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WASHINGTON, Feb 7 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday publicly backed a proposed merger between local television station operator Nexstar Media and its smaller rival Tegna.
"We need more competition against THE ENEMY, the Fake News National TV Networks," Trump wrote in a social media post. "GET THAT DEAL DONE!"
Nexstar last year proposed a... (continue reading...)
Feb 9 (Reuters) - Waters said on Monday it expects first-quarter profit to fall below Wall Street estimates, sending shares of the lab equipment maker down nearly 12% in premarket trading as investors weighed the outlook and a revenue decline at the Becton Dickinson unit it acquired last year.
The company, however, forecast better-than-expected full-year profit, reflecting contributions from its $17.5 billion buyout of Becton Dickinson's bioscience... (continue reading...)
By Max Hunder
KYIV, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Ukraine is opening up exports of its domestically produced weapons, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said, a way for Kyiv to cash in on a wartime technological arms race against Russia to generate badly needed funds.
The four-year war has fuelled a boom in the defence sector, with industry associations estimating Ukraine has more than a thousand arms and military equipment manufacturers, most of them... (continue reading...)
LONDON, Feb 9 (Reuters) - British Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy and housing minister Steve Reed both pledged their support publicly for Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Monday, after the leader of the Scottish Labour Party called on him to resign.
There is mounting pressure on Starmer's leadership in the wake of the Mandelson-Epstein scandal, and Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar became the most senior Labour politician to oppose Starmer.
... (continue reading...)Feb 9 (Reuters) - OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told employees that the startup's artificial intelligence chatbot, ChatGPT, was back to exceeding 10% monthly growth, CNBC reported on Monday.
The startup, which has more than 800 million weekly active users, is also preparing to launch "an updated Chat model" this week, the report said, citing an internal Slack message from Altman.
OpenAI did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for... (continue reading...)
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