(Reuters) – Meta Platforms on Saturday released the latest version of its large language model (LLM) Llama, called the Llama 4 Scout and Llama 4 Maverick. Meta said Llama is a multimodal AI system. Multimodal systems are capable of processing and integrating various types of data including text, video, images and audio, and can convert...

By Jeffrey Dastin REDMOND, Washington (Reuters) – As Microsoft CEOs past and present gathered here to celebrate the company’s 50th birthday, one leader said he is targeting a particular metric’s improvement to guide his strategy on artificial intelligence. Mustafa Suleyman, chief executive of Microsoft AI, said his consumer and research division is tracking the usual...

Welcome to this week’s edition of top stock market highlights. Trump’s sweeping tariffs Trump is back once again with this favourite tool – tariffs. This time, his decision is much more widespread with a proclamation to slap a 10% tariff on most goods imported into the US. This worldwide assault will see a minimum “baseline”...

TOKYO (Reuters) – Nintendo said it is delaying the start of pre-orders for the Switch 2 gaming device in the United States as it examines the potential impact of tariffs. Pre-orders will not start on April 9 in the U.S. “in order to assess the potential impact of tariffs and evolving market conditions,” Nintendo said...

(Reuters) -U.S. pharmacy chain Rite Aid is weighing a possible repeat bankruptcy after its recent financial restructuring failed to put the drugstore chain on a sustainable path, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. The company has also been pursuing a sale of some or all of its businesses as a potential alternative to a...

By Scott Murdoch SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia’s plan to introduce dual-class share trading to help revive its weak listing market faces resistance from investors concerned the structure would give too much power to some shareholders, including founders. The Australian Securities Exchange told Reuters in March it was considering allowing dual-class listings to bring it in...

(Reuters) – Oil prices fell further in early Asian trade on Friday, and were on track for the worst week in months over U.S. President Donald Trump’s new tariffs, stoking concerns over a global trade war that could weigh on oil demand. Brent futures fell 31 cents, or 0.4%, to $69.83 a barrel by 0157...

By Kevin Buckland TOKYO (Reuters) – The U.S. dollar struggled to regain its footing with the safe-haven yen hovering near a six-month peak on Friday, as traders took stock of the fallout from President Donald Trump’s aggressive and far-reaching new tariff measures. The dollar was steady after bouncing off six-month troughs to the euro and...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Sweden’s AB Volvo will increase its investment in the truck factory it is building in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo Leon to $1 billion, Mexico’s Economy Minister Marcelo Ebrard said on Thursday. Volvo announced in August that it had chosen a site on the outskirts of the industrial hub Monterrey in...