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Volkswagen Will Invest Up to $5 Billion in EV Maker Rivian

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Jack Ewing
VW and Rivian, a maker of electric trucks that has struggled to increase sales and break even, will work together on software and other technologies.

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The Volkswagen investment provides cash to Rivian, which has struggled to ramp up manufacturing of its electric pickups and sport utility vehicles.

Microsoft Teams Bundle Hit With E.U. Antitrust Charges

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Adam Satariano
The tech giant has been accused of stifling competition by packaging its video conferencing app with other tools like Word and Excel.

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Microsoft’s French headquarters outside Paris. The Microsoft case stems from the pandemic, when collaboration tools like Zoom, Slack and Teams became essential for remote workforces.

How Netflix’s Corporate Culture Has Changed

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Nicole Sperling
The company’s latest internal memo about its corporate culture is more about how it expects employees to behave than what it wants to become.

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The new memo highlights Netflix’s philosophy of “People Over Process” first: “We hire unusually responsible people who thrive on this openness and freedom.”

Japan and South Korea Are Fighting Over an App at a Tense Time

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River Akira Davis
SoftBank and Naver helped bridge geopolitical relations with a joint venture to own the operator of the messaging app Line, but now the partnership is fraying.

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Diplomats and international relations experts fear that a rift over the ownership of a Naver-SoftBank venture could again put stress on ties between Japan and South Korea.

How Pet Care Became a Big Business

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Katie Thomas
People have grown more attached to their pets — and more willing to spend money on them — turning animal medicine into a high-tech industry worth billions.

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Heather Massey of Carlton, Ga., with her dog, Lunabear. She is still paying off a bill for scans and care six years after her previous dog, Ladybird, was diagnosed with brain cancer.

These Grieving Parents Want Congress to Protect Children Online

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Cecilia Kang
A group is using the Mothers Against Drunk Driving playbook, sharing personal tragedies, to lobby for the Kids Online Safety Act.

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Kristin Bride, a member of ParentsSOS, next to an apple tree she planted after her son Carson’s suicide in 2020. The apple’s variety is Sweet Sixteen, Carson’s age when he died.

On Titan Submersible Anniversary, World Rethinks Deep Sea Exploration

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William J. Broad
A year after the first deaths of divers who ventured into the ocean’s sunless depths, an industry wrestles with new challenges for piloted submersibles and robotic explorers.

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A 2003 expedition by a piloted submersible to the wreckage of the Titanic on the sea floor, as documented in the James Cameron film “Ghosts of the Abyss.” A pair of robots are scheduled to revisit the site next month.

How the Teamsters and a Homegrown Union Plan to Take On Amazon

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Noam Scheiber
An affiliation agreement between the Amazon Labor Union and the 1.3 million-member Teamsters signals an escalation in challenging the online retailer.

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A line for a unionization vote at Amazon’s JFK8 warehouse on Staten Island in 2022. The Teamsters are ramping up efforts to organize Amazon workers nationwide.

How A.I. Is Revolutionizing Drug Development

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Steve Lohr and Spencer Lowell
In high-tech labs, workers are generating data to train A.I. algorithms to design better medicine, faster. But the transformation is just getting underway.

Chips in a container at Terray Therapeutics in Monrovia, Calif. Each of the custom-made chips has millions of minuscule wells for measuring drug screening reactions quickly and accurately.

An A.I.-Powered App Helps Readers Make Sense of Classic Texts

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Steven Kurutz
Margaret Atwood and John Banville are among the authors who have sold their voices and commentary to an app that aims to bring canonical texts to life with the latest tech.

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Along with an intellectually curious patron, the professors John Kaag, left, and Clancy Martin have started an unusual publishing venture.

Fake News Still Has a Home on Facebook

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Stuart A. Thompson
Christopher Blair, a renowned “liberal troll” who posts falsehoods to Facebook, is having a banner year despite crackdowns by Facebook and growing competition from A.I.

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Christopher Blair runs a satirical Facebook group from his home in Maine.

Tesla’s Nordic Shareholders Seek to Promote Workers’ Rights in Vote

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Melissa Eddy
Tesla mechanics in Sweden have been striking for six months with little movement from their employer. Nordic shareholders hope to change that.

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A Tesla facility in Stockholm last year. The auto maker’s shareholders will vote on a measure, inspired by a strike by Tesla workers in Sweden, urging the company to engage in collective bargaining.

Elon Musk Withdraws His Lawsuit Against OpenAI and Sam Altman

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Cade Metz
The Tesla chief executive had claimed that the A.I. start-up put profits and commercial interests ahead of benefiting humanity.

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Mr. Musk founded his own artificial intelligence company last year called xAI, and has repeatedly claimed that OpenAI was not focused enough on the dangers of the technology.
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