Merger and Acquisition took a break when the Federal Reserve and EU began aggressively raising interest rates from their zero and negative levels back in March and July 2022 respectively.
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“REINVENT YOURSELF,” IMF TELLS CHINA
“China faces a fork in the road” and needs to "reinvent itself" with dramatically new economic policies that will end its 30-month-long property crisis, jump-start consumer spending, and raise productivity, Kristalina Georgieva, managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on 24 March.
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CHINA’S MIDDLE CLASS GOING DOWN, GOLD BUYING GOING UP
China’s middle class blossomed from the 1980s until Beijing launched the COVID War in January 2020 on it Lunar New Year, “The Year of the Rat,” and imposed three years of draconian zero-COVID policy which destroyed the lives and livelihoods of hundreds of millions of its citizens.
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TOP TREND 2024, EV GO FU
As electric vehicle (EV) sales stall, hybrids—which combine electric power with a conventional fossil-fuel engine—are speeding off dealers’ lots.
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THE LANGUAGE OF FORCE: HOW THE POLICE STATE MUZZLES OUR RIGHT TO SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER
Tyrants don’t like people who speak truth to power. Cue the rise of protest laws, which take the government’s intolerance for free speech to a whole new level and send the resounding message that resistance is futile.
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THIS WEEK IN SURVEILLANCE
The AI Act that was supposed to protect humans while advancing AI technology among European countries?
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THERE’S A NEW CHIP ON THE BLOCK
Nvidia has unveiled its new Blackwell family of graphic processors, the hardware essential to training AIs.
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CAN AI BE MORE CREATIVE THAN PEOPLE?
Researchers at the University of Arkansas tested ChatGPT-4 against 151 students to see which did better at divergent thinking, a standard measure of creative ability.
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APPLE, GOOGLE MAY TEAM UP ON AI
Apple is talking with Google about putting the latter’s Gemini AI into iPhones, people familiar told Business Insider. The combination could happen sometime this year.
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ANOTHER WAY TO PUT BLUE-COLLAR AI TO WORK
Covariant, a start-up created by three ex-OpenAI staffers, is creating an AI that will enable robots to pick up and sort items as they move around distribution centers.