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By Clare Duffy, CNN New York (CNN) — Messaging platform Telegram is making some new concessions around safety and user privacy after the arrest of its founder and CEO Pavel Durov in France last month. Durov was arrested and interviewed by French prosecutors over suspected criminal activity on the platform, including gang transactions and trafficking,

By Ramishah Maruf, CNN New York (CNN) — In 2017, adult party game Cards Against Humanity bought land on the US-Mexico border to meddle with former President Donald Trump’s border wall. Now it’s suing over that land after another controversial billionaire has allegedly moved in without permission. Chicago-based Cards Against Humanity LLC, the publisher of

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — A Pennsylvania health care system this month agreed to pay $65 million to victims of a February 2023 ransomware attack after hackers posted nude photos of cancer patients online, according to the victims’ lawyers. It’s the largest settlement of its kind in terms of per-patient compensation for victims of

By Chris Isidore and Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN New York (CNN) — Boeing announced Monday that it raised its offer to the International Association of Machinists (IAM) union as the strike against the company enters its 11th day. The new offer would give members a 30% raise over the four-year life of the contract, including an

By Chris Isidore, CNN New York (CNN) — Kmart, once one of America’s leading discount retailers, is closing its last full-size store in the mainland United States. The store, in Bridgehampton, New York, on Long Island, is due to close October 20, according to an employee who answered the phone at the store Monday morning

By Sean Lyngaas and Kyle Feldscher, CNN (CNN) — The US Commerce Department on Monday will propose a ban on the sale or import of smart vehicles that use specific Chinese or Russian technology because of national security concerns, according to US officials. A US government investigation that began in February found a range of national security

By Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — Finally, an emoji to represent us all is coming soon: An exhausted face with bags under its eyes. It’s one of eight new emoji that will appear on smartphones and computers next year, which also include a root vegetable, a harp, a leafless tree, a fingerprint, a

By Clare Duffy, CNN New York (CNN) — OpenAI has claimed that creating ChatGPT would have been impossible without using copyrighted works. LinkedIn is using user resumes to polish up its artificial intelligence model. And Snapchat says if you use a certain AI feature, it might put your face in an ad. These days, people’s

By Nadia Leigh-Hewitson, CNN (CNN) — You’ve probably experienced the frustration of being misheard or misunderstood by a smart speaker or AI assistant. For people with non-standard speech, it can happen in nearly every interaction with this kind of technology — Israeli company Voiceitt aims to change that. By using personalized voice models, its AI-powered

By Jeanne Sahadi, CNN (CNN) — No matter how much money you have, every adult faces countless financial decisions every year — how to stay afloat, prosper, prepare for the future, enjoy life and minimize hardship. It’s … a lot. So if you’re looking for help along the way, there are plenty of increasingly low-cost

By Chris Isidore, CNN New York (CNN) — One of the most painful issues dividing labor and management in the strike at Boeing is the loss of the traditional pension plan for union members in 2014. The dispute has echoes of past labor disputes at Boeing, and at other companies, where workers have lost what

Reuters (Reuters) — General Motors (GM) will begin laying off 1,695 workers at its Fairfax Assembly plant in Kansas, the company said in a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) notice earlier this week. The first of two rounds of layoffs will begin Nov. 18 and will include the temporary layoff of 686 full-time workers

By Ramishah Maruf, CNN New York (CNN) — It’s not just you. Everything is shrinking. This week, Trader Joe’s restocked the $2.99 mini tote bags that were resold for as much as $500 on eBay earlier this year. Stores prominently display travel-sized haircare, skincare and makeup products. TikToks of micro beauty bags being stuffed with

By Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — With movies hitting streaming services faster than ever and consumers cutting back on spending, moviegoers might feel a bit less enthused to head to their multiplex these days. That’s why the biggest theater chains in the United States and Canada have a $2.2 billion plan to bring

Reuters, CNN’s Chris Isidore (Reuters) — Boeing said on Friday that Ted Colbert, president and CEO of its defense, space and security unit will be leaving the company effective immediately. The planemaker said Steve Parker, the unit’s chief operating officer, will take over Colbert’s responsibilities until a replacement is named at a later date. “I’d like

By Clare Duffy, CNN New York (CNN) — The Securities and Exchange Commission intends to seek sanctions against Elon Musk over his failure to appear for testimony in an investigation related to his takeover of Twitter, now called X, the regulator said in a court filing Friday. Earlier this year, a federal judge ordered Musk

Reuters (Reuters) — A Johnson & Johnson subsidiary filed for bankruptcy for a third time on Friday as the healthcare giant seeks to advance an approximately $8 billion proposed settlement that would end tens of thousands of lawsuits alleging that the company’s baby powder and other talc products caused cancer. J&J’s Red River Talc unit

By Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN New York (CNN) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is known for providing clear signals about the central bank’s next interest rate move in order to avoid roiling markets. But Wall Street was mostly clueless this week when it came to predicting how big a rate cut the Fed would deliver on Wednesday. What made this time different?

By Krystal Hur, CNN New York (CNN) — With the Federal Reserve shifting gears and cutting interest rates by a half point, it’s time for investors, households and businesses to take a long hard look at where their money is. The Fed on Wednesday lowered interest rates, marking the first rate cut since March 2020.

By Chris Isidore, CNN (CNN) — FedEx said a weaker industrial economy produced a “challenging” quarter that caused it to trim its outlook for later this year, a sign of possible cooling in the wider economy. The company, sometimes seen as a bellwether for the US and global economies by investors, focused most of its

By Anna Chernova and Lauren Kent, CNN (CNN) — Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has accused Tesla CEO Elon Musk of “remotely disabling” his Cybertruck, which had been sent to the frontline of Russia’s war in Ukraine. Kadyrov claimed Thursday that the vehicle, which he said had been outfitted with a machine gun and was “performing well

By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN New York (CNN) — Self-service kiosks at McDonald’s and other fast-food chains have loomed as job killers since they were first rolled out 25 years ago. But nobody predicted what actually happened. In one of the earliest mentions of kiosks in fast-food settings in 1999, now-defunct trade industry publication Business Information

By Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — Three Mile Island, the site of worst nuclear disaster in the United States, is reopening and will exclusively sell the power to Microsoft as the company searches for energy sources to fuel its AI ambitions. Constellation Energy announced Friday that its Unit 1 reactor, which closed five

By Anna Cooban, CNN London (CNN) — The European Union will lend Ukraine up to €35 billion ($39 billion), providing the lion’s share of a $50 billion loan agreed by G7 nations earlier this year. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced the loan Friday in a post on X as part of her

By Samantha Delouya, CNN (CNN) — On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve cut interest rates for the first time since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, slashing its benchmark rate by half a percentage point and signaling more rate cuts by the end of the year. The housing market is one of the most interest-rate-sensitive

By Brian Stelter, CNN New York (CNN) — One of America’s most acclaimed magazine writers, Olivia Nuzzi of New York magazine, has been placed on leave while a “third-party review” is conducted after the publication said Nuzzi disclosed that she “had engaged in a personal relationship with a former subject relevant to the 2024 campaign

By Chris Lau, Marc Stewart and Martha Zhou, CNN Beijing/Hong Kong (CNN) — As a wedding photographer, Tan Mengmeng’s livelihood depends heavily on people getting married, capturing the joy and happiness of a couple’s love. But China’s marriage rate has been steadily declining and the 28-year-old, who runs a photography studio in central Henan province,

By Ramishah Maruf, CNN New York (CNN) — First, YouTube subjected viewers to longer unskippable ads. Now, not even pausing your screen will let users escape. The Google-owned platform confirmed Thursday that it has “widely rolled out Pause ads to all advertisers.” When the video is paused, an ad will pop up on the side

By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN New York (CNN) — Nike, struggling from rising competition and its own strategy mistakes, is making a major shakeup. The athletic giant announced Thursday that CEO John Donahoe will retire next month and will be replaced by Elliott Hill, a veteran former Nike executive. Nike’s stock rose 9% during after-hours trading

By Hadas Gold, CNN New York (CNN) — A group of news organizations filed an emergency petition Thursday, asking Nevada’s highest court to unseal the ongoing family succession battle playing out in a Reno courtroom that will determine the future of Rupert Murdoch’s vast media empire. Murdoch is seeking to amend the family trust that he established decades ago, giving his four oldest children equal