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Google is facing a European Union investigation into its use of publishers' online content for AI-generated search summaries like AI Overviews and AI Mode, with anticompetitive practices the primary suspicion.

Announced on Tuesday, the EU's main executive body, the European Commission, opened a formal antitrust probe into Google's practice of using online publishers' material for AI purposes — and

• PwC's global head of AI, Joe Atkinson, appeared on CNBC's Squawk Box Asia on Tuesday.
• The Big Four executive said that the pace of AI change is "overwhelming to everybody."
• But companies that move fast on AI can see three times the return per employee, Atkinson said.

Worried about how AI is affecting your job? You're not alone

• Tiger Global, the $50 billion New York-based investor, is raising its latest private fund.
• The manager is planning to raise close to $2 billion, a person close to the firm said.
• The firm is focused on making fewer bets on companies it deeply believes in, Tiger Global told potential investors.

Tiger Global'

Trump hosted the Kennedy Center Honors on Sunday, and was quick to compare his own hosting abilities with that of his least favorite host, Jimmy Kimmel — who he described as "terrible" and "horrible."

"That is very hurtful," Kimmel says in the clip. "I thought we were friends. I don't know what's going on. He is really fixated. I'm starting to think he might have a crush on me."

Kimmel goes on to

• Also, a Rivian spin-off, thinks the time is right for e-bikes.
• I rode its new $4,500 TM-B model around Manhattan. It could rip like a motorbike and give you a workout.
• The company's director of product believes in "bikes as transportation," not just toys. It shows.

Many Americans view cars as

• Amazon and Walmart are racing to see who can get stuff to shoppers' doorsteps the fastest.
• Other companies have attempted to offer ultrafast delivery in the past, with limited success.
• Business Insider retail reporters Dominick Reuter and Alex Bitter debate the push

• The Society for Human Resource Management, known as SHRM, was hit with an $11.5 million discrimination verdict on Dec. 5.
• Its CEO, Johnny C. Taylor, told employees that the ruling was a "blip." SHRM said it would appeal.
• He also told them not to talk to the press, as criticism mounted on social media.

Johnny C. Taylor, CEO of the

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Mark Rivers, the CEO of Canyon Ranch, based in Austin. It's been edited for length and clarity.

I've been the CEO of Canyon Ranch, a wellness hospitality company, since September 2023. Before that, I guided the company's new development opportunities starting in 2022.

Joining Canyon Ranch capped off over 25 years of

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