(Bloomberg) — Peter Thiel sold almost $600 million of Palantir Technologies Inc. stock this week, bringing his total disposals this year to more than $1 billion. Most Read from Bloomberg He sold more than 16 million shares over three days this week, according to a regulatory filing, adding to the …
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Friday Briefing: Mayor’s Adams’s Arraignment
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Read More »OpenAI’s VP of global affairs claims o1 is ‘virtually perfect’ at correcting bias, but the data doesn’t quite back that up
Departures might be dominating the week’s OpenAI-related headlines. But comments on AI bias from Anna Makanju, the company’s VP of global affairs, also grabbed our attention. Makanju, speaking on a panel at the UN’s Summit of the Future event on Tuesday, suggested that emerging “reasoning” models such as OpenAI’s o1 …
Read More »Today’s NYT Strands Hints, Answer and Help for Sept. 27, #208
Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Connections puzzles. Strands doesn’t get as much attention as its New York Times game siblings Wordle and Connections, but it can be just …
Read More »‘Megalopolis’ Review: The Fever Dreams of Francis Ford Coppola
The director’s latest is a great-man story about an architect, played by Adam Driver, driven by ideals and big plans. It’s a personal statement on an epic scale. Source link
Read More »‘Big Short’ investor Michael Burry bet half of his portfolio on Chinese stocks. It’s finally starting to pay off.
Famed “Big Short” investor Michael Burry is benefiting from the recent surge in Chinese stocks. Burry’s Scion Asset Management has nearly half of its portfolio invested in Chinese tech giants like Alibaba. China’s recent stimulus measures, including interest-rate cuts, have sparked a surge in stock gains. The surge in Chinese …
Read More »What to Know About Austria’s General Election and the Far-Right Freedom Party
Austrians will head to the polls on Sunday to elect a new Parliament, with the Freedom Party in position to potentially form a far-right government for the first time since World War II. Source link
Read More »Runway earmarks $5M to fund up to 100 films using AI-generated video
AI video generators need to believe that filmmakers will use their models in the production process. Otherwise why exist? To jump-start the new AI film ecosystem, Runway has set aside $5 million in cash and more in service credits to fund up to 100 original films. If you’re an AI-curious …
Read More »Do the Chiefs have a Travis Kelce problem? The answer may surprise you
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — No, the Kansas City Chiefs don’t have a Travis Kelce problem. Three weeks into the NFL’s season, an increasing number of people — fans, analysts and even former players — have come to a rather quick conclusion that Kelce, the Chiefs’ star tight end and future …
Read More »Does Your Wi-Fi Router Track Your Browsing? I Read 30,000 Words of Privacy Policies to Find Out
There are few devices where privacy is more essential than a Wi-Fi router. Almost all of our internet traffic travels through a router on the way to our devices. That’s a lot of data — enough to make privacy a reasonable point of concern when you’re picking one out. The problem …
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