"But more commonly, because their value is usually a function of the amount of money individuals have in the first place, and those individuals’ marginal tax rates, the benefits flow uphill.Let us count our blessings: Every year, the federal government doles out tax expenditures through deductions for retirement savings (worth $137 billion in 2013); employer-sponsored health plans ($250 billion)..."
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"Marilyn Monroe performs for American soldiers posted in Korea during the war, and real-life artists, including the early-20th-century Korean poet Yi Sang and the late-20th-century Korean American artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, play small, essential roles in the narrative, creating a vivid palimpsest of the country’s past and present.Pulsing beneath all of this is that hope of reunification, kept..."
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"With lower interest rates, PwC forecasts that there will be more commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) available and increased investor appetite for acquiring new properties—particularly in affordable housing, digital infrastructure (think data centers), and other residential properties."
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"Netflix says it’s opening up its data banks in the name of greater transparency demanded by striking actors and writers.TRUST EXERCISE“Organizations are not preparing their teams to tap AI to do it better and smarter, but on top of that, it’s a vulnerability for the workforce because AI, I think, is the ultimate bar-raiser.”The tech community might well debate whether AI will enhance the averag..."
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"If he was right, then the smaller blast site would yield the best clues about the number and size of the bombs because, unlike at the other three blast sites, there would have been no subsequent catastrophic outflow of gas.A screenshot from underwater footage captured in October 2022 of damage to the Nord Stream 1 pipeline (TT News Agency / Alamy)We don’t know whether official investigators hav..."
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"We seem to know, and seem to come back again and again to this knowledge, that the purposes of this country in the field of foreign policy cannot in any real or enduring way be achieved by coercion.We have a natural sympathy for extending to foreign affairs what we have come to learn so well in our political life at home: than an indispensable, perhaps in some ways the indispensable, element in..."
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"Explore the January/February 2024 IssueCheck out more from this issue and find your next story to read.View Moreonce again of not coming to know the strident sorrows unfulfilled for fatherland of not seeing loved ones their remains drifted in the far earth of saying father father and to be heard in this benign beginning a gray sky a fleet of nonbirds of faces of inaudible singsongs not a word u..."
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"“I’m always going to feel better sleeping at night knowing that the companies we’ve invested in have a clear line of sight of the use of data, data that goes into the model, the data the model is trained on, and then the ultimate use of the model will abide by guidelines and guardrails that are legal and commercially sound,” says Michael Stewart, a partner at M12."
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"That more muted response to the plight of Palestinians led the Council on American-Islamic Relations to call the corporate response “one-sided,” and to express the concern that Muslim, Arab-American, and Palestinian employees “are not acknowledged as victims of this terrible humanitarian crisis.”"
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"(While Meta Cities “become hot,” he adds, they can also lose their appeal or quickly become too expensive because of their “smaller size, smaller housing inventory, less extensive transportation infrastructure, or less developed schools and educational systems.”) It seems as if this has already happened to Austin, which saw the greatest new resident influx of any U.S."
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"“Gmail is constantly working to improve the quality of search results, and AI advancements in Gmail are powering an even more accurate and personalized search experience, from contextual contact suggestions to relevancy-based results,” a spokesperson for Google told me."
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"The COP28 language pushing a decline in fossil fuel use will send “a signal” that “the world is now thinking about it” and change the way investors assess the risk of those ventures, said Jonathan Pershing, environment program director at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and a veteran US climate negotiator."
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"Now they’re facing a wave of legal battles Inside long COVID’s war on the body: Researchers are trying to find out whether the virus has the potential to cause cancer Access to modern stoves could be a game-changer for Africa’s economic development–and help cut the equivalent of the carbon dioxide emitted by the world’s planes and ships Melinda French Gates: ‘It’s time to change the face of pow..."
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"The Consumer Product Safety Commission has warned parents to keep them away from small children, noting they can “cause severe discomfort, vomiting, dehydration, intestinal blockages and life-threatening injuries, and surgery may be required to remove the water beads.”"
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"“My sense is the reason he founded xAI is he’s pissed at OpenAI.”Steve Omohundro, longtime computer scientist “I would say the holy grail of AI systems is reasoning, and probably the place where reasoning is most evident is in mathematical inquiry,” said University of Sydney mathematics professor Geordie Williamson, who recently collaborated with Google DeepMind on refining old mathematical con..."
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"However, as AI and other technologies—like cleantech and synthetic biology—are set to change business and the world, investors should remain prudent: Embracing these technologies will not be sufficient for companies to gain an advantage—rather, unlocking sustainable growth will require identifying an application of these technologies that solves a valuable problem, a unique deployment toward th..."
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"However, as AI and other technologies—like cleantech and synthetic biology—are set to change business and the world, investors should remain prudent: Embracing these technologies will not be sufficient for companies to gain an advantage—rather, unlocking sustainable growth will require identifying an application of these technologies that solves a valuable problem, a unique deployment toward th..."
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"Now they’re facing a wave of legal battles Inside long COVID’s war on the body: Researchers are trying to find out whether the virus has the potential to cause cancer Access to modern stoves could be a game-changer for Africa’s economic development–and help cut the equivalent of the carbon dioxide emitted by the world’s planes and ships Melinda French Gates: ‘It’s time to change the face of pow..."
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"“We have not seen any meaningful change in insurer behavior” since Biden issued his executive order in June, Whalen wrote in an email to Fortune Tuesday.Go behind the headlines of the week's biggest business news with the Fortune newsroom every Saturday with The Reader."
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"Michael Vestuto, a Las Vegas realtor with two decades of experience, tells Fortune it’s too soon to start celebrating lower mortgage rates and improved mortgage applications—especially since many housing market forecasts that predicted falling rates in 2022 and 2023 were “quite off the mark” and mortgage rates continued to climb."
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