Press Digest: New York Times business news - August 5

Chipotle Mexican Grill

05/08/2026 06:18

Aug 5 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories on the New York Times business pages. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
     
-A federal judge of California's U.S. District Court scheduled a trial in March to determine whether Paramount’s $111 billion purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery violates antitrust law.
     
-White House officials said the federal government planned to review only certain artificial intelligence models, known as "closed" models, which do not publish their underlying code and are made by companies like Anthropic and OpenAI, for potential security risks and not others.
     
-Chipotle Mexican Grill said that it has removed jalapeños from restaurants in Minnesota and replaced them with jalapeños from different growers, after a salmonella outbreak that affected 110 people as per the Minnesota Department of Health.
     
-The U.S. administration advised states to place new restrictions on autism therapy providers to curb a sharp increase in Medicaid spending for the treatment.

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