May 3 (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.

– Just hours after the union representing thousands of Hollywood television and movie writers announced that they were going on strike, hundreds of their members occupied an entire city block in Midtown Manhattan on Tuesday.

– The Florida Legislature passed a bill on Tuesday that would shield the travel records of the state’s Republican governor Ron DeSantis and other top elected officials from public view.

– Cohere, a Toronto-based artificial intelligence start-up, has raised 250 million dollars in new funding, with the deal valuing the company at about $2 billion.

– A Utah state judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked a new law, one day before it was scheduled to take effect, that would have banned abortion clinics and potentially put a halt to most abortions in the state. (Compiled by Bengaluru newsroom)