Under Chinese law, only 10 percent of a company’s staff is supposed to be made up of labor dispatch workers. But Zhang says the regulations are often not rigorously enforced. She noted that companies can also circumvent the limit by hiring workers categorized under different outsourcing schemes that function in …
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27 September
iPhone 16 vs. iPhone 16 Pro: Don’t Buy the Wrong One
Apple’s iPhone 16 lineup is now out. And you may be wondering whether to go with the $800 baseline model or pay more for the iPhone 16 Pro, which starts at $1,000. For the first time in years, Apple’s regular iPhone has gotten a significant upgrade. The iPhone 16 has …
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27 September
‘The Rings of Power’ Season 2, Episode 7 Recap: ‘Light Endures’
Something is wrong with the candles in Celebrimbor’s workshop. Things are even worse outside. Source link
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27 September
Peter Thiel Has Now Sold $1 Billion of Palantir Stock This Year
(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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27 September
Friday Briefing: Mayor’s Adams’s Arraignment
Plus, control behind K-pop goes public. Source link
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27 September
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 …
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27 September
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 …
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27 September
‘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
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27 September
‘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 …
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27 September
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
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