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Elon Musk is leading an investment group offering $97.4 billion for the nonprofit that controls OpenAI, marking a new front in his war with the ChatGPT-maker, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday. "No thank you, but we will buy twitter for $9.74 billion if you want," OpenAI chief Sam Altman wrote in a post on X, formerly Twitter, apparently responding to the offer.
Trump team orders work pause at US consumer protection agency
US federal workers face another deadline Monday to accept a mass buyout from their government jobs as a judge holds a key hearing on whether the offer is legal. Federal Judge George O'Toole last week said he accepted the case and will hold a first hearing in a Boston courtroom at 2:00 pm (1900 GMT) Monday.
McDonald's reported a dip in profits Monday as it contended with lingering effects from a US food poisoning outbreak that depressed sales in its home market. Sales hit a trough soon after the late-October outbreak, but improved later in the quarter as McDonald's bolstered marketing campaigns and value promotions, executives said on an earnings conference call.
Could a sudden drop in pollution from cargo vessels criss-crossing global shipping lanes be inadvertently making the world hotter? - Why did shipping emissions drop?
Nestle's slumping share price is rattling shareholders and pension funds that have invested in the food giant, piling pressure on its new boss ahead of Thursday's annual results. In Switzerland, the NZZ daily newspaper warned that many Swiss citizens were affected given Nestle's weight in pension fund investment.
Finnish telecommunications equipment giant Nokia announced on Monday that chief executive Pekka Lundmark would step down and be replaced by Justin Hotard, the head of AI and data centres at US chip-maker Intel.
Equities were mixed in Asia on Monday after Donald Trump ramped up his trade war by announcing huge tariffs on steel and aluminium imports and warned every country would face "reciprocal" levies. He also said he would announce "reciprocal tariffs" to match his government's levies to the rates charged by other countries on US products.
Political and tech industry leaders were set to descend on Paris Monday for a two-day summit on artificial intelligence, hoping to find common ground on a technology with the potential to upset global business and society. - 'Stargate' sets the pace - In a TV interview, he trailed "109 billion euros ($113 billion) of investment in artificial intelligence in the coming years" in France.
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