
Alexis Keenan Weed
Legal Reporter at Yahoo Finance
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1 month ago |
malaysia.news.yahoo.com | Alexis Keenan |Alexis Keenan Weed
President Trump and his predecessor Joe Biden now largely agree on a major question that has the potential to reshape the tech world: Google should be broken up. But there is an important difference that emerged in a filing last Friday: Trump’s Justice Department wants to let Google (GOOG, GOOGL) keep its investments in artificial intelligence. It notably has a stake in OpenAI rival Anthropic worth billions.
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1 month ago |
autos.yahoo.com | Alexis Keenan |Alexis Keenan Weed
Apple (APPL) investors voted down a proposal to scrap the company's diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, backing the tech giant's efforts to push back against a DEI retreat that is taking hold elsewhere in Silicon Valley. A majority of shareholders on Tuesday rejected the request from the National Center for Public Policy Research, a conservative think tank, that the company "abolish" its DEI efforts because the programs pose litigation, reputation, and financial risks.
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2 months ago |
autos.yahoo.com | Alexis Keenan |Alexis Keenan Weed
Elon Musk recently attempted an unsolicited takeover of OpenAI that was rejected by CEO Sam Altman and OpenAI's nonprofit board. Now the creator of ChatGPT reportedly wants to make sure that any future coups from the world's richest man — or any other investor — won't be successful.
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2 months ago |
autos.yahoo.com | Alexis Keenan |Alexis Keenan Weed
The retreat from corporate diversity programs widened this week as Citigroup (C) and PepsiCo (PEP) announced rollbacks of their DEI policies amid mounting scrutiny from a new administration in Washington, D.C.At Citigroup, CEO Jane Frasier announced in a memo to company employees that the New York banking giant would no longer require new hires to be selected from a diverse set of job applicants.
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2 months ago |
autos.yahoo.com | Alexis Keenan |Alexis Keenan Weed
February 19, 2025 at 9:42 AM·3 min readPresident Trump’s new Federal Trade Commission chairman Andrew Ferguson is keeping in place stricter Biden-era standards for policing US mergers, the latest sign that American companies won't get a free pass when it comes to big acquisitions. In a post on X Tuesday Ferguson said he informed his FTC staff that merger guidelines fashioned by the Biden administration were in effect and would serve as the "framework" for the agency’s merger-review analysis.
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