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1 week ago | 
share.google | Erin Davis |Sherin Shibu |Collin Williams |David James
Over the past decade at Improbable and now with Somnia, I have worked on solving some of the hardest problems in the new digital age.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
businessandamerica.com | David James
Business Insider (BI) reports that the Federal Trade Commission has opened an investigation intoPublishing.com, a company that sells courses on creating and selling AI-generated books as a side hustle. Per BI, Publishing.com raked in nearly $50 million in 2022. In 62 complaints obtained by the outlet, customers typically spent $2,000, while some spent over $7,000 on courses and additional resources.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
businessandamerica.com | David James
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg sat down with Joe Rogan for a nearly three-hour-long conversation on the latest episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience” and had some Alpha-male opinions on where corporate culture currently stands. “Masculine energy I think is good, and obviously society has plenty of that, but I think that corporate culture was really trying to get away from it,” Zuckerburg said. “It’s like you want feminine energy, you want masculine energy. I think that that’s all good.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
blazetrends.com | David James
Kenya’s Shift in Cryptocurrency PolicyKenya is set to make a significant change in its stance on cryptocurrencies, moving away from a previous ban to establish a comprehensive framework for the sector. According to Treasury Cabinet Secretary John Mbadi, the government aims to create a fair, competitive, and stable market for cryptocurrencies and virtual asset service providers (VASPs).
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
flipboard.com | David James
5 hours agoAmerica should have more aggressively intervened almost a year ago. Three years ago, when it was trickling into the United States, the bird-flu virus that recently killed a man in Louisiana was, to most Americans, an obscure and distant threat. Now it has spread through all 50 states, affecting more …
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
businessandamerica.com | David James
Have you had the not-so-wonderful experience of sending out resumes to job listings and not getting so much as a reply? Ghosting doesn’t feel great, and a new study by CV Genius shows that a sizeable portion of Gen Z workers in the UK are turning the tables on unresponsive hiring managers. CV Genius polled 1,000 British workers about a myriad of work-related issues, and found these surprising stats on workplace disappearing — or never appearing — acts.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
businessandamerica.com | David James
Who thought that AI-generated Facebook and Instagram users were something any rational human being would want to be friends with? Executives at Meta did. In an interview with the Financial Times just before the new year, Connor Hayes, a vice president for Meta’s generative AI, explained Meta’s plans to have AI users appear on its platforms. “They’ll have bios and profile pictures and be able to generate and share content powered by AI on the platform,” he explained.
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Dec 22, 2024 | 
newsminer.com | David James
Holly Wofford remembers as a young child hearing traditional stories told by elders in Nulato and dreaming of illustrating them. “I used to listen to elders tell these stories and could vividly see images of the characters in my mind,” she said.
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Dec 15, 2024 | 
newsminer.com | David James
Time for my annual roundup of my favorite books. My list was abbreviated this year. I took an extended break for a trip to Ireland, a hip replacement, and a badly needed mental health rest after nearly a quarter century of writing reviews. I had a sizable pile when I temporarily pulled the plug, and a fair number remain to be covered. What follows is the best of what I did get to.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
businessandamerica.com | David James
Merchandise featuring the words “deny,” “defend,” and “depose” — the same ones allegedly written on shell casings police discovered at the site of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s murder — has been flooding e-commerce platforms. The phrase, likely linked to the title of the book, “Delay, Deny, Defend: Why Insurance Companies Don’t Pay Claims and What You Can Do About It,” was featured on hats, T-shirts, and pint glasses sold on Amazon, per CNN.
