How are the U.S. businesses of Philip Morris International invested in America?

We're invested in advancing science, giving adults who smoke better options.

We're invested in American manufacturing, helping local economies thrive.

We're invested in community, supporting military veterans and their families,

disaster relief, and economic empowerment.

Because we're proud to be invested in America.

See how at uspMI.com.

Here's your morning T&B Tech Minute for Monday, February 9th.

I'm Julie Chang for the Wall Street Journal.

The EU has sent a statement of objections to meta today as part of its investigation into its treatment of rival AI

chatbots on WhatsApp. The EU plans to impose interim measures requiring meta to grant

competing chatbots access to WhatsApp's business communication tool.

Meta implemented a policy in January that prevented other chatbots from tapping into the tool,

which the EU argued may abuse meta's dominant position.

A meta spokesperson said the EU wrongly assumes WhatsApp's business programming interface

is a key distribution channel for chatbots.

META can formally respond to EU's objections and injunction proposal and can request a hearing.

Eli Lilly is acquiring Genetic Medicine Biotech Orna Therapeutics for up to $2.4 billion.

Orna engineers immune cells in vivo, developing a new class of therapeutics using

circular RNA and lipid nanoparticles. This allows the patient's body to generate cell therapies

for disease treatment. Lilly sees the acquisition as a platform for long-term innovation in

genetic medicine and in vivo cell engineering.

...