By Chris Kirkham, Hyunjoo Jin and Abhirup Roy
(Reuters) - The day before Elon Musk fired virtually all of Tesla’s electric-vehicle charging division last month, they had high hopes as charging chief Rebecca Tinucci went to meet with Musk about the network’s future, four former charging-network staffers told Reuters.
After Tinucci had cut between 15% and 20% of staffers two weeks earlier, part of much wider layoffs, they believed Musk... (continue reading...)
By Karen Freifeld
(Reuters) - U.S. legislation that would restrict business with China's BGI, WuXi AppTec and certain other biotech companies on national security grounds will be voted on by a committee in the House of Representatives on Wednesday.
If approved by the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, the Biosecure Act would still need to be voted on by the full House and Senate before the president could sign it into law.... (continue reading...)
A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan
Markets seem to have got bored waiting for today's big U.S. inflation print and stocks zoomed to new records in advance, taking slivers of comfort from Tuesday's producer price readout and a relatively relaxed Federal Reserve chairman.
A late rally on Wall St saw the tech-heavy Nasdaq notch a record closing high on Tuesday, triggering a domino effect across the world today.
... (continue reading...)By Rachael Levy
(Reuters) - Neuralink's disclosure last week that tiny wires inside the brain of its first patient had pulled out of position is an issue the Elon Musk company has known about for years, according to five people familiar with the matter.
The company knew from animal testing it had conducted ahead of its U.S. approval last year that the wires might retract, removing with them the sensitive electrodes that decode brain... (continue reading...)
ZURICH (Reuters) - A Swiss federal court on Wednesday found a former government minister from Gambia guilty of crimes against humanity under former dictator Yahya Jammeh, according to a Geneva non-governmental organisation providing support for the plaintiffs.
Reed Brody, a war crimes prosecutor attending the trial, said Ousman Sonko was convicted of intentional homicide, torture and false imprisonment and acquitted for rape.
The ruling,... (continue reading...)
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