New York Times business news - August 7
Top stories from the New York Times business pages
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The U.S. Senate Homeland Security Committee voted along party lines on Thursday to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress for his refusal to answer questions at a hearing last week, clearing the way for the committee to ask the Justice Department to prosecute him.
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TikTok's U.S. joint venture said on Wednesday that it was shuttering its Nashville office, a space that housed, in part, members of its content moderation team, laying off 250 employees, filings show.
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Google GOOGL.O shook up its artificial intelligence leadership on Wednesday, moving Demis Hassabis, the Nobel-prize winning head of its Google DeepMind lab, out of his operational role to become chair of the lab and chief scientist of Google's parent company, Alphabet.
