Here Are the Options China Still Has for Stimulating Its Economy
China should ramp up government borrowing, offer more tax breaks to businesses and keep cutting interest rates to
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Immaculate Grid baseball: Answers, connections, hints for Grid 102 (July 13)
Immaculate Grid baseball answers, clues, hints and connections for Grid 102 on July 13th featuring the Rockies, Tigers, Padres, Giants and A's.Good morning one, good morning, all. Baseball-Reference is back with another day of the Immaculate Grid, providing baseball fans with an exciting an...
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Pain trade or same trade? Investors refuse to fold on recession bets
By Naomi Rovnick, Marc Jones and Alun John LONDON It was not meant to be this way. The
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Greek coastguard 'pressured' disaster survivors to blame Egyptian men
New evidence further challenges the official version of last month's deadly sinking - BBC investigation.
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CapVest to Buy UK Software Provider Kerridge in $1 Billion Deal
Private equity firm CapVest Partners has agreed to acquire UK software provider Kerridge Commercial Systems Ltd. CapVest is
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xAI: Everything we know about Elon Musk’s new AI company
Tesla and SpaceX boss Elon Musk now has a new artificial intelligence startup xAI, years after he left ChatGPT-owner OpenAI. The Twitter owner announced the “formation” of the new firm on Wednesday in a tweet, sharing that its goals are “to understand reality”. He did not reveal any more details about the company’s plans and the firms website also doesn’t say much other than that its aims are “to understand the true nature of the universe”. The startup, however, noted it is a separate entity from “X Corp” – the new name of the company formerly known as Twitter. However, the company mentions in its website that it would work closely with X Corp, Tesla, and firms owned by Mr Musk as well as other companies “to make progress towards our mission.” While xAI does not reveal a lot on its website about its “mission”, the new company’s sole Twitter post hints it would look into the “most fundamental unanswered questions” of the universe. The company’s website also reveals the names of its employees, led by Mr Musk and listing Dan Hendrycks – the director of the Centre for AI Safety – as an advisor. Employees listed with the company are all men, and people who have “previously worked at DeepMind, OpenAI, Google Research, Microsoft Research, Tesla, and the University of Toronto.” “Collectively we contributed some of the most widely used methods in the field,” xAI mentions in its website. “We have worked on and led the development of some of the largest breakthroughs in the field including AlphaStar, AlphaCode, Inception, Minerva, GPT-3.5, and GPT-4,” the company noted about its employees. Mr Musk’s new venture also comes as companies including Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and even smaller firms and competitors in other countries like China continue to invest heavily in AI technology. The multibillionaire had previously co-founded OpenAI in 2015 but left the firm in 2018 to avoid conflicts of interest with Tesla which had its own AI operations for the vehicles’ autopilot mode. Following the launch of the now popular ChatGPT AI chatbot by OpenAI, the Tesla titan had also hinted in interviews that he was planning to start his own new artificial intelligence firm. In April, he told former Fox News host Tucker Carlson that he planned to develop “TruthGPT,” which he called a “maximum truth-seeking AI”. This was followed by an xAI statement calling for the world to prioritise reducing AI’s dangers, signed by prominent members of the tech industry, and Mr Musk also reportedly acquired thousands of GPU processors from Nvidia seemingly to run a large language model like ChatGPT. The xAI team is planning to host a Twitter Spaces discussion on Friday – one in which listeners can “meet the team and ask us questions,” according to the startup’s website. Read More Elon Musk posts series of explicit tweets about Mark Zuckerberg Twitter gets strange endorsement from Taliban over rival Threads Tucker Carlson’s Twitter show is haemorrhaging viewers, reports says Mark Zuckerberg trains with UFC champions amid rumours of Elon Musk fight Threads: Elon Musk posts series of explicit tweets about Mark Zuckerberg Twitter traffic ‘tanking’ after record-breaking Threads launch
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Biden caps Europe swing with summit of Nordic leaders in Finland
President Joe Biden is in Helsinki, Finland, for a summit with Nordic leaders Thursday, offering an opportunity for the countries to bolster security cooperation amid threats from Russia and China.
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China reveals how it plans to put astronauts on the moon by 2030
Chinese officials on Wednesday unveiled new details about their plans for a manned lunar mission, as China attempts to become only the second nation to put citizens on the moon.
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China's June exports fall 12.4%, imports drop 6.8%
BEIJING China's exports fell 12.4% in June year-on-year, while imports contracted 6.8%, customs data showed on Thursday, suggesting
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Israeli Firebrands Are Turning on Central Banker After Targeting Judges
Months of verbal attacks on Israel’s central bank and Governor Amir Yaron by members of the right-wing government
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JD.com Joins China’s AI Race With a Model for Enterprise Use
China’s second-largest e-commerce platform JD.com Inc. unveiled a large language model for enterprise use, joining domestic peers including
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Family of Orlando man shot by police while sitting in his car is seeking answers after viewing body camera footage
Family and loved ones of Derek Diaz, who was fatally shot last week by police in Orlando, Florida, say viewing officers' body-worn camera footage of the encounter has only left them with more questions.
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