Meta is planning to release artificial intelligence chatbots as soon as this week with distinct personalities across its social-media apps as a way to attract young users, according to people familiar with the matter. https://ift.tt/FbT3yXK

The efforts by FTC Chair Lina Khan to protect competition are inadvertently enriching some on Wall Street, generating outsize profits for Pentwater Capital Management and other large hedge funds that bet on merger deals. https://ift.tt/Z5QLVnr

Usher will headline the halftime show for Super Bowl LVIII in Las Vegas next winter, the NFL said. https://ift.tt/TosnSFK

Theme-park operators are pinning their hopes on a blockbuster fall season, betting that splashy Halloween and Oktoberfest events can make up for a summer season hurt by extreme weather. https://ift.tt/KOZih3n

The union representing Ford Motor’s auto-factory workers in Canada said that it secured double-digit wage increases and improved pensions in its labor pact with the automaker. https://ift.tt/tkBKdX8

Long Global Bond Yields Expected to Decline In Coming Year https://ift.tt/vau7HBx

Cuts to international aid from some of Africa’s biggest donors, and a litany of crises, mean humanitarian organizations are scaling back lifesaving medical services, food aid and other vital assistance. https://ift.tt/NC9a6gE

Hawaiian Electric regularly fell behind on plans to replace utility poles at risk of failure and spent millions less on upgrades than planned in the years before a wildfire destroyed Lahaina this summer. https://ift.tt/GrizdAQ

More Democratic lawmakers and officials are calling on Sen. Menendez to resign, after he was indicted in a bribery scheme. https://ift.tt/uV2ORht

After failing in Moscow’s goal of a lightning victory in Ukraine, the Russian military has adapted on the battlefield as it shifts to a strategy of wearing down Ukraine and the West. https://ift.tt/I4ztRcn