Donald Trump's plan calls for open-source and open-weight AI models to be made freely available by developers for anyone in the world to download and modify. The plan also calls for...

10:50 AM EDT, 07/23/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Thermo Fisher Scientific ( TMO ) raised its full-year guidance as the medical-device manufacturer's second-quarter results surpassed Wall Street's estimates, while the company named a new chief financial officer. The company now anticipates reporting adjusted per-share earnings of $22.22 to $22.84, reflecting a $0.23 increase at the midpoint from the prior outlook, Chief...

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,...