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...What does the latest R&D say about the future? The UK’s forthcoming AI safety summit will be a first-of-its-kind gathering of global leaders convening to discuss the technology’s safety....
...“It’s not recovered from last year,” said one shop assistant at Toys R Us, blaming a lack of tourists....
...It is not implausible to imagine a connection between this funnelling and, say, the productivity crisis in pharmaceutical R&D, or the “Great Stagnation” described by economist Tyler Cowen....
...He acquired one start-up, Leade.rs, in an all-share deal in part to evangelise about digital property rights to its backers, who included LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman....
...“In particular, if you look at what the young Republicans are doing — they care about climate change,” Hoffman said....
...A potential vote-winner is Lula’s call to boost by 50 per cent payments under a cash-transfer scheme for the nation’s poorest, which Bolsonaro has already enhanced to R$400 ($73) a month....
...“For many centuries, almost all businesses were run by families,” Erin Meyer writes, explaining the persistence of the metaphor to describe modern corporate communities....
...Erin Nealy Cox, former US Attorney for the Northern District of Texas, has joined Kirkland & Ellis as a partner in its government, regulatory and internal investigations group....
...“We want a system where people can tell the difference,” said Jonathan Hoffman, department spokesman, on Tuesday....
...At Netflix “F&R” — freedom and responsibility — is the creed. But there is a hard edge. This company’s mantra is being “a team, not a family”....
...Pete Hoffman, a Boeing vice-president and chair of the AMRC board said the company was “pleased to see the university’s research strength recognised at a national level”....
...Two board members were investors at the VC firm Kleiner Perkins which owned a stake in Zynga and was involved in other investments with Mr Hoffman and the wife of Mr Pincus....
...“Overall, our budget invests nearly $72bn in R&D. Now, to give you a little context, that’s more than double what Apple, Intel and Google spent on R&D last year combined,” he said....
...São Paulo BMW customer Paulo Roberto Ferreira Henneberg, who works in software, said he was buying a 435i M Sport for R$290,000, of which he would pay off financing of R$90,000 in 10 monthly instalments....
...São Paulo BMW customer Paulo Roberto Ferreira Henneberg, who works in software, said he was buying a 435i M Sport for R$290,000, of which he would pay off financing of R$90,000 in 10 monthly installments...
...- The Pakistani Taliban’s P.R. offensive. - The talented Mr Hoffman....
...In the final assembly area, a black GL series SUV runs along the assembly line in front of a silver ML SUV, then a black R Series car....
...“Nica really put her heart – and her house – on the line,” said Mr Hoffman of HSBC....
...“We weren’t the same old band,” Novoselic told Cobain’s biographer Charles R Cross, author of Heavier Than Heaven. “Kurt, he just kind of withdrew.”...
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...Which is to say, anyone who grew up with figures such as Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman and Jason Robards in their mind’s eye: a veritable study in how to wear your conscience, and shirtsleeves, with style...
...Charlie Hoffman is managing director of HSBC Private Bank (UK)....
...Once I know that this is an overstatement of several hundred million dollars that is F-R-A-U-D.”...
...Game of Thrones, one of the network’s recent hits, is a fantasy epic based on a series of books by George R.R. Martin....
...Alvir Hoffman, director of supervision at the central bank, said loan portfolios that had been sold to other banks had remained on Panamericano’s books, artificially inflating its balance sheet....
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