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Apr- 2023 -27 April
Central Banker to Britons: You’re Worse Off. Accept It.
In the podcast, Mr. Pill was asked to untangle how much current inflationary pressures were transitory or durable. Britain had…
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27 April
Tweets Become Harder to Believe as Labels Change Meaning
In the 24 hours after Twitter last week eliminated the blue check mark that historically served as a means of…
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27 April
China’s Search Engines Have More Than 66,000 Rules Controlling Content, Report Says
China’s internet censorship is well known, but a report has quantified the extent of it, uncovering more than 66,000 rules…
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27 April
When Megamergers Fall Apart
British antitrust regulators on Wednesday blocked Microsoft’s $69 billion bid to buy the gaming giant Activision Blizzard, threatening to kill…
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27 April
Watch an A.I. Learn to Write by Reading Nothing but Jane Austen
The core of an artificial intelligence program like ChatGPT is something called a large language model: an algorithm that mimics…
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27 April
U.S. Consulting Firm Is the Latest Target of a Chinese Crackdown
In the latest official scrutiny of a prominent American business in China, the authorities visited the Shanghai offices of the…
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27 April
Ad Flap Leaves Bitter Aftertaste for Bud Light and Warning for Big Business
When she was named Anheuser-Busch’s marketing vice president, Alissa Heinerscheid explained in a recent podcast interview, “I had this super…
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27 April
British American Tobacco Is Fined $635 Million for Selling Cigarettes to North Korea
British American Tobacco has agreed to pay more than $635 million as a penalty for selling cigarettes to North Korea…
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27 April
The U.K. Deals a Huge Blow to Microsoft’s $69 Billion Activision Bid
Microsoft’s video-game bet suffers a huge blow Britain’s mergers regulator on Wednesday blocked Microsoft’s $69 billion takeover bid for Activision…
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26 April
Kaiser Permanente to Acquire Geisinger
What’s Next: Regulatory Review Federal and state regulators must approve the deal. While Mr. Adams did not say what other…
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