Despite a 32-percent plunge in sales in China, Honda Motor reported an 8.7-percent year-on-year gain in profits in its fiscal first quarter.
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SPOTLIGHT ON EUROPE: ECONOMIC DOWN TIME
Rising sales outside of Europe will offset an auto industry slump across the continent this year, German car parts manufacturer Continental AG said last week.
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INVESTORS BAIL OUT OF JAPANESE “CARRY TRADES”
The rising value of Japan’s yen currency is sending investors fleeing from an estimated $500 billion in “carry trades” that had been reliably profitable before the Bank of Japan (BoJ) raised its interest rate last week and strengthened the yen.
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BREAKING THE ADVERTISER CONSPIRACY AGAINST FREE SPEECH
It’s one thing for a corporation to decide where and where not to spend their advertising dollars.
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IN DESIGNING NEW MOLECULES, AI CAN FILL IN THE BLANKS
AI already can predict the structure of proteins, which defines their function. To do that, bots were trained on two key data sets: the structure of the DNA that underlies the genes that make proteins and the 3D structures of known proteins.
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THIS WEEK IN SURVEILLANCE
They want your money. Your life on a meter. And they want to comprehensively know and control you, and profit by your data, including anything you produce.
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AI TAKES A FOOTHOLD IN HOLLYWOOD
It’s not just movie and television actors and writers who are worried about losing their jobs to AI.
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MICROBES BREAK DOWN “FOREVER” PFAS CHEMICALS
In our most recent issue, we reported on a new process that uses catalysts and mild heat to break apart perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl chemicals (PFAS), also called “forever” chemicals because their molecular bonds between carbon and fluorine atoms are fiendishly difficult to shatter.
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CELEBRITY WINDFALL: PAID MILLIONS SO AI CAN USE THEIR VOICES
Meta Platforms Inc. is reportedly negotiating seven-figure deals with British movie icon Dame Judi Dench, rapper and comedian Awkwafina, and actor-writer Keegan-Michael Key for the use of their voices in a new suite of AI tools that the company wants to show off at Meta Connect 2024, its annual gathering next month.
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KEY OPENAI FOUNDERS LEAVE THE COMPANY
OpenAI co-founder John Schulman announced on X last week that he’s leaving the company to join Anthropic, a younger and fast-rising competitor.