Bloomberg Three years ago, artificial intelligence company DeepMind embarked on a landmark effort to transform health care in the UK. Now plans by owner Alphabet Inc to wrap the partnership into its Google search engine business are tripping alarm bells about privacy. Data protection advocates cried foul when the company reversed course on a pledge to keep DeepMind Health, which ...

Bloomberg PG&E Corp rose after a California lawmaker requested a bill to help the state’s largest utility absorb liabilities from this year’s fatal wildfires. Kellie Smith, an adviser to assemblyman Chris Holden, said she is drafting legislation that could be introduced as early as December 3. It may serve as a framework for lawmakers to consider relief for PG&E from ...

Bloomberg European Union negotiators approved the first bloc-wide rules to prevent foreign investments from threatening national security in a sign of growing political unease over Chinese acquisitions. Representatives of EU governments and the European Parliament agreed on draft legislation to screen foreign direct investments (FDI). The deal in Brussels ends 14 months of deliberations over an initiative that for years ...