Altice France rejects joint bid for SFR from French telecoms operators

By Gianluca Lo Nostro and Mathieu Rosemain (Reuters) -Altice France, the owner of telecoms firm SFR, has rejected a bid from three French rivals, Altice CEO Arthur Dreyfuss told staff in a memo on Wednesday, dealing a blow to investor hopes for consolidation in the European telecoms market. Bouygues Telecom, Iliad’s Free and Orange said …

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US tech startup Anthropic unveils cheaper model to widen AI’s appeal

By Deepa Seetharaman (Reuters) -Artificial intelligence startup Anthropic has overhauled its smallest AI model, Haiku, as companies increasingly opt for AI systems that are nearly as capable as the most advanced tools – but come at a fraction of the cost. Anthropic said on Wednesday that the updated model, called Haiku 4.5, is about one-third …

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Italy’s antitrust regulator probes Philip Morris Italia over smoke-free products

(Changes Veed to Veev and clarifies that Zyn is not snus in paragraph 8) ROME (Reuters) -Italy’s antitrust regulator said on Wednesday it had opened an investigation into Philip Morris Italia for alleged unfair commercial practices for its smokeless tobacco products. The tobacco giant allegedly promoted them in an incorrect way, using expressions like ‘smoke-free’, …

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Optimismo sobre tasas y demanda de refugio impulsan al oro sobre 4.200 dólares

Por Anushree Mukherjee 15 oct (Reuters) -El oro extendió su alza el miércoles y superó por primera vez los 4.200 dólares la onza, en medio de expectativas de nuevos recortes de las tasas de interés en Estados Unidos, mientras que la incertidumbre económica y geopolítica también llevaba a los inversores a comprar este activo de …

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