It is now official. Brexit has done lasting damage to Britain’s economy and, with the Tories in denial, Labor must lead the way with a new political agenda. Yet it’s almost a taboo subject: the Conservative government won’t admit it and Labor is understandably reluctant to rekindle the old Brexit flames. The Governor of the …
This month, Jeremy Howard, an artificial intelligence researcher, introduced an online chatbot called ChatGPT to his 7-year-old daughter. It had been released a few days earlier by OpenAI, one of the world’s most ambitious AI labs. He told her to ask the experimental chatbot anything that came to mind. She asked what trigonometry was used …
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hong kong CNN — Semiconductor giant TSMC was feted this week by US President Joe Biden and Apple CEO Tim Cook at a ceremony to unveil its $40 billion manufacturing site in Arizona – a huge investment designed to help secure America’s supply of the most advanced chips. But back in Taiwan, there is deep …
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hong kong CNN — Semiconductor giant TSMC was feted this week by US President Joe Biden and Apple CEO Tim Cook at a ceremony to unveil its $40 billion manufacturing site in Arizona – a huge investment designed to help secure America’s supply of the most advanced chips. But back in Taiwan, there is deep …
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Text size The towers of the Linden gas-fired combined heat and power plant, also known as ‘Three Warm Brothers’, in Hannover, Germany. A European Union ban on Russian oil imports by sea went into effect on Monday. Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg About the Author: Abishur Prakash is co-founder and geopolitical futurist of the Center for Innovating the …
For months, investors and CEOs have waited impatiently for China to ease its Covid restrictions, which were weighing on the economy and out of sync with the rest of the world. Stock markets rallied on mere rumors of policy changes. Companies have warned that ‘zero Covid’ is hurting business. Now that China has finally started …
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Chinese President Xi Jinping attends a session during the G20 summit on the Indonesian resort island of Bali on November 16, 2022. Willy Kurniawan | AFP | Getty Images BEIJING — A month after consolidating power at home, Chinese President Xi Jinping has stepped out onto the world stage to strengthen relations with the United …
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New York was the world’s most expensive metropolis in 2022, sharing the unwelcome title with Singapore as soaring energy prices doubled the rate of inflation in the world’s major cities, according to the annual survey. ‘Economist Intelligence Unit. Last year’s leader Tel Aviv fell to third place, while Sydney slipped into the Top 10 and …
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The world is still ‘on the brink of a climate catastrophe’ after the agreement reached at the UN COP27 climate summit on Sunday, and the biggest economies must make new commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. greenhouse, climate experts and activists have warned. The deal reached in Sharm el-Sheikh early Sunday morning, after a marathon …
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After growing up amid upper-middle-class affluence in Silicon Valley as the children of two Stanford Law School professors, as a super-smart kid who went to MIT to study physics, Sam Bankman -Fried decided as a teenager that he wanted to save the world in the worst possible way. That’s exactly what he did. The young, …
