The company's new product, a smartphone with advanced features and a sleek design, has been very well-received by the public.
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Kanye West has apologized to the Jewish community for his antisemitic comments.
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The company's new product, a smartphone with advanced features and a sleek design, has been very well-received by the public.
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The sun is a star and it provides energy for life on Earth.
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Tom Siebel, CEO and founder of C3.ai, raises concerns about the risks associated with artificial intelligence, including misuse by authoritarian regimes, bias, hallucinations, and drift. Additionally, the survey conducted by Pew Research Center shows that Americans are more concerned than excited about increased use of AI in their lives, especially when it comes to making final hiring decisions.
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"Despite the opportunity for a big payday in professional leagues, many gifted athletes end up making major financial missteps. The text also highlights the need for proper education around NIL windfalls for college athletes to avoid similar pitfalls and set them on a path to lifelong financial success."
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"But for the foreseeable future, TSMC’s advanced chip production and R&D at home are irreplaceable, and losing those facilities “would be catastrophic for the entire IT sector,” said Paul Triolo, senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies."
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"He wasn’t very good at making coffee mugs, but with pottery, he said, “at least you get something at the end.”Snyder owes his filmmaking career to his ability to stay in touch with the Fortnite side of himself: the part that loves the visceral, schoolboy thrills of big explosions and grisly battle scenes; the part that likes his storylines to have life-and-death stakes and black-and-white moral..."
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"He also suggested all Division I schools bring name, image and likeness compensation for their athletes in-house through group licensing and remove limits on educational benefits schools can provide their players “Some people are going to say you’re going too far and people will say but you’re not going far enough,” Baker said."
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"The software giant will have to pay a $1 billion breakup fee for exiting the deal, but, Fortune’s David Meyer writes, the collapse of the deal might actually be a good thing for everyone involved.Apple put on watchApple is scrambling for ways to save its $17 billion smartwatch business, after a court ruled the company’s wearables had infringed a patent held by rival Masimo and ordered Apple to ..."
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"I could tell by what she served whether she was merely feeding us or saying she loved us.When I once referred to Lola as a distant aunt, Billy reminded me that when we’d first met I’d said she was my grandmother.“Well, she’s kind of both,” I said mysteriously.“Why is she always working?”“She likes to work,” I said.“Your dad and mom—why do they yell at her?”“Her hearing isn’t so good …”Admitting..."
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"In past years, a computer-science student at the University of California, Berkeley, could hope to emerge from this campus ritual with an interesting summer internship, possibly at a “FAANG” company – the acronym for Facebook (now Meta), Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google."
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"“By the end of 2024, executives will be forced to admit their RTO mandates did not improve productivity,” read the top-line prediction from Annie Dean, longtime flexible work evangelist and head of Team Anywhere at software firm Atlassian."
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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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"In October, Southwest Airlines lowered the requirement for the top levels of its frequent-flyer program to lure in travelers dissatisfied with other airlines that are making it harder to reach elite status.Subscribe to the CFO Daily newsletter to keep up with the trends, issues, and executives shaping corporate finance."
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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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"In the past, he said, a tech startup with $2 million in seed funding might hire seven people and have enough capital to survive for a year and a half, after which it hopefully gained enough traction so that investors would pony up $10 million or $15 million in Series A funding."
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"The precision and humor with which she conjures her life—without glossing over the hard parts—provides much-needed distraction for the reader.Dear Therapist: I don’t want to see my mom this ChristmasMeaty: EssaysBy Samantha IrbyBuy BookPenguin ClassicsWe Have Always Lived in the Castle, by Shirley JacksonMary Katherine Blackwood, known as Merricat, and her sister, Constance, live in a mansion o..."
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"Matt spent many hours crafting paper lampshades to hang over our recessed lights and giant paper flowers to hide the parts of the ceiling where it leaks when it rains.We had initially planned a menu of mini hot dogs, sliders with caramelized onions, pineapple upside-down cupcakes, and coconut shrimp, but once I realized that we had no savory vegetarian options, I added a cheese ball and cheesy ..."
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"Although the average number of lateral relatives varies across race and class groups in the U.S., the cousin decline is either imminent or already happening across all of them.Your “vertical,” intergenerational bonds can be tight and tremendously meaningful, but they also tend to come with care duties, and a clear hierarchy: Think of a grandparent babysitting their child’s toddler, or an adult ..."
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