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☆ People are tearing into Apple for its latest iPad commercial: 'Steve wouldn't have shipped that ad'
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-09 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. The tech giant unveiled its latest iPad models on May 7. The ad certainly made a statement, just probably not in the manner that Apple intended. "Maybe hire Ridley Scott again next time instead," read one X post referencing the award-winning director behind the "1984" ad. Representatives for Apple didn't immediately respond to a request for comment from BI sent outside regular business hours.

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☆ ‘I will return to the US in an urn’: She moved to Portugal with her husband two years ago, and this American woman says she’s never coming back
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-08 | by ( Tamara Hardingham-Gill | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

‘Aha’ momentCynthia Wilson and her husband Craig Bjork relocated from the US to Marinha Grande, situated in the Leiria District of Portugal, just over two years ago. Community spiritThe couple celebrate Wilson's first birthday in Portugal with friends. “My Portuguese friends taught me that you have to first recognize their humanity,” says Wilson. There’s no place for that.”Wilson has warmly embraced the Portuguese way of life, particularly the focus on food, which has long been a big part of her life. Doing something odd.”Wilson and Bjork say that they’ve had “zero problems” since relocating to Portugal and couldn’t be happier.

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If we really care about solving for antisemitism, and I believe this deeply, it’s not about having gotcha moments. And we’ve got to figure out how do we unpack all of it at the same time. But the ultimate answer for antisemitism is to teach, to expose young people to the Jewish community so that they understand our common humanity. This, this convening for too many people across America in education feels like the ultimate gotcha moment. It doesn’t sound like people are actually trying to solve for something that I believe we should be doing everything we can to solve for.

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☆ Warren Buffett says one question posed by AI has stumped economists for a century
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-07 | by ( Michelle Castillo | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +8 min

Calling AI profound, Buffet said that the technology is like a "genie" — once it gets let out of the bottle, it could have disastrous effects. It's a question, he said, that has riddled the best economists for a century. Warren Buffett is the first to admit he doesn't know much about artificial intelligence. This rebound has led to questions from corporate executives about factors that could be at play, from AI to return-to-office mandates. "Every company is looking at AI and deciding where it will help them," he said during a recent interview on CNBC's "Money Movers."

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☆ Biden’s antisemitism speech leaves no doubt he’s standing by Israel despite tension with Netanyahu
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-07 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

CNN —The political rawness of the moment, as Israel pounds Gaza and outrage rocks American college campuses, means President Joe Biden’s big speech Tuesday condemning antisemitism is most notable for what he left unsaid. The speech was closely watched given the turmoil in the Middle East and its stunning political reaction in the US. “My commitment to the safety of the Jewish people, the security of Israel, and its right to exist as an independent Jewish state is ironclad. While praising the right to free speech as a fundamental American value, he condemned reported instances when some Jewish students have faced antisemitic taunting. Understanding history and preventing it from being manipulated for political gain was a major focus of Biden’s speech, which was delivered on the 79th anniversary of VE Day, when the allies defeated Nazism in World War II.

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☆ Elon Musk says AI has no 'use' at SpaceX — at least for now
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-07 | by ( Hannah Getahun | Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Elon Musk revealed that SpaceX "basically uses no AI." "I mean, oddly enough, one of the areas where there's almost no AI used is space exploration," Musk replied. "So SpaceX uses basically no AI, Starlink does not use AI. At X, Musk integrated his AI chatbot Grok — similar to ChatGPT — into the social media platform. Musk also considered using AI to help summarize news on the site.

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☆ Warren Buffett compares AI to nuclear weapons in stark warning
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-06 | by ( Nicole Goodkind | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

At his annual shareholder meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, the 93 year-old co-founder, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway issued a stark warning about the potential dangers of the technology. “We let a genie out of the bottle when we developed nuclear weapons,” he said Saturday. JPMorgan Chase, the world’s largest bank by market capitalization, is also exploring the potential of generative AI within its own ecosystem, Dimon said. Dozens of AI industry leaders, academics and even some celebrities have signed a statement warning of an “extinction” risk from AI. “Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war,” the statement said.

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☆ Daniel Barenboim: What Beethoven’s Ninth Teaches Us - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-06 | by ( Daniel Barenboim | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Ludwig van Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony was first performed exactly 200 years ago Tuesday and has since become probably the work most likely to be embraced for political purposes. (These days the Ninth is being played in concert halls worldwide in commemoration of the premiere. Beethoven might have been surprised at the political allure of his masterpiece. He was interested in politics, but only because he was deeply interested in humanity. I don’t believe, however, that Beethoven was interested in everyday politics.

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☆ Generative AI will be designing new drugs all on its own in the near future
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-05 | by ( Trevor Laurence Jockims | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +12 min

An analogy for understanding the development of AI drugs can be found in the mechanisms of ChatGPT. As a result, it's a drug discovery process that has a 90% failure rate. Some of the noted flaws of generative AI, its propensity to "hallucinate" for example, could prove to be powerful in drug discovery. AI is learning to distinguish drugs from non-drugs, and to create new drugs, in the same way that ChatGPT can create sentences, Ellington said. Now, AI models are helping narrow down the possibilities, so scientists more quickly know the optimal modifications to try.

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☆ A 9-year-old boy mistook a millionaire for a homeless man and gave him his last dollar, report says
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-05 | by ( Rebecca Rommen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A nine-year-old boy mistook a businessman as homeless and gave him his last dollar. AdvertisementA nine-year-old boy in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, mistook a businessman as homeless and gave him his last dollar, local news outlet WBRZ reported. As he finished, nine-year-old Kelvin Ellis Jr. approached him with his hand held out, thinking Busbice was a homeless man. Because if you are, here's a dollar,'" Ellis Jr. recalled, adding that he had always wanted to help a homeless person. As a thank you for the kind gesture, Busbice bought Ellis Jr. breakfast as well as a coffee for his father.

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☆ Opinion: The magic art of changing your mind
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-04 | by ( Opinion Tess Taylor | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

The poem shows a human speaker in the vulnerable act of changing their mind. Keats doesn’t want to be in the sky, eternally (and probably uncomfortably) unblinking, or even to be an “Eremite,” — which is just a fancy word for hermit. Keats doesn’t want to be distant at all, it turns out. It was the poem’s role to change its mind out loud, by setting out one way and then changing course. I’m not saying that poetry doesn’t have a place to hold our rage.

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☆ 'The Circle' used an AI player to create a bot witch hunt — and soon, we might all be defending our humanity online too
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-04 | by ( Palmer Haasch | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Max is the first AI contestant on "The Circle" — he's literally a chatbot. Max is pretty boring, but having an AI in the game turned it into a robot witch hunt. But bringing an AI player into the mix reflects some of the future online trials we're likely to face — and some that are already happening. Netflix"The Circle's" AI player is Max, a chatbot masquerading as a 26-year-old veterinary intern from Wisconsin who describes himself as an "animal whisperer with a knack for making bad pottery, no cap." AdvertisementMaybe the funniest part about Max is that they gave him his own apartment, complete with throw pillows of his human face.

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Great Barrier Reef, Australia CNN —As the early-morning sun rises over the Great Barrier Reef, its light pierces the turquoise waters of a shallow lagoon, bringing more than a dozen turtles to life. CNN witnessed bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef in mid-February, on five different reefs spanning the northern and southern parts of the 2,300-kilometer (1,400-mile) ecosystem. “It’s a die-off,” said Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, a climate scientist at the University of Queensland in Australia and chief scientist at The Great Barrier Reef Foundation. Our destination is Lady Elliot Island, a remote coral cay perched on top of the southern end of the Great Barrier Reef. — Lady Elliot Island Eco Resort Guano miners once stripped Lady Elliot Island of its topsoil.

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☆ She's worked for Nike, the NBA — and Maya Angelou. Meet abstract artist Ya La'ford
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-03 | by ( Lucy Handley | In | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Artist Ya La'ford in front of one of her artworks. Ya La'fordAbstract artist Ya La'ford is in demand. Her commissions — including sculpture, installations and gallery exhibitions — mean she is fully booked for the next four years. "American Roots" (2021), an installation at The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Florida, by Ya La'ford. The work was defaced in 2012 and restored in 2014, and Ya La'ford said it is one of her favorite artworks.

Persons: Ya, Ya La'ford, La'ford, She's, Janet Jackson, John, Maya Angelou, Maya, Melinda Gates, Mark Rothko's, London's, Rob Stothard Organizations: Nike, McLaren Racing, Orlando Magic, CNBC, NFL, Ringling Museum of Art, Fine Arts, Art Institute of Boston, University of Florida's Levin College of Law, Orlando Museum of Art . Orlando Museum of Art, U.S, Tampa Museum of Fine Arts, Asia, London's Tate, Getty Locations: St . Petersburg , Florida, Sarasota , Florida, Houston, China, Palenque , Colombia, St . Petersburg, Ogden , Utah, Jacksonville , Florida, Bronx , New York

☆ Murders, imprisonment and violence: Threats to press freedom grow in Latin America
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-03 | by ( Esteban Campanela | Sol Amaya | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

These are just the tip of the iceberg of the challenges faced by many media workers in Latin America, where experts say the status of press freedom is increasingly worrisome. The Prosecutor’s Office confirmed in a press conference that they believed the crime was linked to his journalistic work. Last week, the Mexican president criticized the US State Department’s report on human rights in the world, which refers to concerns over press freedom in Mexico, saying that US authorities should “be respectful”. In a publication in social network X, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez said US officials are not concerned about the human rights of Cubans and that the United States has its own human rights violations. Nicaragua: Ortega-Murillo regime targets journalismHarassment of the press in Nicaragua has been widely reported on numerous occasions.

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☆ What’s on the far side of the moon? Here’s why scientists want to find out
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-03 | by ( Ashley Strickland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

“The far side of the moon is very different from the near side,” said Li Chunlai, China National Space Administration deputy chief designer. The Yutu-2 lunar rover took an image of the Chang'e-4 lunar probe on the far side of the moon on January 11, 2019. Far side mysteriesDespite years of orbital data and samples collected during six of the Apollo missions, scientists are still trying to answer key questions about the moon. Hector Retamal/AFP/Getty ImagesChang’e-6 is just one mission heading to the moon’s far side as NASA has plans to send robotic missions there as well. Cracking the lunar codeOne of the most fundamental questions that scientists have tried to answer is how the moon formed.

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☆ How Not to Be a Selfish Gardener - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-02 | by ( Olivia Laing | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

The idea of the garden as a place of sinister seclusion has found its way to the world of high fashion. In Ballard’s characteristically bleak tale, a desperate mob advances on an elegant garden, where Count Axel and his wife live out a civilized, secluded existence. The selfish gardener of the 21st century creates idyllic vistas that rely on fertilizers and pesticides that poison the wider ecosystem or demand water in a time of drought. In her gripping memoir of the Second World War, “War in Val d’Orcia,” she describes a similar tide of desperate humanity approaching her garden gate. Unlike Ballard’s Count Axel, she didn’t seek to repel them, retiring to the library to dust her statues.

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☆ I switched my vegan restaurants to serving meat after realizing plant-based diets aren't the answer — here's why
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-02 | by ( Joshua Zitser | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

She told BI the market is saturated with vegan options, making purely vegan restaurants obsolete. AdvertisementThis as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Mollie Englehart, executive chef at Sage Regenerative Kitchen & Brewery in California. Last month, Englehart announced that her restaurants, which were called Sage Vegan Bistro, would now offer meat, dairy, and eggs to customers. It's almost like everybody adding a vegan option makes the vegan restaurant obsolete because there's no need for it. It's not just an epidemic of vegan restaurants closing; I think for restaurants post-pandemic, it was generally really hard to recover.

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☆ ‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz’ review: Harvey Keitel stars in a love story set in the darkest of times
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-02 | by ( Brian Lowry | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Jumping around in time, this British production captures the horror of that experience while finding notes of grace in its narrator’s survival. That’s in part because this six-part series is at its core a love story, unfolding under the most horrible of circumstances. Harvey Keitel as the older Lali Sokolov in "The Tattooist of Auschwitz." Martin Mlaka/Sky UK“I haven’t got long,” Lali tells her, fueling her commitment to ensure his story gets told. “The Tattooist of Auschwitz” premieres May 2 on Peacock.

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☆ Colombia to Sever Ties With Israel Over Gaza War
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-01 | by ( Genevieve Glatsky | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Colombia will sever diplomatic ties with Israel over its prosecution of the war in Gaza, President Gustavo Petro announced in Bogotá on Wednesday, describing the Israeli government as “genocidal.”His announcement came in a speech in Colombia’s capital city in front of cheering crowds that had gathered for International Workers’ Day. “The times of genocide, of the extermination of an entire people cannot come before our eyes, before our passivity,” Mr. Petro said. “If Palestine dies, humanity dies.”Colombia is the second South American nation to break off relations with Israel after Bolivia, which cut ties in November over its strikes in Gaza. Belize also cut diplomatic ties with Israel that month. “Israel and Colombia always enjoyed warm ties.

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☆ Colombia to break diplomatic ties with Israel over actions in Gaza
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-01 | by ( Stefano Pozzebon | Michael Rios | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —Colombia says it will break diplomatic relations with Israel on Thursday over its actions in Gaza. Colombian President Gustavo Petro made the announcement at a rally at the Bolívar Square in Bogotá on Wednesday. Its devastating response has since killed more than 34,000 people, according to the Palestinian health ministry. Colombia's President Gustavo Petro at a rally in Bogota, Colombia, on May 1, 2024. Bolivia cut diplomatic ties with Israel last year, citing “crimes against humanity committed against the Palestinian people” in the wake of Israel’s war with Hamas.

Persons: Gustavo Petro, Petro, ” Israel, ” Katz, Luisa Gonzalez Organizations: CNN, Wednesday, Reuters CNN, Colombian Foreign Ministry, Israel, Hamas Locations: Colombia, Israel, Gaza, Colombian, Bogotá, Bogota, Bolivia

Israel supporters standing on the opposite side of a walkway from the large pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of California, Los Angeles. On Sunday, the Israeli American Council, which has denounced pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses as “overtly antisemitic,” hosted a rally at U.C.L.A. On Monday night, another fight broke out between two groups of protesters after about 60 pro-Israel demonstrators attempted to enter the pro-Palestinian encampment. Image Pro-Palestinian protesters have come face to face daily with Israel supporters at the University of California, Los Angeles. Many Jewish groups say the campus protests have created a climate hostile toward Jewish students.

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☆ 18 ancient Egyptian human skulls are being auctioned for $250 each, in a grim sale of colonial spoils
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-30 | by ( Mia Jankowicz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewA British auction house has been criticized after listing 18 human skulls from ancient Egypt. But experts have raised objections, and have asked for a review of laws around the sale of human remains. This latest episode offers a window into the strange trade in human remains, which is legal in many places worldwide. The shrunken head problemVan Broekhoven has had to grapple with the issue of handling human remains in museum collections. The Pitt Rivers Museum has a collection of shrunken heads — some human — along with other human remains, which were taken off display in 2020.

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☆ The ex-Twitter director who went 'hardcore' for Elon Musk and slept on the floor of X's office is now working for his Meta nemesis, Mark Zuckerberg
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-30 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewA former top lieutenant at Elon Musk's Twitter says she's working for Mark Zuckerberg at Meta now. AdvertisementBesides lauding "the exceptional quality of the people" working at Meta, Crawford said she was attracted by Zuckerberg's "vision and intensity." Crawford's latest career move could be an indicator of big moves Zuckerberg may be making in his bid to vanquish Musk's X. "I do plan to keep using both X and Threads," she said in an email to BI on Monday. Representatives for Meta and X didn't immediately respond to requests for comment from BI sent outside regular business hours.

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☆ 5 ways to attack the climate crisis
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-29 | by ( Andrea Kane | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

The climate crisis impacts Earth — its land, its atmosphere and its bodies of water — and it also profoundly affects the health and behavior of the planet’s inhabitants large and small, including humanity. And CNN Chief Climate Correspondent Bill Weir has a front-row seat to the ever-evolving situation. “Five million people die prematurely every year just to, just from particulate pollution of burning fossil fuels around the world,” Weir said. “It is taking care of water and soil and air… (that) fills those (Maslow) needs in ways that we can’t imagine in our modern, convenient world,” he said. “I just want folks to connect with each other and nature in the best possible ways,” he said.

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