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☆ Brené Brown's No. 1 tip for learning from your mistakes
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-30 | by ( Aditi Shrikant | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

You might think being hard on yourself after a professional or personal faux pas will help you to not make that same mistake in the future. Oftentimes this isn't the case, though, says Judy Ho, a neuropsychologist and professor at Pepperdine University. New York Times bestselling author and a professor at The University of Houston, Brené Brown echoes the sentiment that being excessive self-scrutiny doesn't make you stronger. "The core of mental toughness is actually self-compassion," Brown said on her podcast "Unlocking Us" in 2022. "People who are mentally tough stay mentally tough because they don't slip easily into shame or self-criticism or self-loathing."

Persons: Judy Ho, Ho, Brené Brown, Brown Organizations: Pepperdine University, New York Times, The University of Houston, Stanford University's Center for Compassion, Education

☆ This critical skill gives emotionally intelligent people 'greater happiness and fulfillment,' says Stanford-trained psychologist
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-29 | by ( Emma Seppälä | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

As a psychologist who researches emotional intelligence, I know people with high EQ tend to have a critical skill I like to call "emotional sovereignty." When you know how to handle your emotions, you can harness them for creativity, energy, deeper relationships, and greater happiness and fulfillment. Others may be surprised by the fact that you no longer suppress your emotions — they might even be a little uncomfortable with it at first. Others may be surprised by the fact that you no longer suppress your emotions — they might even be a little uncomfortable with it at first. A psychologist and research scientist by training, Seppälä's expertise is the science of happiness, emotional intelligence, and social connection.

Persons: you've, I'm, It's, Emma Seppälä Organizations: Yale School of Management, Stanford University's Center for Compassion, Education, CNBC Locations: Yale

☆ What's so great about Australia's retirement plan — and what it means for America
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-16 | by ( Allie Kelly | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Australia's superannuation system mandates employer-funded retirement contributions. Meanwhile, the US retirement system has become anxiety-inducing for many, as older adults struggle to make ends meet. AdvertisementAustralian retirement system puts saving responsibility on employers, not employeesAmerica's current retirement infrastructure includes two major categories: defined contribution plans and Social Security. This differs from the American system, where retirees' money is often held between a 401(k), other accounts, and outside investments. Still, Reilly cautioned that applying Australia's retirement system to the US could negatively affect employee wages.

Persons: —, Sen, Bernie Sanders, Catherine Reilly, Reilly, Larry Fink, Fink Organizations: Service, Challenger Limited, Money, TIAA Institute, Georgetown University's Center for Retirement, Social Security, BlackRock, Employers, Pew Charitable Trust Locations: Australia, America, California, Colorado

☆ Aramco has been tasked with building things in the energy sector outside of oil: Analyst
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-11 | 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 EmailAramco has been tasked with building things in the energy sector outside of oil: AnalystKaren Young, senior research scholar at Columbia University's Center on Global Energy Policy, discusses Saudi oil giant Aramco's dip in profits and boost in dividends.

Persons: Karen Young Organizations: Aramco, Columbia University's Center, Global Energy, Saudi

☆ NYC has the highest concentration of millionaires worldwide. 25% of its children live in poverty, report says.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-25 | by ( Katie Balevic | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

What's more, child poverty surged from 2021 to 2022, rising to 25% of children living in poverty, the report found. The findings conjure a stark contrast with the ultrawealthy in New York City, which, as of 2023, had the highest concentration of millionaires worldwide, with 340,000 millionaires, according to the London-based firm Henley & Partners. Alarmingly, this year's annual Poverty Tracker report observes the sharpest one-year increase in poverty we've found since launching the study in 2012. Buery cited the expired pandemic-era financial supports, such as the expanded child tax credit, as examples of the city's progress in the past. "We know that fully refundable tax credits, housing vouchers, and childcare subsidies can move millions out of poverty and hardship.

Persons: Robin Hood, we've, Richard R, Buery Jr, Buery, it's Organizations: Columbia University's, Poverty, Bronx ,, Henley & Partners, US, Senate Locations: New York, Bronx, Bronx , Queens, Brooklyn, New York City, London, York City

☆ People are using cash transfers like basic income to pay rent, and it shows just how badly a housing-crisis solution is needed
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-21 | by ( Eliza Relman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

And a growing number of people who are eligible for government housing assistance aren't getting it. But unlike other government benefits like Medicaid and food stamps, housing aid doesn't automatically go to those who need it. And across 31 pilot basic income programs , recipients spent an average of about 9.2% of their payments on housing and utilities. AdvertisementThe amount that the federal government spends on its housing assistance programs, mainly Housing Choice Vouchers and public housing, is determined by Congress each year. "Housing support across America is very fractured and variable," said Sean Kline, director of Stanford's Basic Income Lab.

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☆ The 'One China' policy is being 'hollowed out,' says former Chinese military officer
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-15 | 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 EmailThe 'One China' policy is being 'hollowed out,' says former Chinese military officerZhou Bo, a senior fellow at Tsinghua University's Center of Strategy and Security and a retired officer of the People's Liberation Army, discusses the likelihood and extent of U.S. interference in the event of a military conflict between China and Taiwan.

Persons: Zhou Bo Organizations: Tsinghua University's Center of Strategy, Security, People's Liberation Army Locations: China, Taiwan

☆ How a culture of sports betting and fantasy gaming is emerging on college campuses
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-10 | by ( Margaret Fleming | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +14 min

Noah, a 19-year-old who goes to college in Illinois, uses sports betting to keep up with his friends from high school. The expansion of legal sports betting in the US has fueled a widespread culture of gambling on college campuses, as savvy students find betting alternatives and workarounds for age limits and state restrictions. Many sports-loving college students like Marcus and Noah casually use fantasy gaming, sweepstakes, and betting to make and maintain friendships. BI spoke with seven college students and three researchers to learn more about what sports betting looks like on campuses. A culture of sports betting sustains friendshipsSince the expansion of legalization, sports betting and gaming have exploded on college campuses largely through word of mouth.

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☆ A former OpenAI board member says Sam Altman's firing wasn't 'motivated by a desire to slow down OpenAI's work'
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-30 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Former OpenAI board member Helen Toner has announced her resignation. Toner said that the board wasn't trying to slow down OpenAI's work by firing CEO Sam Altman. AdvertisementFormer OpenAI board member Helen Toner says the board wasn't trying to stifle the company's progress by removing CEO Sam Altman. Though there has been speculation, we were not motivated by a desire to slow down OpenAI’s work. AdvertisementAside from bringing back Altman, OpenAI welcomed a new initial board comprising Bret Taylor, Larry Summers, and Adam D'Angelo.

Persons: Helen Toner, Toner, Sam Altman, Altman, —, wasn't, OpenAI, Bret Taylor, Larry Summers, Adam D'Angelo, Taylor, Tasha McCauley, Ilya Sutskever . Organizations: Service, Georgetown University's Center for Security, Emerging Technology, Microsoft, Business Insider Locations: OpenAI's

☆ Bedrock exec questions, without evidence, if a former OpenAI board member is a Chinese agent
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-28 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

After Sam Altman's ouster, many are wondering why OpenAI board members booted him. Bedrock Capital's founder, an OpenAI investor, is more concerned with a board member's background. Geoff Lewis said, without offering evidence, he thinks an ex-board member's ties to China should be examined. Instead of debating Toner's reason to oust Altman, Lewis said the "right set of questions" should be aimed at her background. AdvertisementToner, along with Tasha McCauley, the only two female board members of OpenAI, were removed from the board following their votes to vacate Altman from his role as CEO.

Persons: Sam Altman's, Geoff Lewis, —, Sam Altman, Altman, Helen Toner, Lewis, Toner, CNBC's Rebecca Quick, Tasha McCauley Organizations: Service, Chinese Communist Party, CNBC, Oxford University's Center, Twitter, US Social, Foreign Affairs, Bedrock, Business, The New York Times, Microsoft Locations: China, OpenAI, Beijing

Jack Guez | Afp | Getty ImagesAfter a weekend of crisis and tumult, Sam Altman has returned as the CEO of OpenAI. Nathan Laine | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesBret Taylor, board chair Bret Taylor is currently a board member at the e-commerce platform Shopify . It isn't clear if Taylor's involvement with his own AI startup will cease with his appointment to lead OpenAI's board. OpenAI's board fired Altman Friday after determining he was "not consistently candid in his communications," but its members never elaborated further. Jack Guez | AFP | Getty ImagesIlya Sutskever Ilya Sutskever co-founded OpenAI and serves as its chief scientist.

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☆ Fear that AI could one day destroy humanity may have led to Sam Altman's (potentially brief) ouster from OpenAI
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-19 | by ( Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Fears over the speed of AI development at OpenAI may have sowed discord within its top ranks. Some OpenAI board members may have disagreed with Altman's approach to AI innovation. OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever has long called for caution due to concerns AI could harm humanity. AdvertisementSam Altman's possibly brief dismissal from OpenAI has exposed a schism between the company's top leaders over how to curb the existential threat posed by AI. OpenAI's board has not offered any more details on what led them to fire Altman beyond noting that they had "lost confidence" in him and that he was not "consistently candid" in communications.

Persons: Ilya Sutskever, —, Sam Altman's, OpenAI, Altman, Mayoshi, Sutskever, — Helen Toner, who's, Tasha McCauley —, Dario Amodei, that's, Elon Musk, Tesla Organizations: Service, The New York Times, Georgetown University's Center for Security, Emerging Technology, Wired Locations: OpenAI

☆ Joe Manchin enraged Democrats and climate activists, but they'll miss him when he's gone
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-15 | by ( Kelsey Vlamis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

His stance on fossil fuels put him at odds with his party and he was frequently blamed for single-handedly quashing some of the Biden administration's most ambitious climate policy goals. Even as West Virginia overwhelmingly voted for former President Donald Trump in the 2016 and 2020 elections, Manchin easily won reelection in 2018. With Manchin gone, his successor will almost certainly be a Republican — most likely West Virginia Gov. Thanks to his GOP credentials and embrace of Trump, he's even less likely to be a climate ally than Manchin. Democrats, whose Senate majority is already slim, could lose that Senate seat for the foreseeable future — making any climate bills that much harder to pass.

Persons: Sen, Joe Manchin, Manchin, Democratic Sen, Joe Biden's, he's, Katie Myers, Grist, Paul Bledsoe, Chuck Schumer, Gerry Petrella, Schumer, Donald Trump, Jim Justice, — Organizations: Republican, Service, Democratic, GOP, Energy, Natural Resources Committee, Biden, American University's Center, Environmental, E, Democrat, Virginia Gov, Trump Locations: West Virginia, United States, Virginia

The Energy Department is making a push to strengthen the U.S. battery supply chain, announcing up to $3.5 billion for companies that produce batteries and the critical minerals that go into them. Some officials, industry experts and others concerned about climate change uneasy supply of battery materials will not keep pace with demand. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law assigned $6 billion in total funding for battery material processing and manufacturing. An initial round went to 15 projects including companies that mine critical minerals like graphite and nickel, used in lithium batteries. Tom Moerenhout, a professor at Columbia University's Center on Global Energy Policy, said it will be a big challenge to ramp up the global supply of critical minerals for the projected battery demand in 2030.

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Ohio voters overwhelmingly approved a state constitutional amendment guaranteeing abortion rights, delivering a landslide-sized message Tuesday night to politicians that the near-total ban GOP lawmakers support is unacceptable to the voting public. President Joe Biden, who has made abortion rights a central theme of his struggling 2024 reelection effort, praised the vote. Nebraska's proposed referendum would ban abortion, while the remaining states are considering initiatives to protect reproductive rights. Advocates believe the abortion rights referendum was a driver of that vote. Broken down, that includes 46% of Democrats, 23% of independents and 20% of Republicans, suggesting Democrats are more likely to make abortion rights a defining factor in their votes.

Persons: Dobbs, Mike DeWine, ” DeWine, Joe Biden, ” Biden, Nebraska's, Biden, Donald Trump, Angela Vasquez, Giroux, Vasquez, Jim Jordan, Dave Yost, Gerson Fuentes, Jordan, Yost, ” Organizations: NBC, Buckeye State, Jackson Women's Health, Republicans, Democrats, Ohio’s Republican Gov, CNN, The New York Times, Siena College, GOP, Democratic, Tufts University's Center for Information, Research, Civic, KFF, Ohio Republican Locations: Ohio, Buckeye, Dobbs, America, Ohio –, California , Kansas , Kentucky, Montana , Michigan, Vermont, Maryland, New York, Arizona , Florida , Nebraska , Nevada, South Dakota, Arizona, Nevada, Michigan, Indiana, . Ohio

Cornell University student Patrick Dai is accused of making online threats against the school's Jewish community. David Bauder/APAfter the threats were posted Sunday, Cornell University police ramped up patrols and increased security for Jewish students and organizations, the agency said. At Cornell, Jewish students make up about 22% of the student body, with about 3,000 undergraduate and 500 graduate Jewish students, according to the school’s Hillel organization. “Jewish students on campus right now are unbelievably terrified for their lives,” Molly Goldstein, co-president of the Cornell Center for Jewish Living, told CNN. “The virulence and destructiveness of antisemitism is real and deeply impacting our Jewish students, faculty and staff, as well as the entire Cornell community.

Persons: Patrick Dai, Dai, “, Gabrielle DiBella, DiBella, Christopher Wray, Biden, he’s, beheadings, ” Dai, Miranda, Dai’s, Cornell, David Bauder, Kathy Hochul, Hillel, Cornell Hillel, ” Molly Goldstein, ” Cornell, Joel M, Malina, ” Malina, ”, Martha E, Pollack, ” Pollack, Hochul, it’s, CNN’s Wolf, “ We’re, CNN’s Jessica Xing, Elizabeth Wolfe, Paul P, Murphy, Maria Campinoti, Dakin Andone, Chris Boyette, Andy Rose, Caroll Alvarado, Artemis Moshtaghian, Michelle Watson Organizations: New York CNN, The Cornell University, Ivy League, New York’s Northern District, Prosecutors, US, Cornell University, Israel, CNN, Palestinian, Defamation League, Cornell, FBI, Dai, Pittsford Mendon High School, Cornell Police Department, New York, New York State Police Department, Cornell University's Center, Jewish, Cornell University police, New York State Police, Gov, Cornell Center for Jewish, “ Cornell University, ” Cornell University, ” New Locations: Syracuse, New York, West, Broome County, Israel, United States, Pittsburgh , Minnesota, Rhode Island, Ithaca , New York, Cornell’s, Pittsford , New York, Pittsford, Ithaca, Cornell, ” New York, Muslim, Dai

☆ Middle East conflict: China's role is to help avert a conflagration, says ex-Chinese military officer
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-01 | 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 EmailMiddle East conflict: China's role is to help avert a conflagration, says ex-Chinese military officerZhou Bo, a senior fellow at Tsinghua University's Center for International Security and Strategy and a retired officer of the People's Liberation Army, says it's "not to stop Israel's retaliation, which is not possible."

Persons: Zhou Bo Organizations: Tsinghua University's Center for International Security, People's Liberation Army

☆ Authorities investigating online threats of violence against Jewish students at Cornell University, school’s president says
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-29 | by ( Elizabeth Wolfe | Artemis Moshtaghian | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —Cornell University police are investigating a series of antisemitic threats made against the school’s Jewish community in online posts over the weekend, its president announced. “The FBI is aware of the threats made to Cornell University’s Jewish community,” the agency said in a statement. “The virulence and destructiveness of antisemitism is real and deeply impacting our Jewish students, faculty and staff, as well as the entire Cornell community. This cannot be what defines us at Cornell.”Cornell senior Zoe Bernstein, who is Jewish, told CNN she was heartbroken to read the antisemitic posts, which she said have spread fear and distress throughout the campus’ Jewish community. “It’s really, really hard to focus on anything other than all of this,” she said.

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☆ Why Exxon and Chevron are doubling down on fossil fuel energy with big acquisitions
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-25 | by ( Catherine Clifford | In Catclifford | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

The largest oil and gas producers in the United States see a long pathway for oil demand," Cahill told CNBC. "There's a major difference between what the big oil companies believe the future of oil is and the governments around the world." "The large companies — nongovernment companies — do not see an end to oil demand any time in the near future. Oil and gas are relatively cheap and easy to move around, particularly in comparison with building new clean energy infrastructure. "By the way, that means the large financial oil companies will be able to weather that environment better than the smaller companies."

Persons: Cahill, Ben Cahill, Goldstein, Larry J, Birol, Fatih Birol, Shon Hiatt, Hiatt, Marianne Kah, Kah, Amy Myers Jaffe, Jaffe Organizations: CNBC, Center for Strategic, International Studies, Petroleum Industry Research Foundation, Energy, Research Foundation, Chevron, Exxon, International Energy Agency, IEA, USC Marshall School of Business ., Columbia University's Center, Global Energy, ConocoPhillips, New York University, Climate Justice, Sustainability, NYU's School, Professional Studies, Exxon Mobil Locations: United States, Africa, Asia, America, U.S, Russia, Venezuela, Iran

Flags of China and U.S. are displayed on a printed circuit board with semiconductor chips, in this illustration picture taken February 17, 2023. Reuters reported in June that the very AI chips barred by prior regulations could be purchased from vendors in China's Shenzhen. AI capabilities, aided by supercomputing and advanced chips, improve the speed and accuracy of military decision-making, planning and logistics, according to the regulations released Tuesday. LICENSING EXPANDEDThe new measures also expand licensing requirements for exports of advanced chips to more than 40 additional countries that present risks of diversion to China and are subject to U.S. arms embargoes. "We don’t think incremental semiconductor equipment restrictions are likely to have significant long term effects" on equipment suppliers, Wolfe Research said in a client note.

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China's Ministry of Commerce has previously accused the U.S. of abusing export controls and called for it to "stop its unreasonable suppression of Chinese companies." Washington has been working to close other loopholes that allow the AI chips into China. In August, it told Nvidia and AMD to restrict shipments of the AI chips beyond China to other regions, including some countries in the Middle East. Sources said the new rules on AI chips expected this month will likely apply those same restrictions more broadly to all companies in the market. But sources say the Biden administration is grappling with that issue as well.

Persons: Florence Lo, Biden, Greg Allen, Hanna Dohmen, George, CSET, Timothy Fist, Alexandra Alper, Karen Freifeld, Chris Sanders, Anna Driver Organizations: REUTERS, United, Reuters, Center for Strategic, International Studies, Commerce Department, Embassy, China's Ministry of Commerce, U.S, Georgetown University's Center for Security, Emerging Technology, International Affairs, George Washington University’s School of International Affairs, Nvidia, Xilinx, Intel, AMD, Amazon Web Services, Washington, New, New American Security, Thomson Locations: United States, Beijing, China, U.S, Shenzhen . Washington, Singapore, Washington, Georgetown, Microsemi . Washington, New American

☆ Calls for AI regulations to protect jobs rise in Europe after ChatGPT's arrival
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-11 | by ( Ryan Browne | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Privately held companies have been left to develop AI technology at breakneck speed, giving rise to systems like Microsoft-backed OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Bard. Last year, 58% of people responded to IE University's study saying they think that AI should be regulated. Standing out from the rest of Europe, Estonia is the only country where this view decreased — by 23% — from last year. Generally, though, the majority of people in Europe are favorable of governments regulating AI to stem the risk of job losses. It comes as governments around the world are working on regulation for AI algorithms.

Persons: Google's Bard, Lionel Bonaventure, Ikhlaq Sidhu, Sidhu Organizations: Microsoft, Getty, IE University, IE, SciTech, IE University's, European Union Locations: Europe, Estonia

REGULATORY SCRUTINYWhile disinformation has spread on all major social media platforms including Facebook and TikTok, X appeared to be the most recent to draw scrutiny from regulators. On Tuesday, European Union Commissioner Thierry Breton warned Musk that X was spreading "illegal content and disinformation," according to a letter Breton posted on X. Musk himself recommended that X users follow two accounts that had previously spread false claims for "real-time" updates on the conflict, the Washington Post reported. False information has also spread on messaging app Telegram and short-form video app TikTok, said DFRLab's Trad. Like other online platforms, YouTube has moderation employees and technology to remove content that violates its rules.

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☆ Data centers are booming. Their need for power is causing utilities to retreat on green energy.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-09 | by ( Daniel Geiger | Ellen Thomas | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +18 min

Katie Hobbs at Google's September announcement of a a new $600 million data center in Mesa, Arizona. The amount of electricity needed to power data centers in the U.S. is expected to more than double by 2030, according to McKinsey. "With data centers, you're going to do all of the above to have capacity to meet those loads." Utilities struggle to meet data center loads while cutting carbonThe utility-level impact of the data center industry's energy demand reaches beyond Phoenix. In preliminary documents, it has identified data centers as "the major source of load growth during 2023-2038."

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Hunter Biden, son of U.S. President Joe Biden, departs federal court after a plea hearing on two misdemeanor charges of willfully failing to pay income taxes in Wilmington, Delaware, U.S. July 26, 2023. The indictment was secured in September by Special Counsel David Weiss after a plea agreement between Hunter Biden and prosecutors collapsed in August. Many Republican lawmakers who have relentlessly criticized Hunter Biden lauded the Bruen decision. Cases now being litigated will help determine how far the Bruen ruling lets courts go in invalidating gun laws. Even if Hunter Biden gets the possession charge dismissed, there is still the matter of the two counts accusing him of false statements on the background check form.

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