3. Google employees push for answers
Alphabet's Google is facing numerous headaches, including questions about whether OpenAI's ChatGPT has outflanked the company's own AI initiatives. Google is also going through its biggest-ever wave of layoffs. CEO Sundar Pichai took a great deal of heat from employees during a companywide town hall Monday to discuss the challenges. Employees pressed for details about how Google leaders decided on whom to lay off and how. Pichai, CFO Ruth Porat and other executives also discussed bonus cuts for executives and where the company is targeting its hiring, among other issues. Read more from CNBC's Jennifer Elias here.
4. The path forward for Covid vaccines
Covid vaccines will likely need to be updated once a year, and most people will probably only need a shot a year, too, according to a proposed road map released by the Food and Drug Administration. The FDA's recommendation is similar to its process for selecting flu shots each year. According to the briefing document released Monday, the FDA would pick the Covid strain for the vaccine during the spring, in time for updated shots to roll out in September, when kids are back and school and ahead of the holidays and virus-friendly winter months. Some, including elderly people and people with compromised immune systems, may need two shots a year, the FDA said.
5. Holding off, for now
The Supreme Court delayed deciding whether to take up two cases that could end up altering how social networks police content on their platforms. In question are laws in Florida and Texas that were spearheaded by Republican lawmakers who have accused social media companies of censoring conservatives. Two tech industry groups are challenging the laws, saying they violate companies' First Amendment right to determine which kind of speech they allow on their platforms. The respective laws are held up in courts, and it'll be up to the nation's highest court to decide how the debate will move forward.
— CNBC's Mike Calia wrote this newsletter. Jesse Pound, Ashley Capoot, Jennifer Elias, Spencer Kimball and Lauren Feiner contributed.
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