Glencore courts 120 Teck investors for bid backing as spinoff vote looms -source

LONDON (Reuters) -Glencore executives have met or spoken with some 120 Teck Resources shareholders during a short visit to Toronto to try to win support for the company’s takeover bid rather than an internal overhaul, a source familiar with the situation said. Glencore made its $22.5 billion all-share offer as Teck’s own plan to spin…

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ChatGPT’s AI to power Chegg study buddy as educators wrestle with tech

By Jeffrey Dastin (Reuters) – The artificial intelligence behind ChatGPT, the homework-drafting chatbot that some schools have banned, is coming to more students via the company Chegg Inc. The U.S. educational software maker has combined its corpus of quiz answers with the chatbot’s AI model known as GPT-4 to create CheggMate, a study aide tailored…

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DeSantis escalates battle with Disney in new legislative push

By Dawn Chmielewski and Lisa Richwine (Reuters) -Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on Monday fired another shot in his battle with Walt Disney Co, saying the state’s Republican legislature would take steps to nullify the company’s effort to circumvent state oversight of Walt Disney World. DeSantis, a likely Republican presidential candidate who has made attacking “woke…

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Exclusive-Probe finds no serious misconduct by OAS chief but cites ethics violations

By Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) -An independent probe has found that the head of the Organization of American States did not engage in serious misconduct in an intimate relationship with a staffer but that he violated its ethics code by failing to exercise “good judgment,” according to the results of an investigation seen by Reuters….

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Nine more US states join federal lawsuit against Google over ad tech

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Nine states, including Michigan and Nebraska, have joined a U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit against Alphabet’s Google which alleges the search and advertising company broke antitrust law in running its digital advertising business, the department said on Monday. The states joining the lawsuit were Arizona, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Carolina,…

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