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• Blackstone is set to grant shares to workers at the businesses it buys, The Wall Street Journal reported.
• It's set to award stock to employees at Copeland, which it bought last year for $14 billion.
• Other private equity giants including KKR and Apollo also offer equity to portfolio companies' staff.

Blackstone is set to start granting

• Target's comparable sales fell 3.7% last quarter, the fourth consecutive quarter of decline.
• Improvements in e-commerce weren't enough to cover a 4.8% slide for in-store comps.
• The company is pulling out a number of stops to avoid a fifth down

• Large companies such as Bayer are seeking more real-time visibility for their global supply.
• With FourKites' AI-powered tracking systems, Bayer improved its ocean-shipment prediction quality by 48%.
• This article is part of "The Future of Supply-Chain Management," a series on companies' manufacturing and distribution strategies.

The iOS 18 update might come with an Apple Music release related to the existing Spatial Audio with Dolby Atmos feature.

According to AppleInsider, the tech giant is planning to introduce something called "Passthrough" for its music app. The details are unclear, but it's said to be related to spatial audio, an immersive type of audio mixing that plays music so that it sounds like it's coming from

• The US has long restricted Ukraine from using American weapons to strike targets inside Russia.
• Analysts and officials say this policy is interfering with Ukraine's ability to defend itself.
• But Kyiv is pushing

A Tesla owner in Ohio had a terrifying experience recently when his car tried to drive him right into a crossing train, according to multiple videos posted to the Tesla Motors Club forum. The vehicle was in Full Self-Driving (FSD) mode and allegedly, this isn’t the first time the driver has experienced a disturbing…

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We’re used to seeing Star Wars characters fight with lightsabers. But the first clip from upcoming Disney+ series The Acolyte shows us some highly skilled, absolutely relentless hand-to-hand combat. Even Master Sol (Lee Jung-jae) is confused: “You attack me without a weapon,” he says to Mae (Amandla Stenberg), his…

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Chatting it up with a fake ScarJo not doing it for you? Why not try a conversation with the leader of China? There’s a new chatbot in town and it's based on Xi Jinping. As a matter of fact, it was trained using the ‘thoughts’ of the Chinese leader. I put thoughts in quotes because researchers didn’t use some kind of new mind-reading technology. Chinese officials just used a bunch of his books and

• TikTok users are paying off each other's debts using views as a digital currency.
• The trend involves engaging with videos to boost views, acting as a new kind of crowdfunding.
• Despite some success stories, experts doubt the trend's long-term viability.

"We are paying off

• Interior designer Manuella Moreira shared home-decor mistakes she hates to see in a space.
• Boring powder rooms and blank ceilings are missed opportunities for home decor.
• Repeating too many of the same wood tones or metal finishes can make a room one-dimensional.

Decor trends come and go, but some will always be faux pas.

And

DeepL, the Cologne-based unicorn that has been rivalling machine translation giants such as Google Translate, today announced a new investment of $300mn (€277mn), reaching a $2bn valuation. Born from online dictionary Linguee, the startup was founded in 2017 by Jarek Kutylowski, who’s also serving as the company’s CEO. DeepL offers free and premium AI translation services, with a special focus on

• A trading mistake at Citigroup in 2022 has led to a $78 million fine against the bank.
• The "fat-finger" trade caused a brief flash crash in European stocks in May 2022.
• The brief flash crash caused