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☆ Billionaire FBI informant Peter Thiel dished about two Kremlin invites to private Putin meetings
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-10 | by ( Mattathias Schwartz | Hans-Martin Tillack | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +18 min

It was Angermayer who introduced Bisslinger to Thiel at the party, Thiel would later tell the FBI. After some small talk, Bisslinger made a pitch to Thiel: Thiel should travel to Russia to attend the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. If Thiel chose to attend, Bisslinger said, Bisslinger would arrange for him to meet privately with Putin. "Even if Mr. Angermayer did introduce Mr. Thiel and Mr. Bisslinger," the lawyers wrote in another letter, "Mr. Angermayer is not—and cannot be—responsible for whatever Mr. Bisslinger and Mr. Thiel may or may not have discussed." At his 40th birthday, he connected Peter Thiel with a Russian diplomat, Thiel later told the FBI.

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☆ Meta ignored warnings on Instagram’s harm to teens, whistleblower says
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-07 | by ( Brian Fung | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Washington CNN —Meta’s top executives, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg, ignored warnings for years about harms to teens on its platforms such as Instagram, a company whistleblower told a Senate subcommittee on Tuesday. Meanwhile, both parties have united behind blaming Meta for contributing to a nationwide mental health crisis. Bejar’s research “is basically a smoking gun,” Haugen told CNN in an interview Tuesday. “Every day countless people inside and outside of Meta are working on how to help keep young people safe online,” said Meta spokesman Andy Stone in a statement. He said everyday Americans understand “the harm being done” and compared it to harms from smoking.

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It also touted a new version of its AI model called GPT-4 with vision, or GPT-4V, that enables the chatbot to analyze images. ChatGPT has more than 100 million weekly active users and 2 million developers, spread “entirely by word of mouth," Altman said. The conference comes a week after President Joe Biden signed an executive order that will set some of the first U.S. guardrails on AI technology. The order built on voluntary commitments set by the White House that leading AI developers made earlier this year. OpenAI also faces competition from developers of so-called open source models that publicly release their code and other aspects of the system for free.

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NEW YORK, Nov 6 (Reuters Breakingviews) - Elon Musk does well when his back is against the wall. His investment in X now fills the longshot role, which leaves him little to lose. Grok, as it is called, has “real-time access to info via the X platform,” Musk noted in a post, which gives it a “massive advantage” over other AI models. Although the product is still being tested, Musk says it already can out-compute OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 and Meta Platforms' (META.O) Llama 2. X may be near, or already has hit, rock bottom, right where Musk often does his best work.

Persons: Elon, Tesla, Musk, ” Musk, Linda Yaccarino, X, Billionaire Elon Musk, Jeffrey Goldfarb, Sharon Lam Organizations: Reuters, Twitter, New York Times, Microsoft, New, Billionaire, OpenAI, Thomson

☆ Elon Musk debuts 'Grok' AI bot to rival ChatGPT, others
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-05 | by ( Rebecca Picciotto | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Elon Musk announced his new company xAI which he says has the goal to understand the true nature of the universe. Meet Grok, the first technology out of Elon Musk's new AI company, xAI. Leading up to the release, Musk posted on X, formerly Twitter, an example of Grok responding to a request for a step-by-step cocaine recipe. Musk, on Sunday, posted a side-by-side comparison of Grok answering a question versus another AI bot, which he said had less current information. Eventually, Musk said on X, Grok will be a feature of X Premium+, which costs $16 per month.

Persons: Elon Musk, Grok, Elon, Musk, I'm, xAI, Robert A . Heinlein, Critics, Webster Organizations: Twitter, Space Locations: Merriam

☆ Nvidia and AMD CEOs: Two of the world’s most powerful tech execs come from the same Taiwanese family
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-05 | by ( Michelle Toh | Wayne Chang | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

The chief executives of Nvidia (NVDA) and AMD (AMD) aren’t just two of the most powerful people in the global AI chip industry, they’re also family. “For almost half a century now, Taiwan’s economy has been centered on electronics production, chip assembly, chip manufacturing, chip design, everything semiconductors. According to Nvidia, Huang was born in 1963 in Taipei before moving to the southern city of Tainan. “I would say anyone who logs on the internet is likely touching not just one, but dozens and hundreds of Nvidia and AMD chips,” said Miller. I would say anyone who logs on the internet is likely touching not just one, but dozens and hundreds of Nvidia and AMD chips.

Persons: Taipei CNN — Jensen Huang, Lisa Su, they’re, Su, Jean Wu, Wu, Huang, ” Su, ” Wu, ” Christopher Miller, ”, it’s, there’s, Hwa Cheng, Edith Yeung, Miller, Robyn Beck, AMD’s, Florence Lo, “, Christopher Miller Organizations: Taipei CNN, Nvidia, AMD, CNN, Consumer Technology Association, rockstar, Technology, Bloomberg, Getty, Race Capital, ASUS, Consumer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Oregon State University, Stanford University, McKinsey, Associated Press, CTA Locations: Hong Kong, Taipei, Taiwan, United States, China, Silicon Valley, Silicon, Tainan, Thailand, Washington, Kentucky, New York City, Las Vegas, AFP, Santa Clara , California

☆ They gave up city life to buy an abandoned $10,000 house in Japan and renovate it. They say they'll never take on a project like that again.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-30 | by ( Amanda Goh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

Gilles Beaufils and his wife gave up city life in Tokyo to renovate an abandoned house in rural Japan. AdvertisementAdvertisementAfter three decades of working in Tokyo, Gilles Beaufils decided he needed a change of scenery. Gilles Beaufils/Base Camp ImariThe akiya is just over 1,800 square feet and is located right in the middle of the village. Gilles Beaufils/Base Camp ImariOnce the pandemic restrictions started to ease, travelers started coming back to Japan in troves, he said. Gilles Beaufils/Base Camp Imari"They don't show you the moist, they don't show you the termites, they don't show you these kinds of things in the photos," he added.

Persons: Gilles Beaufils, they'll, —, Frenchman, Beaufils, I've, — Beaufils, Makoto Watanabe, Imari, it's, Amanda Goh Organizations: Service Locations: Tokyo, Japan, Kyushu, Okawachiyama, Saga Prefecture, Fukuoka, Kumamoto, Nagasaki, Saga, troves, Itoshima, agoh@insider.com

☆ Thanks to Big Data, Landlords Know How to Squeeze the Most Out of Renters
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-24 | by ( Will Parker | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

If you want to know why apartment rents got so high, some people say look to big data. Many landlords outsourced their pricing decisions to software that told them what rents to charge. Then they direct landlords on how much to increase rent for each lease renewal, or what to ask for newly vacated apartments. Algorithms and other big data have changed the way many landlords do business. Many building owners also once believed keeping their apartment buildings as full as possible was the best way to maximize profits.

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☆ The Race to Save Our Secrets From the Computers of the Future
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-22 | by ( Zach Montague | More About Zach Montague | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

The danger extends not just to future breaches but to past ones: Troves of encrypted data harvested now and in coming years could, after Q-Day, be unlocked. Current and former intelligence officials say that China and potentially other rivals are most likely already working to find and store such troves of data in hopes of decoding them in the future. Today, the most powerful quantum device uses 433 “qubits,” as the quantum equivalent of transistors are called. That figure would probably need to reach into the tens of thousands, perhaps even the millions, before today’s encryption systems would fall. But within the U.S. cybersecurity community, the threat is seen as real and urgent.

Persons: ”, Glenn S Organizations: National Security Agency, Homeland Security Department Locations: China, Russia, United States

☆ Argentina voters on a knife-edge as presidential election nears
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-21 | by ( Horacio Soria | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

[1/4] Workers unload ballot boxes and voting material from a truck, ahead of the presidential election, at a school on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, Argentina October 21, 2023. The vote is a tight three-way race between frontrunner radical outsider Javier Milei, ruling Peronist Economy Minister Sergio Massa and center-right former security minister Patricia Bullrich, all offering starkly different visions for Argentina. Libertarian economist Milei is in pole position to win, though would likely face a second round. "It seems to me that it is time for change, to see how we can alter the reality of the country." Reporting by Horacio Soria and Juan Bustamante; Writing by Adam Jourdan; Editing by Daniel WallisOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Mariana Nedelcu, Javier Milei, Sergio Massa, Patricia Bullrich, Soledad Sanchez, Bullrich, Milei, Massa, pollsters, Hernan Etchaleco, Agustin Geist, Horacio Soria, Juan Bustamante, Adam Jourdan, Daniel Wallis Organizations: Workers, REUTERS, Argentine, Peronist Economy, International Monetary Fund, Thomson Locations: Buenos Aires, Argentina, BUENOS AIRES, Peronist, Bullrich

Those beliefs are known to have caused medical providers to rate Black patients’ pain lower, misdiagnose health concerns and recommend less relief. “I believe technology can really provide shared prosperity and I believe it can help to close the gaps we have in health care delivery,” Omiye said. In 2019, for example, academic researchers revealed that a large hospital in the United States was employing an algorithm that systematically privileged white patients over Black patients. It was later revealed the same algorithm was being used to predict the health care needs of 70 million patients nationwide. In June, another study found racial bias built into commonly used computer software to test lung function was likely leading to fewer Black patients getting care for breathing problems.

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☆ Why Carlyle is making big private credit investments in Hollywood companies like New Regency and 'South Park' creators' Park County
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-19 | by ( Reed Alexander | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

The investment speaks to Carlyle's underlying thesis in this space, said the managing director, Ben Fund, who sits on the Carlyle Credit Opportunities team. "It is amazing how much people love some of this high-quality content," Fund told Insider, speaking about famous sitcoms or films from recent decades. Streamers also need unique original titles to lure subscribers, but "it's a lot more expensive and risky to create new content than it is to license content," Fund said. Finding strategies to support Hollywood through volatile timesCarlyle's big moves come as private asset managers step up their lending game in Hollywood. For Carlyle, Fund said, this creates opportunity — and he added that such companies often have "real pride" and a "real legacy" to uphold.

Persons: Carlyle, Smith, Ben Fund, Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Arnon Milchan, Yariv, Austin Butler, Jodie Comer, Michael Shannon, it's, we're, hasn't Organizations: Washington DC, New Regency, New, Carlyle Credit, Bloomberg, Hollywood, Fund, Netflix, Content Partners, ICM Partners, CAA Locations: New, Carlyle, Park County, California, Hollywood

☆ How the US will cut off China from more AI chips
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-17 | by ( Stephen Nellis | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

CAPTURING MORE CHIPSThe original rules last year restricted chips if they met a two-pronged test for how much computing power the chips contained and how fast they could talk to other chips. Nvidia (NVDA.O) , the top AI chip supplier, responded by creating chips that stayed just under the communication limits for the Chinese market but that still proved useful for AI work. BLACKLISTING CHINA'S NVIDIA CHALLENGERSChip industry watchers believe that if U.S. AI chips are banned in China, Chinese firms will seek to fill the void in the market. On Tuesday, U.S. officials added two leading Chinese chip startups, Biren and Moore Threads, to a U.S. trade blacklist. That threshold would encompass nearly all advanced AI chips and is aimed at helping chip factories spot efforts to work around the rules.

Persons: Florence Lo, Biden, Moore, Stephen Nellis, Marguerita Choy Organizations: REUTERS, Nvidia, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, San, Thomson Locations: China, U.S, Macau, San Francisco

☆ US Space Force pauses use of AI tools like ChatGPT over data security risks
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-11 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsWASHINGTON, Oct 11 (Reuters) - The U.S. Space Force has paused the use of web-based generative artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT for its workforce over data security concerns, according to a memo seen by Reuters. It said the temporary ban was "due to data aggregation risks." "This is a temporary measure to protect the data of our service and Guardians," she added. Costa said in the memo that her office had formed a generative AI task force with other Pentagon offices to mull ways to use the technology in a "responsible and strategic manner." More guidance on Space Force's use of generative AI would be released in the next month, she added.

Persons: Dado Ruvic, Lisa Costa, Tanya Downsworth, Costa, Joey Roulette, Jonathan Oatis Organizations: REUTERS, Rights, U.S . Space Force, Reuters, Space Force, force's, Technology, Innovation, Air Force, Bloomberg, USSF, Thomson Locations: mull

☆ German antitrust head warns AI may boost Big Tech's dominance
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-09 | by ( Hakan Ersen | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google and Microsoft (MSFT.O) have recently become rivals in artificial intelligence (AI), with the latter investing heavily in OpenAI and the former building the Bard AI chatbot among other investments. The surge in AI popularity has prompted governments around the world to try to impose rules on the use of the technology, with the European Union in a race to adopt its landmark AI rules by the end of the year. "The danger is very great because you need two things above all for AI, powerful servers and vast amounts of data. Mundt said the field was still open to competition but regulators need to ensure it remains so. "Both developments are possible, and as an authority we have to be careful that any competitive potential is not buried from the outset."

Persons: Andreas Mundt, Wolfgang Rattay, Mundt, Foo Yun, Mark Potter Organizations: Federal, Office, REUTERS, Alpha, Big, Google, Microsoft, European Union, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Bonn, Germany, FRANKFURT, OpenAI

☆ Google announces new generative AI search capabilities for doctors
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-09 | by ( Ashley Capoot | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

Google's new search capabilities can also be used for other crucial applications such as applying the correct billing codes and determining whether patients meet the criteria to enroll in a clinical trial, O'Malley said. Google Cloud on Monday announced new artificial intelligence-powered search capabilities that it said will help health-care workers quickly pull accurate clinical information from different types of medical records. Aashima Gupta, global director of health care strategy and solutions at Google Cloud, said the new Vertex AI Search capabilities can integrate directly into a clinician's workflow, which is of high importance for customers in the field. Customers can sign up for early access to Vertex AI Search for health care and life sciences starting Monday, but Google Cloud has already been testing the capabilities with health organizations such as Mayo Clinic, Hackensack Meridian Health and Highmark Health. Mayo Clinic is not using the new Vertex AI Search tools in clinical care yet, said Cris Ross, Mayo's chief information officer; it is starting with administrative use cases.

Persons: O'Malley, Lisa O'Malley, Aashima Gupta, Gupta, Cris Ross, we're, it's, Ross, Richard Clarke, Clarke Organizations: Cloud AI, Google Cloud, CNBC, Google, Monday, American Medical Association, Mayo Clinic, Hackensack Meridian Health, Highmark Health, Health

[1/2] The Microsoft logo is seen at the Microsoft store in New York City, July 28, 2015. REBUFFED BY APPLENadella also testified that Microsoft had sought to make its Bing search engine the default on Apple (AAPL.O) smartphones but was rebuffed. On laptops, most of which use Microsoft operating systems, Bing is the default search engine and has a market share below 20%, Nadella acknowledged. Nadella became CEO of Microsoft in 2014, long after the tech giant faced its own federal antitrust lawsuit. As Google, which was founded in 1998, became an industry leading search engine, the two became bitter rivals.

Persons: Mike Segar, Satya Nadella, Nadella, U.S . Justice Department's, APPLE Nadella, John Schmidtlein, Google's, Schmidtlein, Bing, Amit Mehta, Diane Bartz, Christina Fincher, Deepa Babington Organizations: Microsoft, REUTERS, Google, U.S . Justice, Apple, APPLE, Bing, Verizon, BlackBerry, Nokia, District of Columbia, Thomson Locations: New York City, WASHINGTON, U.S, Bing, OpenAI

☆ The Art World Loves to Hate Him. He’s Building an Empire Anyway.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-28 | by ( Kelly Crow | Photography Jack Bool For Wsj. Magazine | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Art dealer Stefan Simchowitz has long been treated as persona non grata by the art world’s most important galleries and tastemakers. But you wouldn’t know it while wandering around the 11,000-square-foot Los Angeles warehouses where he stores his collection, one of the biggest private troves in the world.

Persons: Stefan Simchowitz Locations: Angeles

☆ Little Caesars knows what you're going to order before you do. With AI tools, soon more restaurants will.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-28 | by ( Dominick Reuter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

AI tools are enabling some restaurants to get a jump on what customers want — and when. AdvertisementAdvertisementLittle Caesars, Darden Restaurants, and Jack in the Box are each tapping into troves of sales data. "If you forecast your traffic better, you order better, you receive better, you schedule better," Cardenas said. AdvertisementAdvertisementService is also better, Klopfenstein said, since the AI tools enable Little Caesars to hire more easily and train new employees more quickly — a big lift in a tight labor market. If tech isn't easy to use, customers won't come back, Anita Klopfenstein, Little Caesars' chief information officer, said.

Persons: —, Jack, Anita Klopfenstein, Danny Meyer, Ricardo Cardenas, Cardenas, Klopfenstein, Mike Glinski, Darin Harris, Harris, they're Organizations: Service, Darden, Little Caesars, Olive Garden, LongHorn, Caesars, Microsoft

☆ Insider Today: The hottest job markets
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-23 | by ( Diamond Naga Siu | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Speaking of change and mobility, if you're looking for a new job, we have an inside look at how competitive job hunting currently is. Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesBad news for job hunters: You're competing with more people for a job now, compared with the same time period one or two years ago. AdvertisementAdvertisementHowever, data from LinkedIn shared with Insider comparing job vacancies with active applicants paints a more complex image. Rankings were based on job market and work conditions, affordability, crime and safety, workplace diversity, and health and leisure. The Insider Today team: Dan DeFrancesco, senior editor and anchor, in New York City.

Persons: Justin Sullivan, there's, Rand, Mike Steinitz, Robert Half, Steinitz, you've, Hoshino, Craig F, Walker, Pano Christou, Arantza Pena Popo, Gen Alpha, Brittany Chang, Dan DeFrancesco, Naga Siu, Hallam Bullock, Lisa Ryan Organizations: Service, Companies, LinkedIn, Ministry of Justice, Hoshino Resorts, Brussels Airlines, Cambridge, Harvard University, Boston Globe, Getty Images, Getty Locations: Wall, Silicon, New York City, San Diego, United States, Japan, Pomfret , Vermont, Brussels, England, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, situationships, Salem, Kansas, London, New York

A few compounds picked by AI are now in development, but those bets will take years to play out. Reuters interviews with more than a dozen pharmaceutical company executives, drug regulators, public health experts and AI firms show, however, that the technology is playing a sizeable and growing role in human drug trials. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said it had received about 300 applications that incorporate AI or machine learning in drug development from 2016 through 2022. Without AI, Bayer said it would have spent millions more, and taken up to nine months longer to recruit volunteers. Finding real-world patients by mining electronic patient data can be done manually, but using AI speeds up the process dramatically.

Persons: Dado Ruvic, Jeffrey Morgan, Amgen, Badhri Srinivasan, Sameer Pujari, drugmaker Bayer, Bayer, Blythe Adamson, Roche, Richard Pazdur, Gen Li, John Concato, Natalie Grover, Martin Coulter, Julie Steenhuysen, Josephine Mason, David Clarke Organizations: Pharmaceutical Research, REUTERS, Pharmaceutical, Bayer, Novartis, Deloitte, U.S . Food, Drug Administration, Reuters, World Health, Flatiron Health, FDA, European Medicines Agency, FDA's Oncology, Excellence, Medical, FDA's Center, Drug, Research, Thomson Locations: U.S, Johannesburg, Texas, Finland, United States, London, Chicago

☆ Google rolls out a major expansion of its Bard AI chatbot
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-19 | by ( Clare Duffy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

New York CNN —Google’s Bard artificial intelligence chatbot is evolving. The new features mark the biggest update to Google’s Bard in the six months since it was widely released to the public. With the new extensions, Bard will now pull information from YouTube, Google Maps, Flights and Hotels by default. Bard users can opt to disable these extensions at any time. The double check feature is designed to counter a common AI issue called “hallucinations,” where an AI tool confidently makes a statement that sounds real, but isn’t actually based in fact.

Persons: Bard, OpenAI, Sissie Hsiao, Google, chatbot, isn’t, “ We’re, ” Hsiao, ” Bard, It’s Organizations: New, New York CNN, YouTube, Google, Microsoft, CNN, “ Locations: New York

☆ Trump denies wrongdoing after report he wrote to-do lists on classified documents
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-18 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsWASHINGTON, Sept 18 (Reuters) - Donald Trump has denied wrongdoing after a report on Monday said that one of the former president's long-time assistants told federal investigators he repeatedly wrote to-do lists for her on documents from the White House marked classified. Michael became Trump's executive assistant in the White House in 2018 and continued to work for him when he left office. She resigned last year, in the wake of Trump's alleged refusal to comply with federal requests, ABC News said. A Trump spokesperson dismissed the report as "illegal leaks" and denied wrongdoing. Trump, the front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, has been charged along with two aides with illegally storing troves of classified documents at his personal residence and lying to federal investigators who sought to retrieve them.

Persons: Donald Trump, Jonathan Ernst, Molly Michael, Trump, Michael, Trump's, Joe Biden, Kanishka Singh, Lisa Shumaker Organizations: U.S, Republican, Family Research, REUTERS, Rights, Trump, ABC, House, ABC News, Washington , D.C, Democratic, Thomson Locations: Washington , U.S, Washington ,, Georgia, New York, Washington

☆ Amazon and more: Barclays reveals internet winners and losers for an AI world
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-15 | by ( Amala Balakrishner | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Analysts at Barclays have named consumer internet stocks set to do well — and badly — in an age of generative AI. Outlining what they called "a framework for generative AI success," the bank analyzed possible opportunities and risks as generative AI is embraced around the world. "We think it's still too early to declare the AI (artificial intelligence) 'winners' and 'losers' in the consumer internet space. Stocks to watch Barclays named several stocks that it says screen well, including U.S. tech giants Google , Meta and Amazon . Barclays warned that, for these companies, generative AI could make audience acquisition more difficult and limit opportunities for investments.

Persons: Stocks, Michael Bloom Organizations: Barclays, Google, Meta Locations: China, U.S, Tencent, disruptors

☆ NASA appoints UFO research director and vows to increase study
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-14 | by ( Jackie Wattles | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —An independent report found that NASA could play a crucial role in collecting more data on UFOs — or what are officially known as unidentified anomalous phenomena, the space agency announced Thursday. Ultimately, the group determined that NASA should be using satellites and other instruments to seek more information about the phenomena. In response to the findings, the space agency also announced Thursday it is appointing its first director of UAP research. “This is the first time that NASA has taken concrete action to seriously look into UAP,” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said during a news conference. Dan Evans, NASA’s assistant deputy associate administrator for research, said during a Thursday panel that the space agency would not be publicly releasing the name of NASA’s new UAP research director in part because of the potential for harassment.

Persons: Bill Nelson, “, Nelson, they’ve, Thomas Jefferson, verity, Dan Evans, Evans, ” Nelson Organizations: CNN, NASA

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