"Fraser said that while Citi’s data shows consumer spending is still “good” and is in positive figures, the growth has begun to “come off,” explaining to CNBC that in September numbers, “the softening of the growth in demand, is…evident.”"
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"“In Gaza, they are forcing their children to witness how they slaughter animals on Eid al-Adha, to take the heart of the animal and to hold it, so they can be mean and brutal when they grow up,” he said.Sacrificing a ram on Eid al-Adha, and the distribution of its meat to the poor, will not win you any awards from PETA, but it is a standard Muslim practice."
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"More must-read commentary published by Fortune: Return-to-office mandates: Why tax breaks are not a reason for companies in states such as Texas, Utah, and New Jersey to force employees back Freakonomics author: ‘Objections to data science in K-12 education make no sense’ Burnout is attacking our brains and making it harder to excel at work."
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"“If the employee does not demonstrate immediate and sustained attendance after the first conversation, managers should then conduct a follow-up discussion within a reasonable time frame (depending on the employee situation, ~1-2 weeks),” the guidelines reportedly said."
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"The lead creators of the index, Rishi Bommasani and Kevin Klyman, told me they tried to keep in mind the kinds of disclosures that would be most helpful to a range of different groups: scientists conducting independent research about these models, policy makers designing AI regulation, and consumers deciding whether to use a model in a particular situation.In addition to insights about specific..."
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"Now that job is being outsourced to corporate algorithms, which present AI-touched-up content as memories.Generative-AI tools will not wipe our memories or corrupt our sense of self, but the camera roll of the future could be missing the little bits of texture that allow us to recall certain moments as they really happened."
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"Delta is reducing the number of medallion qualification dollars required to reach silver status to $5,000, down from $6,000; gold level will need $10,000 instead of $12,000; platinum will be $15,000 from $18,000; diamond will be $28,000 instead of $35,000."
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"The electric-vehicle juggernaut reported its first quarterly fall in sales this year, delivering 435,059 vehicles, while margins fell to the lowest in over four years after the company repeatedly cut prices for its cars."
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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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"As a corollary to that, they also agree that that requires going into Gaza, and depending on who you ask, rooting out Hamas, killing its leaders, or possibly just leveling the whole place, which is something that I’ve heard a number of Israelis say.Writing in The Times of Israel, Haviv Rettig Gur offers an explanation for that near consensus among Israelis, rooted in how some of them understand..."
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"But in his last words to the jury, Kenner appeared to mix up key elements of the case and misattributed the lyric “Every single day, every time I pray, I will be missing you,” to the Fugees, the 1990s hip-hop group his client co-founded, when actually it is a well-known line from a song by the rapper Diddy, then known as Puff Daddy, court documents from Michel’s new attorney, Peter Zeidenberg, ..."
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"(Far better morally, of course, if both states threaten to break all ties with Hamas should its leaders fail to release all hostages in a timely manner, but that possibility seems remote, given these governments’ Islamist affiliations.)One avenue the Biden administration could explore through the Qataris or Turks—or, preferably, the Egyptians, who have no interest in strengthening Hamas—would b..."
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"The reason why the White House targeted chips with such high chip-to-chip bandwidth speeds is simple: They are uniquely suited for being networked together in data centers and supercomputing facilities that train and run large AI models, according to the Center for Strategic and International Studies."
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"Research by Neeraj Sood of the University of Southern California and colleagues found that intermediaries in the health-care supply chain earned annualised excess returns—defined as the difference between their return on invested capital and their weighted-average cost of capital—of 5.9 percentage points between 2013 and 2018, compared with 3.6 for the S&P 500 as a whole."
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"But some of those crimes—including the murder of innocent civilians—appear to reflect Hamas’s disorganization, relative to ISIS, as much as its brutality.The pictures and videos we have seen from Israel seem to support the assertion, made by Hamas and others, that the initial incursion into Israel became a mass breakout; other Palestinians, seemingly not under the direct command and control of ..."
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"The community—which surveys suggest is predominantly white, southern, and male—is also very much on the older side: Two recent surveys showed that a firm majority of landlords were over 50 years old.Read: The quest to build a better birdhouseOrganizations such as the Purple Martin Conservation Association are actively trying to bring younger generations on board."
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"The community—which surveys suggest is predominantly white, southern, and male—is also very much on the older side: Two recent surveys showed that a firm majority of landlords were over 50 years old.Read: The quest to build a better birdhouseOrganizations such as the Purple Martin Conservation Association are actively trying to bring younger generations on board."
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"Although McCarthy and the previous GOP speaker, Paul Ryan, accommodated the former president, Jordan has been his champion; as documented by the House committee on January 6, Jordan was deeply involved in Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election and urged then–Vice President Mike Pence to throw out electoral votes from states that Trump was contesting.His election would look a lot like Trum..."
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"‘Deliberate calm’ can help us adapt The growing case for doing less: How harmless cancers are being overdiagnosed in America 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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"In an era when trust has eroded in virtually all institutions, including those foundational to democracy—government, media, higher education—there is a clear opportunity to create a new communication infrastructure for people to understand and shape their communities from the ground up.The question that many people ask when someone proposes a social platform that is kind and productive, for a c..."
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