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Karl Yee was about to pay a nearly $112,000 Massachusetts tax bill for his late mother’s estate when he got a reprieve from the governor. A retroactive change to the state’s estate-tax law had dropped the estate’s bill to $12,000. “Hallelujah!” he said, after hearing the news.
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Insider Today: Tech's biggest lie
  + stars: | 2023-09-18 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +9 min
In recent years, some members of Congress have lacked a basic understanding of technology, let alone something as complex as generative AI. Marc Benioff spent much of the annual Dreamforce conference sounding the alarms on how untrustworthy generative AI is right now. Marc Benioff spent much of the annual Dreamforce conference sounding the alarms on how untrustworthy generative AI is right now. It's International Equal Pay Day. The UN General Assembly created this day in 2019 with "equal pay for work of equal value" in mind.
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Over the course of three conversations this summer, Acemoglu told me he's worried we're currently hurtling down a road that will end in catastrophe. "There's a fair likelihood that if we don't do a course correction, we're going to have a truly two-tier system," Acemoglu told me. "I was following the canon of economic models, and in all of these models, technological change is the main mover of GDP per capita and wages," Acemoglu told me. In later empirical work, Acemoglu and Restrepo showed that that was exactly what had happened. "I realize this is a very, very tall order," Acemoglu told me.
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Moderna’s Earnings, Revenue Fall on Fewer Vaccine Sales
  + stars: | 2023-02-23 | by ( Dean Seal | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Photo: Simon Simard for The Wall Street JournalModerna said its research and development expenses soared in the fourth quarter. Moderna Inc. reported lower revenue and earnings in the fourth quarter as demand for its Covid-19 vaccine sank from year-earlier highs when the spread of the Omicron variant boosted sales. The pharmaceutical company, based in Cambridge, Mass., on Thursday said a decrease in volumes for its Covid-19 vaccine pushed sales 29% lower to $5.1 billion, which still topped analyst expectations for $5.02 billion, according to FactSet.
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