BlackRock, the world’s richest private equity firm, has announced that it is managing about $11.3 trillion for investors, the most money it has ever had under its control.
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SPOTLIGHT: CHINA’S ECONOMIC STRUGGLE
China’s roaring rally in equity markets seems to be running out of energy. After the People’s Bank of China created a fund to make cheap loans that people and businesses could use to buy stocks, markets soared.
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TOP TREND 2023: OFFICE BUILDING BUST: LANDLORDS OFFER TURNKEY OFFICE SUITES TO LURE TENANTS
In Canada, where the office vacancy rate rose to 14.7 percent in the third quarter, office landlords are offering prospective tenants turnkey office suites, with desks, chairs, breakrooms, and other accouterments already in place.
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TECHNOCRACY BRIEFS: AMERICAN TAXPAYERS FUELING CHINA MILITARY INNOVATION, AND EV SCHOOL BUSES BREAKING DOWN ACROSS U.S.
American universities are the best in the world. Unfortunately, research at many of them is directly helping China advance its military technology and military related innovations.
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META’S “SMART GLASSES” CAN LEARN ALL ABOUT YOU
Meta designed its “smart” glasses as a wearable camera. They look like regular horn-rims but they’re able to take photos and videos of what you’re looking at.
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INDOOR VERTICAL FARM PLANS TO GROW FOUR MILLION POUNDS OF BERRIES A YEAR
Virginia’s Plenty Richmond Farm aims to branch out: its new growing system is designed to produce strawberries year-round from plants hanging off of 30-foot towers.
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NEWLY DISCOVERED PROTEIN HALTS DAMAGE TO DNA
Researchers at Canada’s Western University have discovered a protein in a bacterium called D. radiodurans that not only arrests damage to DNA but also signals the body’s repair mechanism to come and fix it.
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NEEDED: A NATURAL HUMAN REVOLUTION
In a 10 October X post, Peter Diamandis, co-founder of Singularity University and protege of preeminent transhumanist Ray Kurzweil, endorsed good AI fighting bad AI as the only way humanity would be protected in the future.
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META DEBUTS FILMMAKING AI
Meta has unveiled Movie Gen, its AI that can create realistic videos from written instructions. The system will play catch-up with similar offerings already out, including OpenAI’s Sora and developer Runway’s version.
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MOZILLA URGES “PUBLIC AI”
Mozilla, the nonprofit that operates the Thunderbird email program and Firefox browser, is urging AI developers to create a parallel AI industry devoted solely to public benefit—one that creates AI platforms just for nonprofits, government agencies, and companies emphasizing social goals.