"A 2021 research paper cited numerous barriers that Black and Hispanic high school students encounter as they try to make their way: “counselors who encourage or discourage students from taking advanced courses along racial lines”; school officials who dole out “information about advanced courses unevenly by race and socioeconomic status”; and administrators who apply “prerequisites (whether sta..."
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"Other experiments show that when people delegate decision-making to AI agents—something they are increasingly likely to do, from having LLMs draft emails to tasking drones with military targeting—it can obscure moral responsibility and encourage unethical interactions with other people."
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"Are Americans so fed up that they will want to elect someone who has advocated for the “termination” of the Constitution in order to keep himself in power?Recent polling suggests that Biden is in real trouble, including with a number of core Democratic constituencies, which is leading many Democrats to yearn for a different candidate or to despair that Trump will be reelected."
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"A well-known example of co-leadership was put in place at Google in 2001, when Larry Page and Sergey Brin (both 28 at the time) convinced Eric Schmidt (then 48) to join up as CEO and chairman, providing “adult supervision” to the founders, who took on the roles of president of products and president of technology, respectively."
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"How small-cap stocks could outperform in 2024 Next year will be all about fading inflation and interest rate cuts, according to Lee, and that should benefit the small-cap stocks that have been hit the hardest by rising borrowing costs."
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"The Federal Reserve has made it official: The aggressive interest rate hikes of the past 18 months have mostly tamed the inflationary storm that caught policymakers off guard in the wake of the pandemic, while the labor market has largely shrugged off the consistent recession predictions from Wall Street, and GDP continues to expand."
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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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"And it would give Netanyahu the American antagonist he desperately craves, providing the floundering premier with a lifeline he would use to reunite the right behind him.Franklin Foer: Inside Biden’s ‘Hug Bibi’ strategyTo avoid this outcome, Biden has backed Israel’s military campaign, but worked nonstop to shape its contours and limit its fallout on civilians and the rest of the region, tappin..."
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"The Federal Reserve has made it official: The aggressive interest rate hikes of the past 18 months have mostly tamed the inflationary storm that caught policymakers off guard in the wake of the pandemic, while the labor market has largely shrugged off the consistent recession predictions from Wall Street, and GDP continues to expand."
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"“We tend to think of productivity as the biggest driver of return, but in many cases, it is the long-term strategic application and the ability to drive the long-term strategic direction of the company, which leads to outsize returns,” he explains."
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"Along with snatches of dialogue and glimpses of details—the costuming, the barbed wire, the smoke—the film makes clear what’s going on: Rudolf is Rudolf Höss, the real-life longest-serving commandant of Auschwitz, and this is a portrait of how he and his Nazi family actually lived, going about their days adjacent to the death camp he ran.The result is an eerie and restrained study of the Holoca..."
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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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"Other experiments show that when people delegate decision-making to AI agents—something they are increasingly likely to do, from having LLMs draft emails to tasking drones with military targeting—it can obscure moral responsibility and encourage unethical interactions with other people."
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"CEO Tom Leighton gives some direction from the top, but after that, “we allow a lot of autonomous decision-making to happen within the organization in terms of what are the best ways to solve these problems and what are the most interesting technologies to approach,” says Dr."
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"The US military said it shot down 14 drones in the Red Sea launched from Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen as attacks on commercial carriers continue from the Iranian-backed group, threatening havoc for world trade."
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"“Their projections have mostly gone down, and they think the probability that there will be some flare-up of inflation is lower,” said Preston Mui, senior economist at Employ America, an advocacy group.Subscribe to the CFO Daily newsletter to keep up with the trends, issues, and executives shaping corporate finance."
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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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"According to research from the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, the typical Gen Zer is a self-starter who “deeply cares about others, strives for a diverse community, is highly collaborative and social, values flexibility, relevance, authenticity and non-hierarchical leadership, and, while dismayed about inherited issues like climate change, has a pra..."
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"The Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner said in the autopsy report that Perry also drowned in “the heated end of his pool,” but that it was a secondary factor in his Oct."
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"Jim Hare, a distinguished VP analyst at Gartner, highlights the startup’s emphasis on “constitutional AI,” which integrates ethical principles into an AI model’s training process in part by soliciting input from the public and incorporating ideas from sources like the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights."
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