Striking Los Angeles hotel staffers return to work, more walkouts threatened

By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Thousands of Los Angeles-area hotel staffers returned to work on Wednesday from a three-day strike without a contract, but union leaders threatened further walkouts to come as they push for improved wages, benefits and working conditions. Chief among their demands are pay hikes that would allow the union’s…

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PwC Australia ties Google to tax leak scandal, sources say

By Lewis Jackson SYDNEY (Reuters) -PwC Australia provided Google confidential information about the start date of a new tax law leaked from Australian government tax briefings, according to two sources familiar with the matter. This is the first time a company has been directly linked to the national scandal involving the “big four” accounting firm…

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ChatGPT-maker OpenAI says it is doubling down on preventing AI from ‘going rogue’

By Anna Tong (Reuters) – ChatGPT’s creator OpenAI plans to invest significant resources and create a new research team that will seek to ensure its artificial intelligence remains safe for humans – eventually using AI to supervise itself, it said on Wednesday. “The vast power of superintelligence could … lead to the disempowerment of humanity…

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Amid indictments, Trump’s fundraising nearly doubled in second quarter

By Jason Lange WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s main fundraising committee raised more than $35 million during the April-June period, a campaign official said, nearly twice what the group gathered in the prior three months. The acceleration in fundraising could be a sign that Trump’s 2024 campaign coffers are benefiting from the…

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ChatGPT’s explosive growth shows first decline in traffic since launch

By Krystal Hu (Reuters) -ChatGPT, the wildly popular AI chatbot launched in November, saw monthly traffic to its website and unique visitors decline for the first time ever in June, according to analytics firm Similarweb. Worldwide desktop and mobile traffic to the ChatGPT website decreased by 9.7% in June from May, while unique visitors to…

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