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Halloween. The holiday that haunts supply chains.
What is the likelihood of China’s economy collapsing? And if it does, what impact would this have on the global economy?
If it feels a bit like the early days during the coronavirus pandemic, when people were scrambling to find doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, you’re not imagining things.
Online technology is fundamentally reshaping employee evaluations. In the last decade or so, companies such as IBM, Amazon, and General Electric have adopted performance feedback apps that allow employees to “review” one another in real time. These apps take the 360-degree paradigm to its logical extreme by removing temporal, hierarchical, and geographical barriers to feedback.
The U.S. is striving to reduce its dependence on China by derisking its supply chains. However, this process of derisking can also introduce new risks. It is crucial for U.S. firms to devise strategies to identify, evaluate, mitigate, and respond to the various types of supply chain risks that may arise from this derisking process.
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Google DeepMind researchers discovered that using prompts similar to human interaction greatly improved math skills in large language models
Deceptive videos and images created using generative AI could sway elections, crash stock markets and ruin reputations. Researchers are developing methods to limit their harm.
The term “tripledemic” is being used to express the concerns about the collective spread of COVID-19, influenza and the respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, during this fall and winter. Yet each of these infectious diseases has their own risk profile. Placing them under the same epidemic umbrella may inadvertently overstate the impending dangers — perhaps to the point of crying wolf when a calmer descriptor would be more beneficial and appropriate.
The Western news media’s focus on China’s recovering economy, following a significant downturn last year due to COVID-19 restrictions, has been unrelenting. There has been extensive speculation about the potential crash of China’s economy, yet few have delved into the critical questions: What is the likelihood of China’s economy collapsing? And if it does, what impact would this have on the global economy?
The United Auto Workers (UAW), which launched an intermittent strike at Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis manufacturing plants, has expanded the action to 38 locations in 20 states. Automotive manufacturers, which have been struggling with electronics supplies since 2020, could face another disruption to their supply chain as the labor dispute continues.
As the United Auto Workers strike continues, it will have a cascading effect from the auto makers to their upstream suppliers providing EV batteries and other components.
In the UK, NHS workers ranging from nurses to junior doctors went on strike in 2023 to express their grievances about their pay. These localised and staggered strikes have caused inconvenience, but they did not affect the UK economy significantly. However, the coordinated United Auto Workers (UAW) strike in the US, which began on September 15, is much larger in terms of scale and scope.
If the more bullish forecasts prove accurate, a return to triple-digit oil prices could be just around the corner.
Latest inflation numbers: Not very good news as inflation seems to be supply-side, so it is much harder to control. Gas prices will also negatively affect the price of food even more for the next quarter at least. This means that interest rates will remain high for a while, possibly even into 2025. Also, deflation is not a bad thing if it is transitory and aimed at first necessity goods, as opposed to affecting consumption in the long run.
TUCSON, Ariz. (13 News) -13 News Fact Finders told you about a letter sent to Congress by Attorneys general from all 50 states, including Arizona. Attorney General Kris Mayes and her cohort want lawmakers to reign in a new use of artificial intelligence that targets children.
I induce the estimable Professor Tinglong Dai of Johns Hopkins University, an acclaimed AI specialist in the field of supply chain, to laugh aloud a few moments into our conversation.
The AI Incident Database chronicles over 2,000 incidents of AI causing harm. It’s a gulp-worthy number that ominously continues to grow. But the devil is in the details and a mere count does not provide sufficient detail in degrees of harm or malevolent intent. Pretending AI is safe is sheer folly but imagining it the bringer of doom is equally foolish. To get a more realistic read on the damage AI has caused and is likely to cause, here’s a hard look at reported incidents in the real world.
How come so many Korean words sound like Chinese Mandarin and yet the written Korean that is known as Hangul looks so different?