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(Reuters) – Elon Musk’s social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, rolled out two new subscription plans on Friday, including a Premium+ tier for users willing to pay for an ad-free experience. The Premium+ plan, priced at about $16 per month, includes all the tools and features offered by the platform, minus the ads, …

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By Arriana McLymore NEW YORK (Reuters) – Generative AI will be Amazon’s secret weapon this holiday season, leveraging data from its more than 160 million Prime subscribers to improve ad targeting and allowing merchants to produce promotions quickly. Apart from fast shipping and the usual discounts for Black Friday and Cyber Monday, the company is …

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By Ahmed Aboulenein WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Most people will retain access to Pfizer’s Paxlovid and Merck’s Lagevrio COVID-19 oral antiviral treatments for little or no cost even after the U.S. government starts handing over their distribution to the commercial market next month, health officials said on Friday. The government has been overseeing distribution of the …

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By Niket Nishant, Lananh Nguyen and Nupur Anand (Reuters) -JPMorgan Chase Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon will sell some of his shares in the largest U.S. bank next year for the first time in almost 18 years at the helm, the bank said on Friday, sending the stock down more than 3%. Billionaire Dimon will …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Sundar Pichai, chief executive of Alphabet and its subsidiary Google, will testify on Monday in the once-in-a generation antitrust fight over Google’s dominance of search and some parts of search advertising. THE TAKE Pichai, who is being called as a witness for Google, will likely be asked about the company’s investments aimed …

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(Reuters) – The Australian Federation of Pilots (AFAP) said on Friday it has advised an unit of Qantas Airways it will stop work on Wednesday to Thursday next week in a bid to negotiate wages. AFAP members make up over 90 per cent of the pilot group employed by Qantas’ unit Network Aviation. The union …

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(Corrects to read Friday (not Saturday) in headline and Thursday (not Friday) in paragraph 1) (Reuters) – Striking Hollywood actors passed a comprehensive counter-offer to the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), the SAG-AFTRA actors’ union said on Thursday, in a post on social media platform X. Negotiators for the SAG-AFTRA actors’ union …

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SYDNEY (Reuters) – Nearly 350 BHP iron ore rail workers in Australia, including train drivers, have approved industrial action plans that could include work stoppages of up to 24 hours due to disputes over pay and conditions, voting results showed. The work stoppages could impact its operations at the world’s largest iron ore export hub …

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