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Writers Reach Tentative Deal With Studios To End Strike After Nearly 150 Days
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Hollywood’s writers and studios have a preliminary labor agreement.
Talks between the Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers resumed last week after months of starts and stops, ultimately leading to a tentative deal that would end the ongoing writers strike.
The WGA and AMPTP are still drafting the final contract language.
“What we have won in this contract — most particularly, everything we have gained since May 2nd — is due to the willingness of this membership to exercise its power, to demonstrate its solidarity, to walk side-by-side, to endure the pain and uncertainty of the past 146 days,” the WGA negotiation committee wrote in a letter to members Sunday night. “It is the leverage generated by your strike, in concert with the extraordinary support of our union siblings, that finally brought the companies back to the table to make a deal.”
Former SEC Official Urges Criminal Charges Against Sam Bankman-Fried Parents
Stark expressed surprise that the authorities did not include Bankman-Fried’s parents as defendants in their legal actions. John Reed Stark suggested Bankman-Fried parents as individuals who might have benefited from the alleged wrongdoings of their son. He said the SEC should have brought them into the lawsuit, possibly as relief defendants. Relief defendants are typically not accused of wrongdoing but may hold assets acquired through illicit means.
Offices Remain Half Full After Latest Round Of RTO Mandates: Taking Away Hybrid Could Be A ‘Betrayal’
Since the beginning of the pandemic, corporate bosses have used Labor Day as a benchmark to call workers back to offices. And in the last year, some of the companies who first sang the praises of remote work, like Google, Meta, Amazon and even Zoom, have cracked down on office attendance, in some cases tying it to performance evaluations.
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Goldman Sachs Settles $6M SEC Penalty For Incomplete Blue Sheet Submissions
The SEC has detailed that for almost a decade, Goldman presented over 22,000 insufficient blue sheet submissions. Due to 43 varied mistakes, these submissions were devoid of or displayed incorrect transaction data for a minimum of 163 million deals. The SEC’s findings also highlighted Goldman’s insufficient systems to confirm the correctness of its electronic blue sheet data.
The Era Of America’s Subminimum Wage For Tipped Restaurant Workers May Be Ending
Until now, Michael Hornick hasn’t been a very typical restaurant owner. His 40-year old Chicago Diner is vegetarian, in a diner niche that exalts burgers and fries. He pays 75% of his staff’s health insurance premiums and a retirement-savings match. And after Covid, in a move that remains unproven but may become more common as a model within the restaurant industry, he began adding a 20% service charge to bills to revamp the way he pays his servers and other front-of-house staff.
ChatGPT Can Now Speak, Listen And Process Images, OpenAI Says
OpenAI’s ChatGPT can now “see, hear and speak,” or, at least, understand spoken words, respond with a synthetic voice and process images, the company announced Monday. The update to the chatbot — OpenAI’s biggest since the introduction of GPT-4 — allows users to opt into voice conversations on ChatGPT’s mobile app and choose from five different synthetic voices for the bot to respond with. Users will also be able to share images with ChatGPT and highlight areas of focus or analysis.
How Companies Are Embracing Generative AI For Employees…Or Not
Companies are struggling to deal with the rapid rise of generative AI, with some rushing to embrace the technology as workflow tools for employees while others shun it – at least for now. As generative artificial intelligence – the technology that underpins ChatGPT and similar tools – seeps into seemingly every corner of the internet, large corporations are grappling with whether the increased efficiency it offers outweighs possible copyright and security risks. Some companies are enacting internal bans on generative AI tools as they work to better understand the technology, and others have already begun to introduce the trendy tech to employees in their own ways.
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