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FLORENCE, Italy (Reuters) - American Amanda Knox will be back in court in Italy on Wednesday as she tries to overturn a conviction for slander, the last outstanding case against her following the notorious killing of a British student in 2007.

"I hope to clear my name once and for all of the false charges against me," Knox said this week on X.

Italy's top court in 2015 annulled Knox's conviction for the murder of her British flatmate... (continue reading...)

By Fanny Potkin

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Some Chinese AI chip companies are now designing less powerful processors to retain access to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) production in the face of U.S. sanctions, four people with knowledge of the matter said.

Aiming to impede breakthroughs in artificial intelligence and supercomputing by China's military, Washington has imposed a series of export controls on highly sophisticated... (continue reading...)

By Liliana Salgado and Ted Hesson

PHOENIX (Reuters) - Arizona voters will be able to decide in the Nov. 5 election if they support or reject a Republican-led measure that would make it a crime to cross the state border from Mexico and allow state judges to order deportations.

Arizona's Republican-led House of Representatives voted along party lines 31-29 on Tuesday to add a ballot measure that will pose to voters whether the state should... (continue reading...)

By Dietrich Knauth

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Pennsylvania judge on Tuesday slashed a $2.25 billion U.S. verdict against Bayer to $400 million for a Pennsylvania man who said he developed cancer from exposure to the company's Roundup weedkiller.

A jury in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas found that John McKivison's non-Hodgkins lymphoma was the result of using Roundup for yard work at his house for several years, and it ordered Bayer... (continue reading...)

By Timothy Gardner, Valerie Volcovici and Leah Douglas

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden's administration is asking big technology companies to invest in new climate-friendly power generation to cover their surging demand, U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm told Reuters.

The talks come as a surprising surge in electricity demand has been driven by the adoption of technologies like generative artificial intelligence that... (continue reading...)