Some of Friday’s top business news stories:
2023: The year we played with artificial intelligence — and weren’t sure what to do about it, by Matt O’Brien
Retail sales rise 0.3% in November as Americans hit gas, not brakes on shopping, travel, restaurants, by Anne D’Innocenzio
Manhattan rents post first annual drop in over 2 years, by Anna Bahney
Meta’s Threads is now available in the EU, by Clare Duffy
Pfizer Helped Save the World With Covid Vaccines. Now It Needs to Right Itself., by Jared S. Hopkins
Nelson Peltz to Nominate Himself, Former Disney CFO Jay Rasulo to Disney’s Board, by Robbie Whelan
Southwest CEO vows last year’s Christmas meltdown ‘will never happen again’, by Leslie Josephs
GM’s Cruise laying off 900 employees, or 24% of its workforce: Read the memo here, by Hayden Field and Michael Wayland
Volkswagen November deliveries up 22.6% boosted by North America and China
Costco posts upbeat first-quarter results on strong demand for cheaper groceries, by Granth Vanaik
Union, Dow Jones remain far apart on salary request
Jacksonville Biz Journal has La Plante as a reporter
Semafor tech reporter Matsakis becoming deputy news editor
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