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Ex-lidar CEO makes a bid to reclaim his company

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Ex-Luminar CEO Austin Russell is trying to wrest back control of his company. | Image: Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge Earlier this year, Luminar founder and CEO Austin Russell abruptly resigned from his position after it was revealed he was the target of an ethics inquiry. Now, the 30-year-old billionaire is trying to wrest … Read more

Kelly Reichardt’s anti-heist movie

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Kelly Reichardt has been called one of America’s greatest filmmakers, and also one of its quietest. But her latest, The Mastermind, centered on an art heist that goes off the rails, is probably her loudest movie yet and definitely her biggest budget to date. Reichardt even set out to make something different from her previous … Read more

Why I’m Excited About the AI Bubble and Why You Should Be Too

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The Haber–Bosch process looks pretty simple: The idea is, with enough energy, we can turn nitrogen and hydrogen into ammonia. Our plants need ammonia to grow. Without the Haber-Bosch process, we wouldn’t have enough fertilizers to feed 8 billion people on this planet. This invention of this process was probably the largest game-changer that happened … Read more

How TP ICAP transformed CRM data into real-time insights with Amazon Bedrock

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This post is co-written with Ross Ashworth at TP ICAP. The ability to quickly extract insights from customer relationship management systems (CRMs) and vast amounts of meeting notes can mean the difference between seizing opportunities and missing them entirely. TP ICAP faced this challenge, having thousands of vendor meeting records stored in their CRM. Using … Read more

Principal Financial Group accelerates build, test, and deployment of Amazon Lex V2 bots through automation

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This guest post was written by Mulay Ahmed and Caroline Lima-Lane of Principal Financial Group. The content and opinions in this post are those of the third-party authors and AWS is not responsible for the content or accuracy of this post. With US contact centers that handle millions of customer calls annually, Principal Financial Group® … Read more

Why Education Beats Universal Basic Income in the Age of Automation

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Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Current and past basic income experiments Financing a basic income program Finding alternative solutions Conclusion, Acknowledgment, and References 4. Finding alternative solutions From these examples, we can see that the massive expenditure on UBI is neither economically efficient nor socially equitable. More importantly, it does not address the … Read more

Where Would the Money for Universal Basic Income Come From?

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Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Current and past basic income experiments Financing a basic income program Finding alternative solutions Conclusion, Acknowledgment, and References 3. Financing a basic income program In addition to proving ineffective in the mitigation of unemployment, UBI comes at an exorbitant cost to taxpayers. Finnish failed Basic Income Experiment on … Read more