"Decades ago, that plan seemed simple: All American breeders would need to do, the thinking went, was cross the American species with their naturally more blight-resistant Chinese cousins a few times over, making it possible to pull off “the biggest restoration in history” in as little as two decades, says Brian Clark, the vice president of orchard development for the American Chestnut Foundatio..."
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"Solar Roof and standard panel production at its Gigafactory 2 in upstate New York now remains so low that Tesla had to hire low-level IT analysts inputting data for self-driving cars, says Sean Ryan, a state senator representing the Buffalo area, just to hit employment targets imposed as conditions for receiving state aid."
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"When she died, in 1977, she was proud to have obtained with her mother and daughter a rowhouse, which they’d purchased collectively and occupied as multiple generations.Unlike so many Black parents who faced unrelenting poverty and all the attendant ways that Black lives are cut short, Ma Jones had managed to raise to adulthood all four of her children."
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"One of the challenges of public markets, he said, is that “a lot of the analysts following companies have a time horizon that is maybe only a year or two…they do not care about what your long-term outcome will be because their career is dependent on how you do in the short term.”"
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"Edward Gibbon, in his monumental history of the Roman empire, assigned Christianity a large role in its fall: “The clergy successfully preached the doctrines of patience and pusillanimity; the active virtues of society were discouraged; and the last remains of military spirit were buried in the cloister: a large portion of public and private wealth was consecrated to the specious demands of cha..."
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"He and others have found that people who are exposed to the cold more often tend to shiver less and feel less cold, which suggests that their bodies got better at keeping them warm from the inside.“As you become more acclimated to the cold, your body becomes more effective at delivering warm blood to the extremities, your core temperature goes up, and all that contributes to being more resistan..."
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"This new version—directed by Blitz Bazawule and produced by Spielberg, Jones, and Winfrey—works well as a companion piece to the 1985 drama while, for the most part, standing alone as its own tear-jerking, exultant epic.Read: The 10 best films of 2023As with the previous take on The Color Purple, the story focuses primarily on the tough coming-of-age of a young woman named Celie (played as a te..."
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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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"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 Q4 2023."
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"Elon Musk – by Walter Isaacson Recommended by: David Abrahamovitch, CEO of the British coffee chain Grind Big takeaway:“Musk is obviously a very complex individual and not everything he does is to be recommended, but there’s no doubt that he is a once-in-a-generation individual who is pushing a number of frontiers in a way which is hard to imagine."
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"In these cases, one study found, givers may choose to forgo “satisfaction-maximizing gifts” (something versatile and useful) and instead favor giving “reaction-maximizing gifts” (something that will blow the recipient’s hair back).Gifts can be an expression of our feelings toward others, but they also send messages about how we feel about ourselves."
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"“With a new low basis and a well-capitalized owner, Aon Center will be competitively positioned to attract and retain tenants who desire a well-amenitized skyline tower in the heart of downtown Los Angeles,” Sean Fulp, a Colliers broker representing the buyers, said in a statement."
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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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"“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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"Americans whose nostalgic memories generally involve experiences with family, romantic partners, and close friends are more likely to view nostalgia as a reminder of what is most important in life and as a source of comfort, inspiration, and guidance than Americans whose nostalgic memories do not involve these close relationships."
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"In a moment many close observers thought might never come, at least one version of the quintessential piece of intellectual property and perhaps the most iconic character in American pop culture will be free from Disney’s copyright as his first screen release, the 1928 short “Steamboat Willie,” featuring both Mickey and Minnie Mouse, becomes available for public use."
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"Altman declined to offer more details, unless you count additional metaphors, but he did mention that only four times since the company’s founding had he witnessed an advance of such magnitude.During the feverish weekend of speculation that followed Altman’s firing, it was natural to wonder whether this discovery had spooked OpenAI’s safety-minded board members."
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"Ben Austen’s new book, Correction, argues that it’s time to reconsider parole.Play our daily crossword.P.S.It may very well be that no one asked and no one cares, but in the spirit of year-end indulgence: My Spotify Sound Town is Portland, Maine; my genre sandwich includes rock and “New Americana”; and I listened to a lot of Taylor Swift, the Grateful Dead, and the National."
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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 Q4 2023."
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"These people, along with my favorite writers, have my gratitude for the pleasure they’ve brought me this past year, even if their work doesn’t always get the appreciation it deserves.Illustration by The AtlanticThe Invisible Forces Behind the Books We ReadWhat to ReadMiddlemarch, by George Eliot In 1871, when Eliot was writing Middlemarch, Britain had recently undergone some 40 years of social ..."
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