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(Reuters) – The Trump administration is likely to ban Chinese AI chatbot DeepSeek from U.S. government devices over national-security concerns, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing unnamed sources. U.S. officials are worried about DeepSeek’s handling of user data, which the company says it stores in servers located in China, the report said. Administration officials were also considering banning the chatbot from app stores and putting limits on how U.S.-based cloud service providers could … Read more…

(Reuters) – The Federal Reserve will head into its March 18-19 policy meeting with the labor market strong overall but showing some potential early signs of weakening, a development that could put the U.S. central bank in a tough spot if inflation remains high and the Trump administration’s tariffs add to price pressures. U.S. job growth picked up in February, the Labor Department reported on Friday, with employers adding 151,000 jobs. That’s well above the monthly … Read more…

(Reuters) – The U.S. House Judiciary Committee subpoenaed Alphabet on Thursday seeking its communications with former President Joe Biden’s administration about content moderation policies. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, a Republican, also asked the YouTube parent company for similar communications with companies and groups outside government, according to a copy of the subpoena seen by Reuters. The subpoena seeks communications about limits or bans on content about President Donald Trump, Tesla CEO and close … Read more…

By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON -Large swaths of the U.S. government would be forced to stop operating at midnight on March 14 if Congress does not pass detailed spending legislation that would keep agencies running.  WHY WOULD THE GOVERNMENT SHUT DOWN? Congress is supposed to allocate funding to 438 government agencies before October 1, the start of the fiscal year. But lawmakers rarely meet this deadline and routinely pass temporary spending bills to keep the government … Read more…

By Balazs Koranyi and Francesco Canepa FRANKFURT (Reuters) – The European Central Bank is set to cut interest rates again on Thursday in what is likely to be its last easy decision for a while as trade wars and rearmament drive the continent’s biggest economic policy upheaval in decades. With the outlook shifting at a faster pace than economic models can match and its policymakers increasingly split about the need for more support, the focus … Read more…