"You can have a job if you want a job.”—Elon Musk tells British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak where he sees AI going.IN CASE YOU MISSED ITFTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried found guilty of all charges in ‘one of the biggest financial frauds in American history’, by Leo SchwartzTim Cook keeps giving the same answer about Apple’s generative AI plans, and it’s falling flat with investors, by Rachyl JonesCo..."
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"If one doesn’t, one’s freedom is diminished—not by determinism or the fact that one’s decision has prior causes, but by a lack of hypothetical liberty.If we think of freedom as the ability to do otherwise, understood in Hume’s way—if I decide to do A, I will; if I decide otherwise, I won’t—then it is perfectly compatible with determinism: Freedom turns on how effective we are in executing our i..."
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"In the latest episode of Radio Atlantic, host Hanna Rosin shares her phone conversations with him as he struggles to find clean sources.Play our daily crossword.P.S.If you have spent any amount of time at a WeWork location, you will be familiar with its distinctive metal cups emblazoned with the words “Always Half Full.”"
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"More must-read commentary published by Fortune: The ‘Big Stay’ isn’t going away as the labor market stops rewarding job hoppers, according to ADP payroll data Freakonomics author: ‘Objections to data science in K-12 education make no sense’ Why boomers are catching up with AI faster than Gen Zers, according to Microsoft’s modern work lead The growing case for doing less: How harmless cancers ar..."
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"Americans, both Jewish and not, can underestimate how common anti-Semitism remains in the rest of the world.But there is nothing anti-Semitic about anti-Zionists who believe that the existence of a religious or ethnically defined state is inherently racist, and that the only real solution to the conflict is, as the Palestinian American advocate Youssef Munayyer writes, “equal rights for Israeli..."
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"Most famous for this line of thinking is Jean-Paul Sartre, who in 1946 said, “We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world—and defines himself afterwards.”Lest you think that the self-creation idea is an esoteric 20th-century European concept best entertained over filterless cigarettes and strong coffee, note that it is utterly woven into American individuali..."
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"“While Ford and GM’s move to adjust production plans to lower demand and save capital are pragmatically positive for margins and free cash flow in the short-term, they also raise deeper concerns around their ability to make a successful transition to EV longer term,” Deutsche Bank wrote in a report on Oct."
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"“These big, blunt front hoods, they knock people down and run over them, as opposed to before when people would crumple onto the hood,” said Mike McGinn, a former Seattle mayor who is the executive director of America Walks, a national nonprofit that advocates for pedestrian-friendly neighborhoods."
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"The box takes the normal corrugated vessel and thins out part of the cardboard at the top and bottom, creating venting channels that, at least according to VentIt’s own research, achieve something miraculous: reducing steam inside the box by an additional 25 percent while also maintaining the pizza’s temperature.A better pizza box is not science fiction."
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"Austin, Deltona, Fla., and Phoenix are off 5.5%, 3.2%, and 2.1% respectively, while Phoenix, Las Vegas, Boise, Colorado Springs, Raleigh, and Cape Coral, Fla., all showed smaller declines, meaning that they’ve also widely trailed a consumer price index that’s been running at about 3% since last August."
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"A reckoning and reconciliation of this magnitude will face implacable foes, including fundamentalist Islamists who reject Israel outright and traffic in the worst sort of anti-Semitism; militant secular Zionists who treat Arabs as strangers in their own land; right-wing religious Zionists who thirst for a “Greater Land of Israel” and eschew Palestinian rights altogether; and Christian evangelic..."
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"Singapore has “a stable government, business-friendly environment, and comprehensive infrastructure required for semiconductor manufacturing, coupled with strong IP protection and a world-class education system,” Tan Yew Kong, senior vice president and general manager at GlobalFoundries Singapore, said in a statement, adding that the Singaporean government also provides “strong support.”"
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"The model was ultimately fed by data from about 18,000 animal-plant interactions.Next, the team added data describing each animal and plant species; the team also incorporated data on the natural geographic ranges of species, including estimates of where extinct species would live today had they not gone extinct.Finally, they used machine learning to simulate the degree to which animals are dis..."
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"(Israel has used the death penalty exactly once, for Adolf Eichmann’s crimes against humanity, war crimes, and genocide.)The most unsettling aspect of the current moment is how deeply all parties have gone into strategically uncharted territory.Franklin Foer: Tell me how this endsThe status quo between Israel and Gaza could have been interrupted in many ways: Expansion of the Abraham Accords to..."
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"Deputy National Security Adviser Matt Pottinger and Ivan Kanapathy—the NSC’s director for China, Taiwan, and Mongolia and deputy senior director for Asian affairs—described theirs as a “Goldilocks” menu: One option included a list of “hot” measures (a maximalist approach); the second, “cold” ones; and the last, in-between.The “hot” list comprised actions that had nothing to do with Hong Kong bu..."
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"A poll of Americans by YouGov found three backers of Israel for every Palestinian supporter on October 20th—a day with twice as many pro-Palestinian posts on American social media as pro-Israeli ones."
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"You can have a job if you want a job.”—Elon Musk tells British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak where he sees AI going.IN CASE YOU MISSED ITFTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried found guilty of all charges in ‘one of the biggest financial frauds in American history’, by Leo SchwartzTim Cook keeps giving the same answer about Apple’s generative AI plans, and it’s falling flat with investors, by Rachyl JonesCo..."
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"A reckoning and reconciliation of this magnitude will face implacable foes, including fundamentalist Islamists who reject Israel outright and traffic in the worst sort of anti-Semitism; militant secular Zionists who treat Arabs as strangers in their own land; right-wing religious Zionists who thirst for a “Greater Land of Israel” and eschew Palestinian rights altogether; and Christian evangelic..."
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"Financial terms were not disclosed.OTHER- Cedar Fair Entertainment agreed to acquire Six Flags Entertainment, an Arlington, Texas-based owner and operator of theme parks and water parks, for approximately $1.88 billion,- Zurich Insurance agreed to acquire a majority stake in Kotak Mahindra General Insurance, a Mumbai, India-based insurance provider, for 40.5 billion rupees ($487 million)."
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"I told someone there that I wanted to kill myself, so I had to wear a special shirt, alerting everyone that I was on suicide watch, until they let me go home a few days later.Around that time, I read The Color of Water, James McBride’s memoir about his white mother’s life, in which he tries to understand his identity as a Black man."
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