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Alabama Republican Sen. Katie Britt on Sunday denied the allegation that she misrepresented the experience of a sex-trafficking survivor to attack President Joe Biden’s border policy.Since delivering the GOP rebuttal to Biden’s State of the Union address on Thursday, Britt has faced severe criticism. She took even more heat after independent journalist Jonathan Katz first exposed her for recycling a 20-year-old anecdote about a victim of sex trafficking and presenting it as a result of the current administration’s border policy.Britt argued that in her rebuttal she made clear that the woman had experienced sex trafficking years earlier during her childhood,…
AI tools like ChatGPT have gone mainstream, and companies behind the technologies are pouring billions of dollars into the bet that they will change the way we live and work. But alongside that promise comes a constant stream of concerning headlines, some highlighting AI’s potential to churn out biases or inaccuracies when responding to our questions or commands. Generative AI tools, including ChatGPT, have been alleged to violate copyright. Some, disturbingly, have been used to generate non-consensual intimate imagery. Most recently, the concept of “deepfakes” hit the spotlight when pornographic, AI-generated images of Taylor Swift spread across social media, underscoring…
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A startup that wants to put humanoid robots in warehouses around the world has an increasingly elite slate of big-name backers with deep pockets.Figure AI Inc. is raising about $675 million in funding with the help of investors like Jeff Bezos and the Microsoft Corporation, according to a Friday Bloomberg report, citing people familiar with the situation.The artificial intelligence startup aims to create autonomous humanoid workers that can support labor shortages amid a waning workforce, the company’s website says.The machine, called Figure 01, is an AI-powered, self-reliant robot with the ability to think, learn, and interact safely alongside humans, according…
Listen here or on the go on Apple Podcasts and Spotify David Trainer says the Fed and liquidity remain a salient driver of markets (0:23). Big opportunity now in energy and industrials (3:40). This is an abridged conversation from Seeking Alpha’s Investing Experts podcast. Transcript Rena Sherbill: David Trainer, welcome back. You’ve had a few recent articles on Seeking Alpha talking about some ETFs and sectors. How are you thinking about things? David Trainer: Well, I think the most important driver really of markets these days is the Fed and liquidity. As long as we’re pumping more liquidity into the…
The US has widened its productivity lead over Europe, sparking fears in the EU that it faces a “competitiveness crisis” as policymakers call for greater public and private investment.New data released on Friday showed eurozone productivity fell 1.2 per cent in the fourth quarter from a year earlier, while in the US it rose 2.6 per cent in the same period, separate data showed. Labour productivity growth in the US has been more than double that of the eurozone and UK in the past two decades. “In the long term, productivity growth in the US is projected to be higher…
President Joe Biden signed a package of six government funding bills into law Saturday, a day after lawmakers raced to fund critical government departments and agencies through the remainder of the fiscal year. The spending bills – backed by the top Democrats and Republicans in both chambers – represent a major breakthrough for lawmakers after months of using stopgap bills to avert shutdowns at the eleventh hour and a race to get the latest measure across the finish line ahead of the Friday night deadline. The White House thanked top congressional lawmakers from both parties “for their leadership” in getting the…
By Sabrina Valle HOUSTON (Reuters) – Chevron (NYSE:) CEO Michael Wirth is facing a head-to-head match with Exxon Mobil (NYSE:) with his $53 billion bid for Hess (NYSE:) and its stake in oil hotspot Guyana, and could wind up trapped in a dispute between two of South America’s biggest energy rivals. On Wednesday, Exxon filed an arbitration claim that could block Hess’ proposed merger with Chevron. The sale includes Hess’ 30% stake in a consortium that has discovered more than 11 billion barrels of oil in Guyana’s Stabroek offshore block, which analysts say has potential recoverable oil at upwards of…
