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☆ AI coding tools mean there are no more junior software developers
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-03 | by ( Helen Li | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

AI coding tools like GitHub Copilot have transformed software development and productivity. AdvertisementBefore he graduated from university, Jacob Jackson founded the AI coding assistant TabNine in 2018. In the past two years, there has been a boom in AI coding assistants. The spike in ChatGPT usage and AI coding assistants has shifted how software developers do their jobs. AdvertisementAI assistants can empower codersMost generative AI coding assistants focus on auto-completion, meaning that the tool suggests code as the programmer types.

Persons: —, Jacob Jackson, TabNine, Jackson, Claude, Nikolas Gauvreau, Dan Boneh, Kevin Baragona, Baragona, Gauvreau, he's, David Malan, Malan Organizations: Software, Service, Microsoft, Accenture, Developers, Stanford University, Harvard University, Activision Blizzard Locations: OpenAI, Canada, Brazil, Germany, India

Two rapid-attribution studies released Tuesday found that human-caused global warming made Hurricane Helene stronger and wetter, elements that contributed to the storm's destructive power. A report from ClimaMeter, a consortium that analyzes extreme weather events, found that Helene’s rainfall totals and winds were strengthened by human-driven climate change, with the rainfall up to 20% heavier and winds up to 7% stronger. The consortium noted that elevated temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico — something climate scientists have been warning about for years — likely contributed to Helene's power. "Furthermore, we estimate that the observed rainfall was made up to 20 times more likely in these areas because of global warming," the report added. Copious research has revealed a strong link between climate change and rapidly intensifying and wetter tropical systems because warmer atmosphere allows for heavier rain over land.

Persons: Helene, — Organizations: Lawrence Berkeley Lab Locations: ClimaMeter, Gulf, Mexico, Gulf of Mexico, California, Georgia, Carolinas, North Carolina, Appalachia, Busick

☆ What is happening between Israel and Iran and how might Israel respond to the latest attacks?
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-02 | by ( Helen Regan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

It’s the second time Iran has launched an aerial attack on Israel this year, but Tuesday’s barrage was of a different magnitude. Israel's anti-missile system intercepts rockets after Iran fired a salvo of ballistic missiles, as seen from Ashkelon, Israel, on October 1, 2024. While the Israeli military said most of the missiles were intercepted, some landed on Israeli soil and appeared to cause damage. Atta Kenare/AFP/Getty ImagesIn Gaza, Israel’s war against Hamas grinds on almost a year after the Palestinian militant group’s attack on Israel. Since Israel’s war in Gaza began, US troops have also been the target of escalating attacks by Iran-backed proxy groups.

Persons: Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, Hassan Nasrallah, Israel –, Amir Cohen, Pat Ryder, “, Nasrallah, Jonathan Panikoff, Hezbollah's, Atta Kenare, Ismail Haniyeh, PMO, Netanyahu, Naftali Bennett, Masoud Pezeshkian, Alexi J . Rosenfeld, Matthew Miller, Lloyd Austin Organizations: CNN, Israel, Reuters, Air Base, Tel Nof Air Base, Pentagon, Hezbollah, Getty, Hamas grinds, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Israeli, New, State Department, US Navy, US Army, US, Israel . Defense Locations: Israel, Iran, Lebanon, Beirut, Here’s, Syria, Ashkelon, Reuters Iran, Tehran, Tel Aviv, Israel’s, Washington, Yemen, Tehran's Palestine, AFP, Gaza, Iranian, Iraq, East, New York City, Eshkol Region, Jordan

☆ Israeli troops have begun a ground war in southern Lebanon. Here’s what we know
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-01 | by ( Helen Regan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

More recently, Israel’s military declared a “limited” operation in Rafah, southern Gaza that has left the city in ruins. Shortly before the incursion, Israel’s National Security Cabinet approved the “next phase” of its war with Hezbollah, according to Israeli media. The Lebanese army had also evacuated observation posts at the southern border and moved to barracks in the border villages, according to a Lebanese security source. Smoke billows after an Israeli strike on a village near the southern Lebanese city of Tyre on September 29, 2024. What’s unfolded is some of the fiercest fighting between the two longtime foes since the 2006 Lebanon war, which killed 1,100 in the country.

Persons: CNN —, Israel, Hassan Nasrallah, Yoav Gallant, Nasrallah, Hassan Ammar, Benjamin Netanyahu, Kawnat Haju, Netanyahu, Joe Biden, Netanyahu –, —, Biden Organizations: CNN, Hezbollah, Security Cabinet, Israeli, Palestinian Liberation Organization, PLO, National Security Cabinet, Lebanese, Hamas, Getty, Iran, White Locations: CNN — Israel, Lebanon, Iran, Lebanese, Israel, Beirut's, Gaza, Rafah, Beirut, Beirut’s, Palestinian, Tyre, AFP, Yemen, Syria, Iraq, East, United States

☆ Boomers Are Selling Their Small Businesses; Millennials Are Buying
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-01 | by ( Ann C. Logue | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

Sure, many small businesses aren't glamorous — think dental practices or accounting firms — and they involve long hours and unpredictable market forces. The US Small Business Administration said in July that there were nearly 35 million small businesses in the US. Fewer than two-thirds of small businesses in the US in 2022 were profitable, and over a million businesses of all sizes close each year. Traditionally, small businesses were family businesses, and the eldest male child was expected to take it over when the patriarch was ready to step down. Buying up small businesses allows people without wealthy boomer parents to cash in on the trillions of dollars of wealth the generation is sitting on.

Persons: George Coulam, Coulam, Forrester, Nancy Forster, Holt, Ernst & Young, Steve Holt, Shaw, Tenney, Paul, Helen Reagan, Forster, who's, Jennifer, Neil Gutekunst, Edie Ellis, Ellis, BizBuySell, you've, Dave Specht, Specht, they've, " Forster, She's, PwC, Norm Dinkel, Brian Brogan, — he's, hasn't, it's, Jennifer Gutekunst, boomer Organizations: Texas Renaissance, NewEdge Wealth, Ernst &, Shaw, University of Rhode, US Small Business Administration, Small Business Administration, Drucker School, Family Business, Claremont Graduate University, Wall, American Investment Council, Saint Joseph's University Locations: Texas, America, Sacramento , California, Maine, Orono, Chicago, Washington, Pennsylvania

☆ Nepal rains: Rescuers use zip lines and boats to reach survivors as flooding and landslides kill nearly 200 people
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-30 | by ( Helen Regan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —Days of heavy monsoon rains in Nepal have triggered widespread flooding and landslides across the Himalayan nation, killing almost 200 people and causing widespread destruction. Nepal's Armed Police Force rescues stranded people using a zip line from a flooded river in Lalitpur, Nepal, on September 28, 2024. Sunil Pradhan/Anadolu/Getty ImagesNepal Army personnel evacuates an infant using a kayak from a flooded residential area in Kathmandu, Nepal, on September 28, 2024. Prakash Mathema/AFP/Getty ImagesA woman carrying a chair walks along a muddy street that was flooded by the overflowing Bagmati River following heavy rains in Kathmandu, Nepal, on September 29, 2024. Navesh Chitrakar/ReutersA man cleans mud from his house in a flood-affected area following heavy monsoon rains in Kathmandu on September 29, 2024.

Persons: Subaas Shrestha, Sunil Pradhan, Dil Kumar Tamang, Navesh Chitrakar, Ellie Wirth, “ I’ve, ”, Arun Bhakta Shrestha, Prakash Mathema Organizations: CNN, Nepal's Armed Police Force, Anadolu, Getty Images Nepal Army, Nepal Armed Police Force, Nepal’s Ministry of Home Affairs, Reuters, Nepal Police, Associated Press, International Centre, Integrated Mountain Development, Getty Locations: Nepal, Kathmandu, Lalitpur, Dhading, Bhimeshwor, Dolakha, Pokhara, “, Katmandu, AFP, South Asia, Asia

☆ All the top OpenAI figures who have left since the 2023 attempt to oust CEO Sam Altman
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-27 | by ( Alex Bitter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

OpenAI has lost a slew of key leaders since last year's effort to push out CEO Sam Altman. Here are 10 OpenAI leaders who have left the company since November. Shortly afterward, CEO Sam Altman said that two other executives, Bob McGrew and Barret Zoph, would also leave OpenAI. Like many companies, OpenAI has seen turnover among its highest ranks since its founding in 2015. But since an attempt to oust Altman as OpenAI's CEO last November, the company has lost multiple executives and key leaders.

Persons: OpenAI, Sam Altman, Mira Murati, —, Bob McGrew, Barret Zoph, Altman, McGrew's, Elon Musk, Altman's, Helen Toner, Tasha McCauley, Toner, McCauley, Greg Brockman Organizations: Service, ChatGPT Locations: OpenAI

☆ OpenAI considering restructuring to for-profit, CTO Mira Murati and two top research execs depart
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-26 | by ( Hayden Field | Hayden Field Is A Cnbc Reporter | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +4 min

The structure would be more straightforward for investors and would make it easier for OpenAI employees to realize liquidity, the source added. News of the discussions comes after OpenAI Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati said Wednesday that she is leaving the company after six and a half years. They’re the latest high-level executive to depart OpenAI, which has exploded in popularity and value since releasing the ChatGPT chatbot in late 2022. Murati became a well-known name when OpenAI’s board abruptly ousted Altman last November and Murati was named interim CEO. Days later, Altman was back at the company and Murati moved back to her former role as CTO.

Persons: Mira Murati, Sam Altman, Bob McGrew, Barret Zoph, Murati, ”, “ There’s, ” Altman, OpenAI, Ilya Sutskever, Jan Leike, John Schulman, Anthropic, it’s, Altman, OpenAI’s, Sutskever, Helen Toner, Tasha McCauley, ” Murati, “, ” McGrew, he’s, Mark Chen, Zoph Organizations: Microsoft, Tiger Global, Nvidia, Apple, Street, Tech Locations: OpenAI

• A diplomatic push is underway to prevent a regional war from erupting in the Middle East, with the US and its allies calling for a 21-day ceasefire across the Israel-Lebanon border as the UN chief urged all sides to “step back from the brink.”• The calls for calm come after Israel’s military said it was preparing for a possible ground incursion into Lebanon. It also said it was calling up two reserve brigades “for operational missions in the northern sector.”• As the conflict escalates, Israel and Hezbollah are trading waves of strikes, forcing tens of thousands in Lebanon to flee their homes. More than 90,000 people are newly displaced in Lebanon, the UN said. • While Israel and Hezbollah have refrained from declaring that they are at war with each other, their ramped-up conflict goals may make that moot.

Persons: • Organizations: UN Locations: Israel, Lebanon

☆ LDP election: Japan’s next prime minister could be its first woman leader
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-26 | by ( Helen Regan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —Japan’s ruling party will elect its new leader Friday, and the winner will become the country’s next prime minister. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is not in the running after his surprise announcement last month that he would step down following a series of political scandals that fueled calls for him to resign. With the upcoming US presidential election, the new prime minister will navigate Japan’s relations with a new American leader at a time of growing security challenges in Asia, including an increasingly assertive China and a belligerent North Korea. Koizumi, 43, is the US-educated, charismatic son of popular former prime minister Junichiro Koizumi, and could be Japan’s youngest prime minister of the post-war period. He sits on the more progressive wing of the conservative party.

Persons: CNN —, Shinjiro Koizumi, Shigeru Ishiba, Fumio Kishida, haven’t, Kishida, “, Koizumi, ” Yu Uchiyama, Margaret Thatcher, Shinzo Abe, –, Junichiro Koizumi, acceding, Ishiba Organizations: CNN, Liberal Democratic Party, LDP, Partnership, Tokyo University, Reuters, Bank of, NATO Locations: Japan, China, Japan’s, American, Asia, North Korea, Pacific, South Korea, Bank of Japan

☆ OpenAI CTO Mira Murati announces she's leaving the company
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-25 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Mira Murati, chief technology officer of OpenAI, during an interview on "The Circuit with Emily Chang" in San Francisco on April 4, 2023. OpenAI Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati said Wednesday that she is leaving the company after six and a half years. Murati also wrote that she is "stepping away because I want to create the time and space to do my own exploration. Murati became a well-known name when OpenAI's board abruptly ousted CEO Sam Altman last November and Murati was named interim CEO. Days later, Altman was back at the company and Murati moved back to her former role as CTO.

Persons: Mira Murati, Emily Chang, There's, Ilya Sutskever, Jan Leike, John Schulman, Anthropic, Murati, OpenAI, Sam Altman, OpenAI's, Altman, Sutskever, Helen Toner, Tasha McCauley Organizations: OpenAI, Reuters, Microsoft, Tiger Global, Nvidia, Apple, Tech, Street Locations: San Francisco, OpenAI

☆ 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

☆ What happened in Lebanon and why is Israel attacking Hezbollah?
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-24 | by ( Helen Regan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

On Monday, Israel intensified its air campaign on Hezbollah, launching “extensive strikes” targeting the Iran-backed militant group in Lebanon. It is unclear how many of the casualties were civilians or Hezbollah militants, but many of the locations described by Israel as Hezbollah targets are also residential neighborhoods and villages. The nearly 500 killed on Monday alone is roughly half the number of Lebanese killed throughout the entire 34-day war between Israel and Hezbollah in 2006. Why is Israel attacking Lebanon? The US believes that neither Israel nor Hezbollah are interested in a full-scale war, but a major concern is that Iran, a key backer of Hezbollah, will get involved, US officials told CNN.

Persons: CNN — Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, Isarel, Daniel Hagari, Mahmoud Zayyat, Amos, Stringer, Mohamed Hamayda, Firass Abiad, ” Hagari, Netanyahu, Fadel Itani, ”, Halevi, Leon Panetta Organizations: CNN, Hezbollah, Getty, Ramat, United Nations General Assembly, Reuters, Agence France, Presse, Lebanon’s, Hamas, UN Security Council, Former US Defense, CIA, UN, Assembly, State Department Locations: Lebanon, Israel, Iran, Lebanon’s, Syria, Lebanese, Sidon, AFP, Tyre, Beirut, Meggido, Afula, Deir, Gaza, Palestinian, Tehran, Yemen, Iraq, Beirut's, ”, Qatar, France, New York, United States

☆ Why all eyes are on Intel now
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-24 | by ( Helen Li | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Read previewOnce a Silicon Valley leader, Intel has been a staple of the computer chip-making business for decades. Even if Qualcomm acquired Intel, it's unclear what it would do with its manufacturing operations. Which Intel lacked," tweeted Bryan Catanzaro, vice president of applied deep learning research at Nvidia, who previously worked at Intel as an intern on the Larrabee project. The CPUs that made Intel big now have presented what Logan Purk, senior analyst at Edward Jones, called "the inventor's dilemma," when newer technology replaces established incumbents. Mobile chipmaker Qualcomm approached Intel to acquire its chip-designing business and, later, a merger deal, Reuters and the Journal reported, respectively.

Persons: —, Pat Gelsinger, Stacy Rasgon, Paul Otellini, Otellini, OpenAI, chipmaker, Habana, Intel's, Gaudi, Rasgon, Bryan Catanzaro, Logan Purk, Edward Jones, nipping, Purk, TSMC, Mobile chipmaker, Dan Morgan, Morgan Organizations: Service, Intel, Business, Wall, Journal, Qualcomm, VMware, Bernstein Research, Atlantic, Apple, Microsoft, Systems, Habana Labs, Nvidia, Companies, AMD, Samsung, Mobile, Mobile chipmaker Qualcomm, Reuters, Apollo Global Management, Bloomberg, Broadcom, Biden Locations: Arizona, Ohio, Nervana

☆ Adoption fraud was widespread for many South Koreans adopted into Western countries, AP finds
▼ + 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: +22 min

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — As the plane descended into Seoul, Robert Calabretta swaddled himself in a blanket, his knees tucked into his chest like a baby in the womb. The South Korean government has accepted a fact-finding commission under pressure from adoptees, and hundreds have submitted their cases for review. Western governments turned a blind eye, sometimes even pressuring South Korea for children, while promoting the narrative that they were saving orphans with no other options. Robert Calabretta, right, and his biological father, Lee Sung-soo, during a visit in Daegu, South Korea, in August 2020. Laurie Bender was approached by a strange woman while playing in the front yard in South Korea in 1975.

Persons: Robert Calabretta swaddled, they’d, “, ”, —, doesn’t, Robert Calabretta, Lee Sung, Calabretta, “ You’re, Patricia Nye, ” Nye, Holt, weren’t, ” Michaela Dietz, Robyn Joy Park, Rae, hasn't, Jae, Lee, ” Lee, Lee Moo, wasn’t, David Goldman, she’d, Laurie Bender, Bender, Han Tae, Philsik Shin, Helen Noh, Noh, ” Noh, he’d, Susan Soonkeum Cox, Kim Jin Sook, Francis Carlin, ” Carlin, …, Carlin, ” Bender, you’ve, Han Organizations: The Associated Press, South, AP, Frontline, International Social Service, University of Minnesota, ISS, BBC, ”, Holt Children’s Services, Eastern Social Welfare Society, Korea Welfare Services, Korea Social Service, Records, Health Ministry, Red Cross Hospital, U.S, Korea’s Anyang University, Seoul’s Soongsil University, Holt International, Catholic Relief Services, South Korean, FRONTLINE, PBS Locations: SEOUL, South Korea, Seoul, United States, South, Western, adoptees, U.S, Australia, Daegu, Korean, West, Korea, Geneva, “, Asia, Europe, North America, Pasadena , Calif, Boryeong, American, New York, ”, Oregon, Holt, Holt Korea

☆ It started with an informal pick-up game. Now, this organized soccer club is a lifeline for many asylum-seekers
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-21 | by ( Zoe Sottile | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

But the Newcomers Football Club, an impromptu team made up of asylum-seekers, has helped provide him with a joy that erases his stress. And they were looking for a place to play soccer – an almost universal cornerstone of their daily routines back home. Leonard had never worked with refugees or asylum-seekers before, and he had never played soccer. In the months since, the ad-hoc project has ballooned from an informal pick-up game to an organized club that competes with other New York teams, joining forces with another similar project started by co-organizer Avram Kline. The mixed practices help Newcomers FC members meet new people and practice their English, Leonard says.

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☆ America's fallen tech giant Intel is facing a crossroads
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-20 | by ( Helen Li | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Read previewThe chip giant Intel could be at a crossroads as it figures out its next steps amid its declining valuation and struggling business. AdvertisementThe foundry side of Intel's business could also be in question, putting its billions in CHIPS and Science Act funding in jeopardy. Related storiesPreviously, Qualcomm had explored buying pieces of Intel's design business, Reuters reported. Intel's foundries would be expected to compete more against companies like GlobalFoundries, TSMC, and Samsung. The expanded collaboration between the two tech companies helps give more confidence about Intel capturing the AI boom, Rasgon said.

Persons: —, Pat Gelsinger, Biden, Logan Purk, Edward Jones, Purk, Dan Morgan, There's, Intel's, Morgan, Lisa Su's, Stacy Rasgon, Rasgon Organizations: Service, Intel, Qualcomm, Wall Street, Amazon, Business, Biden Administration, Reuters, Samsung, Nvidia, AMD, Bernstein Research, Amazon Gelsinger, Amazon Web Services, Apple Locations: American, Synovus, Abu Dhabi

☆ TikTok's global head of marketing is leaving as part of a reorg. Read the leaked memo to staff outlining the changes.
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-20 | by ( Dan Whateley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Read previewKate Jhaveri, TikTok's head of global marketing, is leaving the company this month as part of a leadership shake-up, according to an internal memo shared with staffers. "Together, we decided the best way to achieve this vision is to remove the head of global marketing role, and bring everyone within Global Brand & Comms under one leader." Its former VP of global communications, Hilary McQuaide, exited the company that same month, the executive posted on LinkedIn. Together, we decided the best way to achieve this vision is to remove the head of global marketing role, and bring everyone within Global Brand & Comms under one leader, aligning our work and goals toward one comprehensive vision. AdvertisementFinally, we are also making a change to our social media team to enable a more scalable model for Global Brand & Comms.

Persons: —, Kate Jhaveri, Zenia Mucha, Mucha, Jhaveri, Zuber Mohammed, Hilary McQuaide, ByteDance, Kate, Dexter Fedor, Manish Gupta, Alistair Lennie, Zuber, Alastair Boyle, Jordan Guo, Carol Baracat, Helen Lawrence, Erin Fors Organizations: Service, Global, Business, Disney, NBA, LinkedIn, CSR, AMS, EMEA, Global Brand Locations: Beijing

☆ Middle East on the precipice after Hezbollah leader vows retribution and Israel launches strikes. Here’s what we know
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-20 | by ( Helen Regan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

In a speech Thursday, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah condemned the twin attacks, calling them “massacres” that “crossed all the red lines” because the devices exploded in public areas, with civilians among those harmed. Though Hezbollah “suffered a major blow,” a “reckoning will come,” he added, and vowed the attacks would not bring the group down. The Hezbollah chief also warned Israel that fighting on the Lebanese front will not stop until hostilities end in Gaza. Hours later, Israel launched a barrage of strikes in Lebanon, saying it hit about 100 Hezbollah rocket launchers and “terrorist infrastructure sites.”Meanwhile, Hezbollah said it launched at least 17 attacks on military sites in northern Israel. For months, the international community has been trying to de-escalate tensions between Israel and Hezbollah.

Persons: CNN — Israel, Israel’s, Hassan Nasrallah, “, Israel, Nasrallah, –, Hossein, Israel “, Ismail Haniyeh Organizations: CNN, Hamas, Hezbollah, United Nations Security, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, UN Security Locations: Lebanon, Israel, Gaza, Iran, Lebanese, Beirut, Tehran, Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Argentina, India, Georgia, Thailand, United States

☆ He bought a cruise ship on Craigslist and spent over $1 million restoring it. Then his dream sank
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-18 | by ( Tamara Hardingham-Gill | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +15 min

CNN —Buying a historic cruise ship he found on Craigslist back in 2008 was undoubtedly a life-altering decision for Chris Willson. Ship of dreamsWillson and Li moved on board the ship and focused their energies on painstakingly restoring it. Christopher WillsonHis ultimate goal was to transform the neglected ship into a museum, but things didn’t quite go to plan. “We absolutely loved our time with that ship,” Willson tells CNN Travel. It subsequently remained at Alameda for several years, before being purchased by a businessman, who went on to list the ship on Craigslist.

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☆ Lack of job security, income growth weaken China's consumer spending
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-16 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailLack of job security and income growth are key factors hindering consumer spending in ChinaHelen Qiao from BofA Global Research talks about China consumer weakness and what government should do to boost domestic consumption.

Persons: China Helen Qiao Organizations: Global Research Locations: China

☆ Meet 14 power players leading TSMC, the world's biggest chipmaker that's taken center stage as the AI wars heat up
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-16 | by ( Helen Li | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

TSMC's chip foundry model enabled fabless companies like Nvidia and Apple to thrive. Go to newsletter preferences Thanks for signing up! AdvertisementThere is a good chance that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, or TSMC, is involved in almost every electronic device you see. Founded in 1987 by entrepreneur Morris Chang, the silicon wafer maker used a pure-play foundry model. This model involved other companies designing computer chips and then contracting TSMC to manufacture them.

Persons: C.C, —, Morris Chang, It's Organizations: Nvidia, Apple, Service, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Qualcomm, AMD, Intel, Samsung Locations: Arizona

☆ Meet the Enigmatic Man Who Oversees Larry Page's Google Fortune
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-16 | by ( Hugh Langley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +22 min

His success has also helped fuel a boom in family offices, a financial structure pioneered by J.P. Morgan and popularized by the Rockefellers. Today there are thousands of family offices globally, with the total number tripling between 2019 and 2023, according to the data provider Preqin. To protect Page, Osborne has long remained hidden, the man behind the megabillionaire's curtain. AdvertisementThe small staff at Koop, Page's family office in Palo Alto, are fiercely committed to Page's privacy. Through his investment in Way2B1, Page is seeking to make money by monetizing the techniques he uses to make money.

Persons: Thomas, Larry Page, Wayne Osborne, Osborne, Koop, —, Wayne, Jeffrey Epstein, Gmail, Page, he's, Larry, Morgan, Morgan Stanley, hasn't, Justin Sullivan, hawking, Sergey Brin, George Pavlov, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Melinda Lewison, Natasha Pearl, Aston Pearl, James Estrin, Helen Frankenthaler, Minerva, Joseph E, Brooks, Taylor, Mortimer Zuckerman, Zuckerman, he'd, who'd, Koop's, Ken Goldman, Eric Schmidt, Hugh Langley, Michael Floyd, Floyd, Page's, Lucy Southworth, Southworth, It's, Way2B1, it's, Gilles Martin, Hal Bailey Organizations: QS, Osborne, J.P, Google, Harvard Business School, Princeton Theological Seminary, Presbyterian Church, New York Times, Minerva, U.S . News, Boston Properties, Shell, CIA, Energy Technologies, Oceankind, Forbes, Business, Fiji Locations: New York, Caribbean, St, Palo Alto , California, Wayne, Mississippi, Connecticut, Silicon Valley, U.S, Silicon, Palo Alto, Koop, Nola, margarita, Way2B1, Fijian, superyachts, New Zealand, Fiji

☆ Creativity has greater influence on wellbeing and happiness than work, study says
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-15 | by ( Riane Lumer | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

These activities provide her satisfaction and purpose in ways more fulfilling than work. She infused her love for arts and crafts into the rest of my family. Now, a new study by Keyes and fellow researchershas found that engaging in creative activities can significantly boost well-being by providing meaningful spaces for expression and achievement. Additional study is needed to examine the social aspects of creative activities, researchers said. Arts and crafts for public healthThe researchers suggested that arts and crafts could improve public health.

Persons: Pennsylvania CNN —, ”, Helen Keyes, Keyes, researchershas, “, ” Keyes, Frank Clark, Clark, ” Clark Organizations: Pennsylvania CNN, Anglia Ruskin University, Public Health, UK’s Department for Culture , Media, Prisma Health Locations: Southampton, Pennsylvania, England

☆ Can you can leave your estate to your pet?
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-14 | by ( Alexandra Peers | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —Some people really do leave money to their pets. Estate attorneys told CNN they’re seeing more incidences of people making financial plans for their pets after they die. Twenty-nine states have enacted pet trust laws since 2008, and now every state, plus Washington, DC, has some form of guidelines, according to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. However, if a person names a guardian for their pet, they can leave money and property to that person. dpa/picture alliance/Eventpress/SipaFlorida attorney Peggy Hoyt, author of “All My Children Wear Fur Coats,” told CNN she urges her clients to leave comprehensive instructions for pet caretakers.

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