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While employers do have some wiggle room to adjust pay within certain situations, significant reductions without your consent can lead to complex legal challenges. May 20, 2024 • Johansson says she was approached multiple times by OpenAI to be the voice of ChatGPT, and that she declined. Then the company released a voice assistant that sounded uncannily like her. May 21, 2024 • Target joins other retailers trying to draw inflation-weary shoppers to stores.

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Lyft is not requiring workers to return to offices until at least 2023. Ms. Holmes’s trial has stretched nearly four months, with testimony from dozens of witnesses including scientists, chief executives and a four-star general. The proceedings have come to represent a defining moment for the tech industry and its culture of overly optimistic salesmanship. Futures of West Texas Intermediate, the U.S. benchmark, dropped nearly 4 percent to $68.23 a barrel.

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• I think it’s going to propel a satisfying Christmas season.” Cinemark, which, like other chains, has added wide-ranging safety protocols, said on Friday that “No Way Home” delivered the company’s biggest opening-night gross ever.

In explaining the deal, Oracle executives pointed to its voice assistant technology, as well as its cloud, as assets that should help Cerner improve its offerings. But the transition over more than a decade has been difficult, costly and time-consuming. Most doctors and nurses now use digital records, but they spend an average of one to two hours doing desk work for every hour they take seeing patients, according to a study by the Mayo Clinic that Oracle cited. Electronic health records … Read More...

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Mikhail Fridman, founder of Alfa Group, is the first Russian billionaire to challenge European sanctions and demand compensation for his frozen assets, reports Vedomosti. Moscow’s moves to take over Central Asian pipeline capacity for deliveries to China might explain unusual urgency in the Turkmen search for new customers. Salvador Anglada, CEO of e& enterprise, explores the key milestones that have driven the company’s success in the past year and outlines their vision for a transformative journey towards a smarter, more secure, and sustainable future. The ASX has hit a six-week high with the energy sector the only loser in a day of gains across the ASX.

• Mike Lynch, a tech tycoon once compared to Bill Gates, said his fraud trial was “surreal”.
• Ms. Holmes’s rise to the top echelons of the business world was covered breathlessly by the news media, as was her downfall.
• For Cerner, the deal is a striking step by its new chief executive, Dr. David Feinberg.
• On Friday, an appeals court lifted the legal block on the vaccine rule, though appeals to the ruling were immediately filed, leaving the rule’s legal status up in the air.
• About 6,000 employees at the company’s headquarters in Hawthorne, Calif., build and manufacture SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rockets and Crew Dragon capsules.

Another mission from Florida is lifted off Tuesday morning, sending a cargo capsule full of supplies and research to the space station for NASA. However, SpaceX clarified that it does not currently have 132 infected employees on site. In the digital patient record business, Cerner had another appeal for Oracle.

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Euronav NV, a major shipowner, is also keeping its ships clear, citing safety concerns. In Toronto, the S&P/TSX composite index was up 0.45 per cent at 20,620.62 on strength in energy stocks, as the price of oil moved higher. TPG will get 75 per cent ownership of two industrial parks in the suburban cities of Brampton and Vaughan, according to a statement Monday, confirming an earlier report by Bloomberg News. The seller, Oxford Properties Group, will retain a 25 per cent interest and continue to manage the assets. The five investment firms, which hold about 25 per cent of Gildan’s shares according to data compiled by Bloomberg, did not immediately respond to inquiries about Jobin’s comments. Bambee and Gusto are well-respected human resources outsourcing services.

• The US judge also concluded Ravindran’s testimony to be “not truthful” and said he either knows where the money is being hidden and won’t say or he refused to find out, the report added.
• Revenue in the quarter was up 14 percent, to $363 million, compared with the same period in 2020.

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Those two facts help explain the confusing, contradictory nature of the late-pandemic economy. On the one hand, the recovery has been remarkably swift by both historical standards and compared with what forecasters expected when the crisis began. On the other hand, a surprising surge in inflation is preventing the economy from rebounding more quickly, or feeling more normal.

The US housing market has changed dramatically since the pandemic – an issue looming over the election. A new survey has revealed a sad new reality about the Australian workplace – including one key feature stopping employees from searching for better pay. The pact could be worth more than $250 million over five years, according to a report about the deal in the Wall Street Journal, citing people familiar with the matter. Like Shopify, Intellia didn’t soar after beating expectations on both ends of the income statement two weeks ago. The good news is that it didn’t move lower on the news, even though the shares are still down 16% year to date. Wood has stakes in a few gene-editing stocks, figuring that owning a basket of its most promising players will pay off even if just one of them makes a major breakthrough.

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The Manila International Airport Authority on Monday announced that several domestic flights have been canceled due to unfavorable weather condition at destination. Canada is looking at the massive new U.S. import tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles imposed by U.S. President Joe Biden earlier this month, but is not making any commitment to following suit north of the border. After another case of H5N1 avian flu linked to dairy cows was confirmed in a second dairy farmer in the United States, some Canadian experts say the federal government needs to expand surveillance of the virus north of the border.

• With grocery bills soaring and petrol prices hitting, drivers letting their policies lapse.
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• NZ’s four major banks will soon provide open banking – a new way to pay and track funds.
• The report says there were notable slowdowns in two of Canada’s most expensive major cities for renters.
• Demand for the newest iPhone 13 juiced sales, but the company has been warning for months that computer chip shortages and pandemic-related manufacturing problems in Asia were likely to limit supply and hamper revenue.

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