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☆ Nvidia lives up to the earnings hype and then some, prompting our big price target hike
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-21 | by ( Zev Fima | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +11 min

NVDA 5Y mountain Nvidia 5 years The Nvidia phenomenon is something for all investors to take note of and study. The first question we got on the call was in relation to the sustainability of the Data Center sales momentum. Generative AI isn't possible in a data center built for traditional general-purpose computing. In fact, Nvidia believes AI inferencing was responsible for about 40% of Data Center sales over the past year. This is why Nvidia was designated by Jim Cramer and the Club as an "own it, don't trade it" stock.

Persons: Jensen Huang, it's Nvidia's, Thursday's, we've, Colette Kress, we're, Nvidia's Huang, Huang, inferencing, It's, Jim Cramer, Apple's, Jim Cramer's, Jim, Ann Wang Organizations: Nvidia, Revenue, U.S, Data, Microsoft, Moore's Law, world's, Management, Software, Enterprise, Club, Apple, CNBC Locations: tacking, China, Taipei, Taiwan

☆ Tech execs are telling investors they have to spend money to make money on AI
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-02 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +10 min

One theme investors heard repeatedly from top execs is that, when it comes to AI, they have to spend money to make money. Last year marked the beginning of the generative AI boom, as companies raced to embed increasingly sophisticated chatbots and assistants across key products. One key priority area, based on the latest earnings calls, is AI models-as-a-service, or large AI models that clients can use and customize according to their needs. Alphabet executives highlighted Vertex AI, a Google product that offers more than 130 generative AI models for use by developers and enterprise clients such as Samsung and Shutterstock. Alphabet executives touted Google's Duet AI, or "packaged AI agents" for Google Workspace and Google Cloud, designed to boost productivity and complete simple tasks.

Persons: Sundar Pichai, Mandel Ngan, Satya Nadella, Mark Zuckerberg, Josh Edelson, Zuckerberg, Nadella, Amy Hood, Pichai, You've, durably, Ruth Porat, Andy Jassy, Jassy, Tim Cook, Cook, Thos Robinson, Microsoft's, Rufus, Bard Organizations: Artificial Intelligence, AFP, Getty, Microsoft, Apple, Nvidia, Meta, Google, Amazon, New York Times, Samsung, GE, Spotify, Pfizer Locations: Washington ,, Menlo Park , California, LLMs, New York City

☆ China just revealed plans to take on Elon Musk's Neuralink
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-30 | by ( Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewChina has bold ambitions to develop its own brain-computer products by 2025. The MIIT said it wants to achieve breakthroughs in hundreds of technologies by creating "iconic products" by 2025, and it includes making brain-computer interfaces like Elon Musk's Neuralink implant. China has been actively working on creating brain-computer interface devices in recent years, including ones that can rival Neuralink. AdvertisementThe SprialE brain-computer interface can be inserted without the need for surgery as it has a spiral design, allowing it to be slid in without an invasive method, the report says. The tech policy document outlining its ambitions comes after the MIIT published a road map in November of its plans to mass-produce humanoid robots by 2025.

Persons: —, Neuralink, Musk Organizations: Service, Business, Ministry of Industry, Information Technology, Elon, FDA, Tianjin University, China Electronics Corporation, China Morning Post, Tsinghua University, Independent Locations: China, Tianjin, Beijing

In repelling disinformation, Chinese and domestic, Taiwan offers an example to other democracies holding elections this year. And when the election results came out, they thought something was up,” said Eve Chiu, the editor-in-chief of Taiwan’s FactCheck Center, a nonprofit journalism organization. Taiwan's FactCheck Center debunked multiple videos of alleged voter fraud, including another one in which voting officials make a human error caught on camera. Taiwan has been able to effectively respond to Chinese disinformation in part because of how seriously the threat is perceived there, according to Kenton Thibaut, a senior resident fellow and expert on Chinese disinformation at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab. Others like, Taiwan FactCheck Center, are careful to not take government money so as to preserve their independence, said Chiu.

Persons: miscounting, “, ”, Eve Chiu, Ko Wen, Taiwan's FactCheck, Kenton Thibaut, Thibaut, Alexander Tah, Ray Yui, Yui, ” Yui, Charles Yeh, Chiu, Donald Trump, they’re, Jim Ludes, Ko, DoubleThink, GaChuDao, Wu, ___ Wu, Didi Tang Organizations: WASHINGTON, Taiwan’s, Taiwan People’s Party, Facebook, DoubleThink, Democratic Progressive Party, Taiwan can’t, Atlantic, Forensic Research, Associated Press, Taiwan FactCheck Center, Google, Media, ”, Pell Center for International Relations, Salve Regina University Locations: Taiwan’s, China, Taiwan, India, Mexico, Russia, America, Kenton, U.S, United States, Iran, Bangkok

☆ Meet the former child prodigy who played 'Moneyball' with GPUs and built a $3 million AI model for $30,000
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-22 | by ( Darius Rafieyan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Daimon Labs, by contrast, had raised $1.5 million from a handful of VCs. It was around then that he started Daimon Labs alongside Dhruv Malik and Xiang Zhang to pursue the dream of what he calls "machines of loving grace". He ignored every metric of success for an AI model, except one: perplexity. It's a measure of how certain the AI model is of its predictions. But even with ruthlessly optimized hardware and that single-minded focus, Daimon Labs still couldn't afford to build the model Benmalek was envisioning.

Persons: —, Ryan Benmalek, wouldn't, Benmalek, Isaac Asimov, Dhruv Malik, Xiang Zhang, Michael Lewis, Daimon, Brooklyn Organizations: Service, Business, Daimon Labs, The University of Washington, Cornell, Apple, Google, Nvidia, Labs, Lambda, Daimon Locations: Silicon, Seattle, Moneyball, Montreal, Brooklyn, North Carolina, Canada

☆ New Hampshire Primary: Wake-Up Call or Last Call?
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-19 | by ( Susan Milligan | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +7 min

Should Trump's lead hold, says Andrew Smith, director of the University of New Hampshire poll, Trump will become the first candidate – aside from sitting presidents – to win both the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary. "We're so far past the days when voters nationally were really just waking up" to the campaign debates in the early weeks of a presidential election year, says Dante Scala, a University of New Hampshire professor and author of the book "Stormy Weather: The New Hampshire Primary and Presidential Politics." New Hampshire GOP voters, however, are a different breed of Republicans, Smith says, focusing more on fiscal conservatism and small government. Haley has 36% support and DeSantis 6% backing among primary voters. Trump seems to think so, too: He has focused much of his vitriol in the waning days of the New Hampshire campaign on Haley.

Persons: Bill Clinton, Sen, John McCain's, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Donald Trump, aren't, isn't, Marianne Williamson, Dean Phillips, Trump, Nikki Haley, Ron DeSantis, Andrew Smith, –, Haley, Williamson, Phillips, Biden, Dante Scala, Smith, Chris Christie, Vivek Ramaswamy, Christie, Ramaswamy, DeSantis, Michael Binder, Binder, He's, Barack Hussein Obama Organizations: Hillary Clinton Democratic, Democratic, Democratic National Committee, New Hampshire, Gov, Florida Gov, University of New, New, Biden, Trump –, GOP, New Hampshire GOP, Independents, Trump, New Jersey Gov, Saint Anselm College Survey Center's New Hampshire Institute of Politics, United Nations, Suffolk University, Boston Globe, University of North, Palmetto State, Republican Party, Social Security Locations: New Hampshire, New, University of New Hampshire, Iowa, Hawkeye, New Jersey, Boston, University of North Florida, South Carolina, Palmetto, Portsmouth

☆ Microsoft’s Satya Nadella is CNN Business’ CEO of the Year
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-26 | by ( Samantha Murphy Kelly | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

New York CNN —It was the year of artificial intelligence, and no Big Tech company leaned into the trend like Microsoft. That’s why CNN Business’ staff chose Nadella as the CEO of the Year, beating out other contenders including Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. “There’s no question 2023 was the year of AI,” Nadella told CNN in an emailed response. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Nadella shared the stage at OpenAI’s first developer conference to discuss their partnership. Nadella told CNN he indeed remains “focused” on empowering both people and organizations to achieve more, as it continues to make and deploy new products.

Persons: Satya Nadella, Nadella, Jamie Dimon, Sam Altman, Jensen Huang, “, ” Nadella, Pfizer’s Albert Bourla, Taylor Swift, Gil Luria, DA Davidson, ”, OpenAI —, Justin Sullivan, OpenAI’s Altman, Altman, “ It’s, OpenAI, ” OpenAI, ” Luria, Greg Brockman, Luria, Fred Havemeyer, “ Mr, Brad Barket, Stuart Carlaw, Nadella’s, he’s, ” Carlaw, hasn’t, ” Takeshi Numoto, — CNN’s Allison Morrow Organizations: New, New York CNN, Big Tech, Windows, CNN Business ’, Chase, Nvidia, CNN, Fortune, Microsoft, Ivy League, University of Wisconsin -, University of Chicago Booth School of Business, ChatGPT, Google, Macquarie, ABI Research Locations: New York, Silicon Valley, Seattle , Washington, Valley, India, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, Instacart, OpenAI

Read previewThe recent firing and rehiring of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has put his leadership and personality under a microscope. People who have worked closely with Altman told Business Insider the truth lies somewhere in the middle. Advertisement"The thing I loved about OpenAI is you got to be heard," a former employee told BI. Relationship with MicrosoftWhile Altman is approachable, insiders said his obsession with growing the company can make him seem terse, impatient and superior to other "big tech" companies. AdvertisementAre you a Microsoft or OpenAI employee, or someone else with information to share?

Persons: —, Sam Altman, Altman, he's, He's, OpenAI's cofounders, Altman's, Satya Nadella, There's, OpenAI, doesn't, they've, Mira Murati, Sam, that's, Ashley Stewart, Kali Hays, Darius Rafieyan Organizations: Service, Washington Post, Business, Microsoft, Google, OpenAI Locations: astewart@insider.com, khays@insider.com, drafieyan@insider.com

☆ Larry Page accused Elon Musk of favoring human species over digital life forms during an argument about the dangers of AI at Musk's 44th birthday
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-03 | by ( Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Larry Page and Elon Musk argued about AI at Musk's 44th birthday party in 2015. AdvertisementTesla CEO Elon Musk and Google cofounder Larry Page disagree so severely about the dangers of AI it apparently ended their friendship. At Musk's 44th birthday celebration in 2015, Page accused Musk of being a "specieist" who preferred humans over future digital life forms, according to The New York Times . Isaacson wrote that Musk said to Page at the time, "Well, yes, I am pro-human, I fucking like humanity, dude." "The future of AI should not be controlled by Larry," Musk told Hassabis, according to Isaacson's book.

Persons: Larry Page, Elon Musk, Page, Musk, —, Musk's, Talulah Riley, Walter Isaacson, Isaacson, Demis Hassabis, Larry, Sam Altman Organizations: Service, The New York Times, New York Times, Times, Google Locations: British, Napa Valley

☆ Charlie Munger's last big call was probably right: AI is overhyped
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-29 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Charlie Munger, who passed away Tuesday at the age of 99, had a last big call on AI: it's overhyped. It was counterintuitive, but his last big call could be right: AI is overhyped. Google has now rolled the lab in with another AI division, Google Brain, and no longer explicitly breaks out financials. AI has still to prove out its caseFinally, there's the big question of whether the technology will deliver on its big promises. OpenAI's Altman and other AI CEOs talk very publicly about AI as smart as humans being on the horizon.

Persons: Charlie Munger, —, Warren Buffett, Munger, ChatGPT, OpenAI's, Sam Altman, Altman, There's, OpenAI's Altman, Michael Chabon Organizations: Service, Apple, Costco, Oracle, Microsoft, Ferrari, British, Tobacco, Dell, Google, DeepMind Locations: Berkshire, Omaha, Silicon Valley

☆ Mary Cleave, the first woman to fly on NASA’s space shuttle after Challenger disaster, dies at 76
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-29 | by ( Jackie Wattles | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —Mary Cleave, the NASA astronaut who in 1989 became the first woman to fly on a space shuttle mission after the Challenger disaster, has died at the age of 76, the space agency announced on Wednesday. “For me, space flight was great, but it was gravy on top of getting to fly in great airplanes,” she told NASA. Getting to orbitOn her first mission, flying on NASA’s Space Shuttle Atlantis in 1985, Cleave became the 10th woman to travel into space. Over the course of her two shuttle missions, Cleave spent more than 10 days in orbit. Cleave said she made the difficult decision to move on from the corps and NASA’s astronaut hub in Houston, taking a role at Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland in 1991.

Persons: Mary Cleave, “, ”, Bob Cabana, “ Mary, ” Cleave —, —, Cleave, ” Cleave, Judith Resnick, Sally Ride, Sally, Cleave “ Organizations: CNN, NASA, Challenger, Science, Colorado State University, Utah State University, Atlantis, CapCom, Ride, Goddard Space Flight, Maryland Locations: Neck , New York, Utah, Houston, Maryland, Washington , DC

☆ 41-year-old's side hustle brings in $125,500 a year, and costs $0 to start: 'The riches are found in niches'
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-28 | by ( Megan Sauer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

She posts her worksheet booklets — designed to help teach literacy to young students — to her online store on Teachers Pay Teachers, an Etsy-style marketplace. Jerome and Becky Powell run their Teachers Pay Teachers stores separately — but the money all goes to the same place, they say. You don't have to spend any money to get started, Powell notes: Teachers Pay Teachers has both free and paid tiers for sellers. Powell pays that subscription fee, as does her husband Jerome — a full-time computer engineer who manages another Teachers Pay Teachers store, called Editable Activities. I have helped eight friends and coworkers open their own stores on Teachers Pay Teachers.

Persons: —, Becky Powell, they've, Jerome, Powell, Jerome —, You've, I've, It's, it's, Warren Buffett Organizations: CNBC, Pay Teachers, Teachers, Pay Locations: Beaverton , Oregon, AskMakeIt@cnbc.com

☆ Sam Altman Is Back at OpenAI. I Have a Question for Him. - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-23 | by ( David Brooks | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

One of the nice things about OpenAI is that it was built on distrust. It began as a nonprofit research lab because its founders didn’t think artificial intelligence should be pioneered by commercial firms, which are driven overwhelmingly by the profit motive. As it evolved, OpenAI turned into what you might call a fruitful contradiction: a for-profit company overseen by a nonprofit board with a corporate culture somewhere in between. Many of the people at the company seem simultaneously motivated by the scientist’s desire to discover, the capitalist’s desire to ship product and the do-gooder’s desire to do this all safely. The events of the past week — Sam Altman’s firing, all the drama, his rehiring — revolve around one central question: Is this fruitful contradiction sustainable?

Persons: OpenAI, Sam Altman’s

☆ How Meta could benefit from the OpenAI shakeup
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-22 | by ( Jonathan Vanian | In | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

It could help Meta boost its open-source Llama AI initiatives, as some companies look to diversify away from relying on a single company's large language model. Its AI research team is considered, with Alphabet's DeepMind, one of the most esteemed groups in the tech industry. Yann LeCun, Meta's AI chief, responded to the post with a curt "Yup." Meta could benefit if companies continue to seek multiple AI vendors, much like firms now rely on multiple cloud providers. The more developers access and improve Llama, the more Meta can potentially lower its overall operating and technology research costs, among other benefits.

Persons: Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman's, There's, Satya Nadella, Altman, Nadella, Zuckerberg, Meta, Alphabet's DeepMind, MSFT, Yann LeCun, curt, Yup, Sam Altman Organizations: Microsoft, Meta, Technologists, Twitter, CNBC

NEW YORK (AP) — It's been quite a week for ChatGPT-maker OpenAI — and co-founder Sam Altman. And as he became Silicon Valley’s most sought-after voice on the promise and potential dangers of this technology, Altman helped transform OpenAI into a world-renowned startup. WHAT IS GENERATIVE AI? Unlike traditional AI, which processes data and completes tasks using predetermined rules, generative AI (including chatbots like ChatGPT) can create something new. Meanwhile, in the U.S., President Joe Biden signed an ambitious executive order last month seeking to balance the needs of cutting-edge technology companies with national security and consumer rights.

Persons: — It's, OpenAI —, Sam Altman, Altman, what's, —, Greg Brockman, Brockman, “, OpenAI, ”, Johann Laux, Enza Iannopollo, Forrester, Iannopollo, they’ve, Chatbots, Joe Biden Organizations: OpenAI, WHO, ALTMAN, Microsoft, Twitter, Oxford Internet, Tech, European Union Locations: San Francisco, Brussels, U.S

☆ Exclusive: This pizza box-sized equipment could be key to Ukraine keeping the lights on this winter
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-21 | by ( Sean Lyngaas | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

Officials from multiple US agencies played a quiet role in getting the Cisco equipment into Ukraine, sources say. In this undated photo, an employee at Ukraine’s state-owned grid operator, Ukrenergo, works on the power grid. As the world’s largest maker of computer networking equipment, Cisco had resources to spare. The switch allows an electric substation – which has the crucial task of converting power from high to low voltage – to communicate with other parts of a power grid. Years of Russian attacks on Ukraine’s gridBehind the scenes, US officials are often coordinating the delivery of key technology to Ukraine.

Persons: CNN —, Illia Vitiuk, Biden, Palantir, Ukrenergo, Joe Marshall, intently, Marshall, he’d, ”, ” Marshall, Taras Vasyliv, ” Vasyliv, Andrew Kravchenko, Vasyliv, Ukraine “, ” NERC Organizations: CNN, Engineers, Cisco, US Air Force, Washington, SpaceX, Microsoft, Pentagon, Department of Energy, Department of Commerce, Stanford University, GPS, Cisco’s, Ukrenergo, Bloomberg, Getty, GRU, US Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Locations: Austin , Texas, Ukraine, Russian, Stanford, Russia, Ukrainian, Denver, Ukraine’s, Kyiv, Silicon Valley, Alabama, East Coast, Germany, Rzeszów, Poland, California, ”, North America

☆ Nvidia Triples Quarterly Revenue, but Sales in China Are a Concern
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-21 | by ( Don Clark | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A start-up driving the artificial intelligence revolution may be in turmoil, but the semiconductor supplier propelling its innovations seems to be getting only stronger. On Tuesday, Nvidia continued its string of blistering quarterly earnings reports, driven by stellar sales for A.I. Microsoft uses thousands of those chips to handle calculations for OpenAI, the generative A.I. Nvidia said revenue for its third quarter, which ended in October, tripled from a year earlier to $18.1 billion, while profit surged nearly fourteenfold, to $9.2 billion. The sales figure was nearly $2 billion higher than the company had predicted in August and much higher than analysts expected.

Persons: Sam Altman Organizations: Nvidia, Microsoft

☆ Microsoft exec says OpenAI employees can join with same compensation
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-21 | by ( Ashley Capoot | In | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott on Tuesday offered to match compensation for the hundreds of employees at OpenAI who are threatening to resign following Sam Altman's sudden ouster as CEO. "Know that if needed, you have a role at Microsoft that matches your compensation and advances our collective mission." But, the comment gives some clarity to what Microsoft is willing to pay employees and how many it would hire. Early Monday morning, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that Altman, Greg Brockman, who resigned as OpenAI's president, and their colleagues would join Microsoft as part of a new AI research group. More than 600 OpenAI employees then signed a letter to the company's board and threatened to join their former boss at Microsoft unless the members resigned.

Persons: Kevin Scott, Sam Altman's, Sam Altman, Scott, Altman, Satya Nadella, Greg Brockman, Nadella, Brockman, OpenAI, Emmett Shear, Ilya Sutskever —, — Adam D'Angelo, Tasha McCauley, Helen Toner, Sutskever, Jordan Novet Organizations: Research, Microsoft, CNBC Locations: OpenAI

☆ The A.I. Industry Was Upended
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( Matthew Cullen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The future of OpenAI, the start-up that quickly became a titan of the artificial intelligence industry after its release of ChatGPT last year, is in doubt. In a series of head-spinning developments over the last 24 hours, the company briefly considered and then rejected a proposal to bring Altman back. Shortly after, both Altman and Greg Brockman, a co-founder of OpenAI, were hired by Microsoft to run a new A.I. The upheaval is probably not over, and it could be a while before the new landscape of the A.I. industry is clear.

Persons: ChatGPT, Sam Altman, Altman, Greg Brockman, —, Kevin Roose, ” Organizations: Microsoft Locations: OpenAI

of OpenAI, the leader in commercializing generative A.I. By Monday, he had not only been fired by his board — he had also joined Microsoft, the start-up’s biggest backer. A recap:OpenAI’s board fired Altman for not being “consistently candid.” Greg Brockman, another co-founder, was stripped of his chairman title and quit. Talks to bring Altman back broke down, with OpenAI’s board eventually naming Emmett Shear, the former C.E.O. (Some OpenAI employees workers wrote on X that “OpenAI is nothing without its people,” posts that Altman liked.)

Persons: Sam Altman, Altman, Greg Brockman, OpenAI —, —, Emmett Shear, Mira Murati, Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, Elon Musk, Geoffrey Hinton Organizations: Microsoft, up’s, OpenAI Locations: OpenAI, ChatGPT

☆ Ousted OpenAI CEO Altman welcome in France, minister says
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-18 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, speaks during The Wall Street Journal's WSJ Tech Live Conference in Laguna Beach, California on October 17, 2023. Ousted OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is welcome in France, France's digital minister said in a statement on X, a day after the board of the company behind ChatGPT fired Altman without giving a reason. "Sam Altman, his team and their talents are welcome in France if they want to," Digital Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said in a statement on X on Saturday. It uses generative AI meaning it can learn from past data to create new content including text, images and computer code. In a video message to tech leaders on Friday, Macron said generative AI has huge potential and that France plans a conference about AI in Paris next year.

Persons: Sam Altman, ChatGPT, Altman, Jean, Noel Barrot, Emmanuel Macron, OpenAI, Macron, Xavier Niel, Rodolphe Saade, Eric Schmidt Organizations: OpenAI, Tech, Conference, Digital, Microsoft, French CMA, CMA, U.S Locations: Laguna Beach , California, France, Europe, Paris, French

The board of ChatGPT-maker Open AI said Friday it has pushed out its co-founder and CEO Sam Altman after a review found he was “not consistently candid in his communications” with the board. “The board no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI,” the artificial intelligence company said in a statement. Mira Murati, OpenAI’s chief technology officer, will take over as interim CEO effective immediately, the company said, while it searches for a permanent replacement. While not trained as an AI engineer, Altman, now 38, has been seen as a Silicon Valley wunderkind since his early 20s. Forrester analyst Rowan Curran said Altman's departure, “while sudden,” does not likely reflect problems with OpenAI's business.

Persons: Sam Altman, “, Mira Murati, Altman, what’s, He's, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, Adam D’Angelo, Tasha McCauley, Helen Toner, Mira, ”, Paul Graham, “ Sam, Graham, ” OpenAI, Elon Musk, Musk, Elon ”, Rowan Curran, ” Curran, Haleluya Hadero, Kelvin Chan, Michael Liedtke, David Hamilton Organizations: Associated Press, OpenAI, Economic Cooperation, Georgetown Center for Security, Emerging Technology, Microsoft Locations: openai, London, Asia, San Francisco, New York

☆ Russia is relocating Ukrainian children to Belarus where they are subjected to military training and reeducation, report finds
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-17 | by ( Sebastian Cahill | Erin Snodgrass | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

In Belarus, some children have been re-educated by nationalists and given military training. AdvertisementA recent report from Yale University sheds new light on the plight of Ukrainian children who have been deported by Russia, many of whom the report says are being subjected to military training and reeducation. Belarusian troops have subjected Ukrainian children to military training that includes handling firearms, wearing body armor, and watching military parades, lectures, and combat demonstrations, according to the report. The total number of deported Ukrainian children is unknown. Some Ukrainian children say they have been put in Russian foster and adoptive families while others are being repatriated to the country.

Persons: —, Russia's, Maria Lvova, Belova, Vladimir Putin Organizations: Service, Yale University, Yale School of Public, Research, Yale, Internal Troops, CNN, Criminal Court, International Locations: Belarus, Russia, Ukraine

☆ Thousands of Ukrainian children taken to Belarus -Yale research
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-16 | by ( Anthony Deutsch | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

More than 2,000 children Yale identified were transported to the Dubrava children's centre in Belarus' Minsk region between September 2022 and May 2023, it said, while 392 children were taken to 12 other facilities. "Russia's federal government and Belarus' regime have been working together to coordinate and fund the movement of children from Russia-occupied Ukraine through Russia to Belarus." Transports to Belarus through Russia were "ultimately coordinated" between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Belarus leader Alexander Lukashenko, it added. Lukashenko approved the use of state organizations to transport children from Ukraine to Belarus and finance their transportation, the Yale report said. Once in Belarus, children have been subjected to military training and re-education, it said.

Persons: Alexander Lukashenko, Pavel Bednyakov, Vladimir Putin, Russia's Putin, Maria Lvova, Lukashenko, David Ljunggren, Mike Collett, White, Alexandra Hudson, Rosalba O'Brien Organizations: Commonwealth of Independent States, CIS, Sputnik, Rights, Yale University, Humanitarian, Yale School of Public Health, State Department, Reuters, U.S . State Department, Ukraine, Yale, Transports, Criminal, Thomson Locations: Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, Russian, United States, Ukraine's Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, Minsk, The Hague

☆ China Shaken by String of Cancer Cases Tied to Top Oncology Lab
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-09 | by ( Selina Cheng | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The level of risk faced by medical researchers has been a charged topic in China since the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic. Photo: str/Agence France-Presse/Getty ImagesHONG KONG—An unusual cluster of cancer cases among Chinese researchers affiliated with one of the country’s top oncology laboratories has attracted a wave of public attention, leading to new questions around lab safety. Two surgeons at Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital in the southern city of Guangzhou were diagnosed with cancer in June and October this year, the hospital said Wednesday. Both had previously worked in the hospital’s highly regarded breast-cancer research laboratory.

Organizations: Agence France, Getty, HONG, Sen Memorial Hospital Locations: China, HONG KONG, Guangzhou

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