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☆ An AI weapons race may create a world where everyone stays inside out of fear of being 'chased down by swarms of slaughterbots,' warns founding Skype engineer
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-18 | by ( Kylie Kirschner | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Jaan Tallinn helped build Skype and is the founder of the Future of Life Institute. He recently warned of the risks of an AI arms race, describing theoretical anonymous "slaughterbots." As AI technology develops, Tallinn is especially afraid of the implications that military use might have for the future of AI. When contacted by Insider, the Future of Life Institute told Insider it agreed with Tallinn's remarks on his fears of weaponized AI. Now AI researchers, tech moguls, celebrities, and regular people alike are worried.

Persons: Jaan, Al Jazeera, Tallinn's, Elon Musk, Christopher Nolan, Steve Wozniak, Emad Mostaque, Musk, Insider's Kali Hays, — Organizations: Skype, Life Institute, Jaan, Al, Cambridge Centre, Elon, Apple Locations: Jaan Tallinn, Estonian, Tallinn

☆ Nick Hornby Reviews a Short History of the Beatles Before the Band
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-18 | by ( Nick Hornby | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

THIS BOY: The Early Lives of John Lennon & Paul McCartney, by Ilene CooperIn the early 1980s I was an English teacher at a high school in Cambridge, England. “He introduced John Lennon to Paul McCartney.” I stared at him. Vaughan invented fame. Introducing Paul to John was like introducing ketchup to fries, or causing the Big Bang. By the time John and Paul were 10 and 8, respectively, only 7 percent of 17-year-olds were in school.

Persons: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ilene Cooper, Ivan Vaughan, ”, Vaughan, Paul, John, Paul McCartney ”, “, Cooper, Little Richard, Elvis Presley, Peter Sellers, Starchy George Martin Locations: Cambridge, England, Woolton, Liverpool, American

☆ This biotech stock is a cancer-fighting 'powerhouse' with nearly 50% upside, says Jefferies
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-17 | by ( Pia Singh | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Investors should keep an eye on biotech company BeiGene as it scales up its global revenue streams, according to Jefferies. Analyst Kelly Shi initiated coverage of the stock with a buy rating and assigned a price target of $287, suggesting shares stand to gain 49.2% in the next 12 months. The stock has lost 12% so far this year but has had a more uplifting quarter with gains of about 8%. According to the analyst, BeiGene's product pipeline could expand beyond oncology, as it currently includes early autoimmune candidates. BeiGene's tislelizumab drug is another major growth driver for the company, Shi said, highlighting the drug's position as China's top-selling PD-1 drug with about 40% market share.

Persons: Kelly Shi, Shi, BeiGene, BGNE, Amgen, — CNBC's Michael Bloom Organizations: Jefferies, pharma, Novartis Locations: Cambridge , Massachusetts, Beijing, China, BeiGene

New York CNN —Anyone in the United States who had a Facebook account in the past 16 years has roughly one week left to file for payment in a data privacy settlement case. That includes roughly 70 million US-based users’ private Facebook data that was accessed by the political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica, which had been working for the Trump presidential campaign in 2016. That hearing is scheduled for September 7 at 1 pm PT, according to the Facebook user privacy settlement website. Facebook users were allowed to “opt out” of being in the settlement class and preserve their right to sue. By joining the “settlement class,” and claiming a payment, you will no longer be able to sue Facebook or join others’ lawsuits against Facebook for matters covered by the settlement.

Persons: everyone’s, — Organizations: New, New York CNN, Meta, Facebook, Cambridge Analytica, Trump Locations: New York, United States

Alchemation, known for the international hit "SIX," is among an increasingly established presence of musical theatre at the Fringe, which takes over the Scottish capital for the month of August. The company's "Hello Kitty Must Die," based on the novel by Hong Kong-born, U.S.-based writer Kate Kamen (formerly Angela S. Choi) is playing at Edinburgh's Pleasance until Aug. 27. It transferred to London's West End, where it was spotted by Alchemation, which took it to Broadway and beyond. It is the first time one of its diversity grants has supported a musical as the genre cements its presence. The Pleasance alone has 16 musicals this year, its most yet, it said, out of roughly 140 across the Fringe as a whole.

Persons: Lucas McMahon, Kitty, Kate Kamen, Angela S, Choi, Edinburgh's Pleasance, Anthony Alderson, Henry VIII, Alderson, Levi Roots, Ray Shell, Barbara Lewis, Sarah Mills, Bernadette Baum Organizations: Edinburgh Fringe, SIX, Scottish, Reuters, Edinburgh's, Pleasance Theatre Trust, Broadway, Thomson Locations: York, Hong Kong, U.S, Edinburgh, Cambridge, New York, London

[1/2] Students and pedestrians walk through the Yard at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., March 10, 2020. Democratic President Joe Biden's administration had defended that long-standing practice in the court cases against Harvard University and the University of North Carolina. The ruling left some questions unanswered, and more legal challenges by conservative activists are expected targeting diversity initiatives in education and corporate America. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said promoting campus diversity remained important even after the ruling. But the departments said universities may consider how race has affected an applicant's life, such as in an applicant's essay.

Persons: Brian Snyder, Biden, Joe Biden's, Miguel Cardona, ”, Nate Raymond, Jarrett Renshaw, Jonathan Oatis Organizations: Harvard University in, REUTERS, U.S, Supreme, Education, Justice, Democratic, Harvard University, University of North, America, Justice Department, Department's, Civil, Harvard, Thomson Locations: Harvard University in Cambridge , Massachusetts, U.S, University of North Carolina, Boston, Washington

☆ Arm IPO depends on more than Big Tech support
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-14 | by ( Karen Kwok | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/IllustrationLONDON, Aug 14 (Reuters Breakingviews) - Arm is phoning Big Tech friends for help with its initial public offering. Backing from some of the world’s largest technology companies would also provide a useful marketing boost. Investments from big tech companies risk scrutiny from antitrust regulators, who previously blocked chip specialist Nvidia from buying Arm. Reuters Graphics Reuters GraphicsArm and its owner, Japan’s SoftBank Group (9984.T), will therefore need to win over big institutional investors. That’s well below the $60 billion to $70 billion that Bloomberg recently reported Arm is aiming for.

Persons: Dado Ruvic, Rene Haas, Taiwan’s TSMC, Japan’s, Bernstein, Peter Thal Larsen, Oliver Taslic Organizations: REUTERS, Reuters, Big Tech, Nvidia, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Investments, U.S . Federal Trade Commission, Reuters Graphics, Cadence Design Systems, Bloomberg, Reuters Graphics Reuters, Intel, Samsung Electronics, Japan’s SoftBank, Nasdaq, Thomson Locations: U.S, ASML, Cambridge

☆ Opinion | How to Make Sure Federal Climate Money Helps Everyone
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-13 | by ( Farah Stockman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

More solar panels appeared on my neighbors’ roofs. Mini split units that heat and cool became all the rage. People seem more focused on keeping a roof over their head than affixing solar panels to it. A contractor tried to talk us out of installing a mini split. That’s a hangover from the past, when tax credits aimed at encouraging energy efficiency largely excluded landlords and renters.

Persons: Biden, Teslas, won’t, don’t Organizations: Great Society Locations: Cambridge, Detroit

☆ SolarEdge is among the most oversold stocks in the S&P 500. Here are the others
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-12 | by ( Pia Singh | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Following this week's moves, CNBC Pro used FactSet data to screen for the most overbought and oversold names in the S & P 500 based on their 14-day relative strength index, or RSI. Here are some of the most oversold names: SolarEdge is one of the most oversold companies in the S & P 500. NextEra Energy had the highest number of analyst buy ratings among the stocks on the oversold list, according to CNBC's screen. Meanwhile, the following 10 stocks are the most overbought in the S & P 500: Marathon Petroleum is the most overbought stock in the broad-based index, with an RSI of 96.3. Oilfield servicer Halliburton Company , Cessna aircraft maker Textron and construction services provider Jacobs Solutions are also among the most overbought companies in the S & P 500.

Persons: Dow Jones Industrials, SolarEdge Organizations: SolarEdge Technologies, Nasdaq, Nvidia, Micron, CNBC Pro, Street, NextEra Energy, Moderna, GE Healthcare Technologies, Ameren Corporation, Enphase Energy, Marathon Petroleum, Biotech, Global Payments, Jefferies, servicer Halliburton Company, Cessna, Textron, Jacobs Solutions Locations: Florida, Cambridge , Massachusetts

☆ Love Me, Love My Dog
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-10 | by ( Sarah Lyon | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Standing before friends and family, Dr. Partridge first unwrapped a Movado watch from Mr. Hilbrant-Partridge. Then, Dr. Partridge suddenly walked out to retrieve his own surprise for his fiancé: a golden retriever puppy. “I thought I was having a dream,” said Mr. Hilbrant-Partridge, 33, the senior director for customer experience at Beam, a wellness company. The two, who live in Cambridge, Mass., had longed for a second dog to join their older golden retriever, Nahla, for quite some time — especially Mr. Hilbrant-Partridge. The breeder not only expedited Dr. Partridge’s request, but also deflected Mr. Hilbrant-Partridge’s occasional queries concerning the availability of new puppies.

Persons: Johnny Hilbrant, Partridge, Justin Partridge, Hilbrant, ”, “, Partridge’s, Johnny, ” Dr Organizations: of Massachusetts Locations: Stockton Springs , Maine, Cambridge

☆ The 2024 Election Will Break New Ground
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-09 | by ( William A. Galston | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

William A. Galston writes the weekly Politics & Ideas column in the Wall Street Journal. He holds the Ezra K. Zilkha Chair in the Brookings Institution’s Governance Studies Program, where he serves as a senior fellow. A participant in six presidential campaigns, he served from 1993 to 1995 as Deputy Assistant to President Clinton for Domestic Policy. Mr. Galston is the author of 10 books and more than 100 articles in the fields of political theory, public policy, and American politics. A winner of the American Political Science Association’s Hubert H. Humphrey Award, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004.

Persons: William A, Galston, Ezra K, Saul Stern, Dean, Clinton, Association’s Hubert H, Humphrey Organizations: Street, Zilkha, Brookings Institution’s, Brookings, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, Institute for Philosophy, Center for Information, Research, Civic, National Commission, Domestic, Liberal Pluralism, Public, Rowman & Littlefield, Liberal Democracy, Yale, American, American Academy of Arts and Sciences Locations: Brookings

☆ Akamai Technologies forecasts upbeat third-quarter revenue, profit
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-08 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

The Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company forecasts revenue to be between $937 million and $952 million for the quarter ending Sept. 30, compared with analysts' average estimate of $931 million, according to Refinitiv data. The company expects adjusted profit per share for the third quarter to be between $1.48 and $1.52, while analysts estimated $1.41. Akamai also raised its full-year revenue forecast to between $3.77 billion and $3.80 billion, compared with its prior projection of $3.74 billion to $3.79 billion. Security and compute revenue, which formed 59% of the company's total revenue in the quarter, grew 14% over the year earlier, the company said. Excluding items, the company's profit per share was $1.49, compared with analysts' expectations of $1.41.

Persons: Akamai, Rishi Jaluria, Jaluria, Zaheer Kachwala, Jaspreet Singh, Shilpi Majumdar Organizations: Akamai Technologies, Wall, RBC Capital Markets, U.S . Department of Labor, Census Bureau, Department of Defense, eBay, Electronic Arts, Thomson Locations: Cambridge , Massachusetts, Bengaluru

☆ AI Scams, Spam, Hacking, Are Ruining the Internet
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-08 | by ( Shubham Agarwal | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +14 min

A report from Europol expects a mind-blowing 90% of internet content to be AI-generated in a few years. A report from Europol, the European Union's law-enforcement agency, expects a mind-blowing 90% of internet content to be AI-generated in a few years. And while AI bots have telltale signs now, experts indicate that they will soon get better at mimicking humans and evading the detection systems developed by Menczer and social networks. While misinformation has long been a problem with the internet, AI is going to blow our old problems out of the water. But security researchers have discovered that the AI bots in your apps and devices might steal sensitive information for the hackers.

Persons: HBO Max, haven't, ChatGPT, Christian Selig, Reddit, Martijn Pieters, He'd, NewsGuard, Gordon Crovitz, NewsGuard's, Filippo Menczer, NewsGuard's Crovitz, Christopher Cowell, Cowell, John Licato, Bing, Florian Tramèr, Toby Walsh, Walsh, Shubham Agarwal Organizations: HBO, Europol, Market, Indiana University's Observatory, Social Media, Facebook, Microsoft, Google, University of South, ETH Zürich, University of New, University of Oxford, Wired, Company Locations: Cambridge, Europol, Portland , Oregon, Etsy, University of South Florida, University of New South Wales, Ahmedabad, India

☆ Climate change puts sovereigns at downgrade risk, study finds
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-06 | by ( Mark John | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Rising debt costs would be just one extra facet of the overall economic damage which climate change is already causing. While developing nations with lower credit scores are seen hit hardest by the physical effects of climate change, nations with the highest ranking credit scores were likely to face more severe downgrades simply because they have furthest to fall. The findings come as regulators around the world seek to better understand just how much damage to economies and the global financial system to expect from climate change. A European Central Bank paper last year urged greater clarity in how those risks were being built into credit ratings. S&P Global Ratings has published the environmental, social and governance (ESG) principles used in its credit ratings which include reference to the risk of economic damage from climate change and the costs associated with mitigating it.

Persons: Heatwaves, Patrycja Klusak, Klusak, Fitch, Mark John, Hugh Lawson Organizations: Management, University of East Anglia, UEA, University of Cambridge, Insurance, Allianz, Cambridge, Central Bank, Thomson Locations: Paris, China, India, United States, Canada, Cambridge

☆ How ‘gray rocking’ can protect you against narcissists
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-04 | by ( Madeline Holcombe | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Here is what you need to know about narcissists and how to gray rock your way out of conflict with them. It depends on what you mean by narcissist, Malkin said. In conflict, or even just in conversation, it is important to protect your sense of self and independence from narcissists, Ashway said. If the person is likely to just be a jerk, gray rocking may be very helpful. Important to remember, though, is that gray rocking is not about changing the behavior of the narcissist, Malkin said.

Persons: ” Gray, narcissists, Keith Campbell, I’ve, ” Campbell, Craig Malkin, narcissist, Malkin, Campbell, …, Covert, ”, “, you’ve, Deborah Ashway, Ashway, “ They’re, “ It’s Organizations: CNN, University of Georgia, Harvard Medical School Locations: Cambridge , Massachusetts, New Bern , North Carolina, narcissists

☆ Facing lawsuit from Musk, nonprofit head says he won't stop exposing Twitter's problems
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-04 | by ( Jonathan Vanian | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

And he's insisting that researchers at his nonprofit Center for Countering Digital Hate remain equally unafraid. Earlier this week, the company formerly known as Twitter filed a lawsuit in federal court against the CCDH, after the organization in June published research that Musk didn't like. Rather, Ahmed told staffers in a meeting after he heard about the lawsuit that they should "double down" on probing X. Lawyers representing X alleged in this week's lawsuit that the CCDH improperly obtained access to social media analysis tool Brandwatch and also illegally scraped data from Twitter using other methods. The CCDH said it obtained the tweets using a data-scraping tool and Twitter's search function.

Persons: Elon Musk, Imran Ahmed, Musk, Ahmed, I've, Jo Cox, there's, X, Brandwatch, He's, TikTok Organizations: Center, Twitter, CNBC, Washington , D.C, University of Cambridge, Labour Party, X Locations: Warsaw, Poland, Washington ,

☆ Scientists induce virgin birth in fruit flies in monumental first
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-03 | by ( Jackie Wattles | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —In a historic first, scientists have used gene editing to induce virgin birth in fruit flies, a major step in unlocking the mysteries of the intriguing phenomenon known as parthenogenesis. The researchers used fruit flies because they’re considered “model organisms,” meaning the flies are among a list of organisms that scientists have long studied in depth to gain a better fundamental understanding of biology. Fruit flies’ short life spans of about 80 days have made it easy to observe changes throughout generations relatively quickly. And prior research into fruit flies is so extensive it’s possible to order genetic mutations for some flies online. “There’s just so many tools,” Sperling said, “and the tools are easily, cheaply available to all researchers” when it comes to fruit flies.

Persons: Alexis Sperling, Sperling, ” Sperling, “, we’d, they’re, “ There’s, ”, aren’t, Dr, Warren Booth, Booth, ” Booth, parthenogenesis Organizations: CNN, UK’s University of Cambridge, Pesticides, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, State University Locations: United Kingdom

☆ Billionaire DeVos family looks to DeSantis, not Trump, in 2024
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-02 | by ( Brian Schwartz | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

Octavio Jones | ReutersThe billionaire DeVos family, whose matriarch, Betsy DeVos, served in Donald Trump's Cabinet, appears to be backing a Trump rival in the 2024 Republican presidential contest: Florida Gov. And though the Federal Election Commission filing does not name any member of the DeVos family, the Michigan billionaires own the team. Following publication of this story, Betsy DeVos' chief of staff, Nate Bailey, said she was "undecided and uncommitted on the race for president, as is the entire DeVos family." Leah Millis | ReutersA spokesman for the DeVos family investment firm, RDV, did not respond to requests for comment. But that curriculum is exactly what draws members of the DeVos family to DeSantis.

Persons: Ron DeSantis, Octavio Jones, DeVos, Betsy DeVos, Donald Trump's, wokeness, Joel Glass, Governor DeSantis, Glass, DeSantis, Dick DeVos, Dan DeVos, Nate Bailey, Bailey, Leah Millis, RDV, Jason Miller, Ron DeSanctimonious, Miller, Betsy, Tudor Dixon, Trump, Joe Biden, Mike, Pence, Darius Garland, Schofield Organizations: Florida Gov, Cambridge Christian School, Trump, Republican, DeSantis, NBA, Orlando, CNBC, Governor, Orlando Magic, . Education, Federal Commission, School, White, Washington , D.C, Reuters, Michigan Republican, Trump's, Make, Inc, FEC, Detroit, RDV, Cleveland Cavaliers, National Basketball Association, Getty Locations: Florida, Tampa , Florida, Michigan, Central Florida, Washington ,, Cleveland , Ohio

☆ The strange, improbable rise of Mark Zuckerberg 3.0
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-30 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +27 min

In early July, Mark Zuckerberg unveiled the latest and perhaps most consequential product in Meta's history: a new model of Mark Zuckerberg. Silicon Valley Zuck was a husband and father with a legacy to build and protect at all costs. Silicon Valley Zuck was suddenly faced with something he'd never dealt with before, shrinking revenue. Still clinging to his persona as Silicon Valley Zuck, Zuckerberg engaged in an all-out media blitz to hawk his vision for the metaverse. They were the sort of people Harvard Zuck would have scoffed at and Silicon Valley Zuck would have gently ignored.

Persons: Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Joe Rogan, Zuckerberg, Clark Kent, TikTok, Sheryl Sandberg, Mike Schroepfer, Wall, McKinsey Zuck, Rogan, Meta, Harvard Zuck, —, Priscilla Chan, Ray's, pullover, Harvard Zuck —, Dianna, Mick, McDougall, Paul Sakuma, Zuckerberg's, Apple, Facebook, he'd, That's, Frances Haugen, Chris Cox, Zuck, Zach Gibson, Meta's, Sandberg, Marne Levine, who'd, Javier Olivan, he's, bode, Bain, Maher Saba, Lori Goler, He's, He'd, Katie Harbath, it's, Andrew Bosworth, Bosworth, Mark Zuckerberg McKinsey Zuck, Mark Shmulik, Bernstein, Augustus, Julius Caesar, Kali Hays Organizations: Meta, Menlo, Harvard, Apple, McKinsey, Business, Facebook, Cambridge, Capitol, Labs, Menlo Park, Q, Bain & Company, Reality Labs, Wall, Mark Zuckerberg McKinsey, Phillips Exeter Academy, Tech, Twitter Locations: California, Hawaii, United States, Davos, Silicon, contrition, Meta, verbiage, Harvard, Rome

☆ Scientists say they have induced 'virgin births' in fruit flies for the first time by switching on the right genes
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-29 | by ( Marta Biino | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A group of researchers was able to successfully engineer "virgin birth" in fruit flies. "I couldn't believe it," Sperling told the Washington Post. A backup for isolated femalesThe experiment was conducted on fruit flies because they are model organisms, or simple non-human species that are usually studied to better understand biology. "Fruit flies are incredibly special because they are basically the first model organism and have been studied for over 100 years," Sperling told the Post. Virgin births could help certain species and act as a "backup" for isolated females, according to The Guardian.

Persons: Alexis Sperling, Sperling, Hannah Maude, Nature Organizations: Service, Privacy, University of Cambridge, Washington Post, Imperial College London, Times, Guardian Locations: Wall, Silicon, parthenogenesis

☆ You have a month left to get your share of Facebook's $725 million settlement — here's how
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-28 | by ( Rohan Goswami | In Rohangoswamicnbc | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Facebook users have less than one month left to apply for their share of a $725 million settlement over the social network's privacy violations, part of the lengthy fallout from the Cambridge Analytica scandal that rocked the U.S. electoral process and Silicon Valley. In all, the Cambridge Analytica scandal cost Meta, Facebook's parent company, nearly $5.9 billion. Beyond the $725 million settlement, the company paid a record $5 billion settlement to the Federal Trade Commission, alongside a further $100 million to the Securities and Exchange Commission. In some ways, it's a much different company than it was during the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The $725 million settlement was not an admission of wrongdoing.

Persons: Mark Zuckerberg, Keller Rohrback, Donald Trump's, Facebookuserprivacysettlement.com, It's, We're, Zuckerberg Organizations: . House Financial, Capitol, Facebook, Cambridge, U.S, Federal Trade Commission, Securities and Exchange Commission, People, Twitter Locations: Washington, Silicon Valley, Cambridge, U.S

☆ OpenAI just admitted it can't identify AI-generated text. That's bad for the internet and it could be really bad for AI models.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-28 | by ( Alistair Barr | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

OpenAI launched a system to spot AI text, but just shut it down because it didn't work. So, developing a way to spot what is AI text versus human text is foundational. In January, it unveiled a "classifier to distinguish between text written by a human and text written by AIs from a variety of providers." Once we can't tell the difference between AI and human text, the world of online information becomes more problematic. I emailed OpenAI to ask about their failed AI text classifier and the implications, including Model Collapse.

Persons: OpenAI, Google Bard, ChatGPT, Biden, Harris, Ilia Shumailov Organizations: Morning, Google, AIs, Bloomberg, Oxford, Twitter Locations: GPT, Cambridge, Toronto

Reuters analysis shows a massive jump in the assets of emerging market (EM) mutual funds and exchange traded funds (ETFs) that exclude China as U.S. and European investors turn more wary of being exposed to the Asian giant. Other investors are simply moving to markets with better growth prospects, such as Brazil. The scale of change needed in global supply chains could drive such capital flows for the next decade, he said. The iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ex-China ETF , the world's largest emerging market ex-China ETF whose biggest holdings are firms in Taiwan, South Korea and India, attracted a record $1 billion net inflow in the first half of 2023, the data showed. "China is the one major country that investors are most concerned about in EM," said John Lau, portfolio manager for Asia Pacific and emerging market equities at SEI.

Persons: Aly, Malcolm Dorson, John Lau, Goldman Sachs, Jeffrey Jaensubhakij, ”, Benjamin Low, Donald Trump, Joe Biden's, Biden, Wong Kok Hoi, Summer Zhen, Vidya Ranganathan Organizations: REUTERS, Global, China ETF, China, Asia Pacific, SEI, Stock Connect, Morningstar, China Opportunity Equity Fund, Fund, Boston, Cambridge Associates, CSI, Nikkei, Investors, Reuters Graphics, APS Asset Management, Thomson Locations: Shanghai, China, HONG KONG, U.S, Mexico, India, Vietnam, Brazil, New York, Taiwan, South Korea, Asia, Singapore, Indonesia, Japan, Hong Kong, Canada, “ U.S

Other investors are simply moving to markets with better growth prospects, such as Brazil. The scale of change needed in global supply chains could drive such capital flows for the next decade, he said. The iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ex-China ETF , the world's largest emerging market ex-China ETF whose biggest holdings are firms in Taiwan, South Korea and India, attracted a record $1 billion net inflow in the first half of 2023, the data showed. "China is the one major country that investors are most concerned about in EM," said John Lau, portfolio manager for Asia Pacific and emerging market equities at SEI. “U.S., Canadian, and some European investors are exiting China due to political pressure.

☆ UK university marking strike leaves thousands of students stuck in limbo
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-27 | by ( Kylie Maclellan | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

A spokesperson for Britain's Home Office said international students without results can request a letter of confirmation from their sponsor or return to their home country and apply for another student visa. The University of Edinburgh said 27% of final year students had not received their degree at the time of graduation. International students pay much more, providing a vital source of income. Research published by Universities UK International in May found the 2021/22 intake of international students contributed 41.9 billion pounds to the UK economy. "Every year, universities in the UK are depending more and more on the finances of international students," said Hendricks.

Persons: Maja Smiejkowska, Amelia Dias, Dias, Anna Hendricks, Ailsa Watt, Watt, Gillian Keegan, Hendricks, Kylie MacLellan, Jan Harvey Organizations: London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, REUTERS, University of Edinburgh, Colleges Employers Association, University and College Union, National Union of Students, University of Cambridge, University, Scottish, International, British Council, Times Higher, Higher Education Statistics Agency, Universities UK International, Thomson Locations: London, Britain, Edinburgh, British, Florida, Spanish, Shanghai

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