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...Omar Sultan al Olama, the UAE’s AI minister, said more than 1,000 companies with a focus on AI were now operating in the Gulf state....
...Along with the United Arab Emirates, the Gulf powerhouse is seeking to compete with AI companies and create bespoke models for Arabic speakers....
...AI leaders, including OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman and chipmaker Nvidia’s chief executive Jensen Huang, have become regular visitors to the Gulf state....
...They followed the Pinault family of Ch Latour et al, who, in 2013, bought what is now called The Eisele Vineyard from the Araujos, and were so confident of their savoir-faire that they didn’t even impose...
...When he wrote on his website, “I believe in the United States of America. I believe in a strong national defence....
...This exhibition features its creations and asks questions about authorship and the role of AI in contemporary art....
...Woman, Life, Freedom by Marjane Satrapi et al (Seven Stories Press) The much-feted author of the graphic novel Persepolis leads a collection of vivid, “visually stunning” accounts of the current unrest gripping...
...Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad al-Thani, son of one of Qatar’s richest men who had been the only party looking to buy 100 per cent of United, withdrew from the bidding on Saturday....
...What is interesting though is there is still a lot of talk around in the United States market that this is an Nvidia rally or it is a tech rally or it is a big-cap tech rally....
...“Failure to abide by the terms of this arrangement will lead the United States to reverse steps we have taken,” said US secretary of state Antony Blinken. Read the full story here....
...The move has raised concerns about potential misuse of the technology by the oil-rich states’ autocratic leaders. Here’s more on the Gulf states’ AI ambitions. 2....
...Need to know: Global economy Sultan Al Jaber, the president-designate of COP28 and head of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, promised to “supercharge” global climate finance, finalise a $100bn fund to...
...The review by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, an inter-governmental agency that vets whether deals can harm national security, is in its early stages and a decision is not expected...
...His name is Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan . . . He is one of the most powerful men on Earth, and yet the ruler of the United Arab Emirates maintains a relatively low profile on the world stage....
...Now see the many state attorneys-general (acolytes, no doubt of Alito et. al.) who want to sanction corporations that adopt ESG....
...It comes iced, nitro (cold brew made with nitrogen gas for an ultra-smooth texture) or hot, with all of the usual suspects represented: macchiato, cappuccino, cortadito et al....
...On Sunday, China’s foreign ministry released a scathing 25-page white paper entitled “The state of Democracy in the United States”, which almost exclusively cited American sources on money’s grip over US...
...really do want to be part of Russia, et cetera....
...The SEC charged the United States Oil Fund, the exchange traded product at the centre of last year’s sub-zero oil market meltdown, and its partner United States Commodity Funds, for “misleading statements...
...The same, of course, applies to Le Pen et al in Europe. I don’t know Israel nearly well enough to prescribe a solution to the deep-seated Palestinian-Israeli crisis....
...As Richard Masters, chief executive of the English Premier League, quipped this week, at least England is “confident” of a winner in this one after Manchester United’s underwhelming penalty shootout loss...
...For example, in a 2010 opinion (Chevron Corp v Steven Donziger, et al) handed down from the US district court in Manhattan, the judge wrote that the “evidence at trial established that Donziger, a New York...
...The initiative from New Zealand et al has not reached critical mass: the big trading economies have not signed on....
...The case, Brown et al. vs USA Taekwondo et al., deals with sexual abuse suffered by three young former Olympic hopefuls in taekwondo, whose coach was convicted and sent to prison in 2015....
...Arizona became the seventh state to reach 200,000 cases. United Airlines is preparing to cut 2,850 pilot jobs, about 21% of the total....
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