Tariffs on Chinese EVs ‘a major trap,’ says Stellantis CEO
Stellantis expects a major battle with Chinese rivals in the European market for electric vehicles, warning of significant consequences for jobs and production as a result, the group’s Chief Executive...
View ArticleA retail analyst says Target is ‘falling behind’ Walmart, Amazon, and Costco...
Target reported Q1 2024 earnings on Wednesday, revealing to investors that comparable sales fell 3.7% during the quarter, causing the company’s share price to fall before the market opened. Even so,...
View ArticleThe Scarlett Johansson deception is part of a pattern for OpenAI and Sam Altman
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman asked the actress Scarlett Johansson—who famously voiced an AI assistant in the 2013 film Her—to do the voice for ChatGPT. She said no. So OpenAI concocted a voice that sounds a...
View ArticleThe former CEOs of Merck and American Express on why executives have gone...
As protests continue to engulf college campuses across the U.S., former Merck CEO Ken Frazier and former American Express CEO Ken Chenault see the unrest as a microcosm of broader society, and a...
View ArticleNY abortion coverage law remains intact after top court rejects church lawsuit
New York’s highest court on Tuesday ruled that employers’ health insurance plans have to cover medically necessary abortions, rejecting a lawsuit by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany claiming that...
View ArticleOver 160K lawsuits later, Bayer ramps up its search for legal protections...
After failing in several U.S. states this year, global chemical manufacturer Bayer said Tuesday that it plans to amplify efforts to create a legal shield against a proliferation of lawsuits alleging...
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These bricks conduct electricity and combine to create a powerful thermal...
MEDFORD, Mass.—Inside a cinder block office building perhaps best known for the Hindu temple and table tennis club next door, a startup is testing what may be one of the hottest new developments in...
View ArticleMastercard taps AI to find compromised credit and debit card numbers faster
Mastercard said Wednesday that it expects to be able to discover that your credit or debit card number has been compromised well before it ends up in the hands of a cybercriminal.In its latest...
View ArticleWhy you should rethink return-to-office mandates
This March, four years after many businesses began to operate remotely in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Dell announced to its workforce that any employee who wants a promotion must start working...
View Article‘Used in Japan’: Rakuten and eBay to test used Japanese fashion in the U.S.
Japan’s Rakuten Group is partnering with eBay to test U.S. demand for used Japanese fashion goods, made all the cheaper with the yen trading near a 34-year low. The tie-up, which started on May 8 with...
View ArticleLet’s move fast and fix our nation
Several years ago, I caught up with a business school classmate who was a rockstar. She’d had an incredible career in the 20 years since receiving her MBA and returning home to Turkey. But at this...
View ArticleNBA livestream: How to watch the 2024 conference finals online or on a smart...
Basketball fans rejoice. The NBA conference finals began last night. The Boston Celtics beat the Indiana Pacers in overtime 133-128. Here’s what you need to know going into the rest of the finals and...
View ArticleClimate group gets $10 million gift from anonymous donor
On a Friday morning in April, Dan Stein, the founder of Giving Green, a climate philanthropy organization, found some big news in a surprising email. An anonymous donor had given his fund $10 million....
View ArticleHow AI creates fair lending
Financial inequality remains an unsolved issue. The lack of affordable housing has led to a crisis where long-term wealth generation through homeownership is impossible for many. Closing the wealth...
View ArticleGlobal energy conference pushes for universal access to clean cooking
Participants at a global conference on how to reduce the world’s energy use are calling for universal access to clean cooking through government incentives and subsidies to unlock more private sector...
View ArticleAmazon’s Alexa is reportedly getting an AI makeover—and a monthly...
Alexa was one of the forerunners of digital assistants, but with the rise of generative AI, Amazon’s one-time cultural phenomenon has become less relevant. Now, however, Amazon could be preparing to...
View ArticleTicketmaster parent Live Nation Entertainment sees its stock price fall on...
Shares of Live Nation Entertainment were down in premarket trading on Thursday after reports that the U.S. government and some states will seek to break up the live-events giant in a lawsuit that...
View ArticleWhy this Memorial Day weekend will have the most traffic in 20 years
You didn’t think summer travel would be easy, did you?Highways and airports are likely to be jammed the next few days as Americans head out for Memorial Day weekend getaways and then return home.AAA...
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Technology that saves animals
Wildlife, around the world, faces mounting existential crises: habitat destruction, climate change, and the threat of extinction. Technology is now an important part in efforts to tackle these...
View Article160,000 more student loan borrowers will get $7.7B in debt relief, thanks to...
U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced the cancellation of another $7.7 billion in student debt for 160,000 borrowers, bringing the total number of people to benefit from his debt relief push...
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