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WorkWorkWhy AI Can't Take Away Creative Jobs - Forbes (No paywall)
  One of the most pervasive fears about artificial intelligence is that it's out to take people's jobs. Generative AI has the ability to write, to create artwork, to make videos with very little human input. And workers are nervous about its possibilities. A CNBC SurveyMonkey Workforce Survey in December found that 60% of employees who regularly use AI fear its impact on their jobs. And last year, Goldman Sachs published a report that estimated 300 million jobs could be displaced by AI automation.
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WorkHulu Shows Jarring Anti-Hamas Ad Likely Generated With AI - WIRED (No paywall)
 The 30-second spot, opening like a tourism ad, shows palm trees and coastlines. There are five-star hotels and children playing. People dance, eat, and laugh, while a voiceover encourages visitors to “experience a culture rich in tradition.” But it suddenly shifts, turning the face of a smiling man into a grimacing one. “This is what Gaza could have been like without Hamas,” the narrator says. A new series of images flashes, this time of fighters and weapons, and children wandering the streets or holding guns. WorkInside the Music Industry's High-Stakes A.I. Experiments - The New Yorker (No paywall)
 Sir Lucian Grainge, the chairman and C.E.O. of Universal Music Group, the largest music company in the world, is curious, empathetic, and, if not exactly humble, a master of the humblebrag. His superpower is his humanity. A sixty-three-year-old Englishman, who was knighted in 2016 for his contributions to the music industry and has topped Billboard's Power 100 list of music-industry players several times in the past decade, Grainge is compact and a bit chubby, with alert eyes behind owlish glasses. He isn't trying to be noticed. He presides over a public company worth more than fifty billion dollars, but he could be a small-business owner who sells music in a London shop, as did his father, Cecil. On earnings calls, Grainge can sound more like a London taxi dispatcher than a chief executive. But woe to those who mistake his European civility for a lack of competitive fire. "He is so deceptive with that little kind face and those little glasses," Doug Morris, the previous chairman of UMG, told the Financial Times in 2003, when he was still Grainge's boss. "Behind them, he is actually a killer shark." In 2011, Grainge devoured Morris's job.
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WorkMinute-Long Soap Operas Are Here. Is America Ready?
 The biggest player in this new genre is ReelShort, an app that offers melodramatic content in minute-long, vertically shot episodes and is hoping to bring a successful formula established abroad to the United States by hooking millions of people on its short-form content. WorkThe Ballet Roots of a Broadway Star
 At first joining City Ballet was her dream, but that changed when she became aware of Janet Collins, then the only Black teacher at School of American Ballet. Her classes were a mix of modern dance, ballet and the technique of the choreographer and anthropologist Katherine Dunham. Rivera also started going to the Palladium Ballroom, the Midtown dance hall, for its Latin Nights. Soon she was, as she writes, “out on the dance floor fusing my ballet training with the salsa, mambo and rumba steps I was learning.”
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WorkWork WorkWorkBoeing Faces Tricky Balance Between Safety and Financial Performance
 Some aviation experts and executives have long said Boeing’s safety problems and its financial performance are intertwined. The company, these people say, has for many years put too much emphasis on increasing profits and enriching shareholders with dividends and share buybacks, and not enough on investing in engineering and safety. WorkWorkAlphabet’s Search Revenue Disappoints in Fourth Quarter
 In 2022, rising interest rates and inflation made advertisers thriftier, undermining the sales and profit of Alphabet as well as its peers Snap and Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram. After Google’s ad businesses recovered last year, investors had hoped that advertisers would continue to spend more. WorkMicrosoft Reports 33% Rise in Profit
 The company said it expected between $60 billion and $61 billion in sales in the current quarter, up 13 to 15 percent from a year ago, and higher operating income in the fiscal year even as it invested in building more data centers for cloud computing and A.I. WorkParrots Use Their Beaks to Swing Like Monkeys
 “In a limb loading sense, they are — on their head itself — able to hold their entire body weight just with their head, which is pretty remarkable,” said Melody Young, a biomechanist at the New York Institute of Technology and an author of the study. WorkSyphilis Is Soaring in the U.S.
 Syphilis has been increasing even in countries with national health care, because “sexual health services remain inadequate relative to the need pretty much everywhere,” said Dr. Jay Varma, chief medical officer at Siga Technologies and a former deputy commissioner of health for New York City. WorkBoeing is set to report fourth-quarter results in the shadow of 737 Max 9 crisis
 Calhoun has visited company and supplier production lines as well as lawmakers on Capitol Hill in the weeks since the incident, vowing transparency and to fix any shortfalls in its manufacturing. The company had the first of several production stand-downs last week to discuss with workers manufacturing problems and other potential improvements to Boeing\'s processes. WorkWorkIsrael Raids West Bank Hospital as Clashes Erupt With Hamas in Northern Gaza
 Israeli forces have escalated efforts against Palestinian militant activity in the West Bank, arresting more than 2,980 Palestinians since the war began in near-daily raids, over 1,350 of them affiliated with Hamas, according to the Israeli military. The raid at the hospital on Tuesday took less than 15 minutes, according to its director, Niji Nazzal. WorkWorkCalls for railings on Devon sea wall before girl fell and died were 'ignored'
 A Network Rail spokesperson said they were limited in what could be said until the inquest takes place later this year. They said: "We were saddened to hear of the passing of Albina Yevko and we've met with the family to express our condolences and talk to them about the sea wall. Handrails along all sections of the sea wall would be difficult to install and maintain effectively given the harsh coastal environment. However, now that we have completed the new sea wall at Dawlish, which has a parapet, we are looking again at safety on the original wall." WorkOpinion | Abolish the U.N.’s Palestinian Refugee Agency
 The new revelations were enough for the Biden administration to suspend its funding for the agency — worth nearly $350 million in 2022 — while it investigates the allegations. As of Tuesday, other major funders, including France, Germany and Japan, have followed suit. WorkWorkWorkWorkWorkSaudi Arabia's economy contracts again, dragged by oil cuts
 Throughout last year, the world\'s largest crude exporter has been implementing output cuts in a bid to push up prices. Saudi Arabia has also been shouldering the bulk of additional voluntary crude production cuts agreed to by some members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies. WorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkUK house prices rise at strongest rate in a year
 In 2022-23, nearly half of first-time buyers had some help raising a deposit, either in the form of a gift or loan from family or friends, or through inheritance, which has nearly doubled from 27% in the mid-1990s. WorkWorkWorkCostessey deaths show need for inquiry into local NHS trust, say families
 On Tuesday, a committee of Norfolk county councillors who oversee NSFT backed the campaign’s call for a statutory inquiry into the way deaths were reported and recorded at the trust. In a letter to the health secretary, Victoria Atkins, the committee expressed “continuing concerns” about its services and requested another CQC inspection. WorkWorkWorkProsecutor in Trump elections case will not have to testify on alleged romance
 Wade filed for divorce from his wife Joycelyn Wade on 2 November 2021, the day after Willis appointed him as special counsel in the Trump case, court records show. The divorce grew ugly after Joycelyn complained that her estranged husband was withholding information about his finances, including income from working on the Trump case. Work TradeBriefs Publications are read by over 10,00,000 Industry Executives About Us | Advertise Privacy Policy | Unsubscribe (one-click) You are receiving this mail because of your subscription with TradeBriefs.
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