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Apple has quietly approached major news organizations with an unusual offer. The company wants access to their latest reporting to feed an overhauled Siri. But instead of writing big checks for unrestricted rights, it proposes paying only when the assistant actually draws on that material. The talks, which began in recent months, center on multiyear

China’s courts have sent a clear signal to companies racing to adopt artificial intelligence. Replacing humans with algorithms does not give employers automatic license to terminate staff. The message emerged from a string of rulings that pit technological efficiency against job security in the world’s second-largest economy. And the decisions carry weight far beyond the

President Donald Trump signed a national security memorandum this week that clears vetted U.S. private companies to conduct offensive cyber operations against foreign criminal networks. The five-section document, released Wednesday night, marks a sharp break from long-standing policy that barred businesses from launching their own digital attacks. Transnational criminal organizations pose a growing threat. They

STOCKHOLM — After 1,021 days, the picket lines are coming down. Sweden’s IF Metall union announced this week it will suspend all industrial action against Tesla effective August 19. The reason? The carmaker bought out every last union member on strike. One by one. Until none remained. A simple arithmetic ended what had become modern

Arthur Mensch has a problem. The Mistral AI chief executive wants to train and run ever-larger models. Yet the infrastructure needed to do so at scale remains scarce in Europe. Power. Land. Chips. Grid connections. All of it. So Mistral took an unusual step this month. It asked five major European companies to pay now

Reddit’s ascent toward potential inclusion in the S&P 500 has captured investor attention as the social media platform’s parent company, now publicly traded under the ticker RDDT, edges closer to meeting the stringent criteria maintained by index provider S&P Dow Jones Indices. The possibility surfaced prominently after a report from The Next Web highlighted how

United Airlines chief executive Scott Kirby carries a simple but powerful philosophy that shapes how he leads one of the world’s largest carriers and how he advises young professionals entering the workforce. That philosophy, rooted in his early days as an Air Force pilot, boils down to a straightforward rule: no excuses. The mantra emerged

American households grew markedly more pessimistic this month. The University of Michigan’s preliminary index of consumer sentiment dropped to 51 in early August from 55.2 in July. That fall surprised economists who had forecast a reading near 55. And it marked the first decline in three months. The numbers come at a delicate moment. Inflation

Jeff Dean spent nearly three decades inside Google. He shaped the company’s search engine, built foundational systems for its advertising empire and steered its artificial intelligence efforts through the rise of deep learning. On August 5, he walked away. Along with three longtime collaborators, Dean launched Discovery Loop, a startup that wants to turn AI

Robert Brownstein once built software for Boston Dynamics robots. Now he runs a 10-person studio called Gnarled Helix. His latest project started as an idea mixing chess with resource management from the factory game Satisfactory. Thanks to large language models and careful human oversight, his team turned that concept into a working prototype in days.