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☆ Would-be Tesla buyers snub company as Musk's reputation dips
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-01 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Vehicles for sale at a Tesla store in Vallejo, California, US, on Thursday, March 2, 2023. While Tesla continued to post strong sales growth last year, helped by aggressive price cuts, the electric-vehicle maker is expected to report weak quarterly sales as early as Tuesday. Caliber cited strong associations between Tesla's reputation and that of Musk for the scores. Tesla sales are projected to increase by 3%. "The EV slowdown is shaping up to be a Tesla slowdown," Cox analyst Stephanie Valdez Streaty said during a conference call Thursday.

Persons: Elon Musk, Tesla, Musk, Shahar Silbershatz, Tim Calkins, Cox, Stephanie Valdez Streaty, —, Musk's Organizations: Tesla, Reuters, Mercedes, BMW, Audi, Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, Wall Street, Cox Automotive, Teslas Locations: Vallejo , California, United States, U.S, California

☆ WHO Chief Breaks Down Describing 'Hellish' Gaza Conditions
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-25 | by ( Jan. | At P.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +2 min

GENEVA (Reuters) - The head of the World Health Organization called for a ceasefire and a "true solution" to the Israel-Palestinian conflict in an emotional plea to the global health body's governing body on Thursday where he described conditions in Gaza as "hellish". "I'm a true believer because of my own experience that war doesn't bring solution, except more war, more hatred, more agony, more destruction. So let's choose peace and resolve this issue politically," Tedros told the WHO Executive Board in Geneva during a discussion about the Gaza health emergency. In the same address, Tedros warned that more people in Gaza would die of starvation and disease. "If you add all that, I think it's not easy to understand how hellish the situation is," he said.

Persons: Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, let's, Tedros, Israel, Meirav Eilon Shahar, Cecile Mantovani, Emma Farge, Jonathan Oatis Organizations: World Health, WHO, Reuters Locations: GENEVA, Israel, Gaza, Eritrea, Geneva

Two and a half weeks after sending tanks and ground troops into northern Gaza, Israeli forces entered a hospital early Wednesday that they claim Hamas operates out of. The Israeli army claims the militant group uses hospitals as cover for its fighters, and has set up its main command center in and beneath Shifa Hospital, the largest in the besieged territory. Both Hamas and Shifa Hospital staff deny the Israeli allegations. Both Hamas and Shifa Hospital staff deny the Israeli allegations. ISRAEL SAYS IT'S CARRYING OUT A ‘PRECISE AND TARGETED OPERATION’ INSIDE GAZA'S SHIFA HOSPITALJERUSALEM — The Israeli military says its forces have entered Gaza’s Shifa hospital, the site of a lengthy standoff.

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☆ China's BRI forum is an attempt to try to create a 'parallel world order,' analyst says
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-17 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailChina's BRI forum is an attempt to try to create a 'parallel world order,' analyst saysShahar Hameiri, Australian Research Council Future Fellow at the University of Queensland, discusses the gathering of world leaders at the Belt and Road Initiative forum in Beijing.

Persons: Shahar Hameiri Organizations: Australian Research, University of Queensland, Initiative Locations: Beijing

☆ Israelis brace for war and try to put their differences aside
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-13 | by ( Ivana Kottasová | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

She is now working on the cause that has brought the divided nation together: the war effort. Tzvi Shore, right, with a group of American and British teenagers who came to Israel to join the army. As Israel grieves and goes on the offensive, some of the deep, long lasting divisions have been put aside. No bottled waterIn Ashkelon, an Israeli city that lies just a few kilometers north of Gaza, the war feels much more imminent. Despite the differences, the women have been working tirelessly next to each other for hours – because the occasion calls for it.

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☆ Investor who studied at Harvard's 'Happiness Lab' shares the No. 1 thing that 'actually drives happiness'—it isn't money
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-23 | by ( Tom Huddleston Jr. | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Alexa von Tobel learned at Harvard University that money doesn't buy happiness. But despite her own financial success, von Tobel, 39, says she's derived the most happiness throughout her career from "the intangibles that money can't buy." "Through my time at Harvard's Happiness Lab during my undergrad years, I really gained a new perspective on what drives happiness," von Tobel tells CNBC Make It, adding: "What actually drives happiness are the simple routines and the daily rituals in our lives that create community and connectedness." In college, von Tobel earned Magna Cum Laude honors for a senior thesis on happiness in the small country of Bhutan, according to her LinkedIn profile. "The daily effort drives happiness, not the outcome," says von Tobel.

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☆ Tony Bennett, crooner who sang ‘I Left My Heart in San Francisco,’ dies at 96
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-21 | by ( Catherine E. Shoichet | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +16 min

CNN —Legendary singer Tony Bennett, best known for singing “I Left My Heart in San Francisco,” has died, according to his longtime publicist, Sylvia Weiner. From Tony Bennett Bennett was discovered by Bob Hope while performing at a New York City club in 1949. In 1963, his recording of "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" won Grammy Awards for record of the year and best solo vocal performance. ABC Photo Archives/Walt Disney Television/Getty Images Bennett and San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein hang onto the outside of a San Francisco cable car before taking a test ride in 1984. His performance of “I Left My Heart in San Francisco” won Grammys for best record and best male vocal performance.

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☆ How generative A.I. and ChatGPT will influence jobs at all professional levels
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-16 | by ( Mikaela Cohen | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

A new C-suite role of chief AI officer is comingAsha Palmer, senior vice president of compliance solutions at digital learning platform Skillsoft, says every C-suite has executives who oversee privacy and data, so AI could prompt the creation of a chief AI officer and entire departments overseeing AI security. As AI takes off, a chief AI officer will be a key decision maker over tech priorities that filter down through the organization. Companies need to take precaution and set up guardrails to oversee AI use, Palmer said, and that starts with training employees on how to use chatbots and generative AI. "For companies using or buying AI, they should ask AI companies what their transparency metrics are, how often they audit and check these, and ask them to make this information public facing." Office workers face a challenge, but it is the roles in middle management, specifically, he said, "where it's ambiguous how AI will impact them."

☆ Israeli reforms would undermine judiciary, U.N. rights chief says
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-21 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

GENEVA, Feb 21 (Reuters) - The United Nations' human rights chief on Tuesday voiced concern that a proposed overhaul of Israel's judicial system would "drastically undermine" the ability of the judiciary to uphold human rights and the rule of law. "Breaking from decades of settled practice, such a law would drastically undermine the ability of the judiciary to vindicate individual rights and to uphold the rule of law as an effective institutional check on executive and legislative power," said U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk. Israel's ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, Meirav Eilon Shahar, has said a previous statement from Turk showed prejudice. Austria's Turk, who became High Commissioner in October, earlier this month called on Israel to ensure respect of international rights law after his office documented a record 151 killings of Palestinians by security forces last year. Reporting by Emma Farge; additional reporting by James Mackenzie in Jerusalem Editing by Andrew Cawthorne and Mark PotterOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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