About 43 percent of U.S. adults continue to consider themselves political independents—which represents the biggest political bloc in the country.
Category: 16 January 2024
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U.S. PRES., U.K. PM: FU, WE’LL BOMB WHOEVER WE WANT TO
The U.S. and U.K. faced domestic blowback after unilaterally carrying out airstrikes on Yemen without any approval by Congress or Parliament.
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TOP TREND 2024 EV GO FU: HERTZ STUMBLES OVER EV HURDLES
Not so long ago, the Biden administration was heralding a major Hertz Rental Car investment in fleets of Electric Vehicles, as a cutting edge example of the EV transition.
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“ELVIS” ON AI TOUR, AND “GEORGE CARLIN” DROPS A NEW COMEDY SPECIAL
In 1997, I wrote a play called Permanent Things, in which a character talking to her movie star father tells him what’s in the tea leaves for the future:
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TAIWAN ELECTS RULING-PARTY CANDIDATE WHO REJECTS CHINA’S SOVEREIGNTY CLAIMS OVER ISLAND
Taiwan voted in favor of its current ruling party last week—ensuring more tensions with China in the next four years.
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U.K.’S ECONOMY SLUMPING, BUT PM SAYS IT WILL INCREASE FUNDING FOR UKRAINE
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak visited Kyiv last week and he came bearing gifts, promising Ukraine more than $3.2 billion in military assistance in the next year—the largest commitment from the U.K. yet for the war against Russia.
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ALMOST THREE-QUARTERS OF WORKERS SAY AI HAS MADE THEM MORE PRODUCTIVE, BUT…
Seventy-two percent of workers using AI on the job say it makes them more productive, a CNBC survey found.
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CAN BEZOS-BACKED “ANSWER ENGINE” CHALLENGE GOOGLE’S SEARCH DOMINANCE?
Perplexity, an AI start-up operating out of a San Francisco coworking space, is aiming for a piece of Google’s 90-percent ownership of the Internet search market.
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INTEL LAUNCHES ITS OWN AI BUSINESS
Iconic chip maker Intel has announced it’s forming an independent generative AI company called Articul8 in partnership with DigitalBridge Group, an asset manager focused on digital technologies.
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DISINFORMATION DRIVEN BY AI IS WORLD’S GREATEST THREAT, WEF SAYS
Lies and twisted facts supercharged by AI and designed to undermine democratic ideals and elections is the greatest immediate threat to the world economy, the World Economic Forum said in a report ahead of its annual convocation in Davos, Switzerland.