Some of Thursday’s top business news stories:
Ready, set, travel: The holiday rush to the airports and highways is underway, by David Koenig
TikTok parent ByteDance says it’s using OpenAI technology to test its own AI models, by Laura He
Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount CEOs discuss possible merger, by Oliver Darcy, David Goldman, Liam Reilly and Jon Passantino
Billionaires Compete to Own SpaceX’s Rocket Rival, by Micah Maidenberg and Sharon Terlep
Toyota Motor to Recall 1 Million Toyota, Lexus Models Over Airbag-Related Sensor, by Sabela Ojea
Electric scooter company Bird files for bankruptcy, by Ashley Capoot
Citigroup to close global distressed-debt business as part of CEO Jane Fraser’s overhaul, by Hugh Son
Tesla skips employees’ yearly merit-based stock compensations – Bloomberg News
UK retailers report weak December sales, downbeat about January
Pensions & Investments hires Marchant as a senior reporter
Springfield Biz Journal to get new publisher, owner
Walrath departing Boston Business Journal
FT journalists demanding $80K starting salary
Smith, WSJ reporter who uncovered Enron misdeeds, dies at 68
The San Francisco Standard has hired Bloomberg News reporter Priya Anand to cover tech culture. She has…
With a portfolio of 18 newsletters and hundreds of thousands of subscribers, Reuters has a…
Kitty Donaldson, UK political editor for Bloomberg News, is leaving the news organization for a…
Melara Enterprises seeks a business journalist to join our team in developing and producing original content…
Joanna Sullivan, the editor in chief of the Baltimore Business Journal, writes about the redesign…
Fortune has won the the Best Editorial Package award in the annual Digiday Media Awards…