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Everything You Wanted To Know About Building A Cheap AI Setup (That Still Works) But Were Afraid To Ask Authored by Christopher Penn via 'Almost Timely News' substack, I’ve been putting together a new course for Trust Insights, AI for Writing (and Writers), which will be coming out August 25th, and during the process of creating that course, I realized I’ve never walked through setting up a discount agentic AI system. For a while now, many of us who work in “corporate” have had access to what feels like unlimited amounts of...

BP Shares Plunge After Chairman Abruptly Removed Over Serious Governance Concerns Shares of BP PLC, formerly British Petroleum, dropped in London trading after the oil and gas major said its board had removed Chairman Albert Manifold with immediate effect over "serious concerns" tied to "important governance standards, oversight, and conduct." The abrupt ouster adds yet another layer of instability to BP's turnaround effort; more importantly, it raises serious questions about exactly what prompted the board to give Manifold the boot. "The board has been surprised and disappointed to learn of governance oversight...

Homeowners Hit With Alarming New Financial Burden That Now Exceeds Property Taxes Across America In a surprising shift in the economics of homeownership, the cost of home insurance plus the weather-related portion of auto insurance now exceeds property taxes across three-quarters of U.S. counties. A recent Bloomberg Intelligence analysis found that homeowners insurance premiums alone exceed property-tax bills in roughly two-thirds of counties. When the share of automobile premiums attributable to extreme weather is included, that figure climbs to 75%. Over the past decade, county-average homeowners insurance premiums have increased 45% after...