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☆ Sam Altman's mission to increase human lifespan with a $180 million shipping container experiment at Retro Biosciences
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-23 | by ( Hilary Brueck | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

Called Retro Biosciences, the startup's goal is simple yet supremely ambitious: Add 10 healthy, enjoyable years onto the back end of our lifetimes. But Retro Biosciences actually fits quite neatly into Altman's futuristic worldview. Retro BiosciencesRetro Biosciences sits about 30 miles south of OpenAI's San Francisco headquarters, where ChatGPT was hatched. Joe Betts-LaCroix is the CEO of Retro Biosciences. There are things we already know work super well to improve human longevity, like exercise, diet, faith, and social support.

Persons: Sam Altman, he's, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Altman, Instacart —, Joe Betts, LaCroix, isn't, Betts, Retro's, spry, Yamanaka, Shinya Yamanaka, it's, they've, Sora, Thiel, Jeff Bezos, Bezos, Yuri Milner, Billionaire Peter Thiel, He's, Aubrey de Grey, Christian Angermayer, biogerontologist Daniel Promislow, Altman's, Matt Buckley Organizations: Business, OpenAI, Biosciences, Harvard, MIT, Caltech, Extension, Apple, Stanford University, Retro, Bezos, Labs, Billionaire, Cambrian, Retro Biosciences, Bloomberg Locations: geroscience, Silicon Valley, OpenAI's San Francisco, Meta, Golden City, Retro.bio, Redwood City , California, San Diego

DETROIT (AP) — Casino workers for MGM Grand Detroit have voted to ratify a new contract, ending a 47-day strike. MGM Grand Detroit workers are union members of the Detroit Casino Council, which represents nearly 4,000 employees of the city's three casinos. Their approval Saturday on a five-year agreement comes weeks after unionized workers reached an agreement with other two casinos following a roughly one-month strike. Workers at MGM Grand Detroit, Hollywood Casino at Greektown and MotorCity Casino walked off the job Oct. 17 over issues including health care and wages that had not kept up with the cost of living. "We’re excited to welcome our team back and continue providing our guests the entertainment experiences for which MGM Grand Detroit is known,” Matt Buckley, President and COO of Midwest Group, MGM Resorts International, said in a Saturday statement.

Persons: “, Gabriel Robert Hernandez, ” Matt Buckley Organizations: DETROIT, —, MGM Grand Detroit, Detroit Casino Council, Workers, Hollywood, MotorCity, Teamsters, MGM, Detroit, Midwest Group, MGM Resorts International Locations: Greektown

☆ Thousands of casino workers go on strike in Detroit
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-17 | by ( Contessa Brewer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

The work stoppage targets operations at the MGM Grand Detroit; owned by MGM Resorts International , MotorCity Casino; and Hollywood Casino at Greektown, owned by Penn Entertainment . They are represented by the Detroit Casino Council, which is made up of five unions including the United Auto Workers. MotorCity Casino updated its website showing that high limit table games, poker room and casino valet were closed – as well as its spa and some restaurants and bars. The DCC argues casino workers agreed to a three-year contract during the pressure-packed earlier days of the Covid pandemic. "In 2022, the Detroit casino industry generated $2.27 billion in gaming revenue and is on track for another record-breaking year in 2023.

Persons: MotorCity, Matt Buckley, we've Organizations: MGM, Detroit, MGM Resorts International, MotorCity, Hollywood, Penn Entertainment, Detroit Casino Council, United Auto Workers, CNBC, MCC, MGM's Midwest Group, MGM Grand, MGM Grand Detroit, DCC Locations: Greektown, Michigan, MGM Grand Detroit, Detroit

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