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McDonald’s Corp. board members didn’t violate their duty to shareholders in the handling of sexual harassment and misconduct allegations, a Delaware court said, ruling that the directors’ response was legally sufficient. The decision throws out shareholders’ claims against nine individuals who sat on McDonald’s board during a period in which sexual misconduct claims at the company drew widespread public scrutiny. Though there were “vibrant” red flags about problems with sexual harassment…

Bad robot.Photo: AlesiaKan / Shutterstock.com (Shutterstock)A student used ChatGPT to cheat on an essay in an AI ethics class, according to a report from NBC Bay Area. To quote the scorpion in a famous fable, “lol. lmao.”“The irony is very clearly there,” Santa Clara University professor Brian Green told NBC. The essay in question “wasn’t exactly on topic and, also, it had a very kind of, honestly, a robotic feel to it in some ways.”The student used ChatGPT to spit out an essay for Green’s “Ethics in Artificial…

Credit: Review of Accounting Studies (2022). DOI: 10.1007/s11142-022-09736-7 When investors try to forecast a company's future earnings by analyzing its current financial statements, a perplexing problem is how to interpret nonrecurring income taxes. Those one-time tax items increase or reduce quarterly earnings. Should they be…

Genshin Impact developer Mihoyo has announced that Elliot Gindi will not voice Tighnari going forward, following sexual misconduct allegations surrounding the voice actor. Last week (February 8), Gindi posted a statement claiming he was “deeply sorry” following allegations of sexual misconduct. In it, Gindi acknowledged “all of the screenshots” were legitimate and said his actions were “wrong and inappropriate.” Mihoyo initially said it was looking for an “urgent solution” to the situation, and today (February 16) the…

Armie Hammer has spoken. The embattled actor granted his first interview since a sex abuse scandal imploded his life, Hollywood career and marriage, by sitting down with writer James Kirchick of Graydon Carter’s Air Mail. In the exclusive conversation, Hammer responds at length to the sexual misconduct allegations, denies any criminal wrongdoing while accepting responsibility for being a selfish “asshole” who used people and moved on, challenges a rape claim by providing Kirchick with direct messages…

These past few years have been incredibly tumultuous for Armie Hammer as, in 2021, purported text messages from the actor were leaked online. Said messages included details of sexual fantasies that alluded to cannibalistic actions, rape and more. As time went on, others began to corroborate said DMs, which Hammer said were “bull.” Not too long after, the Hammer was accused of sexual assault by a woman simply identified as Effie. The actor subsequently dropped out of multiple projects and was cut from some as well. Now,…

Video game maker Activision Blizzard will pay $35 million to settle claims related to its process for deciding whether to tell investors about employee workplace misconduct complaints. The fine follows a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation that found that Activision “lacked controls and procedures” designed to insure that workplace misconduct complaints would be communicated to investors through regulatory disclosures. The SEC’s probe also found that Activision violated a whistleblower-protection…

Image: Sergei Elagin (Shutterstock)Activision Blizzard Inc. has agreed to pay out a $35 million settlement for allegations that it violated workers’ rights by failing to maintain “adequate” workplace harassment protocols and violated federal whistleblower protection rights, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said in a press release on Friday.The SEC found between 2016 and 2021 that Activision Blizzard, a game development and publishing company, had required former employees who received an information request…

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced that Activision Blizzard will pay £28.9million ($35million) to settle charges related to gathering workplace misconduct information and violating whistleblower protections. The payment will settle charges that relate to the company’s handling of misconduct claims within the company. The SEC claims that between 2018 and 2021, Activision Blizzard was “aware that its ability to attract, retain, and motivate employees was a particularly important risk…

The United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee, the national governing body for snowboarding and the former national team snowboard coach conspired to engage in sex trafficking, enabling and covering up repeated acts of sexual misconduct, three former national team snowboarders claimed in a lawsuit Thursday.The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, alleges former coach Peter Foley committed sexual assault and battery against the plaintiffs and other women for “nearly twenty years” with the “assistance,…