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(Reuters) -Spanish national consumer prices rose 2.3% in the 12 months through July, final data from the National Statistics Institute (INE) showed on Friday.

OpenAI's ChatGPT will now allow users to set ‘custom instructions’ feature in a bid to allow users to have more control over the way popular chatbot responds to prompts by the users. The custom preferences feature allows users to add preferences or requirements that they would like ChatGPT to consider before generating its responses.

carbon budget, leaving countries like India with very little carbon space for the future, the government said on Thursday. Responding to a question by BJP MP CM Ramesh, Minister of State for Environment Ashwini Kumar Choubey told the Rajya Sabha that India is doing far more than its fair share to combat climate change.

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The emergence of high-level artificial intelligence (AI) technology has caused the United States and China to safeguard their resources in a race to develop the most powerful systems.

₹70 a kilo, the minister said. "In the case of these essential commodities, we are taking enough steps but more will also be taken because we are conscious that people need essentials at an affordable price," the minister assured.

Detroit automaker, Ford Motor (NYSE:F) told workers Thursday morning that the company will be postponing the market launch of its Cologne-built electric Explorer SUV. The launch was previously planned for early 2024, but according to a report by Cologne-based newspaper Kölnische Rundschau, has been pushed back due to new worldwide drive train safety rules.

In France, amendments to the existing crypto regime will come into effect in next year to align national regulations with the pan-European framework, set by Markets in Crypto Assets act (MiCA). 

Yandex, Arkady Volozh, on Thursday condemned what he described as Russia's «barbaric» invasion of Ukraine, days after criticism in Russia over his apparent efforts to distance himself from the country. Volozh described himself as a «Kazakhstan-born, Israeli tech entrepreneur» on a personal website, drawing some criticism in Russian media and on the Telegram messaging platform for apparently playing down his links to Russia. He has also been criticised by those opposed to Russia's actions for not speaking out more forcefully against the war.

European Commission will analyse the US ban on new US investment in China in sensitive technologies such as computer chips and is in close contact with the US administration, the EU executive said on Thursday. US President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed an executive order to prohibit or restrict US investments in Chinese entities in three sectors: semiconductors and microelectronics, quantum information technologies and certain artificial intelligence systems.

European Union rules that require proof that crops weren’t grown on deforested land, which producers say will add to the cost of making food. The latest example of the backlash comes from Brazil, the biggest global exporter of coffee and soybeans. Just this week, the nation’s agriculture minister, Carlos Fávaro, lashed out against the ban, casting doubt on whether it complies with the principles of the World Trade Organization. He added that Brazil is seeking to boost trade with others outside of the EU, including within the five-nation BRICS bloc that also includes Russia, India, China and South Africa. Brazil is already a steward of the environment, Fávaro said. “If Europe does not want to understand that, there are others that recognize what Brazil does,” he said. Complying with the new rules will involve implementing full traceability to complex production chains — a task that’s likely to be complicated and expensive. The requirement will apply to a wide range of products, from meat to palm oil, and that will add to agricultural costs at a time when food inflation is once again starting to pick up. Higher prices won’t just impact buyers in Europe. Since the market is so large, growers will likely need to adopt the new practices quite broadly. Consumers around the globe could end up footing the bill as producers pass on the new costs.

Average CPI over the year so far has been 0.5%, severely lagging the government’s target average inflation rate of 3%.

Covid-19 pandemic curbs late last year, China is suffering an unusual bout of falling prices for a range of goods, from commodities such as steel and coal to daily essentials and consumer products such as vegetables and home appliances. China’s economic predicament stands in contrast to that of the U.S. and other developed Western economies, where soaring inflation after the lifting of Covid restrictions sent central banks, including the Federal Reserve, on an aggressive path of interest-rate increases aimed at cooling the economy without triggering a recession.

Export rule liberalization – 78% respondents cited this as the most needed. To illustrate, while the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs issued a defining circular in September 2021 clarifying doubts on the scope of intermediary services, the benefit is yet to be fully witnessed with certain categories of exporters in the IT/ITeS and data hosting services sector still being continually questioned, resulting in prolonged litigation and the delay in refund resulting in working capital blockages.

₹2,700 crore. Mint details the features of the new convention centre, which is one of the largest in the world. • The Pragati Maidan Ccomplex with a campus area of approximately 123 acres is India’s largest MICE (meetings, incentives, conferences, and exhibitions) destination.

Gland Pharma shares surged 20% Tuesday's — the highest tradable limit of the day — to over a seven-month high after analysts upgraded their ratings on the stock citing an improvement in its core business, and prospects of new opportunities from its recent acquisition of Cenexi CMO. The «worst is over» for the company," said Jefferies, upgrading the shares to a 'buy' from 'underperform' earlier, raising the target price by nearly 54% to ₹1,640.

OMERS Ventures, the venture capital arm of the Canadian pension plan, is pulling out of Europe, marking a prominent global departure from the continent as EU technology investing dwindles.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. will build its first European chip factory with support from the German government, the latest move to make the continent less dependent on high-tech imports out of Asia. TSMC said it had approved a $3.8 billion investment in the factory in Germany, with total investments in the plant expected to exceed 10 billion euros, equivalent to $11 billion, including government support.

Maheshwari Bandari, economic research analyst at GlobalData, said some indicators highlight economic green shoots in Europe, but economic recovery is uneven.

Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday. The findings came as a big boost for Novo Nordisk with its stocks touching as high as 16.7%. The demand for Wegovy is already high in the market with the company getting a hard time keeping up with manufacturing and the new study is expected to boost demand further.

temperature of 16.95 degrees Celsius (62.51 degrees Fahrenheit) was a third of a degree Celsius (six tenths of a degree Fahrenheit) higher than the previous record set in 2019, Copernicus Climate Change Service, a division of the European Union's space programme, announced Tuesday. Normally global temperature records are broken by hundredths or a tenth of a degree, so this margin is unusual. «These records have dire consequences for both people and the planet exposed to ever more frequent and intense extreme events,» said Copernicus deputy director Samantha Burgess.