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Hanna is a former Google AI ethicist who worked alongside Timnit Gebru, who was fired from the tech giant after voicing concerns about its natural language processing tools. Hanna now oversees research at Gebru's Distributed AI Research Institute. Her work centers on communities most affected by AI. "So it increases that gigification and casualization of work." See Business Insider's full AI Power List
Persons: Hanna, Timnit Gebru, there's, Emily Bender Organizations: Research, University of Washington
Mesh networks consist of devices that connect to each other rather than to a single router. A mesh network is a private wireless broadband network in which devices, or connection points, link to one another in a weblike structure. Mesh networks also offer significantly more safety and security, whether from a malicious attack or other breach. We're also moving toward more autonomy and artificial-intelligence-driven decision-making, applications, and technologies; mesh networks are built for that. If you drop a mesh network into an environment with poor LAN architecture and configuration, it will become apparent pretty quickly.
Persons: , Steven Griggs, Todd Rigby, Griggs, Rigby, Erica Sweeney, We're, Sweeney Organizations: Rajant Corporation, Service, LTE
With its core business under threat, Google has spent the past two years pouring resources into building its own AI chips. In charge of those efforts is Vahdat, one of Business Insider's 2024 AI Power List picks. Vahdat has been at the company for more than a decade and is today setting the direction for Google's silicon strategy. That also means working closely with Google DeepMind to take its breakthrough models and integrate them throughout Google's products, whether YouTube's creator tools or Google's search ads. See Business Insider's full AI Power List
Persons: Vahdat Organizations: Google, Amazon, Microsoft
As industries increasingly rely on real-time AI models, Akamai's infrastructure offers both speed and enhanced security by processing data closer to users. This technological edge, combined with the company's attractive valuation, offers substantial upside potential, with recent market activity reflecting growing investor interest in its AI-driven growth opportunities. AKAM has formed a classic bottoming pattern over the past few months and is now breaking above a major resistance level at $102.50. AI models distributed on Akamai's extensive edge computing network provide significant upside potential, especially as demand for low-latency AI solutions increases across various industries. BEFORE MAKING ANY FINANCIAL DECISIONS, YOU SHOULD STRONGLY CONSIDER SEEKING ADVICE FROM YOUR OWN FINANCIAL OR INVESTMENT ADVISOR.
Persons: AKAM, Zhang Organizations: Akamai Technologies, CNBC, NBC UNIVERSAL Locations: AKAM
Investors have been increasingly on edge about the prospect of former President Donald Trump winning the election, a possibility for which Wall Street has been preparing to a greater extent. While polls remain effectively dead-even, Trump’s prospects have grown since the start of this month in political betting markets. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite led the decline, ending the day down by 1.6%; while the S&P 500 and Dow both fell about 1%. Recent strong economic data has led traders to question whether the central bank might maintain higher rates for longer than anticipated. The current market environment suggests continued volatility ahead, said Torres, warning of the potential for further yield curve steepening and increased market turbulence ahead.
Persons: Donald Trump, Trump, ” Steven Ricchiuto, Kamala Harris, Dow, , José Torres, McDonald’s, Kelly Ortberg, Torres Organizations: New, New York CNN, Mizuho Securities, Treasury, Nasdaq, Dow, Interactive Brokers, Nvidia, Apple, Boeing, Federal Locations: New York, United States
Karnal, India CNN —The sun blisters the arid ground in Karnal, a district in India’s northern Haryana state, where empty houses stand testament to an acute problem that’s driving some residents to take unimaginable risks. Ankit Chaudhary says he paid an agent to help him take the 'donkey route' into the US but lost his money. His account matched that of another smuggling agent CNN spoke to in Haryana. But even if Trump wins the November election, smugglers CNN spoke to in India predict an eventual revival of the “donkey” route. “In my opinion the donkey route will never completely stop,” said the first agent.
Persons: , Ankit Chaudhary, ” Chaudhary, Narendra Modi, “ Viskit, ” Modi, , Bharat, Chaudhary, Rajeev Kumar, Malkeet, ” Kumar, Young, Muzaffar Chishti, ” Chishti, ” Ankush Malik, Malik, They’ve, Chishti, , , Frederic J . Brown, CNN's Ivan Watson he's, Trump, we’re, ” Trump, Kamala Harris, Gary Coronado, ’ Kumar, Kumar Organizations: India CNN, USA, CNN, US, Pew, India’s Ministry of Labour, Employment, Panama City, International Labour Organization, Migration, Institute, Biden, YouTube, Customs, Border Protection, Justice Department, Biden Administration, Border Patrol, Migrants, Getty, White, Democratic, Trump, Immigrants, Border, Los Angeles Times, El Locations: Karnal, India, India’s, Haryana, United States, Latin America, Mexico, El Salvador, Mator, Kaithal, New Delhi, Dubai, Almaty, Kazakhstan, Turkey, Istanbul, Panama, San Salvador, Guatemala, New York, Qatar, Amsterdam, Springs , California, AFP, San Diego, South Asia, September’s
AI startup Attention raised a $14 million Series A funding round from Alven, Eniac, and Frst. The startup uses AI and natural language processing to glean data and next steps from sales calls. AdvertisementNew York-based AI startup Attention, which uses natural language processing to fill out customer relationship management (CRM) programs and generate action items from sales calls, just raised a fresh round of funding. Late-stage startup Gong, which also records sales calls, raised $250 million in Series E funding in 2021 at a $7.25 billion valuation. And 11x.ai, which is building AI sales reps, raised a $50 million Series B last month from a16z, TechCrunch reported.
Persons: , Anis Bennaceur, Matthias Wickenburg, Bennaceur, Wickenburg, Swipecast Organizations: Service, French VC, Eniac, Liquid2 Ventures, Ventures, TechCrunch Locations: Alven, New York, a16z
Benioff said Microsoft Copilot was inaccurate and compared it to "Clippy 2.0." Salesforce recently announced a pivot to Agentforce, its own product that inlcudes custom AI agents. Benioff's post comes over a month after Salesforce announced its own pivot to AI agents through Agentforce. Advertisement"This is the next big transformation," Benioff told Fortune in September, referring to AI agents. In his X post critiquing Microsoft Copilot, the Salesforce CEO said Agentforce, in contrast, was "what AI was meant to be."
Persons: Marc Benioff, Benioff, Microsoft Copilot, Salesforce, , Copilot, Fortune, Agentforce Organizations: Microsoft, it's, Service, Monday, Business, McKinsey, Thomson Reuters
Investors are turning their attention to third-quarter earnings season, with 21% of S&P 500 companies set to report this week. Bank of America said that company executives are striking an optimistic tone on earnings calls. The decline on Monday comes as third-quarter earnings season nears its peak, with more than 100 S&P 500 companies set to report results this week, including Coca-Cola, Tesla, Boeing, and UPS. Bank of America strategist Savita Subramanian said that company executives are striking an optimistic tone on earnings calls. Analysts have been feeling bullish on the stock's prospects for further gains amid big demand for its new Blackwell chips.
Persons: , Savita Subramanian, Subramanian, Blackwell, Fedspeak Organizations: Bank of America, Service, Nasdaq, Dow Jones, Boeing, UPS, Bank of America . Bank of America, PMI, Here's
To this end, top Wall Street analysts, with their expertise, can help investors understand the key drivers that could support a company's long-term growth and pick stocks that are likely to deliver lucrative returns. Here are three stocks favored by the Street's top pros, according to TipRanks, a platform that ranks analysts based on their past performance. Also, the analyst is confident about his Q4 revenue growth estimate of 12%, given "healthy closure rates and further pipeline building into a seasonally strong 4Q24." The company has been seeing stellar revenue growth rates, driven by robust demand for its advanced GPUs (graphics processing units) in building artificial intelligence models and applications. The analyst thinks that Blackwell's launch and ramp-up are not just near- and medium-term revenue growth drivers, but also key factors that will enhance Nvidia's competitive advantage.
Persons: Cowen, Shaul Eyal, Eyal, TipRanks, Gregg Moskowitz, Microsoft's GitHub, Moskowitz, Goldman Sachs, Toshiya Hari, Hari Organizations: Wall Street, Lacework, Mizuho, Nvidia, Dell, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Locations: billings
Increasingly, Europe’s centrist figureheads are dropping their once-high-minded rhetoric on irregular migration, reaching instead for positions that were previously the preserve of the continent’s populist rabble-rousers. In Poland, like in much of Europe, “voters across the board expect that border security and migration controls are the priority,” Kucharczyk said. But Thursday’s victory for Tusk in Brussels underscores a broader, rightward shift across Europe on the issue of irregular migration. “It’s an existential issue for this coalition, and they don’t want to take chances on issues like migration,” Kucharczyk said. The wider question is whether the longstanding principles of the border-free Schengen Area can survive an enduring era of rising migration and populist subversion.
Persons: Donald Tusk, ” Tusk, Spain’s Pedro Sanchez –, Tusk, ” Jacek Kucharczyk, Emmanuel Macron, Germany’s, Olaf Scholz, ” Kucharczyk, , Adnan Beci, Ursula von der Leyen, Chancellor Scholz, Keir Starmer –, , Scholz, Thomas Niedermueller, Italy’s, Giorgia Meloni, , Marta Welander, PiS, Poland’s, Kucharczyk Organizations: CNN, European Union Council, of Public Affairs, Wednesday, Getty, European Commission, EU, Committee, Law and Justice, SPD, ISIS, Locations: Brussels, Poland, EU, Belarus, Europe, Russia, Albania, Warsaw, AFP, EU’s, France, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Solingen, Hungary, Slovakia
Experts noted then, as they note today, that high costs and complex logistics make mass deportation more complicated than campaign promises suggest. Immigrants deported from the United States arrive in Guatemala City on an ICE deportation flight on February 9, 2017. John Moore/Getty ImagesSo what would deporting the millions of undocumented immigrants living in the United States cost? The organization also argues that mass deportation would make more jobs available for Americans. The economic impact of mass deportation, he says, would amount to “utter disaster.”“We Americans, we, the country, we, in our communities, would be significantly damaged,” he says.
Persons: Donald Trump, he’ll, he’s, Trump, they’ve, Tom Homan, Stephen Miller, JD Vance, he’d, Biden, , John Sandweg, Obama, ” Trump, wasn’t Trump, “ It’s, Laura Collins, George W, Sandweg, John Moore, Collins, Miller, Jason Houser, , Houser, “ That’s, ” Collins, , you’re, ” Sandweg, they’re, ” Houser, it’s, “ They’re, who’d, , Lisa Sherman Luna, Saul Young, Michael Ettlinger, Zeke Hernandez, Hernandez, that’s Organizations: CNN, Republican National Convention, Customs, Trump, Migration, ICE, Bush Presidential, Immigrants, American Action, American Immigration, Pew Research Center, of Homeland Security, Syracuse University, Department of Homeland Security, Migration Policy, MPI, Pew Research, Tennessee, Refugee Rights Coalition, Community, Knoxville News Sentinel, USA, Carsey School of Public, University of New, Taxation, University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, Federation for American Immigration Reform Locations: United States, United, Guatemala City, China, Cuba, India, Russia, Venezuela, Mississippi, Tennessee, Morristown , Tennessee, University of New Hampshire
But although the Italian government’s digital nomad visa launched in April 2024, so far there have been few accounts of people securing one. Italy’s digital nomad visa scheme was first announced in 2022 and launched in April 2024. Apart from anything else, she had a full-time job in San Francisco at the time. Although the website warned of a minimum four-month wait time, she saw an available slot at the San Francisco consulate for 10 days later. Despite her travails to get the visa, Waite says it was worth it.
Persons: we’ll, Stanley Tucci, It’s, Chelsea Waite, , Tuscany Chelsea Waite Waite, Waite, Bel, , I’d, Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, Giuliano Benzin, , it’d, ” Waite, Lisa Mei, she’d, ‘ We’ll, Waite – —, ” Chelsea Waite, Milan –, Milan, I’ve, She’s, she’s “, Simona Sirio, — Waite, don’t Organizations: CNN, intel, Getty, San, Milan Cathedral, Duomo, London, Milan, , Dante Locations: Italy, Italian, lunchbreak, California, San Francisco, Milan, Tuscany, Florence, United States, Galleria Vittorio, Lake Como, London, Como, Greece, Lombardy
But in an announcement Thursday, the US Treasury Department accused the Chinese firms of direct involvement in arms supplies to Moscow. The Chinese companies had collaborated with Russian defense firms in the production of Moscow’s “Garpiya series” long-range unmanned aerial vehicles, the department said in a statement. “The Garpiya has been deployed by Russia in its brutal war against Ukraine, destroying critical infrastructure and causing mass casualties,” it said. “We have seen for some time Chinese companies providing components to Russian companies that Russian companies then use to turn into machinery, weapons, other components that Russia could use in its war,” State Department spokesman Matthew Miller told reporters Thursday. In the latest sign of their deepening alignment, Chinese and Russian defense officials vowed to strengthen their cooperation during meetings in Beijing last week.
Persons: , Redlepus, TSK, Matthew Miller, , Liu Pengyu, Andrey Belousov, Zhang Youxia Organizations: Hong Kong CNN, US Treasury Department, CNN, Xiamen Limbach Aircraft, Redlepus Vector Industry Shenzhen Co, Treasury Department, US, TSK Vektor, , Reuters, China’s, Military Commission Locations: Hong Kong, United States, China, Russia, Ukraine, Washington, Beijing, Moscow, Xiamen, Russian, ’ Beijing, U.S,
Tesla's Optimus robots faced skepticism for being remotely controlled by humans at a recent event. AdvertisementTesla's Optimus robots received more skepticism last week when multiple reports confirmed that the humanoid robots working the company's "We Robot" event were remotely controlled by engineers. Optimus robots reportedly danced, poured drinks, and interacted with attendees. Both Musk and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, are focused on humanoid robots as increasingly advanced machine learning offers an unlocking technology for robotics. Musk has claimed that two Optimus robots are performing tasks autonomously on Tesla's factory floor.
Persons: Lebaredian, , Optimus, Jensen Huang, Musk, Huang, Tesla, xAI's Organizations: Optimus, Service, Nvidia, Oracle
Listeria monocytogenes is a type of bacteria that can contaminate food and cause serious complications for certain groups of individuals. Even though cooking the meat kills any listeria that may be present, deli meat can be contaminated afterward during packaging or slicing. Similarly, the ready-to-eat meat products involved in the ongoing BrucePac recall are precooked, although the source of contamination hasn’t yet been determined. Listeria infection early in pregnancy can cause premature labor, a baby with a low birth weight and loss of the pregnancy. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, around 1,600 people are infected and 260 people die from listeria infection in the United States every year.
Persons: BrucePac, Camembert, they’re, listeria, It’s Organizations: Agriculture Department, Centers for Disease Control Locations: brie, United States
As a global leader in digital payments, Visa has 4.2 billion credit and payment cards in circulation across more than 200 countries. Through its advanced transaction processing network, VisaNet, the company facilitates payment authorization, clearing, and settlement, and it is one of the most remarkable and consistent growth stories around — along with fellow payment processing company Mastercard. The following chart illustrates its remarkably consistent growth since the pandemic plunge (which naturally suspended considerable economic activity). While a 30 P/E is higher than the market's, the S & P trades closer to 26 times earnings; Visa should trade at a premium. The ability for consumer spending growth to continue apace is limited, so presumably, topline growth will slow somewhat.
Organizations: Visa, Mastercard, DOJ, Nvidia, United Health, Southwest Airlines, CNBC, NBC UNIVERSAL
Biden announced an additional $4.5 billion in student-debt cancellation for 60,000 borrowers in public service. It's a result of fixes to the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program over the past few years. At the same time, Biden's broader student-debt relief plans remain stalled in court. AdvertisementAnother batch of student-loan borrowers in public service has been approved for billions of dollars in debt relief. According to the White House, this brings the number of borrowers approved for debt relief through PSLF to 1 million under the Biden administration.
Persons: Biden, , Joe Biden, Harris, Miguel Cardona, Trump, Biden's Organizations: Public, Service, Education Department, White, GOP, Higher, Republican Locations: It's, PSLF
More significant to the political dynamics at play, however, is how the civilian overseas vote has eclipsed military voters abroad. “As it turns out, there are more overseas civilian voters than there are military voters,” said Michael McDonald, a University of Florida political science professor. GOP congressmen suing their own stateIn the Pennsylvania case, the dispute is over how overseas ballots are being vetted. Democrats, who intervened in the case, argue that the Republican lawmakers’ request could disenfranchise “tens of thousands” of overseas voters, including those in uniform. “Our lawsuit does not in any way affect military voters’ right to vote, which is protected by federal law under UOCAVA.
Persons: Kamala Harris, Donald Trump, Jocelyn Benson, they’ve, , it’s, Michael McDonald, Research he’s, Martha McDevitt, Pugh, McDevitt, who’ve, Michael Whatley, Benson, ” Patrick Gannon, , it’d, we’re, Joe Biden’s, , disenfranchise, Pat Ryan, Lloyd Austin, Trump, ” Ryan, Ryan, ” Claire Zunk, ” McDevitt, they’re Organizations: CNN, Democrats, Commission, Republican, Michigan, , Republican National Committee, Republicans, Trump, Democratic, Overseas Citizens, EAC, University of, Research, North, RNC, North Carolina Board of, Elections, Social Security Locations: Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Michigan, Detroit, Harrisburg, University of Florida, Maine, Colorado, , New York, Iraq
Plasma exchange therapy is gaining popularity as a wellness trend among longevity-seekers. AdvertisementA medical treatment used for health emergencies and autoimmune disorders is becoming the hot new wellness trend for CEOs, athletes, and other longevity-seekers. He told Business Insider it helps remove toxins, some related to aging, that accumulate over time. Should you get a plasma exchange for longevity? Undergoing plasma treatment at a longevity clinic may not make sense for several reasons.
Persons: , Bryan Johnson, Peter Diamandis, Troy Aikman, Jonathann Kuo, Kuo, Brian Adkins, Adkins, Ryan Marino, Johnson, It's, Marino Organizations: Service, NFL, Extension Health, Conboy, University of California, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Locations: Berkeley, Barre
The Small Business Administration ran out of funding for its disaster loan program on October 15. The lapse could slow recovery efforts by small businesses damaged by hurricanes Helene, Milton. The Small Business Administration said on October 15 that its disaster loan program had run out of money. In the meantime, Biden administration officials and business leaders are encouraging people to fill out applications for SBA disaster loans. Are you a business owner, homeowner, or renter affected by the SBA's pause in disaster loans?
Persons: Milton, , Helene, isn't, Kit Cramer, Cramer, Hurricane Helene, Hurricane Milton, Joe Biden, Hurricanes Helene, Mike Johnson, Biden, Isabel Casillas Guzman Organizations: Business Administration, SBA, Service, Asheville Chamber of Commerce, Hurricane, FEMA, Hurricanes, Republican, Chamber of Commerce Locations: Asheville, Hurricane, reconvene, Louisiana, Washington, Swannanoa , North Carolina
Elon Musk's AI startup xAI is hiring AI Tutors for data annotation to train language algorithms. xAI partners closely with X, formerly known as Twitter, which sees user decline and ad pullbacks. AdvertisementElon Musk's new AI company is on a hiring spree for a new type of data annotator. Last week, xAI listed multiple job postings for "AI Tutors." Multiple AI Tutors started their jobs in August and September, according to a LinkedIn analysis by Business Insider.
Persons: Elon, , Musk, it's, X, xAI, Jensen Huang, Colossus Organizations: Service, Business, SpaceX, Tesla, Disney, Apple, Nvidia, NPR, Forbes Locations: Memphis, Brazil, San Francisco
As industries increasingly rely on real-time AI models, AKAM's infrastructure offers both speed and security by processing data closer to users. Combined with the company's attractive valuation, it offers substantial upside potential, with the chart showing growing investor interest in its AI-driven opportunities. Trading at only 15 times forward earnings, it's a significant discount relative to its industry average of nearly 28. AI models distributed on AKAM's extensive edge computing network provide significant upside potential, especially as demand for low-latency AI solutions increases across various industries. BEFORE MAKING ANY FINANCIAL DECISIONS, YOU SHOULD STRONGLY CONSIDER SEEKING ADVICE FROM YOUR OWN FINANCIAL OR INVESTMENT ADVISOR.
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“I think, frankly, that ad from the Trump campaign is a little bit of like throwing, you know, stones when you’re living in a glass house,” she said. He asked how many undocumented immigrants Harris would estimate the administration has released into the United States during Biden’s presidency. Baier asked Harris about Laken Riley, the 22-year-old Georgia nursing student who was killed while jogging in February. Harris maintained over the course of the interview that the immigration system is broken – a position held by Democrats and Republicans. “I do not believe in decriminalizing border crossings, and I’ve not done that as vice president,” she said.
Persons: Kamala Harris, Donald Trump’s, Joe Biden’s, Harris, , ” Harris, ” “, , Bret Baier, Trump, Liz Cheney, George Washington, Adam Kinzinger, Gov, Geoff Duncan, – Harris, Joe Biden, Baier, Donald Trump, You’re, Brian Hughes, “ Kamala Harris, ” Baier, “ Bret, let’s, Laken Riley, Jose Antonio Ibarra, “ I’ve, I’ve Organizations: CNN, Republican, Fox News, Trump, Fox, American, United, Wyoming, Continental, Illinois Rep, Democratic, New York Times, of Prisons, Times, Republicans, Biden, Democrats Locations: , United States, America, Washington Crossing , Pennsylvania, Delaware, Georgia, Washington ,, California, Mexico, Venezuela
Billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller said on Wednesday that his decision to sell out of Nvidia this year was a "big mistake." Druckenmiller's comments do not reflect Nvidia's 10-for-1 stock split, which went into effect in June. "It tripled in a year, and I thought the valuation was rich," Druckenmiller told Bloomberg. Druckenmiller told CNBC in May that Nvidia was "a little overhyped now, but underhyped long term." He added that he was introduced to Nvidia in 2022, when "I didn't even know how to spell it."
Persons: Stanley Druckenmiller, I've, , Druckenmiller, we've, we'd, financials Organizations: Nvidia, Bloomberg, Duquesne, Meta, Microsoft, CNBC
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