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Jan 21, 2025 | 
ca.marketscreener.com | Matthew Lewis
, (Reuters) - Garth Hudson, the organist and multi-instrumentalist whose wizardry enhanced some of the best-known songs of 1960s and '70s rock group the Band including "Up on Cripple Creek," "Chest Fever" and "Ophelia," died on Tuesday at age 87, according to the Canadian Press, which cited his friend Jan Haust. Hudson, a Canadian who died in Woodstock, New York, where he has lived for years, was hailed as one of the greatest keyboardists in rock music.
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Feb 11, 2024 | 
medium.com | Matthew Lewis
Generative Artificial Intelligence is the most important, but also, the most democratic, of innovations humanity has ever invented. You heard it here first.
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Dec 4, 2023 | 
newsbeezer.com | Matthew Lewis
Business0 Views STOCKHOLM, Dec 4 (Reuters) – AT&T (TN) said on Monday it has chosen Ericsson (ERICb.ST) to build a telecommunications network using only so-called ORAN technology and transfer 70% of its wireless data traffic to the United States will cover by the end of 2026, marking a milestone for the new technology.
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Nov 21, 2023 | 
kitco.com | Matthew Lewis
OTTAWA, Nov 21 (Reuters) - Canada Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland on Tuesday is set to deliver a midyear fiscal update that will show widening deficits and weak economic growth and include targeted spending to boost housing supply.
With interest rates at a two-decade high and inflation still elevated, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberal government is under pressure to curb spending, which the central bank warned is stoking inflationary pressures.
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Nov 15, 2023 | 
today.westlaw.com | Svea Herbst Bayliss |Makiko Yamazaki |Edwina Gibbs |Matthew Lewis
NEW YORK (Reuters) -ValueAct Capital Management has bought stakes in job-search site Indeed's parent Recruit Holdings and in online travel services provider Expedia Group and believes both are poised for strong growth.
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Nov 14, 2023 | 
today.westlaw.com | Nate Raymond |Chizu Nomiyama |Jonathan Stempel |Matthew Lewis
(Reuters) - A federal judge on Tuesday rejected efforts by major social media companies to dismiss nationwide litigation accusing them of illegally enticing and then addicting millions of children to their platforms, damaging their mental health.
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Nov 14, 2023 | 
today.westlaw.com | Katy Daigle |Matthew Lewis |Timothy Gardner
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Climate change harms Americans physically, mentally and financially, often hitting those who have done the least to cause it, including Black people facing floods in the South and minorities enduring searing heat in cities, a...
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Nov 9, 2023 | 
visiontimes.com | Mike Stone |Matthew Lewis
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Army needs Congress to approve $3.1 billion to buy 155 mm artillery rounds and expand production to quickly replace stocks depleted by shipments to Ukraine and now Israel, an Army official said on Tuesday, Nov. 7. The U.S. and allies have sent more than 2 million rounds of 155 mm ammunition to Ukraine in support of its effort to repel Russia’s invasion more than 600 days ago. The U.S. has also sent the shells to Israel as it fights Hamas.
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Nov 6, 2023 | 
dailystarnewstoday.com | Katie Paul |Matthew Lewis
NEW YORK, Nov 6 (Reuters) – Facebook owner Meta (META.O) is barring political campaigns and advertisers in other regulated industries from using its new generative AI advertising products, a company spokesperson said on Monday, denying access to tools that lawmakers have warned could turbo-charge the spread of election misinformation. Meta publicly disclosed the decision in updates posted to its help center on Monday night, following publication of this story.
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Oct 24, 2023 | 
kitco.com | Svea Herbst Bayliss |Matthew Lewis
NEW YORK, Oct 24 (Reuters) - Investment bank and capital markets firm Jefferies (JEF.N) has hired industrial banker Francis Tucci from Citigroup (C.N) for a senior role, according to sources familiar with the move.
Tucci will join Jefferies as chairman, industrials, and will report to Peter Bowden, global head of industrial, energy and infrastructure investment banking. The position is a new one. Tucci, who will be based in New York, will start early next year, the sources said.
