(Reuters) -Binance executives met U.S. Treasury officials last month and discussed loosening government oversight of the company, while exploring a business deal with President Donald Trump’s crypto venture, World Liberty Financial, the Wall Street Journal said. Executives of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange asked Treasury officials to remove a U.S. monitor overseeing its compliance with...

By Kenrick Cai and Krystal Hu SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Alphabet and Nvidia have joined prominent venture capital investors to back Safe Superintelligence (SSI), a startup co-founded by OpenAI’s former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever that has quickly risen to become one of the most valuable artificial intelligence startups months after its launch, a source familiar...

By Anna Tong SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A dozen former OpenAI employees filed a legal brief on Friday backing co-founder Elon Musk’s lawsuit aimed at keeping the non-profit status of OpenAI, marking the latest development in the dispute over the future of the artificial intelligence firm. Corporate leaders want to give investors control, drawing a...

Welcome to this week’s edition of top stock market highlights. Vietnam trade talks President Trump has, at the eleventh hour, delayed imposing what it calls a reciprocal tariff on a long list of countries. Vietnam, in particular, was hit hard by a 46% tariff as the US announced a trade blitz last week. Both Vietnam...

(Reuters) – Meta Platforms will add former Republican official Dina Powell McCormick and fintech firm Stripe’s CEO Patrick Collison to its board, effective April 15, the social media company said on Friday. The Facebook parent said in a regulatory filing that it is increasing the size of its board to 15 members. Powell McCormick, who...

By Ankur Banerjee SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Global stocks slumped and the dollar sank further on Friday, while a manic bond selloff took hold in a brutal end to the week of tit-for-tat worldwide tariffs that have fed fears of a deep recession and shaken investor confidence in U.S. assets. The anxiety has sparked a rush...

(Reuters) – Tesla on Thursday said it has launched a new version of Cybertruck in the United States, priced at $69,990. The new Cybertruck long-range variant is the cheapest among the three models it currently has in the U.S., Tesla’s website shows. (Reporting by Nilutpal Timsina in Bengaluru; Editing by Mrigank Dhaniwala) ,,,

BEIJING (Reuters) -China, Japan and South Korea finance and central bank officials met and discussed the impact of U.S. tariffs on the global and regional macroeconomic situation, China’s central bank said on Friday. The People’s Bank of China Deputy Governor Xuan Changneng was at the regular ASEAN and China, Japan and South Korea finance and...

(Reuters) – Oil prices fell on Friday and were set to drop for a second week on concerns prolonged trade war between the United States and China, the world’s largest economies, will crush crude consumption as their dispute curtails economic growth. Brent futures fell 31 cents, 0.5%, to $63.02 a barrel by 0153 GMT, while...

By Miho Uranaka and Sam Nussey TOKYO (Reuters) – Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has priced a 6-tranche yen denominated bond totalling 90 billion yen ($626.70 million), according to a term sheet reviewed by Reuters. The sale comes as debt deals are being shelved because of the fallout from U.S President Donald Trump’s tariffs, which investors...