Industries

Industries

Elon Musk’s Boring Company Gets Bite at Major Amtrak Contract

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Elon Musk’s Boring Company has held talks with the Federal Railroad Administration about building a multi-billion dollar Amtrak tunnel.

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Healthcare

Amazon Offers Prime Members a Discount For its Posh Healthcare Service

Amazon said Wednesday it plans to offer Prime subscribers low-cost annual memberships to its boutique One Medical primary care business.

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Media & Entertainment

Disney, Warner Bros. Keep White-Knuckling the Linear TV Churn

It’s still a tumultuous time to be a major media conglomerate, Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery’s earnings reports’ show.

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Consumer

Nestlé Pours $100 Million into Food Delivery Startup Wonder Group

Nestlé is investing $100 million into Wonder Group, Marc Lore’s food-truck-turned-regular food delivery startup.

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Healthcare

UnitedHealth CEO Replaced by Predecessor as Stock Plummets

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UnitedHealth Group has called in its CEO to deal with a Medicare Advantage program that’s crunching margins.

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Media & Entertainment

Music Copyright Revenue Is Reaching a High Note

Annual global revenue generated by music copyrights has grown to $41.5 billion, the Financial Times reported.

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Consumer

Chinese Consumers Are Pulling Back on Big Western Brands

From cosmetics to apparel to tech, Western brands are seeing revenues dip in China as consumers navigate a struggling post-pandemic economy.

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Healthcare

Moderna Takes $1.3 Billion Hit From Sluggish Covid Vaccine Uptake

Moderna posted a quarterly loss of $3.63 billion, half of which was accounted for by unused Covid-19 shots past their expiration date.

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Healthcare

Trump Prescribes Deep Discounts for Big Pharma

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The Trump administration promised to drastically cut prescription drugs prices in the US, where the industry makes most of its money.

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Industrials

Sugar Shortages Loom as Supply Gets Sticky

Logistical holdups at ports in Brazil combined with poor sugar crops in other major sugar-producing nations is stretching supply of the crop.

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Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft’s AI News Poll Ticks Off UK Newspaper

The Guardian submitted a complaint to Microsoft on Tuesday after a grotesquely inappropriate AI-generated poll next to a Guardian article.

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Energy

Biden’s Ambitions for Offshore Wind Are High, Maybe Not Realistic

On Tuesday, the Biden administration approved the construction of a massive wind farm off the coast of Virginia.

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International Economics

UK-US Strike Trade Deal Affirming ‘Special Relationship’

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The UK and US announced a “historic” trade deal Thursday that does little to reduce Washington’s overall global trade war.

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