"‘Deliberate calm’ can help us adapt The U.S.-China trade war is counterproductive–and the Huawei P60’s chip is just one of its many unforeseen ramifications The opinions expressed in Fortune.com commentary pieces are solely the views of their authors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions and beliefs of Fortune."
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"Truong also benefits from resources that didn’t exist when she grew up: Netflix shows and movies dubbed in Vietnamese; activity books and flashcards sold online; resources such as the SEAD Project, a Minneapolis-based organization that offers Hmong, Vietnamese, Khmer, and Lao language courses, and emphasizes the history and culture of the Southeast Asian diaspora through its programming.For her..."
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"(Chip Somodevilla / Getty)We must have been an odd-looking group, sitting around the dining-room table in the egg-shaped Blue Room of the White House: Bezos, recognizable anywhere by his bald head, short stature, booming laugh, and radiant intensity; Fred Ryan, the Post’s publisher, an alumnus of the Reagan administration who was a head taller than my own 5 feet 11 inches, with graying blond ha..."
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"The country does not make up-to-date detailed demographic figures openly available, but it has granted some researchers, of whom Dr Meng is one, access to a subset of the data."
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"Critics of peace talks point to Putin’s history of piecemeal territorial expansions made under the guise of protecting ethnic Russian minorities—whether it was the enclave of Abkhazia in Georgia back in 2008 or the invasion of Crimea in 2014 after pro-European forces came to power in Kyiv."
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"Instead, she pointed me to a court filing from last week related to the Silverman lawsuit, in which lawyers for Meta argue that the case should be dismissed in part because neither the LLaMA model nor its outputs are “substantially similar” to the authors’ books.It may be beyond the scope of copyright law to address the harms being done to authors by generative AI, and the point remains that AI..."
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"Directed by Mariama Diallo (who also directed two episodes of The Other Black Girl), the film follows a white influencer obsessed with Black cultural signifiers who insists on getting “boxer braids”—and whose leeching presence starts changing the appearance of the salon's stylists.Though these genre works vary in tone and skillfulness, they’re all rooted in the same historical reality: For cent..."
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"Although troubling vestiges of legal coverture still linger in American law, women these days are not considered legal “property” to which a man’s constitutional due-process rights could conceivably attach.As for due-process protections for liberty (which the Supreme Court has described as “not confined to mere freedom from bodily restraint,” but instead inclusive of “the full range of conduct ..."
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"The fact that the model behaved as expected this far in the future “reflects the robustness of the methods and science being used to deal with present-day climate change,” Shevliakova said.Nance, the Ohio University geologist, said that long-term predictions can also help fine-tune our forecasts for the next 50 to 100 years."
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"And when a crisis like 9/11 or the coronavirus pandemic comes along, the airlines—which prefer to direct their profits to stock buybacks rather than rainy-day funds—need massive financial relief from the federal government.Read: Somehow, airline customer service is getting even worseDeregulation even failed to deliver the one thing it is sometimes credited with: lowering prices."
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"Open letters and noise The launch of the large language model (LLM) prompted nearly 34,000 technology experts—including Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak and Tesla’s Elon Musk—to sign an open letter calling for a pause to the development of giant artificial intelligence experiments."
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"“You have to explain to them what is the legitimate interest of what we are trying to do; what are the data points we will be using; where will that data be stored; who will be accessing and processing the data; how will output look and who will have access to the output,” he says."
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"Expanding on an argument that—as Bell himself acknowledged—had originally been advanced by segregationists, he warned that civil-rights lawyers, caught between their clients’ wishes and their own ideals, were trying to “serve two masters.”“Having convinced themselves that Brown stands for desegregation and not education,” Bell complained, “the established civil rights organizations steadfastly ..."
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"Spanish prosecutors have charged pop star Shakira with failing to pay 6.7 million euros ($7.1 million) in tax on her 2018 income, authorities said Tuesday, in Spain’s latest fiscal allegations against the Colombian singer."
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"“If you’re appointing conservatives to the court, you’re often appointing people who relate to the preference for business or property owners or shareholders, more than the preference of stakeholders like workers,” said Peter Berg, a professor of labor relations at Michigan State University."
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"Certain securities mentioned in this article may be currently held, have been held, or be held in future in the author’s personal portfolio or a portfolio managed by Ritholtz Wealth Management.This article is part of Fortune’s quarterly investment guide for Q3 2023."
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"Other materials being tested A spokesperson for Lego told Fortune the RPET method was just one of many options the company was exploring to create its bricks from sustainable materials, and it still plans to have a solution in place by 2032."
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"became the tech industry’s subject du jour, Nasrin Mostafazadeh and her cofounder (and husband), Omid Bakhshandeh, were avidly researching ways to imbue machines with cognitive abilities that mirrored those of humans."
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"But Welsh also says that an expanded talent pool “may change the economics of the situation,” possibly leading to lower pay and diminished job security.If mid-career developers have to fret about what automation might soon do to their job, students are in the especially tough spot of anticipating the long-term implications before they even start their career."
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"Critics of peace talks point to Putin’s history of piecemeal territorial expansions made under the guise of protecting ethnic Russian minorities—whether it was the enclave of Abkhazia in Georgia back in 2008 or the invasion of Crimea in 2014 after pro-European forces came to power in Kyiv."
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