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Thousands of British National Health Service doctors are striking. It’s the longest labor action the country’s healthcare system has ever seen, with the strike scheduled to last up to six days.

BYD’s fourth quarter numbers topped Tesla’s. The US-based EV maker still held the top spot for the whole year, but China’s BYD is closing in fast. Rivian, on the other hand, is having a rocky start to 2024.

Intel is launching a new AI company. Former vice president Arun Subramaniyan has been named CEO of Articul8 AI, which is being formed in partnership with digital-focused asset manager DigitalBridge Group—all in an attempt to catch up with Nvidia.

Disney made a new ally with ValueAct Capital Management. The activist investor has pledged to support the company’s board nominees, as Disney continues its battle with Nelson Peltz, via his investment management firm, Trian.

ChatGPT is changing how developers work—and they like it

ChatGPT may be, at least metaphorically, in its “giant room-size machine phase”—think big 1950s computers that could only do a small set of tasks—but there is one group of workers that are leading the charge on using the chatbot everyday: software developers.

Developers are prompting ChatGPT to generate code, saving themselves anywhere from minutes to hours a day on writing, or to find information faster than using traditional online search methods. Sure, there are still hallucinations and limitations, but the biggest reward seems to be, well, time.

Quartz’s Michelle Cheng spoke with software developers about their daily uses for ChatGPT, and how chatbots have changed their jobs—often for the better.

One big number: $12.5 billion

The valuation of X as of November 2023, according to a new disclosure obtained by Axios from Fidelity, the mutual fund giant that helped Elon Musk buy Twitter. That’s down 72% from when Musk first bought the product.

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