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Canadian Retailer Couche-Tard Abandons Its $47 Billion Bid to Buy 7-Eleven

Alimentation Couche-Tard’s $47 billion bid spurred changes at the chain’s Japanese owner. Now, the question is whether that momentum will carry forward.

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A 7-Eleven store in Tokyo. The battle for control of the chain has been closely watched as a barometer of the changes underway in corporate Japan.
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Trump Says Coca-Cola Agreed to Use Cane Sugar in Coke Made in U.S.

The company began using corn syrup in Coke in 1980, blending it with sugar to help defray the cost of rising sugar prices.

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A spokeswoman for Coca-Cola would not confirm or deny whether the company had agreed to begin using cane sugar in Coke.
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Largest piece of Mars on Earth fetches US$5.3 million at auction, but young dinosaur steals the show

The largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth was sold for just over $5 million at an auction of rare geological and archaeological objects in New York on Wednesday. But a rare young dinosaur skeleton stole the show when it fetched more than $30 million in a bidding frenzy. (All figures are in US dollars.) Read More
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Meta argues its AI needs personal information from social media posts to learn ‘Australian concepts’

Tech giant says posts from Australian Facebook and Instagram users are ‘vital learning’ about ‘concepts, realities, and figures’

Meta has urged the Australian government not to make privacy law changes that would prevent the company using personal information taken from Facebook and Instagram posts to train its AI, arguing the AI needs to learn “how individuals discuss Australian concepts”.

In a submission to the Productivity Commission’s review on harnessing data and digital technology, published this week, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp argued for a “global policy alignment” in the Albanese government’s pursuit of privacy reform in the AI age.

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© Photograph: Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock

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