International Business
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Scarlett Johansson Says OpenAI Asked to Use Her Voice. Twice.
Days before OpenAI demonstrated its new, flirty voice assistant last week, the actress Scarlett Johansson said, Sam Altman, the company’s…
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Trump Media Reports Lackluster Revenues and Large Losses
On Monday, former President Donald J. Trump’s social media company reported taking in $770,000 in advertising revenue in the first…
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Renting or Buying Is Often Personal, but It’s Also Helpful to Look at the Numbers
The Upshot last week updated one of its earliest and most popular projects: the Rent or Buy calculator. Its lasting…
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Bank Regulator Overseeing ‘Toxic’ Culture Loses Key Supporter in Senate
The top Democrat on bank regulation, Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio, called on President Biden Monday to choose a new…
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Ivan F. Boesky, Rogue Trader in 1980s Wall Street Scandal, Dies at 87
Ivan F. Boesky, the brash financier who came to symbolize Wall Street greed as a central figure of the 1980s…
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James Greenfield, Globe-Trotting Reporter and Times Editor, Dies at 99
James L. Greenfield, an urbane journalist who covered postwar world affairs for Time magazine, served as a State Department official…
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Red Lobster, an American Seafood Institution, Files for Bankruptcy
Versatile and resilient, the lobster survives by molting, shedding its skin and growing into a new, bigger shell. But eventually,…
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Russia’s War Machine Revs Up as the West’s Plan to Cap Oil Revenues Sputters
The United States and its allies in the Group of 7 nations set two goals in 2022 when they enacted…
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Ex-Employees Raise Concerns About Safety at OpenAI
OpenAI’s fear factor The tech world’s collective eyebrows rose last week when Ilya Sutskever, the OpenAI co-founder who briefly led…
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Senate Inquiry Finds BMW Imported Cars Tied to Forced Labor in China
A congressional investigation found that BMW, Jaguar Land Rover and Volkswagen purchased parts that originated from a Chinese supplier flagged…
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