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An Israeli strike on a funeral in the Tyre district of Abbasiyeh killed four people from the same family over the weekend, including infant Taleen Saeed, who was under two years old and was there for her father’s funeral. Saeed’s father was killed on Wednesday, during an attack on her family home in the village […]

How Will AI-Driven Automation Actually Affect Jobs? Authored by Alex Imas and Soumitra Shukla via Ghosts of Electricity, One of the most widely cited findings in AI policy comes from a 2023 paper by Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin, and Rock titled “GPTs are GPTs.” The title is a nice double meaning: the paper studies how general-purpose technologies (GPTs) powered by large language models (also GPTs) may reshape the labor market. The headline finding is that around 80% of U.S. workers could have at least 10% of their tasks affected by LLMs, and...

Goldman Sachs The Latest Firm To Ditch DEI Hiring Criteria Goldman Sachs is the latest firm to scrap the DEI scam from its board policies. In fact, the bank is preparing to strip race, gender identity, sexual orientation and other demographic factors from the guidelines used to evaluate potential directors, according to people familiar with the plans who spoke to the Wall Street Journal. Which begs the question to begin with: why were we ever picking directors based on race and gender identity? Isn't that...racist? The Journal wrote that Goldman's governance committee currently considers...