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Nights in Las Vegas Are Becoming Dangerously Hot
  + stars: | 2024-08-11 | by ( Ronda Kaysen | Aatish Bhatia | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +12 min
This June and July, nights in Las Vegas stayed above 79 degrees for all but seven days. And hot nights are something more people are experiencing: No American major metro area has grown as much as Las Vegas has over the last three decades. Even after the sun set in Las Vegas in June and July, temperatures routinely remained in the 80s and 90s. Populations have doubled or more over a generation, with the number of abnormally hot nights rising at similar rates. A growing dangerLas Vegas metro 1984 Urban Core This was the Las Vegas metro in 1984.
Persons: , Matt Woods, , Bridget Bennett, Ariel Choinard, “ You’re, Ms, Choinard, Anita Swogger, Tristan, Chima Cyril Hampo, Mr, Swogger, Tollis, Yanci, Yanci Hill, Steffen Lehmann, Blanca Solis, Solis, Richard Kettler, Solis’s, Organizations: Vegas, Las Vegas, National Weather Service, The New York Times, Southern, Resilience, Desert Research Institute, Southern Nevada Health, Duke University, U.S ., Atlanta, National Weather, Major metros, Las, Regional Transportation Commission, Drexel University, Weather Service, University of Nevada Locations: United States, Las Vegas, Vegas, Southern Nevada, Clark County, Austin , Texas, Raleigh, N.C, Orlando, Fla, Austin, Phoenix, … Las Vegas Austin , Texas Raleigh, Phoenix Atlanta, Nevada, Arizona, East Las Vegas, Asia, Henderson, Stewart, Las
For Love & Money is a column from Business Insider answering your relationship and money questions. This week, a reader's dad died and left all his money to one sibling. Dear For Love & Money,My dad died almost two years ago and left my younger brother and me here. I know my dad caused this situation, but my brother doesn't have to handle it like that. Maybe your dad felt bad for your brother because he always secretly felt you had more promise.
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Stars from Hollywood's golden age are being reborn through celebrity estate AI voice cloning deals, a sign of how some of the "Wild West" concerns about unauthorized AI impersonation are being addressed by new business models. Safeguards include active moderation of content, accountability enforceable with bans, and special provisions for safeguarding the impact of AI voice on the 2024 election. Among the current generation of actors, there remains significant anxiety surrounding the use of AI in generating voice content. Voice actors for video games have raised concerns, and last year's film and television strike had significant roots in anxieties over the use of AI. AI voice licensing could alleviate workload for voice actors, he added, without supplanting them, as they "intercede in the process by focusing on offering correction or enhancement to ineffable aspects such as intonation, warmth, and emphasis, which still present challenges."
Persons: Burt Reynolds, Andreessen Horowitz, Judy Garland, James Dean, Sir Laurence Olivier, ElevenLabs, Sam Sklar, Scarlett Johansson, " Sklar, Frito, Tom Waits soundalike, Waits, Lovo, Steve Cohen, Pollock, Cohen, Bette Davis, Sklar, Nauman Dawalatabad, Dawalatabad, Michele Cobb Organizations: Golden Globe, Beverly Hilton Hotel, Sequoia, New York Times, Washington Post, Disney, Google, Apple, MIT Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Audio Publishers Association, CNBC
Children born after 2010, Gen Alpha are the internet’s newest darlings. Gen Alpha’s hyper online manner of speaking has been dubbed “brainrot,” mostly by older Gen Zer’s who share spaces like TikTok with them. It evolves so quickly online.”With the new slang, Gen Alpha itself has gained a reputation. When older people try to use Gen Alpha slang, “It’s kind of embarrassing,” Beryl said. “Every single person throughout history has always complained about how the younger generations are ruining language with their made-up slang,” Aleksic said.
Persons: Gen Z’s, , ” Everyone’s, Gen Alpha, Zer’s, Camille Nisich, , We’re, Michael Petersen, Beryl, he's, Michael Petersen “, Adam Aleksic, you’ve, Alpha, Michael Bay, it’s, It’s, Z’s, Kai Cenat, Fanum, Marigold, cuz, ” Aleksic, Aleksic, Neal Broverman, Calvin, ” Nisich, ” Beryl, They’re, ” Neal Broverman, Neal, Zers, “ There’s, “ It’s Organizations: Alpha, Hollywood, bae ”, Google Locations: Roblox, , Marigold, “ Ohio, Ohio, Tennessee
YouTube’s former chief executive and long-time Google executive Susan Wojcicki died on Saturday at the age of 56 after a two-year battle with lung cancer. “It is with profound sadness that I share the news of Susan Wojcicki passing. Before becoming CEO of YouTube in 2014, Wojcicki was senior vice president for ad products at Google. After nine years at the helm, Wojcicki stepped down from her role at YouTube in 2023 to focus on “family, health, and personal projects”. “Today we at YouTube lost a teammate, mentor, and friend, Susan Wojcicki,” Mohan said in a post on X.
Persons: YouTube’s, Susan Wojcicki, ” Dennis Troper, Susan, Sundar Pichai, Wojcicki, Neal Mohan, Larry, Sergey, ” Wojcicki, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, ” Mohan Organizations: Google, YouTube, Stanford
Susan Wojcicki, who helped turn Google from a start-up in her garage into an internet juggernaut and became one of Silicon Valley’s most prominent female executives with her leadership of YouTube, died on Friday. Her death was confirmed by her husband, Dennis Troper, who wrote on Facebook on Friday that she had been living with lung cancer. A YouTube spokesman confirmed the date of her death. Sundar Pichai, Google’s chief executive, announced her death in a statement on Friday. “She is as core to the history of Google as anyone, and it’s hard to imagine the world without her,” he said.
Persons: Susan Wojcicki, Dennis Troper, Sundar Pichai, Organizations: Google, YouTube, Facebook
A study published in the Journal of Hospitality Marketing & Management in June found that describing a product as using AI lowers a customer’s intention to buy it. “Way before people even heard about AI, those movies shaped people’s perception of what robots that run by AI can do to humanity,” he said. …and a lack of transparencyAnother part of the equation influencing customers is the perceived risk around AI – particularly with how it handles users’ personal data. This lack of transparency is something that Gursoy warns has the potential to sour customers’ perceptions towards brands they may have already come to trust. “Rather than simply putting ’AI-powered’ or ’run by AI,’ telling people how this can help them will ease the consumer’s fears.”
Persons: , Dogan Gursoy, , ChatGPT, Gursoy, , Organizations: CNN, of Hospitality Marketing, Management, Taco Bell, Washington State University, , Google, Hollywood
I'm a high school teacher, and I see parents spend way too much on school supplies all the time. Many states have tax-free weekends, and many stores schedule school supply sales for those weekends. As a high school teacher, I often see families overspending and wasting money. Have your school supply list handy as soon as it's released, and pick up the items on sale when you find them. Check with your school for support programsIf money is tight (and even if it's not), check with your school and community to see if there are support programs for school supplies.
Persons: I'm, , there's, it's Organizations: Service, Walmart, Girls
WHY WE’RE HEREWe’re exploring how America defines itself one place at a time. In San Francisco, a city that loves the new, many residents are flocking to an old cathedral. Aug. 10, 2024San Francisco residents have always celebrated the new, the innovative, the cutting-edge. But these days, they are flocking to a surprising venue for the cool factor: a church that is older than the city itself. But in the past few years, it has boomed for reasons that have nothing to do with the Bible.
Persons: Sergey Brin, Kudra Organizations: Episcopal, Google Locations: San Francisco, Nob, Grace, Fairmont, Ugandan
Google unnerved Silicon Valley last week when it agreed to pay $2.5 billion to license Character.AI's technology, hire its two superstar cofounders and 20 percent of employees. The deal came after AI developers Adept and Inflection both effectively sold themselves to Amazon and Microsoft, respectively, in recent months. It was only last year Character.AI raised $150 million in venture funding, which valued the company at $850 million. Its appeal as a chatbot that uses AI to make virtual characters that interact with users seems decidedly niche. Related storiesMost of the founders and investors Business Insider spoke to for this story say Google has little interest in Character.AI's actual product.
Persons: cofounders, Brent Queener, Kyle Sanford, Character.AI, Iris Sun, Noam Shazeer, Daniel De Freitas, Jack Selby, Peter Thiel's, Steve Brotman, Shazeer, De Freitas, PitchBook's Sanford, they're, Roy Bahat, Arvind Jain, Cameron Lester, Lester Organizations: Service, Microsoft, Bonfire Ventures, Business, Apple, Big Tech, AZ, Biden Administration, Federal Trade Commission, Department of Justice, Alpha Partners, FTC, DOJ, New York Times, Google, Madrona Venture, Bloomberg Beta, Jefferies
CEO Youtube Susan Wojcicki speaks during the 'What Matters Next' session during the Cannes Lions Festival 2018 on June 19, 2018 in Cannes, France. Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, who was also one of the most influential early Google employees, has died at the age of 56 according to posts shared online by her husband Dennis Troper and Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Friday night. Wojcicki's husband Dennis Troper wrote on Facebook early Friday night, "It is with profound sadness that I share the news of Susan Wojcicki passing. Pichai confirmed the death and cancer condition in a post on social media Friday, writing that he was "unbelievably saddened" by the loss. During Wojcicki's tenure as YouTube CEO, she oversaw the company's rapid expansion, helping turn it into the largest video platform in the world.
Persons: Susan Wojcicki, Dennis Troper, Sundar Pichai, Wojicki, Wojcicki's, Pichai, Sergey …, Susan, she'd, shepherding, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Brin, Wojcicki, Google's, Patrick Keane, couldn't, Kim Scott, Neal Mohan, Sheryl Sandberg, @SusanWojcicki, Jeff Dean Organizations: Cannes Lions, YouTube, Facebook, Google, Intel Locations: Cannes, France, Silicon Valley, Park , California
The stagnation has resulted in a rise in "stuck" workers — frustrated employees who say they want to quit a job, but are staying put as the fear of a potential recession looms in the backs of their minds. Google search interest for the search phrase "quitting job" is down 11% over the last year, according to data accessed from the search analytics tool Glimpse. AdvertisementGoogle search interest in the term "recession" has exploded 230% over the past month, Glimpse data shows. Google search interest in "recession" has more than doubled in the past month. Job market forecasters say the slowdown in hiring looks poised to continue, even if the Fed begins to loosen monetary policy.
Persons: , That's, Amanda, It's, I've, Raymond Lee, Careerminds, Korn, Radhika Papandreou, Papandreou Organizations: Service, Business, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Conference Board, Google, Fed, National Federation of Independent
Susan Wojcicki, former YouTube CEO, dies
  + stars: | 2024-08-10 | by ( Paradise Afshar | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +2 min
CNN —Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki has died after living with lung cancer for two years, according to her husband. “It is with profound sadness that I share the news of Susan Wojcicki passing. My beloved wife of 26 years and mother to our five children left us today after 2 years of living with non-small cell lung cancer,” Dennis Troper wrote in a Facebook post. “Please keep our family in your thoughts as we navigate this difficult time.”Google CEO Sundar Pichai expressed condolences in a post on X early Saturday, calling Wojcicki the “core” to Google’s history. “I’m so proud of everything we’ve achieved,” Wojcicki wrote when announcing she was stepping down in 2023.
Persons: Susan Wojcicki, ” Dennis Troper, Troper, Wojcicki, , , ” Troper, Sundar Pichai, we’ve, ” Wojcicki Organizations: CNN, YouTube, Google Locations: California
New York CNN —Google, X and Discord are among a group of tech giants that could be doing more to address the rising threat of non-consensual explicit images online, according to a letter that a group of senators sent to the companies Friday. The letter criticizes nearly a dozen tech firms for their lack of participation in two programs that make it easier for people to request the removal of non-consensual explicit images and videos from the internet. The letter was spearheaded by Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen and Republican Sen. Rick Scott, and co-signed by ten other senators. Most of the companies named in the letter have policies against the creation or sharing of non-consensual, explicit images, and in some cases offer their own ways for users to report or request the removal of such content. The fight to address non-consensual explicit images and deepfakes has received rare bipartisan support.
Persons: popstar Taylor Swift, OpenAI, Democratic Sen, Jeanne Shaheen, Republican Sen, Rick Scott, deepfakes, Ted Cruz, , Amy Klobuchar Organizations: New, New York CNN, Google, CNN, Microsoft, National Center for, Democratic, Republican, Capitol Locations: New York
In today's big story, turns out being a venture capitalist can be really hard, and some VCs want out . The big storyWe were promised big returnsiStock; Rebecca Zisser/InsiderFor venture capitalists, when the going gets tough, the tough get going…toward the exits. Some VC workers are reconsidering their future as the industry goes through a rough patch, writes Business Insider's Sri Muppidi. The ink was barely dry on a deal before startups were raising another round, doubling their VCs' investment (on paper) along the way. One Bay Area partner told Sri junior investors need to meet dozens of companies a week.
Persons: , Rebecca Zisser, It's, That's, VCs, dobi, Goldman Sachs, duMond, Chip Somodevilla, Alyssa Powell, Jamie Dimon, we're, Jamie, David Zalubowski, Chelsea Jia Feng, Meta's Instagram, Grzegorz Wajda, Elon Musk, Musk's X, he's, Grimes, Sam Altman, Kamala Harris, Dan DeFrancesco, Jordan Parker Erb, Hallam Bullock, Amanda Yen Organizations: Service, Business, VCs, Tiger Global, Area, JPMorgan, YouTube, Dell, Getty, Elon, Federation, Global Alliance, Responsible Media, UK Prime, Democratic, Trump, Disney Locations: Patagonia, Dimon, Anaheim , California, North Carolina, Virginia, New York, London
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has argued that AI models should eventually produce synthetic data good enough to train themselves effectively. As the well of usable human-generated data dries up, more companies look into using synthetic data. Rather than being pulled from the real world, synthetic data is generated by AI systems that have been trained on real-world data. Synthetic data may help offer some effective "countertuning" to the biases produced by real-world data, too. 'Habsburg AI'While the AI industry found some advantages in synthetic data, it faces serious issues it can't afford to ignore, such as fears synthetic data can wreck AI models.
Persons: , that's, Sam Altman, Gary Marcus, It's, Nathan Lambert, Gretel, SynthLabs, Meta, Timnit Gebru, Margaret Mitchell, LLMs, Sadowski, Alexandr Wang, AlphaGeometry, Marcus Organizations: Service, Google, Business, Oxford, Gartner, New York University, Allen Institute, AI, Nvidia, Meta's, Anadolu, Getty, Rush, Microsoft, Monash University Locations: Cambridge, Habsburg
But all the excitement to get a jump start on Halloween comes as consumers are showing more signs of financial stress. Tricking consumers into treating themselves more“It’s clear that consumers have been interested in buying Halloween products earlier and earlier,” said Champine. Michaels said it started selling Halloween goods in June, the earliest the retailer has ever done so. The initial launch of Halloween goods at Michaels “has been consistently beating our internal expectations,” he added. By selling Halloween goods earlier, they’re likely hoping it’ll decrease the likelihood of having to discount, she added.
Persons: can’t, , Laura Champine, they’re, Joe Feldman, Michaels, ” John Gehre, Michaels “, ” Kelsey Robinson, Lance Allen, , ” Allen, David Zalubowski, they’ve, they’ll, Champine, ” Lowe’s, Feldman Organizations: New, New York CNN, Disney, Walt Disney, Loop, Telsey Advisory, CNN, Costco, Consumer, McKinsey, Labor, Depot Locations: New York, Los Angeles, Sheridan , Colorado, Lowe’s
Ukrainian drones struck a key military airfield in Russia's Lipetsk region, forcing authorities to declare a state of emergency in another Russian region this week in the face of Kyiv's ongoing cross-border offensive. All are receiving the necessary assistance," Artamonov said in a later Google-translated Telegram update, without detailing the state of those who had suffered injuries. Kursk was still reporting missile danger alerts as of Friday, according to Google-translated Telegram updates from regional Governor Alexei Smirnov, who said the local situation remained "difficult." Moscow has continued its own advances, with a Russian missile hitting a supermarket in the town of Kostiantynivka in the front-line Ukrainian region of Donetsk on Friday. At least 10 people were killed and 35 others were injured as a result, according to Minister of Internal Affairs Ihor Klymenko in a Google-translated Telegram update.
Persons: Ukraine —, Su, Igor Artamonov, Artamonov, Alexei Smirnov, Ihor Organizations: Ukraine's, Staff, Command, Lipetsk, CNBC, Google, Internal Locations: Russian, Kostyantynivka, Donetsk, Ukrainian, Russia's Lipetsk, Lipetsk —, Ukraine, Lipetsk, Kursk, Belgorod, Kyiv, Moscow, Kostiantynivka
That experience with a cloud migration project Sadhwani worked on during her first internship helped her land her first job as a DevOps engineer at Brightspot. After gaining experience in the field for a year and a half, she landed a cloud engineer role at Amazon Web Services (AWS), which she described as a "pivotal moment" in her career. After two years at AWS, a Google Cloud recruiter contacted Sadhwani, who then embarked on its comprehensive interview process. Define your goals and personal brandThe Big Tech job market is competitive, and building a personal brand is important. For Sadhwani, exploring Google Cloud led her to find the perfect role.
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LONDON — E-commerce giant Amazon’s multibillion-dollar investment in the U.S. artificial intelligence firm Anthropic is formally being investigated by a U.K. competition regulator. Amazon completed in March a $4 billion investment in Anthropic. As part of the deal Amazon will make Anthropic’s powerful large language models available on its Bedrock platform for building generative AI applications. An Anthropic spokesperson told CNBC: “We are an independent company. The CMA is separately scrutinizing U.S. software giant Microsoft’s multibillion-dollar partnership and investment in AI giant OpenAI.
Persons: Anthropic, Anthropic “, , Matt Calkins, Appian, ” Calkins, you’ve, Organizations: Markets, CMA, Amazon, CNBC, Microsoft, U.S . Federal Trade Commission, Google, Big Tech Locations: U.S, Anthropic
The New A.I. Deal: Buy Everything but the Company
  + stars: | 2024-08-08 | by ( Erin Griffith | Cade Metz | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Last week, Mr. Shazeer and Mr. De Freitas announced that they were returning to Google. research arm, along with roughly 20 percent of Character.AI’s employees, and provide their start-up’s technology, they said. Instead, Google agreed to pay $3 billion to license the technology, two people with knowledge of the deal said. About $2.5 billion of that sum will then be used to buy out Character.AI’s shareholders, including Mr. Shazeer, who owns 30 percent to 40 percent of the company and stands to net $750 million to $1 billion, the people said. While big tech companies typically buy start-ups outright, they have turned to a more complicated deal structure for young A.I.
Persons: Noam Shazeer, Daniel De Freitas, Shazeer, De Freitas, Character.AI Organizations: Google Locations: Silicon Valley
Read previewJacob Shaidle started cleaning barbecues in the summer of 2021 to fund his education. AdvertisementShaidle started cleaning barbecues in 2021 to pay for his university tuition. Over the past year, the teens, who are heading into their third year at the University of British Columbia, have grown Shaidle Cleaning to six figures in annual revenue. One is a small business called Strodes, a butcher shop deli that makes its own all-natural, chemical-free degreaser that Shaidle Cleaning buys in bulk. Go digitalDuring his first two summers in business, Shaidle acquired clients through door-knocking and word-of-mouth.
Persons: , Jacob Shaidle, he'd, Shaidle, Aran Giffen, Lean, Giffen, it's, Aran, Jake, They'll, they're, you've Organizations: Service, Business, University of British, Insight, Hamilton Spectator Locations: Hamilton , Ontario, University of British Columbia, Ontario, We've
But even as online disinformation related to stabbings in the U.K. has led to real-world violence, Ofcom, Britain's online safety regulator finds itself unable to take effective enforcement actions. Shortly after the attack, social media users were quick to falsely identify the perpetrator as an asylum seeker who arrived in the U.K. by boat in 2023. U.K. officials subsequently issued warnings to social media firms urging them to get tough on false information online. Peter Kyle, the U.K.'s technology minister, held conversations with social media firms such as TikTok, Facebook parent company Meta , Google and X over their handling of misinformation being spread during the riots. watch nowUnder the Online Safety Act, the sending of false information intended to cause non-trivial harm is considered a punishable criminal offense.
Persons: Christopher Furlong, knifeman, Taylor Swift, Axel Rudakubana, Peter Kyle, Gill Whitehead, Whitehead Organizations: Riot, Ofcom, Police, Facebook, Meta, Google, CNBC Locations: Rotherham, U.K, Southport, Merseyside
Chesnot | Getty ImagesLONDON — E-commerce giant Amazon's multibillion-dollar investment in the U.S. artificial intelligence firm Anthropic is formally being investigated by a U.K. competition regulator. As part of the deal Amazon will make Anthropic's powerful large language models available on its Bedrock platform for building generative AI applications. "By investing in Anthropic, Amazon, along with other companies, is helping Anthropic expand choice and competition in this important technology. Amazon's spokesperson added that the company will continue to make Anthropic's models available to customers via Bedrock. "We welcome the opportunity to cooperate with the CMA and provide them with a comprehensive understanding of Amazon's investment and our commercial collaboration."
Persons: Dario Amodei, Anthropic Organizations: Getty, Markets, CMA, Amazon, CNBC, Microsoft, U.S . Federal Trade Commission, Google Locations: Chesnot, U.S, Anthropic
What does the Olympics controversy over Algerian boxer Imane Khelif have to do with J.K. Rowling’s home wallpaper? A representative for Rowling declined to comment on her wallpaper and the backlash to her posts about Khelif. LGBTQ people and groups like GLAAD have condemned Rowling’s views, calling them transphobic, and “Harry Potter” actor Daniel Radcliffe spoke out against her in 2020. Some of Rowling’s defenders responded to the mold posts, suggesting that what people online claim is mold is actually wallpaper. Google search interest in “jk rowling mold” has also skyrocketed since then, with breakout search queries like “jk rowling black mold meme” in Canada, the U.S., the U.K. and Australia.
Persons: Imane Khelif, , , ” Khelif, Rowling, ” “, , Harry Potter, Daniel Radcliffe, X, Harry Potter ”, Rowling’s, JD Vance, “ jk rowling Organizations: International Olympics, IOC, ” “ Jk, GLAAD, Locations: British, Russian, Canada, U.S, Australia
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