Feb 26 (Reuters) - Ukraine launched an overnight drone attack on Russia's southern Krasnodar region, damaging several houses including in the Black Sea port of Tuapse, Russian officials said on Wednesday. In total, three residential houses were damaged throughout the region, but there were no immediate reports of injuries, Governor Veniamin Kondratyev said in a post on the Telegram messaging...

BEIJING (Reuters) -Chinese e-commerce leader Alibaba said on Wednesday its video- and image-generating artificial intelligence model Wan 2.1 is now publicly available - or open source - in a move likely to increase its uptake and intensify competition in AI. Alibaba's announcement follows similar action from startup DeepSeek whose ostensibly low-cost open-source models earlier this year generated excitement among technology...

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Australia's Lynas has the rare earths the West needs and the skills to economically produce them, CEO Amanda Lacaze said, adding that tapping existing resources was much easier than developing anew in other countries. Lacaze's comments come after sources said there had been agreement on the terms of a draft deal for Ukraine to supply critical minerals...

BEIJING, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Chinese e-commerce leader Alibaba said on Wednesday its video- and image-generating artificial intelligence model Wan 2.1 is now publicly available - or open source - in a move likely to increase its uptake and intensify competition in AI. Alibaba's announcement follows similar action from startup DeepSeek whose ostensibly low-cost open-source models earlier this year generated...