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☆ Electric Cars Help the Climate. But Are They Good Value?
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-29 | by ( Jack Ewing | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Electric vehicles cost more to buy than gasoline cars, and they may lose value more quickly. And because electric vehicles are a new technology, there is less certainty than for gasoline-powered vehicles about how the numbers will shake out over time. Most electric cars haven’t been on the road that long, so it’s hard to say definitively how long batteries will remain usable. Lithium-ion batteries, the kind used in virtually all electric vehicles, do lose range over time. Electric cars from Tesla and other automakers have software that does a good job of protecting batteries from excess heat or voltage that can cause damage, especially when charging.

☆ Here are Monday's biggest analyst calls: Nvidia, Apple, Tesla, Live Nation, 3M, Uber, Eli Lilly, Amazon, Coinbase & more
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-29 | by ( Michael Bloom | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Here are Monday's biggest calls on Wall Street: Morgan Stanley reiterates Live Nation as overweight Morgan Stanley said shares of the entertainment concert company are compelling. " Cantor Fitzgerald reiterates Nvidia as overweight Cantor said the stock is still a top pick at the firm. Guggenheim upgrades Akamai to buy from neutral Guggenheim said shares of the cloud computing networking company have more room to run. Bank of America reiterates Apple as buy Bank of America said it's bullish heading into Apple earnings later this week. JPMorgan reiterates Eli Lilly as overweight JPM said the stock is a "core holding" ahead of earnings on August 8.

Persons: Morgan Stanley, Cantor Fitzgerald, Cantor, TD Cowen, AAPL, Wells, Booz Allen Hamilton, it's, Guggenheim, Piper Sandler, Charles Schwab, Piper, Schwab, Olin, Mizuho, Bill Brown's, Myers Squibb, JPMorgan, Eli Lilly, JPM, Evercore, Tesla, Oppenheimer, Raymond James, Davidson, Raymond James downgrades Organizations: NVDA, MU, Apple, Huawei, Booz, Guggenheim, RBC, Deutsche Bank, Northrop, Deutsche, JPMorgan, Uber, Holdings, 3M, " Bank of America, Bank of America, Edge, Barclays downgrades Bristol, Myers Squibb, Barclays, Bristol, Ford, Microsoft, Charter, HSBC Locations: China, underperform

☆ How the AI revolution could cost you your job without replacing you
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-26 | by ( Jacob Zinkula | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

But as tech firms plan to invest billions of dollars in generative AI technologies, there's been another explanation for job cuts. While there's been a mountain of speculation about if and when AI technologies like ChatGPT could displace workers, their near-term impact on job losses could be less about job replacement and more about the cost of AI investments. The risks of AI job replacement remains to be seenIn the big picture, Netzer said he expects AI technologies to be an "enhancer rather than a replacer of jobs" in the years ahead. Advertisement"For many jobs, AI is likely to enhance our job, allowing us to spend more time on the things we enjoy doing and less time on the mundane," he said. AdvertisementBenedikt Frey pointed to translators as one profession that has seen fewer employment opportunities due to generative AI, per his research.

Persons: —, there's, Goldman Sachs, Mark Zuckerberg, Meta, Sundar Pichai, Daniel Rausch, Dan Ives, It's, Carl Benedikt Frey, Netzer, Benedikt Frey Organizations: Service, Apple, Microsoft, Industry, Business, Google, Amazon, Alexa, Fire, Wedbush Securities, Big Tech, FT, Columbia Business School, University of Oxford

☆ Kamala Harris wants to be America’s first Silicon Valley president. She has tech’s support
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-25 | by ( Clare Duffy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

New York CNN —With Vice President Kamala Harris the front runner to receive the Democratic Party’s nomination for president, America’s most powerful industry is set to have a candidate on the ballot from its home turf. Harris’ failed 2020 presidential bid received support from various tech luminaries, including Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and legendary venture capitalist Ron Conway. Despite her friendly relationships with the industry’s leaders, Harris has also pushed for tech accountability in key areas. As vice president, Harris has taken a key role in the White House around establishing safety measures for artificial intelligence, which is widely viewed as the most consequential new technology in decades. In an interview with CNN, Hoffman added: “In Silicon Valley, actually there’s many threads that are very excited about her.

Persons: Kamala Harris, Harris, Sheryl Sandberg, Reed Hastings, Melinda French Gates, Donald Trump’s, Elon Musk, “ There’s, Biden, ” Aaron Levie, “, ” Harris, Sean Parker, she’s, Steve Jobs ’, Laurene Powell Jobs, Harris ’, Marc Benioff, Ron Conway, Mark Zuckerberg, ” Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Trump Harris, Trump, ” Sonnenfeld, I’ve, didn’t, ” Levie, “ Kamala Harris, Reid Hoffman, Hoffman, …, – CNN’s Matt Egan Organizations: New, New York CNN —, Democratic, Bay Area, Netflix, White, CNN, Cambridge, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Yale School of Management, Trump Locations: New York, Oakland , California, California, White, Silicon Valley, Silicon

☆ AI comes to the Olympics: In Paris, new tech will change your view of the Games
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-25 | by ( Matthew Futterman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +7 min

Follow our Olympics coverage from the Paris Games. In real-time, the high-tech cameras can calculate each athlete’s stroke rate and the distance they are covering. The expansive beach volleyball court requires a lot of movement to cover during a match. (Daniel Leal / AFP via Getty Images)Running on the beach, quick moves on the tennis courtThe first thing anyone who tries to play beach volleyball realizes is how insanely large the court is. “This is why Computervision and AI are so helpful,” he said, especially with engineers focusing so heavily on biomechanics rather than biometrics.

Persons: Alain Zobrist, Zobrist, “, ” Zobrist, Greg Louganis, Clive Rose, Smart, bib, who’s, Daniel Leal, Roland Garros, won’t, Alexander Zverev, ”, Ulrik Pedersen, NurPhoto Organizations: Paris Games, Olympic Games, Olympics, Omega, Games, NBC, Eiffel, Aquatic, Getty, Roland, U.S, Tokyo Locations: Paris, American, Seoul, Louganis

☆ Chinese EV startups are spending more on research than Tesla is
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-25 | by ( Evelyn Cheng | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

CNBC | Evelyn ChengBEIJING – U.S.-listed Chinese electric car companies are spending more on research as a ratio to sales than Tesla , according to CNBC analysis of the four automakers' first-quarter earnings. Of the four U.S.-listed Chinese electric car companies, Nio ranked first, spending nearly 29% of revenue in the first three months of the year on research and development. He was referring to a popular term in China to describe fierce competition, especially in the electric car industry. She noted that can help Chinese electric car companies respond more quickly to customers and market needs than traditional automakers. Geely has also released an electric car architecture called SEA that it says allows for quicker production of different sized vehicles.

Persons: Evelyn Cheng, Paul Gong, Nio, Elon, Feng Shen, Shen, William Li, Li, Jing Yang, Zeekr's, Parent, Ren Xiangfei, Ren, Geely, Tesla, Taylor Ogan Organizations: CNBC, UBS, Elon Musk's, Ford Motor, China's Ministry of Industry, Information Technology, Fitch, China Passenger Car Association, Snow Bull, Tech Locations: Hefei, Evelyn Cheng BEIJING – U.S, U.S, China, Nio, Hefei city, Anhui, Shanghai, Asia, Pacific, Zhejiang province, Hong Kong, Shenzhen

☆ Las Vegas transit system is nation's first to plan full deployment of AI surveillance system for weapons
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-25 | by ( Kevin Williams | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +8 min

Las Vegas Review-journal | Tribune News Service | Getty ImagesOn your next visit to Vegas, an extra set of eyes will be watching you if you decide to hop onto the local transit system. Violent crime on transit systems, specifically, remains an issue in major metro areas, with a report released in late 2023 by the Department of Transportation detailing concerns from transit agency officials around the U.S. about rising violence on their transit systems. Atteberry stressed that the ZeroEyes system is not designed to detect lawful, legal firearms that might be in a holster or packed in a purse. "AI technology comes from the data; if we do not capture the data, there is no successful AI," Dei said. ZeroEyesThe Las Vegas transit system is not the only in the nation to use ZeroEyes, but is the first to plan full deployment.

Persons: Tom Atteberry, Brian Miller, Miller, Stephen Paddock, Sam Alaimo, Alaimo, ZeroEyes, Wei Dai, Dei, Paul Gratton Jr, Gratton, Michael Hasse, Hasse, there's, Atteberry Organizations: Regional Transportation, Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas, Tribune, Service, Regional Transportation Commission, Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Purdue University Northwest, Zero, Purdue Northwest's Department of Computer Science, Seattle, Purdue Northwest, SEPTA, NYPD, TSA, Systems Locations: Las Vegas, Vegas, Southern Nevada, Hammond , Indiana, Nevada, Lafayette , Louisiana, Clark County , Nevada

☆ How startups can get in top shape for an IPO, according to Silicon Valley lawyer Louis Lehot
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-24 | by ( Alistair Barr | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

Louis Lehot, a Silicon Valley law-firm partner, specializes in taking companies from startup to IPO. The IPO market is expected to pick up later this year, so Business Insider emailed Silicon Valley lawyer Louis Lehot, a partner at Foley & Lardner, for advice on how startups should prepare for life as public companies. Are public market investors generally keen to invest in IPOs, or are they focused elsewhere? Public market investors are selective, focusing on established profitability and sustainable growth over speculative, high-growth stories. What are the key process changes companies need to make ahead of an IPO?

Persons: Louis Lehot, Lehot, —, Lardner, Collison Organizations: Service, Foley, Healthcare, Biotech, Green Energy, Enterprise, Street, Investor

☆ UniCredit tops profit forecast, buys cloud-based bank
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-24 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Italian bank UniCredit on Wednesday posted better-than-expected second quarter profit and said it was buying a Belgian digital bank with its own cloud-based IT platform for 370 million euros ($401 million). UniCredit said the purchase of Belgian bank Aion and its cloud-based core banking system Vodeno would add a team of 200 engineers, developers and data scientists. To address this, UniCredit's rival Intesa Sanpaolo for example is partnering with British cloud banking technology provider ThoughtMachine. "The transaction represents one of the first moves by a bank to acquire full ownership of a new technology (without any dependencies from third party core banking providers)," UniCredit said. Net profit in the second quarter rose 5% from the previous three months to 2.7 billion euros, surpassing a 2.4 billion euro average forecast from analysts polled by the bank as revenues held up better than anticipated.

Persons: Andrea Orcel, UniCredit, Banks, Intesa Sanpaolo Organizations: UniCredit, UBS, Banco, Belgian Locations: Belgian, Aion

☆ We're slashing our rating on Ford after the automaker's old issues come back to haunt it
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-24 | by ( Jeff Marks | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +8 min

However, Ford went 0 for 2 on Wednesday as an old enemy in warranty expenses returned to bite the Blue Oval. And it's an even more unfortunate setback because Ford management said on its April earnings call that the company has made "real progress" on its goal of making better vehicles. The best story at Ford remains Ford Pro , the unit that houses the company's fleet and commercial vehicles. But last quarter management said the business was tracking toward the higher end of the range, and that no longer appears to be the case. The new Ford F-150 truck goes through the assembly line at the Ford Dearborn Plant on April 11, 2024 in Dearborn, Michigan.

Persons: FactSet ., Motors, Ford, Morgan Stanley, Adam Jonas —, JD Power's, It's, Jim Farley, Jim Cramer's, Jim Cramer, Jim, Bill Pugliano Organizations: Ford, LSEG, FactSet, General Motors, Tesla, Ford Model, Revenue, Ford Pro, Super Duty, CNBC, Ford Dearborn Plant, Getty Locations: Ford, management's, Dearborn , Michigan

☆ Alphabet moves past early stumbles in AI to deliver positive story to investors
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-23 | by ( Zev Fima | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +12 min

Strong numbers in the company's search and cloud businesses more than offset the slight misses in the YouTube and network units. Cloud recorded a couple of big firsts: exceeding $10 billion in revenue, along with $1 billion in operating income. Whereas investors were — and many still are — concerned about what generative AI might mean for Alphabet's search revenue, the opposite appears to be the case, at least for now. Google Cloud revenue grew roughly 28% to more than $10 billion for the first time. Strong numbers in the company's search and cloud businesses more than offset the slight misses in the YouTube and network units.

Persons: we're, capex, Sundar Pichai, Pichai, Philipp Schindler, Schindler, Ruth Porat, Eli Lilly, Anat Ashkenazi, Jim Cramer's, Jim Cramer, Jim, Loren Elliott Organizations: YouTube, Microsoft, Club, Nvidia, Lens, CTV, Nielsen, Google, buybacks, CNBC, Government, Society, Calif, Bloomberg, Getty, Meta Locations: That's, U.S, Stanford

☆ The cofounder of MoviePass is raising $20 million from Amazon and Alphabet for a longevity-focused venture studio
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-23 | by ( Rebecca Torrence | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

MoviePass ousted Watt, along with its other cofounder Stacy Spikes, from the company two years before filing for bankruptcy. Since then, Watt has been building Share Ventures, a venture studio that's now closed on nearly $20 million of funding from backers including Amazon and Alphabet. Share Ventures has quietly been spinning up those startups and plans to start announcing them in the coming months. Oral health company Feno, one of Share Ventures' portfolio companies, is working on a smart toothbrush powered by AI. Share VenturesAI is supercharging the venture studio modelThreats to the venture capital industry, from high interest rates to the explosion of AI, aren't letting up.

Persons: —, Watt, MoviePass, Stacy Spikes, Spikes, he'd, It's, Smart, that's, they're Organizations: Service, HBO, Business, Share Ventures, Ventures, Oral

☆ This scientist who worked for Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates is now a VC funding other 'mad scientists'
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-23 | by ( Hayley Cuccinello | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

And while he wants to tackle the world's biggest problems such as waste, impact isn't Deep Future's sole priority. Related storiesIn some ways, Deep Future's mission harkens back to Silicon Valley's roots, he said. As for Deep Future's investments, the challenge is whether the technology can be built and made cost-effective, ideally within its investment horizon of 10 years. One of Deep Future's portfolio companies, Descycle, is developing non-toxic chemicals to separate gold in electronics in landfills. Getting investors on board with mad scientistsWith Deep Future's niche, getting investors' attention has been easy, Holman said.

Persons: —, Pablos Holman, Jeff Bezos's, Bill Gates, Michael Reid, Holman didn't, Holman, Matt Mullenweg, that's, Alfred Steiner, I'm Organizations: Service, Origin, Ventures Laboratory, Business, Investors, WordPress

☆ 'Botshit' is an example of how AI is making customer service worse
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-22 | by ( John Towfighi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Air Canada's customer service chatbot told Moffatt he could claim the discount after the flight. Botshit is one example of how the use of AI might worsen companies' customer service. In January, a UK parcel company removed its new AI customer service chatbot after it swore at a customer. AdvertisementAnd when Google rolled out its AI chatbot Gemini earlier this year, it produced historically inaccurate images of people of color. However, the researchers argued that customer service is the least risky use of AI for businesses.

Persons: —, Jake Moffatt's, chatbot, Moffatt, Ian P, McCarthy, Timothy R, Hannigan, André Spicer, Edelman, What's, Dan Davies, Sundar Pichai, Spicer Organizations: Service, Air Canada, Air, Business, Harvard, Edelman Data, Intelligence, Microsoft, LinkedIn, Google Locations: Canada's, New York

☆ Big Tech's phony Trumpism
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-22 | by ( Adam Rogers | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Before Andreessen and Horowitz formed their venture-capital firm in 2009, Andreessen was an incisive observer of Silicon Valley. Big Andreesen (meaning the current bloated billionaire model) also contradicts Little Andreessen (the earlier, leaner blogger) on the issue of regulation. The reason, he now claims, is that government used to leave Silicon Valley alone. He and his fellow Silicon Valley investor-class billionaires have been sliding rightward for years. It's that I didn't see that this is where Silicon Valley was always headed.

Persons: Marc Andreessen, Donald Trump, That's, Andreessen, Bill Clinton, Hillary, Ben Horowitz, Elon Musk, Larry Ellison —, Trump, —, I've, Horowitz, It's, America's, Biden, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, they're, Dave Karpf, Hillary Clinton, we've Organizations: Democratic, Little Tech, Tech, Government, America, Justice Department, Microsoft, Trump, Little, Bloomberg Technology Conference, Netscape Locations: Silicon Valley, Silicon

☆ President Joe Biden ended his reelection bid. What's next?
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-22 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

In today's big story, President Joe Biden ended his reelection bid . The president ended his reelection campaign on Sunday, the culmination of mounting pressure from his party after a disastrous debate last month. Meanwhile, former President Donald Trump said in a post on Truth Social that "Crooked Joe Biden was not fit to run for President." Biden's reelection campaign has quickly pivoted to serve Harris, making it an uphill battle for any Democrat looking to challenge her , writes Business Insider's Brent D. Griffiths. Many have made comparisons to the 1968 Democratic convention , which was a contested convention after President Lyndon B. Johnson ended his reelection campaign earlier that year.

Persons: —, Joe Biden, Biden, Alyssa Powell, BI Joe Biden, Elon Musk, Reid Hoffman, Donald Trump, Kamala Harris, Harris, Jared Siskin, Biden's, Insider's Brent D, Griffiths, Hillary Clinton, BI's Bryan Metzger, Lyndon B, Johnson, Hubert Humphrey, Humphrey, Richard Nixon, Brent, Here's, Sieg, Merrill Lynch, Abanti Chowdhury, Andy Sieg, Warren Buffett's, Buffett, Paul Chinn, Andrew Caballero Reynolds, Marc Andreessen, he'd, Andreessen, Trump, BI's Adam Rogers, OpenAI, Sam Altman's, slowdowns, Dan DeFrancesco, Jordan Parker Erb, Hallam Bullock, Annie Smith, Amanda Yen Organizations: Service, Business, BI, Democratic, Madison, Park Conservancy, Citi Wealth, BI Citi Wealth, Bank of Montreal, Buffett Locations: Park, Plenty, Washington, Chicago, Southern, New York, London

☆ Steve Jobs predicted ChatGPT over 40 years ago, newly released footage reveals
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-20 | by ( Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

The Steve Jobs Archive's new exhibit reveals Jobs' 1983 vision for generative AI. Jobs predicted AI would be like a book that users could ask questions to and interact with. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . Even the buzziest technology of the moment — chatbots driven by generative AI — was something Steve Jobs predicted would revolutionize our world. A new digital exhibit from the Steve Jobs Archive includes footage from a 1983 presentation Jobs gave at the International Design Conference in Aspen.

Persons: Steve Jobs, Jobs, — Organizations: Service, Steve, International, Apple, Business Locations: Aspen .

☆ Britain's Labour faces an uphill battle as it looks to rein in AI's key players
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-19 | by ( Ryan Browne | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +8 min

By taking aim at the most powerful AI models, Labour would impose tighter restrictions on companies such as OpenAI, Microsoft , Google , Amazon , and AI startups including Anthropic, Cohere and Mistral. Matthew Houlihan, senior director of government affairs at Cisco, said any AI rules would need to be "centered on a thoughtful, risk-based approach." Even so, a U.K. AI law would be a step above the U.S., which currently doesn't have federal AI legislation of any kind. Sirion's Liu said one thing he's hoping the government doesn't do, is restrict open-source AI models. Herman Narula, CEO of metaverse venture builder Improbable, agreed that restricting open-source AI innovation would be a bad idea.

Persons: Keir Starmer's, King Charles III, doesn't, Starmer's, Matt Calkins, Appian, Lewis Liu, Liu, Rishi Sunak, Peter Kyle, Kyle, Zahra Bahrololoumi, Matthew Houlihan, Bill, Chris Holmes, Holmes, Matthew Holman, Cripps, Holman, Sirion's Liu, Herman Narula, Narula Organizations: Future Publishing, Labour, European Union, Microsoft, Google, CNBC, Conservative, BBC, AI Safety Institute, Cisco, Authority, EU, AI Safety, Tech, London Tech Week Locations: Jiangsu province, China, Ireland, Salesforce, U.S

☆ 'Twisters' shows how tornado science has changed massively since the first movie nearly 30 years ago
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-19 | by ( Jenny Mcgrath | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Read previewWhen the original "Twister" movie debuted in 1996, its super-sized, cow-spinning tornadoes captivated audiences. Now, there's a sequel, "Twisters," which, in some ways, shows just how far tornado science has come in the last few decades. She helped a "Twisters" film crew scout locations and find storm footage for the new movie. Climate change is altering tornado seasonA powerful tornado can destroy homes and cars leaving devastation in their wake. The original film sparked a surge in interest in severe weather.

Persons: —, Jana Houser, Kevin Thiel, Dorothy, TOTO, Harold Brooks, Houser, Lee Isaac Chung, " Houser Organizations: Service, Business, Ohio State University, OU, NOAA, Weather, Systems Lab, NWS, CNN, Universal Pictures, Warner Bros . Pictures, Amblin, University of Oklahoma's Locations: Oklahoma, Kansas, Weather.com, Alabama , Kentucky, Mississippi

☆ How is 'Twisters' connected to the original 1996 movie? The cast calls it a 'stand-alone sequel'
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-19 | by ( Olivia Singh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewGlen Powell's hot streak in Hollywood continues with "Twisters," a new iteration of the 1996 disaster movie "Twister." Melinda Sue Gordon/Universal Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures, and Amblin EntertainmentIn a cover story for Entertainment Weekly, the cast referred to "Twisters" as a "stand-alone sequel." "It feels like a real next chapter, whilst also having so much love for the original," Edgar-Jones told Variety, echoing the director. 'Twisters' contains nods and homages to the original movieKate (Daisy Edgar-Jones) and Tyler (Glen Powell) in "Twisters." Universal PicturesThere are also moments and costumes in "Twisters" that are reminiscent of the original movie.

Persons: —, Lee Isaac Chung's, Powell, Tyler Owens, Daisy Edgar, Jones, Kate Carter, Javi, Anthony Ramos, Bill Paxton, Helen Hunt, Jo, Kate, Tyler, Glen Powell, Melinda Sue Gordon, Jo Harding, Paxton, Chung, I've, Edgar, Dorothy, Bill, Dorothy V, Patrick Sullivan, Brandon Perea, Lily, Sasha Lane, Dusty, Philip Seymour Hoffman's, James Paxton, Dad, James Organizations: Service, Business, Universal Pictures, Warner Bros . Pictures, Amblin Entertainment, Entertainment, YouTube, Muskogee State University, wranglers Boone Locations: Hollywood, Oklahoma

☆ Oregon Fugitive Found After Having Used a Stolen Identity for 30 Years
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-18 | by ( Sara Ruberg | More About Sara Ruberg | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

It does not appear that Mr. Johnson had connections in Georgia, but a building manager of the apartment complex where he was living told Mr. Wright that Mr. Johnson had one friend who would visit him. The building manager also said that Mr. Johnson was known to his neighbors as William Cox or “Bud.” When U.S. Marshal officers went to question him, they had no indication that he was employed, but upon his arrest Mr. Johnson mentioned he had a pension. Before his escape in 1994, Mr. Johnson was serving a state sentence in Oregon for three counts of sex abuse and one count of attempted sodomy. Mr. Wright would not disclose details on the new technology to protect the secrecy of future investigations using the method.

Persons: Chris Wright, Johnson, Wright, William Cox, Bud, ”, Kate Brown Organizations: U.S, Marshals, Fugitive, Force, Mr, The Oregon Department of Corrections, U.S . Marshals, Diplomatic Security Service, State Department, Gov Locations: Texas, Georgia, Oregon

☆ Political assassinations are on the rise. It's a symptom of growing global instability.
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-18 | by ( Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

AdvertisementA wave of violence against political leadersAround the world, politics has been rocked by a wave of assassinations of political leaders, dissidents, and other high-profile figures. In the UK, political assassinations were once rare, but two members of parliament were assassinated in five years. Political violence is on the riseA 2018 protest in Turkey against the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi dissident. Bruce Hoffman, an expert on terrorism at the Council on Foreign Relations, told Business Insider that rising political violence is the outcome of increasing global instability. - Getty ImagesAnother factor behind the spike in assassinations is the increasing instability of the global political order.

Persons: —, Donald Trump, It's, Jo Cox, Sir David Amess, Robert Fico, Alexander Navalny, Vladimir Putin, Shinzo Abe, Fernando Villavicencio, Zoran Djindjic, Jamal Khashoggi, Mohammed bin Salman, Emrah, Bruce Hoffman, Hoffman, Trump, Joe Biden, General Merrick Garland, Christopher Wray, Gretchen Whitmer, Paul Pelosi, Nancy Pelosi, who'd, Tommy Mair, John Bolton, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Nicholas Maduro, Abe, Jacob Ware Organizations: Service, CNN, Business, Slovakian, Kremlin, Serbian, CIA, University of Maryland's, Council, Foreign Relations, Trump, New York Times Locations: Pennsylvania, Saudi Arabian, Saudi, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Michigan, Washington , DC, Slovakia, India, Iran

☆ J.D. Vance’s A.I. Agenda: Reduce Regulation
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-17 | by ( Cecilia Kang | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Vance, Republican of Ohio, is a strong skeptic of regulating artificial intelligence. He’s also in favor of reining in Big Tech, companies he says have grown so powerful that they stymie smaller companies’ ability to succeed. That seeming contradiction could play a role in shaping the Trump administration’s stance on A.I. And he has strong ties with some of the tech industry’s most powerful backers, many of whom fund smaller A.I. Last week, during a committee hearing on privacy and A.I., Mr. Vance accused Big Tech companies of predicting that A.I.

Persons: J.D, Vance, He’s, Donald J, Trump, Vance —, —, Lina Khan Organizations: Republican, reining, Federal Trade Commission, Big Tech Locations: Ohio, Big Tech

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☆ Chaos on social media platforms after Trump shooting is a mess of their own making
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-17 | by ( Brian Fung | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

None of the country’s largest social media platforms responded to repeated questions from CNN over multiple days this week about what actions they have taken in response to misinformation and conspiracy theories circulating about the Trump rally shooting. And what the public experienced on social media in the moments after the attack on Trump is a sign of what’s to come, said Imran Ahmed, CEO of the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), a social media watchdog group that advocates for tighter regulation of the platforms. “It can’t make a safe social media product that does politics and civic stuff, and so it just got out of that business.”Baybars Orsek, managing director of the fact-checking organization Logically Facts, said these and other changes by social media platforms have made working with them in the last few years more challenging. The decision effectively means the US government can continue to flag misinformation threats to social media companies in the runup to the 2024 election. Mainstream media outlets, taking care to report only credible answers, were initially slower to report what was happening than the breakneck pace of social media speculation.

Persons: Donald Trump, bode, “, Joe Biden, Biden, Snapchat, ”, Imran Ahmed, ” Ahmed, Elon Musk’s, Musk, CCDH, X, TikTok, “ Meta, Laura Edelson, ” Baybars Orsek, ” Orsek, Trump, Edelson, Alicia Wanless, “ I’ve, ” Wanless, Wanless Organizations: CNN, Meta, Twitter, YouTube, Department of Homeland Security, Big Tech, Trump, Google, Center, Social, Northeastern University, Democracy, Supreme, Facebook, Carnegie Endowment, International Peace

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