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☆ Inside the strain challenging the US Secret Service
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-25 | by ( Betsy Klein | Jamie Gangel | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

While the reputation of the US Secret Service is one of precision, vigilance and security, the reality is more complicated – a high-stress, high-intensity workplace beset by management and logistical issues. (The Secret Service is mandated to protect all foreign heads of state while they are on US soil). “Following the events of July 13, the U.S. Secret Service enhanced our protective model for protectees. According to the Secret Service official, the agency’s attrition rate was 10.26% in fiscal year 2022, 8.78% in 2023, and 8.85% for fiscal year 2024 so far. A USSS spokesman disputed any reports of tension between Secret Service and the Bidens.

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☆ Mira Murati, OpenAI’s technology chief, becomes the latest exec to leave the company
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-25 | by ( Clare Duffy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

New York CNN —OpenAI Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati — who has been instrumental in the development of ChatGPT and the artificial intelligence image generator Dall-E — said Wednesday she is leaving the company. “My six-and-a-half years with the OpenAI team have been an extraordinary privilege,” Murati said in a note to the OpenAI team, which she posted to X. Fellow OpenAI co-founder John Schulman exited in August to join rival Anthropic. Murati joined OpenAI’s leadership team in 2018 after working at augmented reality company Ultraleap (then called Leap Motion) and Tesla. During the debacle, Murati joined more than 500 fellow OpenAI employees in threatening to quit if Altman was not brought back to the company.

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☆ US troops deployed to Cyprus as fears of wider Middle East war intensify
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-25 | by ( Natasha Bertrand | Alex Marquardt | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

The UK announced on Tuesday that it was sending 700 troops to Cyprus to prepare for a possible emergency evacuation of British citizens from Lebanon if one becomes necessary. The US State Department has also repeatedly warned US citizens to leave Lebanon while commercial travel options are still available. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday that the US is “working tirelessly” on diplomatic efforts to prevent an “full-blown war” between Israel and Lebanon. A US official told CNN on Monday that “we are the closest we’ve been to spiraling to a regional war” since Hamas’ October 7 attack. Tehran has not intervened yet, but they will if they believe they are about to lose their most powerful proxy force, Hezbollah, the official added.

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☆ It looks like Sam Altman will get richer off of OpenAI after all
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-25 | by ( Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewOpenAI is working to revamp its business structure so that it's no longer controlled by a nonprofit board, according to a new report. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. The company has been controlled until now by the nonprofit board — a relic of its original launch as a nonprofit in 2015. The company is seeking to remove a cap on returns for investors, sources told Reuters. "Feels part of the necessary normalization of OpenAI into a regular corporate structure, which paves the way to an IPO."

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☆ An F-35 was caught on camera for the first time carrying the stealthy long-range anti-ship missiles it could need in a fight with China
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-25 | by ( Jake Epstein | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewThe US military has published photos for the first time that show a fifth-generation F-35 fighter armed with a stealthy long-range anti-ship missile. The photo, released on Monday, shows an F-35C Lightning II carrying two AGM-158C Long-Range Anti-Ship Missiles (LRASMs) during a flight test conducted earlier this month. Efforts to integrate the missile with the carrier-based variant of the advanced F-35 stealth fighter underscore the military's push to expand its anti-ship capabilities across new platforms. The military has acknowledged an increasing need for these capabilities, particularly as rivals like China strengthen their navies. The F-35 doesn't have a dedicated anti-ship missile, making the LRASM a valuable addition.

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☆ Starmer is selling Britain on gloom, and patience is wearing thin
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-25 | by ( Rob Picheta | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Protesters demonstrate outside the Labour Party conference venue in Liverpool against the withdrawal of the winter fuel allowance, on September 23, 2024. “It has felt a bit blunt,” a Labour Member of Parliament admitted after Starmer’s speech Tuesday, summing up the sentiment across much of conference. Unfortunately, the realities of governing are beginning to bite the Labour Party – and it is likely he will need to show some returns far sooner. Starmer’s speech was was light on fresh content but a heckler was calmly removed and the key messages were confidently delivered. But a premiership can only survive on doom and gloom for so long, and patience is already wearing thin among much of the wider party.

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☆ Fed Governor Bowman explains dissent on rate vote, says she’s worried about inflation
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-24 | by ( Jeff Cox | Jeff Cox Is A Finance Editor With Cnbc.Com Where He Covers All Aspects Of The Markets | Monitors Coverage Of The Financial Markets | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

Federal Reserve Governor Michelle Bowman said Tuesday she thought her colleagues should have taken a more measured approach to last week’s half percentage point interest rate cut as she worries that inflation could reignite. In explaining her rationale, Bowman said the half percentage point, or 50 basis point, reduction posed a number of risks to the Fed’s twin goals of achieving low inflation and full employment. Though Bowman favored a reduction, she preferred the Fed lower by a quarter percentage point, more in line with the traditional moves at the central bank. In recent statements, Fed officials have cited easing inflation and a softening labor market as justification for the cut. At last week’s meeting, individual policymakers indicated they expect another half percentage point in cuts this year and another full point in 2025.

Persons: Michelle Bowman, Bowman, ” Organizations: Federal Locations: Kentucky

☆ U.S. to send troops to be ready to help evacuate U.S. citizens from Lebanon
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-24 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Courtney-Kube-Circle-Byline-Template.Jpg | Courtney Kube | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +5 min

On Monday, Israel dramatically expanded its aerial assaults on Lebanon with airstrikes that killed nearly 500 people and wounded more than 1,600. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has warned of coming military strikes, but Israeli officials have not told U.S. officials whether or when a ground offensive could begin, the three defense officials said. The officials estimate a large offensive into southern Lebanon would take thousands more troops and armored vehicles, in addition to forces to hold any territory. In addition to tens of thousands of U.S. troops in the region, the Biden administration is considering options to send other military assets to the region. The conflict between Israel and Hezbollah could dash already dwindling hopes for a cease-fire deal and hostage exchange with Hamas.

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☆ Leaders from the CIA, Dell Technologies, HP, SageCXO, and ezCater share how they keep up with AI development
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-24 | by ( Helen Li | Emma Cosgrove | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +14 min

John Roese, the global chief technology officer and chief AI officer of Dell Technologies. In the long term, those two have to come closer together to achieve the speed necessary for an AI cycle. So the quality of what you produce in your organization as a CTO — if you're going to provide models built in-house — better be superstar quality, or no one's using it. Once you understand that those are high level, then you have to ask if you are actually on a path where if you apply AI, you're going to get to an outcome. DeCesare: I've been most inspired to drive the leverage of AI through the company by finding out how people have applied it.

Persons: Emma Cosgrove, La'Naia Jones, John Roese, Elaine Zhou, Faisal Masud, Erin DeCesare, What's, it's, Claude, It's, She's, ChatGPT, Cosgrove, we've, cocreate, that's, We've, Masud, That's, they're, Jones, You've, Everyone's, Aaron, Jensen, Huang, I've Organizations: Business, BI's, CIA, Dell Technologies, HP, Star, Amazon, Nvidia Locations: Spain, Madrid, Silicon

☆ Harris’ Georgia challenge: reassembling Biden’s diverse 2020 coalition
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-24 | by ( John King | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

Georgia voter Christine Nguyen and John King in Decatur, Georgia CNNRebel Teahouse is in Decatur, in reliably blue suburban DeKalb County just outside Atlanta. It is one of the places that helped Biden to his stunning, razor-thin 2020 Georgia win and is now a key test of whether Harris can assemble a similar winning coalition. “Absolutely no,” was Gardner’s answer when we asked whether the switch from Biden to Harris would make him rethink. Republican George W. Bush won 66% in Gwinnett in 2004; in 2020, Biden carried the county with 58%. CNNLike Ngyuen, Hallmon sometimes finds herself in debates over whether Harris or Trump is better for small business and the overall economy.

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☆ Fed Governor Bowman explains dissent on rate vote, says she's worried about inflation
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-24 | by ( Jeff Cox | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Federal Reserve Governor Michelle Bowman said Tuesday she thought her colleagues should have taken a more measured approach to last week's half percentage point interest rate cut as she worries that inflation could reignite. In explaining her rationale, Bowman said the half percentage point, or 50 basis point, reduction posed a number of risks to the Fed's twin goals of achieving low inflation and full employment. Though Bowman favored a reduction, she preferred the Fed lower by a quarter percentage point, more in line with the traditional moves at the central bank. In recent statements, Fed officials have cited easing inflation and a softening labor market as justification for the cut. At last week's meeting, individual policymakers indicated they expect another half percentage point in cuts this year and another full point in 2025.

Persons: Michelle Bowman, Bowman Organizations: Federal Locations: Kentucky

☆ I spent years closeted at work. During a job interview I chose to come out, and the support I got was better than a dream job.
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-24 | by ( Jacqueline Lieske | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

During a job interview I was asked what the company needed to do to keep me. I played back in my head all the times that I was told to stay closeted so as to not be judged. Go to newsletter preferences Thanks for signing up! download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . The conversation flowed until they asked the most astounding question of my career:This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers.

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☆ Bad Bunny's 'La Velita' remembers Hurricane Maria — and serves as a searing indictment
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-23 | by ( Jaylinn Herrera | Jaylinn Herrera Is A Nbc News Associate With The Nbc National News Desk. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +6 min

Bad Bunny is once again using his music to draw attention to his homeland, Puerto Rico, and as a catalyst for activism. Bad Bunny sings in Spanish. Bad Bunny calls out government leaders for “hiding” and showing up only to make appearances but not actually sending any help. Fans across the internet have applauded Bad Bunny for using his platform to bring awareness to what took place. This isn’t the first time Bad Bunny has used his art to spread awareness of the issues facing his homeland.

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☆ Families from Tennessee to California seek humanitarian parole for adopted children in Haiti
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-23 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Ap-Live-Blog-Byline-Image.Png | The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +9 min

Reed’s is one of 55 families from Tennessee to California asking the U.S. government for humanitarian parole for some 70 children they’re adopting. But a State Department spokesperson told The Associated Press that other Haitian authorities overseeing the adoption process do not agree. Sherrod Brown, Marco Rubio and Rick Scott, who have written the U.S. State Department and the Department of Homeland Security on their behalf. Gangs forced the children to relocate to southwest Haiti, where their family is running low on food and other basic supplies. “We are not looking to bypass any part of the adoption process.

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☆ Funeral services held for Kentucky judge allegedly shot by sheriff in courthouse chamber
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-23 | by ( Deon J. Hampton | Deon J. Hampton Is A National Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +4 min

JENKINS, Ky. — A Kentucky judge who authorities said was fatally shot by a sheriff last week was remembered Sunday as a pioneer who fought opioid addiction and favored treatment over jail for low-level drug offenders. Kentucky State Police said the shooting appears to have followed an argument. Kentucky Court of Justice via APDistrict Judge J. He was first appointed in 2009 to fill a judicial vacancy and served as a District Court judge for 14 years, the obituary said. At the service, District Judge James Craft told a story about a trip he and Mullins took to New York City years ago.

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CNN —The surviving co-founder of the company that owned the doomed Titan submersible is scheduled to testify Monday as a US Coast Guard panel continues to investigate what led to the implosion that killed five people last year. The Marine Board of Investigation’s two-week hearing began September 16 and is expected to resume Monday with OceanGate co-founder Guillermo Sohnlein, who in January 2013 left the company, set to testify, the Coast Guard’s hearing schedule shows. In 2009, Sohnlein and CEO Stockton Rush launched the Washington state-based company that created the experimental 23,000-pound submersible. The submersible lost contact with its support vessel, the Polar Prince, an hour and 45 minutes into its dive on June 18, 2023. Former OceanGate director of marine operations David Lochridge, center, stands during his testimony on September 17, 2024.

Persons: OceanGate, Guillermo Sohnlein, Sohnlein, Shahzada Dawood, Suleman Dawood, Hamish Harding, Paul, Henri Nargeolet, Sohnlein’s, CNN’s Anderson Cooper, Rush, ”, ” Sohnlein, David Lochridge, Andrew J, Whitaker, ” Lochridge, Steven Ross, Ross, Antonella Wilby, Wilby, ‘, ’, ” Roy Thomas, Phil Brooks Organizations: CNN, US Coast Guard, Marine Board, Stockton Rush, Marine Board of Investigation, Coast Guard, American Bureau of Shipping Locations: Washington

☆ Minneapolis Fed President Kashkari sees a slower pace of rate cuts ahead
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-23 | by ( Jeff Cox | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Minneapolis Federal Reserve President Neel Kashkari said Monday that he expects policymakers to dial down the pace of interest rate cuts after last week's half percentage point reduction. "I think after 50 basis points, we're still in a net tight position," Kashkari said in a CNBC "Squawk Box" interview. "Right now, we still have a strong, healthy labor market. In their latest economic projections, FOMC members indicated that rate is probably around 2.9%; the current fed funds rate is targeted between 4.75% and 5%. Speaking separately Monday morning, Atlanta Fed President Raphael Bostic indicated he expects the Fed to move aggressively in getting back to a neutral rate.

Persons: Neel Kashkari, we're, Kashkari, Kasharki, Raphael Bostic, Bostic Organizations: Minneapolis Federal, CNBC, Federal Reserve, Atlanta Fed, Fed Locations: Minneapolis

☆ Israel appears to have pushed Hezbollah into a corner — setting the stage for an all-out war
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-23 | by ( Tom Porter | Joshua Nelken-Zitser | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewIsrael may have pushed Hezbollah into a dangerous corner, and fears are now growing that the pair are on the brink of an all-out war. AdvertisementOn Monday, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) warned civilians in Lebanon to stay away from potential Hezbollah targets for their "own safety." "Whatever Israel intends by this string of attacks on Hezbollah, this is not what de-escalation looks like," he said. "Under the circumstances, the region would appear to be on the brink of all-out war in Lebanon," he added. The "dual communications device attacks pushed Hezbollah into a corner," analysts from The Atlantic Council said last week.

Persons: —, Naim Qassem, Israel, it'd, Filippo Dionigi, Nicholas Blanford, Eugene Rogan, Rogan, Biden, Jeanine Hennis Organizations: Service, Israel, Business, Hezbollah's, Israel Defense Forces, Relations, University of Bristol, Wall Street Journal, University of Oxford, BI Israel, The Atlantic Council, UN Locations: Lebanon, Israel, Iran, Haifa

☆ 13 stocks leading the AI revolution poised to turn early infrastructure investment into huge profit growth: Moody's
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-23 | by ( Christine Ji | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The 13 companies identified below have created tangible competitive advantages by investing in AI infrastructure in the early stages or finding a mission-critical niche within the AI value chain. Investing in the AI value chainIt's still early innings for the AI revolution. Next is the cloud services providers, which store data and train AI models in data centers, followed by the AI foundation models that power ChatGPT. Finally, software infrastructure players assist in integrating AI models into the AI application, or end product that consumers use. These players hold considerable market share across multiple layers of the AI value chain, resulting in higher returns as they use AI in multiple business areas.

Persons: —, Vincent Gusdorf, Moody's, Gusdorf Organizations: Service, Business, Big Tech

☆ Voiceitt’s AI-powered tech could help people with speech impairments to work remotely
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-23 | by ( Nadia Leigh-Hewitson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

For people with non-standard speech, it can happen in nearly every interaction with this kind of technology — Israeli company Voiceitt aims to change that. By using personalized voice models, its AI-powered speech recognition system helps people with speech impairments, caused by conditions like cerebral palsy, Parkinson’s, Down Syndrome or stroke, communicate more effectively with both people and digital devices. For Voiceitt co-founder Sara Smolley, facilitating speech recognition for non-standard speech patterns is a personal mission. “By the time I was born, she had lost most of her motor capabilities, and her speech was impacted.”Voiceitt was launched as an app in 2021 and operated as a simple vocal translator, converting non-standard speech to audio. Voiceitt has developed integrations with WebEx and ChatGPT, along with a Google Chrome extension, which convert non-standard speech to captions shown on the screen.

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Seconds after that brief communication, the Titan was “pinged” for the last time, according to the opening presentation of the two-week hearing. Days later, authorities found its wreckage on the floor of the North Atlantic Ocean, several hundred yards from the remains of the Titanic, according to the Marine Board of Investigation, which is the highest level of inquiry by the Coast Guard. Lochridge testified he was supposed to pilot the submersible and objected when Rush decided he wanted to pilot the vessel. Rush made multiple errors during the dive, Lochridge said, including ignoring issues with the current and keeping his distance from the wreck. “It just didn’t seem to me that it had been particularly well-thought-out or executed,” he said of the submersible.

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☆ Sam Altman's Worldcoin turns your iris into a code for universal basic income. Its privacy chief wants you to chill about your data.
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-22 | by ( Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

The technology is similar to Apple's Face ID but mobile platform-agnostic, given that many Worldcoin users have Android devices. So I can take a photo of your face, and, through complicated AI, I could fool Face ID, for example. If it is the first time, the orb takes the iris code and cryptographically processes the iris code. Individually, neither of those new codes looks anything like the iris code, nor can they be brought back to the iris code on their own. To get an iris code, you have to recombine all of those pieces.

Persons: Sam Altman's, Worldcoin, It's, Damien Kieran, Elon Musk, Kieran, they're, it's, Alex, Sam Altman Organizations: Service, Business, Companies, Humanity, Twitter, Google Locations: Germany, France, Kenya

Russian intelligence services are building up their presence in Mexico for spy operations targeting the United States, a return to Cold War tactics by an increasingly aggressive regime, according to U.S. officials and former intelligence officers. The Mexican Embassy and the Russian Embassy did not respond to a request for comment. “Part of this is a function of the fact that so many Russian intelligence officers have been kicked out of Europe. Those are Russian intelligence personnel, and they keep an eye very closely on their opportunities to have influence on U.S. opportunities and access,” VanHerck said. Russian intelligence could conceivably also take advantage of Mexico’s proximity to target Putin’s political enemies inside the U.S., former intelligence officers said.

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☆ I married my high school sweetheart. Here's what everybody gets wrong about love stories like mine.
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-21 | by ( Autumn Gavora | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

That night, Daniel showed up at my house for a movie night I was hosting with friends. Over the years, I've found that people have many assumptions about high school sweethearts. We must have a house full of kids by now, with at least one in high school. AdvertisementLiving in the Bible Belt, getting married at a younger age is common due to religious reasons or family values. It's as if our love story is something out of a fairytale, a rare and beautiful journey I'm blessed to live.

Persons: —, Daniel, me, I've, didn't, we'd, Schellie Hogan, We're Organizations: Service, Blockbuster, Business

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