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A sign of Microsoft Corp's Bing search engine is seen at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai, China September 21, 2018. Picture taken September 21, 2018. REUTERS/Stringer/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsBRUSSELS, Oct 9 (Reuters) - EU antitrust regulators are asking Microsoft's (MSFT.O) users and rivals whether Bing should comply with new tough tech rules and also whether that should be the case for Apple's (AAPL.O) iMessage, people familiar with the matter said on Monday.The European Commission in September opened investigations to assess whether Microsoft's Bing, Edge and Microsoft...

WASHINGTON, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Early in the Biden administration, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken vowed that the United States would only hold talks with China if they led to "tangible outcomes" to resolve disputes between the strategic rivals.Two-and-a-half years later, that approach appears to have changed.Since the start of the summer, the administration has embarked on a largely unreciprocated push to talk with Beijing, establishing working groups and sending three cabinet-level officials and its top climate envoy to Beijing.The strategy, intended in part to salvage a relationship that...

NEW YORK, Oct 5 (Reuters) - Sam Bankman-Fried's college roommate and ex-colleague, Gary Wang, testified on Thursday at the FTX cryptocurrency exchange founder's fraud trial that Bankman-Fried told him to give a hedge fund they co-owned special trading privileges on FTX.The special privileges granted to the hedge fund, Alameda Research, included a $65 billion line of credit, several orders of magnitude bigger than the amount other users were able to borrow, he said. Alameda had withdrawn $8 billion from FTX by the time of the exchange's bankruptcy in November 2022,...