Business
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Delivery-Only Restaurants, Once Pandemic Successes, Face Uncertainty
Ghost kitchens and virtual brands became a way for idle restaurant kitchens to generate revenue. But as consumers return to in-house dining, many of those concepts are disappearing.
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Biden’s Plan B on Inflation: Turn It Against Trump
Price pressures aren’t easing fast enough to guarantee the interest-rate cuts the president hoped to see by November, so his message is evolving.
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Europe’s A.I. ‘Champion’ Sets Sights on Tech Giants in U.S.
Mistral, a French start-up considered a promising challenger to OpenAI and Google, is getting support from European leaders who want to protect the region’s culture and politics.
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Sí, los consumidores odian la ‘discriminación de precios’, pero adoran los descuentos
Lección para las marcas a partir de la debacle de Wendy’s: si quieres jugar con los precios, asegúrate de comunicar por qué y a quién puede ayudar.
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NPR in Turmoil After It Is Accused of Liberal Bias
An essay from an editor at the broadcaster has generated a firestorm of criticism about the network on social media, especially among conservatives.
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The Fried Chicken Is in New York. The Cashier Is in the Philippines.
A few New York City restaurants are experimenting with virtual staff members, who greet customers onscreen via Zoom from the Philippines.
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Riding Rage Over Israel to Online Prominence
Jackson Hinkle has cultivated an online persona so incendiary that he has been kicked off YouTube, Twitch and Instagram. He rages on undaunted, even energized. He produces a regular podcast on Rumble, a website popular with many prominent ...
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E.C.B. Holds Rates Steady as Markets Look for Hints on First Cut
It was the fifth consecutive decision by the eurozone’s central bank to leave rates untouched, as inflation closes in on the bank’s 2 percent target.
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Axios Sees A.I. Coming, and Shifts Its Strategy
“The premium for people who can tell you things you do not know will only grow in importance, and no machine will do that,” says Jim VandeHei, C.E.O. of Axios.
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Soft Landing or No Landing? Fed’s Economic Picture Gets Complicated.
Stubborn inflation and strong growth could keep the Federal Reserve wary about interest rate cuts, eager to avoid adding vim to the economy.