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Jan 7, 2025 | 
computerweekly.com | Mark Ballard
Saudi Arabia (KSA) has called for a global agreement to govern artificial intelligence (AI) with humanitarian and democratic values, earning the incredulity of rights activists campaigning to free people imprisoned for decades for criticising the Gulf state on social media.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
shreveportbossieradvocate.com | Mark Ballard
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy wants to circumvent normal rules by skipping a key committee and going directly to a full Senate vote to repeal two provisions that lower or eliminate Social Security benefits for many former public employees who have paid into the system.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
computerweekly.com | Mark Ballard
Now or never The EU now relies on Gaia-X to sow its regulatory model in global industry groups, where firms have been trying to overcome technical and legal barriers that have stopped them from modernising dataflows in supply chains that include foreign firms. That is something that Gaia-X and its offshoots in vertical sectors, such as automotive and manufacturing, have been doing. EU officials have called for it to be speeded up.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
computerweekly.com | Mark Ballard
Microsoft pens artificial intelligence energy deal with United Arab Emirates oil giant ADNOC By Mark Ballard Published: 15 Nov 2024 10:08 Microsoft has struck an artificial intelligence (AI) energy deal with United Arab Emirates (UAE) oil giant ADNOC after a year of extraordinary diplomacy in which it was the vehicle for a US strategy to prevent a Chinese military tech grab in the Gulf region. The latest in a line of AI deals that Microsoft has struck in the UAE this year, it is the fruit of...
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
ourcommunitynow.com | Mark Ballard
US House approves repeal of provisions that docked Social Security for 90,000 Louisiana workers authored by BY MARK BALLARD | Staff writer | 11/13/2024
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
nola.com | Mark Ballard
WASHINGTON – Three-term state Sen. Cleo Fields became the Louisiana congressional delegation’s second Black Democratic House member after unofficial votes were tallied Tuesday night. WDSU called the race for Fields around 10:30 p.m.It’s the first time since 2011 that Louisiana sent more than one Democratic representative to the U.S. House.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
shreveportbossieradvocate.com | Mark Ballard
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
nola.com | Mark Ballard
Republican U.S. House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, as expected, romped to an easy reelection for a ninth term representing the suburbs of New Orleans Tuesday night. WWL-TV and WDSU called the races for Scalise less than 30 minutes after the polls closed Tuesday night. Click here to see the live results tracker for local races and the presidential race The 59-year-old from Jefferson defeated two Republicans, a Democrat, and a challenger without party affiliation.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
computerweekly.com | Mark Ballard
Cross-border payment system loses support of association of global central banks By Mark Ballard Published: 04 Nov 2024 12:08 International financiers have pulled support for a revolutionary paytech system being rolled out in the Middle East after it became embroiled in Russian plans to evade sanctions intended to snuff foreign trade flows supporting its invasion of Ukraine. The Bank for International Settlements, a global association of central banks, said on 31 August that it had pulled...
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
shreveportbossieradvocate.com | Mark Ballard
WASHINGTON — All the polls — but one out of Shreveport — seem to say that the presidential race between Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris and former Republican President Donald Trump is neck and neck. The candidates, for instance, were deadlocked at 48% each for the popular vote, according to a Siena College poll commissioned by The New York Times. “Ms. Harris struggles for an edge over Mr. Trump with an electorate that seems impossibly and immovably divided,” the Times reported Friday.
