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Business Headlines
Thursday, January 30, 2025
This morning's top stories

How Boston’s liquor stores are dealing with the sobering reality of Dry January

To try to cater to these temporary teetotalers, many liquor stores are pushing beefed-up inventories of nonalcoholic products.  Continue reading →

ER visits. Concierge care. Traveling out of state. How Mass. patients are navigating the broken primary care system.

In the absence of a functioning primary care system, some patients said they are resorting to increasingly desperate, inconvenient, and expensive ways to access care.  Continue reading →

OpenAI says DeepSeek may have improperly harvested its data

Stories you may have missed from the world of business.  Continue reading →

Boston will require new buildings to hit net zero standards

The Boston Zoning Commission on Wednesday approved the long-debated rules that requires newly constructed buildings to reduce energy use and fossil fuel reliance.  Continue reading →

Meta agrees to pay $25 million to settle lawsuit from Trump after Jan. 6 suspension

President Trump's accounts on Facebook and Instagram were suspended following the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. They were reinstated in January 2023.  Continue reading →

Healey administration activates military task force to strengthen local bases

On Monday, Governor Maura Healey and Lieutenant Governor Kim Driscoll hosted the group's first full meeting at the State House in several years.  Continue reading →

GE Vernova to invest $600 million in US manufacturing over next two years

The Cambridge-based energy company said it will create 1,500 new manufacturing and engineering jobs, in addition to the 18,000 people the company employed in the US at the end of 2024.  Continue reading →

AI-assisted works can get copyright with enough human creativity, says US copyright office

The new report could help clear the way for the use of AI tools in Hollywood, the music industry, and other creative fields.  Continue reading →

The Fed held rates steady, hitting pause after a series of cuts

It's a sign of a more cautious approach as the Federal Reserve seeks to gauge where inflation is headed and what policies President Trump may pursue.  Continue reading →

This year’s hottest Super Bowl ticket? Advertising space, Fox says.

Anheuser-Busch, Meta, PepsiCo, Frito-Lay, Taco Bell, Uber Eats, and others will vie to win over the more than 120 million viewers expected to tune in for the broadcast.  Continue reading →