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Silicon Valley is pricing academics out of AI research

Fei-Fei Li, the “godmother of artificial intelligence,” delivered an urgent plea to President Biden in the glittering ballroom of San Francisco’s Fairmont Hotel last June. The Stanford professor asked Biden to fund a national warehouse of computing power and data sets — part of a “moonshot investment” allowing the country’s top AI researchers to keep […]

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BP: New boss Murray Auchincloss gets £8m pay packet in 2023

Mr Looney, who earned more than £10m in 2022, was obliged to repay BP £1.8m last year after leaving the company under a cloud. He did receive a basic salary of £1.18m, but that was more than outweighed by the loss of bonuses and share-based awards from previous years, worth nearly 3m. BP previously announced […]

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Donald Trump and Joe Biden hold dueling rallies in Georgia

ATLANTA — President Biden and former president Donald Trump will campaign 70 miles from each other Saturday evening, seeking to woo supporters in this crucial state in the opening salvos of the general election rematch. The dueling appearances underscore the key role that Georgia, which holds its primary Tuesday, will play in November, after Biden […]

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History of DEI: A timeline of affirmative action’s rise and fall

Since the Supreme Court ruled race-based college admissions unconstitutional last June, affirmative action in all forms has come under attack. Conservative activists have filed dozens of complaints against Fortune 500 companies alleging discrimination against White people. Long-standing federal programs created to benefit minority-owned businesses find themselves on shaky ground; on Tuesday, a Texas federal judge […]

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