PRESS DIGEST- New York Times business news - March 6
March 6 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories on the New York Times business pages. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
- ChatGPT maker OpenAI on Tuesday refuted Elon Musk's claims that the startup abandoned its original mission to develop artificial intelligence for the benefit of humanity and not for profit.
- Starbucks franchise operators across the Middle East and Southeast Asia plans to lay off over 2,000 people as the business suffers from consumer boycotts linked to the Gaza war.
- Meta-owned Facebook and Instagram were back up on Tuesday after a more than two-hour outage that was caused by a technical issue and impacted hundreds of thousands of users globally.
- Tesla's European Gigafactory near Berlin has halted work until further notice after what CEO Elon Musk called an "extremely dumb" suspected arson attack nearby left it without power on Tuesday.
(Compiled by Bengaluru newsroom)
