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
John Hayes, a stalwart of the Financial Times’ sub-editing desk, has died at the age…
Fortune is hiring a Global News Director to oversee breaking news coverage across Europe, the…
David Szymanski, a business journalist in the Tampa Bay area dating back to the 1980s,…
Charlotte Tobitt of Press Gazette interviewed Wall Street Journal editor in chief Emma Tucker on how it can…
The New York Times, Reuters, Bloomberg and Bloomberg Businessweek received Deadline Club awards for business…
The Wall Street Journal seeks an experienced journalist to become Business, Finance & Economics Editor…