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[ad_1] Google lost a bid to dismiss a lawsuit by an engineer who claims he was fired for challenging a paper the company published that touted the ability of artificial intelligence to speed the design of computer chips.In a tentative ruling Wednesday, a California state judge rejected the Alphabet Inc. unit's request to throw out Satrajit Chatterjee's wrongful termination and whistleblower protection claims. Chatterjee is at least the third researcher to be ousted by Google after butting heads with the company over the use of AI. Before Chatterjee was fired in March 2022, he was a senior engineering manager whose responsibilities included evaluating a chip design initiative called Project Morpheus. His dispute with Google followed its publication of a scientific paper in the journal Na...

[ad_1] Elon Musk's refusal to pay Twitter's rent contributed to the surge in commercial real estate loan delinquencies that Goldman Sachs Group Inc. faced in the first quarter, the Financial Times reported.Twitter stopped paying its rent in November and Musk, the world's richest man, told employees he doesn't intend to restart payments or cover those past due, the FT said, citing lawsuits. Columbia Property, which is suing Twitter over the missed payments, defaulted on the loan in February. The value of Goldman loans to commercial real estate borrowers behind on repayments climbed 612% in the first quarter to $840 million, the FT said, citing filings. That compares with a 30% increase to more than $12 billion for the entire US banking industry, the newspaper said. Columbia Property decl...

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