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It’s not just what AI says — it’s how it says it.Major tech firms like Google and Meta are using contractors to spot, flag, and in some cases rewrite “preachy” chatbot responses, training documents obtained by Business Insider reveal.Freelancers for Alignerr and Scale AI’s Outlier have been instructed to spot and remove any hint of a lecturing or nudging tone from chatbot answers, including in conversations about sensitive or controversial topics.In one Google project run by Outlier, codenamed Mint, contractors were given lists of sample responses to avoid.A preachy response was defined as one where “the model nudges/urges the user…

The UK government announced that it has reached a new partnership deal with Japan’s Sumitomo Corporation aimed at channeling major investments in clean energy and infrastructure over the next decade. Under the new partnership, Sumitomo said that it will aim to facilitate £7.5 billion (USD$10.2 billion) of investment into key UK infrastructure and clean energy projects by 2035. Investments will be focused on key offshore wind and hydrogen projects, supporting the UK’s aim to become a clean energy superpower, the government said. Hajime Mori, Managing Executive Officer and Group CEO of the Energy Transformation Business Group at Sumitomo Corporation, said: “We have…

This additional revenue is what the finance ministry may use to compensate for LPG under-recoveries.The government is likely to give a subsidy of ₹30,000-35,000 crore to state-run oil companies – Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), Bharat Petroleum (BPCL), and Hindustan Petroleum (HPCL) – to compensate for losses incurred from selling LPG at below cost over the past 15 months, according to a senior official. The finance ministry is working out the exact under-recovery or loss incurred and the mechanism to compensate it, he said.In the Union Budget for 2025-26 fiscal (April 2025 to March 2026) presented on February 1, the government…

New Delhi: India’s crude oil imports from the United States surged 51 per cent in the first half of 2025 to 271,000 barrels per day (b/d), compared with 180,000 b/d in the same period last year, data from S&P Global Commodity Insights showed. Crude shipments from Brazil rose even more sharply, growing 80 per cent year-on-year to 73,000 b/d from 41,000 b/d in H1 2024.The growth signals an increasing shift by Indian refiners towards non-OPEC sources of crude as the country looks to diversify its energy basket. “Crude supplies from the US have been rising but have been limited to…

Grid operators in Europe are facing a shortfall of 250 billion euros, or $293 billion, in investments necessary to upgrade grids in line with energy transition plans, Boston Consulting Group has said in a new report.BCG said that over the next three years, transmission system operators, or TSOs, in Europe, should invest 345 billion euro ($405 bln) over the next three years. That amount would be three times larger than investments in the five previous years. However, grid operators would only be able to generate a portion of that investment, BCG said.“Without new approaches to financing and capital efficiency, TSOs…

Senior officials from three of OPEC’s core producer nations – Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Kuwait – lined up on Wednesday to say that the super-sized addition of supply by the producer club at the weekend was needed by the global market. Oil prices eked out gains this week, a sign that the market has largely shrugged off the larger-than-expected output hike announced on Saturday by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and allies. Despite the current tightness, forecasters are pointing out that supply growth is at risk of outpacing demand later in the year. “You can see that…

OPEC has refused accreditation for Reuters, Bloomberg, the New York Times, the Financial Times, and the Wall Street Journal for its meeting in Vienna, which is taking place this week.“We believe that transparency and a free press serve readers, markets, and the public interest, and we object to this restriction on coverage,” Bloomberg quoted a Reuters spokesman as saying, adding that it had been given no explanation by OPEC for the decision to refuse it accreditation.“We are once again very disappointed that OPEC is excluding journalists, including from Bloomberg News, from its seminar,” a spokesperson for Bloomberg said. “Market transparency…

BP PLC said Wednesday it had signed a deal to divest its convenience, mobility and BP Pulse businesses in the Netherlands to local fuels distributor Catom BV. “The transaction includes around 300 bp-owned or branded retail sites – some with on-site EV charging infrastructure – as well as 15 operational bp pulse EV charging hubs, eight under development and the associated Dutch fleet business”, a joint statement said. BP Pulse is BP’s multinational electric vehicle charging business. The parties did not disclose the price of the transaction, expected to be completed by year-end subject to regulatory approvals. The assets will grow Catom’s…

Germany’s Uniper SE said Wednesday it had sold its 18.26 percent interest in AS Latvijas Gaze, which is involved in natural gas trading and sales in the Baltic neighborhood primarily in Latvia, to co-venturer Energy Investments SIA. “The sale of this non-strategic minority equity participation in AS Latvijas Gaze is part of the conditions that Uniper must fulfill under EU state aid law”, the gas and power utility said in a brief statement online. Uniper was referring to fair-competition guardrails imposed by the European Commission in approving its bailout by the German government in late 2022. Latvijas Gaze sells gas…

The oil ministry has revised its draft rules for oil and gas exploration, scrapping a provision that allowed the government to claim additional economic gains made by oil companies due to changes in law. The move accommodates an industry demand and seeks to attract foreign majors that have largely stayed away from India, where falling output and surging demand have pushed import dependence to 90% of consumption.However, the government has retained the provision that allows companies to compensate themselves – by reducing their payout to the government – if a change in law diminishes their economic benefits.In the previous draft,…