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WorkWorkDiddy was hiding in plain sightThese are just some of the indelible images that emerged from Sean Diddy Combss annual White Parties from the late 90s to the late 2000s. Splashed across magazines and gossip columns, they cemented him as hip-hops foremost party boy.
WorkNorth Koreas fanatical regime just got scarier - The Economist THE KAESONG Industrial Complex in North Korea has long symbolised hopes for peace and unity on the Korean peninsula. Opened in 2004, it housed South Korean factories that employed North Korean workers. Joint production trudged along until 2016, when South Korea turned off the lights in response to advances in North Koreas nuclear programme; subsequent attempts to restart the project faltered. This month Kim Jong Un, North Koreas dictator, made clear that it has no future by blowing up the roads that connect Kaesong to the south. Work
WorkTeva fined $503 million for disparaging a rival and using patents to thwart competition - STAT The European Commission found the company had artificially extended the patent protection of Copaxone and systematically spread misleading information about a rival product. The decision follows an investigation opened three years ago, which marked the first time the EC probed potential antitrust abuses stemming from patent procedures as well as disparaging competing products. WorkA Toolkit to Help You Manage Uncertainty Around AI - Harvard Business Review Uncertainty around AI takes different shapes and forms, but we can boil it down to three main categories that every manager should consider: state, effect and response uncertainty. State uncertainty occurs when managers lack sufficient information to predict market trends and changes. Managers experiencing this type of uncertainty face challenges in understanding AIs current capabilities and potential developments. As AI evolves rapidly, it is difficult to distinguish between what is achievable now and what remains a distant possibility. This uncertainty is even more daunting because AI experts often have wildly different views on critical questions like whether scaling AI has limits, whether AI confabulations can be fixed, or whether AI can ever truly reason. Effect uncertainty describes the difficulty managers have in predicting AIs impact on business. Will AI disrupt your industry, or will it be just another tool? This uncertainty is compounded by the fact that current tests focus on narrow benchmarks that lack real-world relevance. As such, even developers do not know how enhancements like an increased context window in upcoming modelswill affect business outcomes or employee dynamics. Response uncertainty is the challenge for managers in determining how to react and the consequences of these actions to the many uncertainties surrounding AI. Should you take the leap as an early adopter, or is it wiser to wait and observe? Should your focus be on automation and cost-cutting, or augmenting human capabilities? This uncertainty extends to choices about models and approaches whether to develop custom models, fine-tune existing ones, or integrate techniques like retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).
WorkMeta and Microsoft: AIs spending champs wont be tapping the brakes - WSJ The storied corporate software giant and the parent company of Facebook and Instagram reported results late Wednesday for the September-ended quarter. Both showed decently strong revenue growth and even better operating profit improvements for the quartereach exceeding Wall Streets targets for the period. WorkClimate change can take big toll on Asian economies, says ADB report - WSJ The international treaty aims to limit the average rise in global temperatures to that threshold, beyond which experts expect climate change to have increasingly disastrous consequences. In the nine years since the agreement was adopted, inaction has put that goal nearly out of reach, the multilateral bank said.
WorkHow a Racist Joke About Puerto Rico Could Impact the ElectionComedian Tony Hinchcliffe was supposed to be one of over a dozen warm-up acts for Donald Trumps campaign rally on Sunday in Madison Square Garden. He ended up stealing the show with a raft of racist jokes targeting Latinos, Black Americans, Jews, and Muslims that drew swift condemnation from Democrats and Republicans alike. WorkSafeguarding the Pennsylvania Election - The New Yorker The term red teaming derives from the war games that U.S. officials conducted during the Cold War to prepare for catastrophic attacks against American interests. In the run-up to the Presidential election, think tanks have been executing countless such exercises. So has the state of Pennsylvania, which has an election-threat task force that includes officials from the governors office, the Department of Homeland Security, the National Guard, and the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency (PEMA). For most of this year, the task force met once a month to share information and to spend half a day gaming out what might go wrong. In October, it began meeting once a week.
WorkIs Election Anxiety Keeping You Awake? Sleep Experts Share Advice - Scientific American If the nerve-racking buildup to the U.S. presidential election has stolen your sleep, youre not alone. An American Psychological Association survey released last week found that more than 82 percent of adults have felt that this election cycle has been an emotional rollercoaster and that 25 percent say they have lost sleep over it. But experts in the field have some good news: a few actionable, science-based steps can help. Work
WorkTrump Offends Women as His Campaign Reaches Out to Young Men“Do you want a person like Kamala Harris negotiating in private rooms with people like Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping?” Vance asked, not mentioning the fact that Trump has praised both dictators. “Or do you want a person like Donald Trump actually sticking up for the United States of America?” Work
WorkWorkHas Your Stance on Immigration Changed? Tell Us.Polls suggest that American voters’ attitudes on immigration have hardened in recent years, regardless of their political affiliation or party. A recent New York Times/Siena poll found that 57 percent of respondents supported mass deportation. It also found that 57 percent of voters support a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants living in the United States. About 20 percent support both options. WorkWorkWorkElon Musk's pro-Trump super PAC is doing some shady stuffIn August, the North Carolina Attorney General’s Office announced it was investigating the PAC following a complaint to the state election board. The complaint alleged that the PAC’s website collected personal data without helping users register to vote as promised. WorkWorkAmazon Stock Jumps After Earnings Report Record $15.3 Billion ProfitAmazon had warned investors last quarter that consumer behavior was particularly tricky to predict in the election season, as a volatile political climate can distract consumers from shopping. Sales in its North America e-commerce business grew 9 percent in the quarter. It produced $5.7 billion in operating profit. WorkElon Musk moves $1 million voter lottery lawsuit to federal court for now"America PAC and Musk are lulling Philadelphia citizens - and others in the Commonwealth (and other swing states in the upcoming election) - to give up their personal identifying information and make a political pledge in exchange for the chance to win $1 million," Krasner's lawsuit says. "That is a lottery." WorkWorkWorkNetflix gives us another sneak peek of Squid Game season twoSeong seems to be on a personal crusade to save the latest batch of players who may not have any understanding of the games and its very high stakes. Unlike last season, Seong isn’t smiling when he takes his official contestant photo. The new trailer also features an impassioned Seong trying to convince the new batch of players to vote to leave the island with their lives still intact. WorkWhatsApp custom lists are here to help you keep track of convosThis is just the latest update for the world’s favorite chat app. The platform announced that users can now add contacts from any device, and not just the primary smartphone affiliated with the account. WhatsApp recently hit 100 million users in the US, though that figure pales to the two billion users across the globe. WorkChina sanctions US drone maker Skydio in ongoing trade warDJI, it should be mentioned, has long been in the crosshairs of the US government. In mid-October, the Chinese drone maker filed a lawsuit against the Department of Defense over a decision the Pentagon made to designate it as a “Chinese military company.” Earlier in the year, DJI narrowly avoided a national ban when the US Senate released its version of the 2025 National Defense Authorization Act. WorkElection 2024: What are the candidates' policies on EVs and clean energy?In general, Donald Trump is skeptical of climate change and efforts to limit humans’ impact on the environment. He has pledged to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord (again) and called for building hundreds of new power plants, including coal, hydro and nuclear, but wind and solar farms are noticeably absent from his plan for American energy independence. WorkWorkHow will the outcome of the US election affect Australia, Aukus and our region?“At a broad level, she believes in American leadership, she believes in alliances, she prefers democracy to dictators, she more pro-trade than Trump. But beyond that, it’s very hard to know how she will approach Asia, the part of the world Australia is in, because she hasn’t been a prominent foreign policy voice in the Biden administration.” WorkHousing, social care and universities: who lost out in the UK budget?The Women’s Budget Group thinktank said: “Reintroducing the freeze on local housing allowance is deeply disappointing for the hundreds of thousands of families struggling in temporary housing or facing eviction. The cost of private renting has been increasing, eating up more and more of women’s incomes – with the gender housing affordability gap widening in the last year. The average rent for a one-bedroom property in England is now taking up 47% of a woman’s median earnings, up from 36% last year, compared to 34% and 26% for men respectively.” WorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkSoldier Charged in Death of Fort Leonard Wood SergeantSergeant Roque was a bridge crew member, an Army group that constructs bridges and rafts to help soldiers over rough terrain and water. She served as a mine dog handler with the K9 detachment, which uses dogs to detect explosives, according to Army officials. Since she enlisted in 2020, she had received several military awards, including the Army Commendation Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Good Conduct Medal and the Army Service Ribbon. WorkHarris Campaign's New Ad in Spanish Highlights Puerto Rico Insult at Trump RallyIn addition to featuring notable Puerto Ricans, the ad includes a snippet of sound from street protests on the island. The chant — “Somos más, y no tenemos miedo,” or “We are more, and we are not scared” — was popular during the summer of 2019, when huge street protests led to the resignation of Gov. Ricardo A. Rosselló. WorkWhy Is Trump Campaigning in New Mexico and Virginia? Maggie Haberman is a senior political correspondent reporting on the 2024 presidential campaign, down ballot races across the country and the investigations into former President Donald J. Trump. More about Maggie Haberman WorkTrump and Vance Escalate Efforts to Sow Doubts on Pennsylvania Voting“Let’s remember, in 2020, Donald Trump attacked our elections over and over,” Mr. Shapiro said in a post on social media. “He’s now trying to use the same playbook to stoke chaos, but hear me on this: we will again have a free and fair, safe and secure election — and the will of the people will be respected.” Work'I'm Not Supposed to Say This,' Trump Says. But Then He Does.The Wisconsin rally wasn’t even the first time he acted out that particular bit. Two nights earlier, he was in Atlanta, pretending to go off the same script: “I think it’s fine to say I will protect the women of this country,” he said. “They said, ‘Please, sir. Please don’t say that.’” WorkWorkWorkA Spooky Halloween Ad Tries to Tie Harris to Migrant CrimeThen things get gory. A woman is seen being awakened in the night by a loud sound. Splattered blood is shown on the floor of a home. The woman is seen walking in the dark home, as if investigating the sound. A girl is shown sleeping in bed, and then a television screen shows a mug shot and the headline: “Migrant Charged With Raping Teenager.” WorkWorkCampaign Ad for Nebraska Senator Uses Images From the NortheastThe final days of the campaign for each candidate will be busy. On Saturday, Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas, a fellow Republican, will stump for Ms. Fischer at a rally in Papillion, Neb. Mr. Osborn will appear at rallies in Lincoln and Omaha and will be at a tailgate party before a Cornhuskers football game, where a banner in support of him will fly over the stadium. WorkWorkPuerto Rico Focuses on Governor Election After 'Garbage' Insult at Trump RallyPuerto Ricans living in swing states became a focus of attention in the presidential election this week after a comedian at a rally for former President Donald J. Trump called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage.” Vice President Kamala Harris and her allies amplified and denounced the offensive remark, while Mr. Trump quickly sought to distance himself from it. TradeBriefs Publications are read by over 100,000 Industry Executives About Us | Advertise | Privacy PolicyUnsubscribe (one-click) You are receiving this mail because of your subscription with TradeBriefs.
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