Bloomberg French new car registrations extended a rebound in September, after being hit by the fallout from the war in Ukraine in the first half of the year. France’s new passenger car sales rise 5.5% from a year earlier to 141,142, the PFA auto association said in a statement. That followed a pick-up in sales starting in August. Earlier ...

  Bloomberg First they came for factory jobs. Then they showed up in service industries. Now, machines are making inroads into the kind of white-collar office work once thought to be the exclusive preserve of humans. The latest wave of automation is building on advances in artificial intelligence and machine-learning that allow computers to perform tasks like speech recognition, and ...

  Bloomberg Hyundai Motor Group is contemplating building its first electric-vehicle plant several months earlier than scheduled amid disputes over a new US clean energy law, according to people familiar with the matter. The Seoul-based automaker is looking at whether it is feasible to complete construction of a US plant in Savannah, Georgia around October 2024, the people said, asking ...