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A woman walks past a “Now Hiring” sign in front of a store on January 13, 2022 in Arlington, Virginia. Olivier Douliery | AFP | Getty Images Retailers are ramping up hiring this year, defying economic concerns as consumers keep shopping. The retail trades added nearly 22,000 jobs in April, accounting for almost one-fifth of total job growth, according to preliminary federal data released Friday. Nearly 15.5 million employees now hold retail industry jobs, the most since July 2024. Consumers have kept their wallets open in the face of war in Iran, higher gasoline prices, faster inflation and President Donald Trump’s tariff policy. Lately, a solid consumer has left retailers confident enough to hire more workers to stock shelves or staff cash registers. “This still shows how resilient spending has been, even amid a lot of the uncertainty,” said Cory Stahle, senior economist at jo
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PHILADELPHIA – MAY 29: Manager Bobby Cox #6 of the Atlanta Braves watches the game against the Philadelphia Phillies on May 29, 2004 at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images) Getty Images Politics. Entertainment, stretching from Sinatra to Snoop Dog. Global warming, or definitely the inner workings of a hurricane. The overwhelming majority of reporters who met Bobby Cox viewed the Baseball Hall of Fame manager as cooperative, friendly and highly insightful regarding all things, you know, that didn’t involve his Atlanta Braves. Once the subject switched to the Major League Baseball franchise that Cox helped sprint to eighth on Forbes’ team valuations list at $3.35 billion – with an MLB record 14 consecutive division titles through 2005 – those same media folks complained that he rarely said anything worth mentioning
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On Monday, The New York Times reported that the White House was considering having the government review AI models before release. To the casual Verge reader, it appeared to be a total reversal in Donald Trump's policies. For the past year, he had been a vocal champion o …
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In today’s newsletter: With the use of facial recognition skyrocketing, there are calls for the rapid development of safeguards
Good morning. Over the last couple of days, the Guardian has been reporting that facial recognition technology is being rolled out across the UK at a pace that appears to be outstripping the rules designed to govern it. Police forces are increasingly using live systems to scan members of the public in real time, while retailers are deploying similar tools to identify suspected shoplifters.
Advocates of the technology argue that facial recognition is effective and here to stay. Critics warn it risks creating a system where people are monitored – and sometimes wrongly flagged – without clear safeguards.
Middle East crisis | Donald Trump has threatened that Iran will be “blown off the face of the earth” if it attacks US vessels trying to reopen a route through the strait of Hormuz.
Delivery industry | More than 7,000 Just Eat couriers are taking legal action agai
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The strongest witness for Elon Musk's case against OpenAI so far has been Greg Brockman's journal. Brockman himself is running as a close second.
Brockman was called to the stand in a rather unusual way - he was cross-examined first, followed by a direct examination - and he had some serious high school debate club energy. There was a lot of "I wouldn't characterize it that way," "I wouldn't say it that way," and "That sounds like something I wrote. Can I see it in context?" When Musk's attorney, Steven Molo, read some of the evidence aloud, Brockman would pedantically correct him if he skipped a word, even if that word was "a" or "the." Wh …
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Welcome to AI Insider’s The Week Ahead in AI. See the key developments and events we’re watching May 3- 9. Weekend AI News Briefs AI Facial Recognition Oversight Lagging Far Behind Technology, Watchdogs Warn According to The Guardian, Britain’s biometric watchdogs warned that the rapid expansion of AI-powered facial recognition technology by police and retailers is […]
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One of the most mortifying things about knowing a lot of techies is listening to them tell me excitedly about some very important discovery that they believe they have made. Recently, I ran into an acquaintance of mine, who began talking my ear off about an amazing discovery he'd made with LLMs. Knowledge, it turns out, is structured into language! You could put one word into ChatGPT and it might understand what you wanted, or make up a word and see if it understood what you meant! These amazing new tools have revealed that the English corpus contains so much about its speakers!
He concluded that LLMs are a discovery on par with writing.
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