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2025 New California Law | Protecting actors, alive and dead, from Artificial Intelligence

LOS ANGELES — California will enact a slate of new laws on January 1, 2025. Several of them aim to reign in the unbridled power of artificial intelligence in show business. 
In September, Governor Gavin Newsom signed two bills into law to protect actors and performers from unauthorized use of their digital likenesses in audio and visual productions. The legislation addresses concerns about using Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the entertainment industry.
Assembly Bill 2602, authored by […]
2025 New California Law | Protecting actors, alive and dead, from Artificial Intelligence

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Elon Musk's 'social experiment on humanity': How X evolved in 2024 – BBC

Billionaire Elon Musk has hailed Twitter as a bastion for freedom of expression ever since he acquired the social media site two years ago. But over the course of 2024, X, as it is now called, has evolved from what felt like a communal town square into a polarised hub where views and posts seem even more controversial.
​​Certain profiles that have shared misleading takes on politics and the news, some of which have been accused of triggering hate, have recently shot to prominence.
All of […]
Elon Musk's 'social experiment on humanity': How X evolved in 2024 – BBC

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DOL Publishes Comprehensive Artificial Intelligence Guidelines – The National Law Review

On 16 October 2024, the Department of Labor (DOL) published a comprehensive guidance regarding the use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools in employment. The guidance, entitled “Artificial Intelligence and Worker Well-being: Principles and Best Practices for Developers and Employers”1 (the DOL AI Guidance), builds on the DOL’s May 2024 AI guidance (the May Guidance) and fulfills the agency’s obligations under President Biden’s October 2023 executive order on AI.2 The DOL AI […]
DOL Publishes Comprehensive Artificial Intelligence Guidelines – The National Law Review

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Musk: Boeing's Last CEO 'Had No Idea How Airplanes or Rockets Worked' – Business Insider

Boeing is “on a much better track” after changing CEOs, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said on Wednesday.
Musk was talking about America’s shortage of engineering talent on X when he was asked about the embattled aerospace manufacturer.
“That said, talking in terms of specific companies, Boeing is on a much better track with the new CEO. The prior guy had no idea how airplanes or rockets worked. Just zero,” Musk wrote in his post.
Boeing was previously led by Dave Calhoun, who served as the […]
Musk: Boeing's Last CEO 'Had No Idea How Airplanes or Rockets Worked' – Business Insider

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GigEagle Lands CDAO Funding for AI-Powered Talent Marketplace – ExecutiveGov

The Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office has invested $5.3 million to support the further development of GigEagle’s artificial intelligence-powered joint talent marketplace for digital talent.
The Defense Innovation Unit said on Dec. 20 CDAO’s grant for research, development, test and evaluation through its Management Innovation Pilot is intended for the development and deployment of innovative identification and engagement capabilities for digital talent across the […]
GigEagle Lands CDAO Funding for AI-Powered Talent Marketplace – ExecutiveGov

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Elon Musk's Go-To Cost-Cutter Is Working for DOGE | Financial Post

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(Bloomberg) — Elon Musk’s deputy Steve Davis has spent more than 20 years helping the billionaire cut costs at businesses like SpaceX, the Boring Company and Twitter — making the engineer by training a natural choice for his new role at Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE for short.
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Elon Musk's Go-To Cost-Cutter Is Working for DOGE | Financial Post

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Can A.I. Caribou Lead Us to Our Prehistoric Past? – Belt Magazine

The following transcript is from an episode of Points North, a narrative podcast about the land, water, and inhabitants of the Great Lakes. Listen to more episodes at pointsnorthpodcast.org.
MORGAN SPRINGER, BYLINE: This is Points North, a podcast about the land, water and inhabitants of the Great Lakes. I’m Morgan Springer in for Dan Wanschura. This is a story about artificial intelligence, but it’s not about driverless cars or A.I. generated supermodels on Instagram. This is about how […]
Can A.I. Caribou Lead Us to Our Prehistoric Past? – Belt Magazine

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How Elon Musk Spent 2024 Getting Richer and More Powerful Than Ever – Business Insider

Elon Musk is more than just the world’s richest person.
He’s also the self-proclaimed “First Buddy” of President-elect Donald Trump, who will soon return to his position as leader of the free world. Trump has named Musk as co-leader of “The Department of Government Efficiency,” giving the tech titan major sway over federal spending.
Like many moments in Musk’s life, it’s a remarkable turnaround story.
2024 began with Musk briefly relinquishing his wealthiest title, first to French luxury titan […]
How Elon Musk Spent 2024 Getting Richer and More Powerful Than Ever – Business Insider

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3 Cloud ETFs for Long-Term Growth

Cloud ETFs provide diversified exposure to the high-performing technology and cloud computing sectors, mitigating single-stock risk with a broad portfolio of companies in this rapidly growing industry.
As cloud computing continues its rapid expansion, leading ETFs such as Global X Cloud Computing ETF Global X Cloud Computing ETF (CLOU), WisdomTree Cloud Computing Fund (WCLD), and First Trust Cloud Computing ETF (SKYY) present excellent long-term growth opportunities.
The long-term outlook […]
3 Cloud ETFs for Long-Term Growth

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Elon Musk combats anti-immigration sentiment in posts decrying 'dire shortage' of tech talent

Rep. Bill Huizenga, R-Mich., discusses DOGE’s influence on Congress and Elon Musk’s role in Trump’s White House on ‘Varney & Co.’
Billionaire businessman and recently appointed government cost-cutter Elon Musk called for increased immigration of high-skilled foreign workers to the U.S. in several social media posts combating immigration restrictionists. 
In a post on X, Musk decried a "permanent shortage of excellent engineering talent" in America, calling it the […]
Elon Musk combats anti-immigration sentiment in posts decrying 'dire shortage' of tech talent