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OpenAI Shares More Safety Incidents and Adopts New Rules for Reporting Them

The company said it hopes to inspire competitors to greater transparency as public fears about AI dangers mount.

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Exxon Is Nearing Preliminary Deal to Invest in Venezuela's Oil Fields

The company is negotiating a potential return to the Latin American country 19 years after its exit.

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Onsemi Stock Sinks as New Power Platform Fails to Impress

The Fed's Wednesday rate decision didn't help investor sentiment either.

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Lennar Cuts Deliveries Target Again on Rate Pressure, Housing Market Conditions

The homebuilding company said it expects full-year home deliveries of between 80,000 and 81,000 homes. That is down from its previous guidance for 82,000 to 83,000 deliveries, and below the 82,300 analysts polled by FactSet were expecting.

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Generac Stock Soars on Amazon Generator Deal

The backup power company disclosed a long-term deal to provide Amazon generators for its data centers.

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Harold Hamm's Continental Resources Signs Preliminary Oil Deal in Venezuela

The company, led by one of President Trump's closest allies in the U.S. oil industry, said it would explore one of Venezuela's undeveloped oil fields.

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Amazon Boosts Minimum Pay for U.S. Full-Time Core Operations Staff to $20/Hour

The $1-per-hour increase applies to the e-commerce company's front-line workers, who handle tasks like sorting, packing and transporting orders.

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Novo Nordisk Will Use Anthropic's Claude for Drug Research

The Ozempic maker is partnering with the AI firm to speed up drug development.

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Mucinex Maker Bets $400 Million More on U.S. Supply Chain

Reckitt expands a North Carolina manufacturing plant and a New Jersey campus to meet shifts in consumer demand.

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Mattel CEO Sees Growth Ahead as Shoppers Are Buying Toys Again

Mattel CEO Ynon Kreiz said the firm is "very confident" about growth this fiscal year. Hot Wheels and building sets are moving off store shelves.

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Mistral Aims to Grow AI Consumer Base Through Mozilla Partnership

Mistral said Mozilla would leverage its artificial-intelligence models to power Firefox's AI assistant, betting on a partnership with a browser provider known for its privacy and data protections to win over more users and expand its consumer base.

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BlackRock Plans to Make the Corporate 401(k) Look More Like a Pension

The investment manager aims to overhaul target-date funds with more options for employers.

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TikTok Parent's Revenue Grows as AI Spending Pressures Profits

ByteDance's artificial-intelligence spending pressured profit in the first half of the year, but the TikTok parent's revenue accelerated as a U.S. regulatory overhang cleared, people familiar with the matter said.

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Databricks Piles Investments Into Asia as Growth Accelerates

Analytics and artificial-intelligence software firm Databricks says its business in Asia is accelerating and plans to invest more in Singapore to tap regional demand.

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Apple Finally Built a Smarter Siri. It Still Hasn't Caught Up in the AI Race.

Siri finally works like a chatbot, but AI agent apps such as Instinct and Muse are stealing its thunder.

(END) Dow Jones Newswires

September 16, 2026 21:00 ET (01:00 GMT)