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Gen Z is souring on college degrees as a path to success, sociology professor says. They have a good reason: Skills-based hiring is the way of the future

finance.yahoo.com In what is sure to be shocking news, college students feel differently about major issues than their parents did. The topic of the hour is college itself. According to many…

MiB: Armen Panossian, Oaktree Capital Management

ritholtz.com This week, we speak with Armen Panossian, managing director and head of performing credit at Oaktree Capital Management, which has $179 billion in assets under management.…

Defending the Undefendable Investments

mises.org The people presented in this book are generally considered villainous, and the functions they perform, harmful. Sometimes society itself is damned because it spawns such…

3 Reasons This Sleeping Giant Is About To Wake Up

marketbeat.com IBM NYSE: IBM, or Big Blue as it's known on Wall Street, is the tech giant that people love to hate. Despite holding one of the longest track records of all currently…

Blue-collar workers are our only hope

unherd.com Amid all the hysteria, technological wreckage and gallons of spilt ink, artificial intelligence’s most potent legacy is yet to be discerned. As we enter the fourth…

Unity apologizes, offers furious game devs a tweaked runtime install fee plan

theregister.com Game engine maker Unity on Friday walked back part of its controversial plan to charge developers a fee based on the number of game downloads installed. In an open letter,…

IBM's Weather Company sued for disclosing viewing data

theregister.com A lawsuit brought against IBM's Weather Company claims the website "knowingly and willfully disclosed its users’ personally identifiable information – including a record of…

NY’s top crypto regulator is leaving office this month

blockworks.co Peter Marton, the head of the virtual currency division at the New York State Department of Financial Services, will leave his position at the end of the month. Marton, who…

Opinion: India’s vital economic status means Canada will be the loser if crisis escalates

theglobeandmail.com Shawn Barber is a former foreign service officer and ambassador. Until last year he was the head of the economic security task force at Public Safety Canada. If the current…

How AI Can Help Boost Inclusion Across The Fintech Industry?

forbes.com The increased use of AI has sparked debates on its potential benefits versus possible harm across all industries. Concerns encompass machine learning expansion risk,…

Cisco Buys Cybersecurity Provider Splunk for $28 Billion

investopedia.com will buy cybersecurity software company Splunk (SPLK) for $157 per share in cash, or approximately $28 billion in equity value, in a move that analysts see as an "aggressive…

Now IBM sued for age discrim by its own HR veterans

theregister.com IBM, which last year insisted "there was (and is) no systemic age discrimination" at the company, has again been sued for age discrimination. The complaint [PDF], filed…

Top tech analyst Dan Ives says Cisco splashing out $28 billion for the cybersecurity firm Splunk is a ‘well-designed strategic poker move’

aol.com The digital communications tech giant Cisco is acquiring the cybersecurity software firm Splunk in a $28 billion deal meant to boost its software business with new…

SCHUMER, HOCHUL ANNOUNCE NEW YORK RECEIVES FIRST-EVER DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE MICROELECTRONICS COMMONS HUB, DELIVERING $40 MILLION FEDERAL INVESTMENT – FIRST…

schumer.senate.gov NORDTech, A Consortium Of NY Defense And Semiconductor Manufacturing Powerhouses Including NY CREATES, UAlbany, Cornell University, RPI, IBM And More, Is Among First In The…

Oracle’s Patent Could Break AI’s Black Box

thedailyupside.com Oracle wants its neural networks to show their work. The data company filed a patent application for “human-understandable insights” for neural network predictions.…

US DoD serves up $238M Chips Act funding to 8 regional hubs

theregister.com The US Department of Defense is investing $238 million in 8 Microelectronics Commons regional innovation hubs as part of Washington’s efforts to boost semiconductor…

The future of AI regulation in advertising

adage.com Margolin also noted, however, that when it comes to intellectual property smaller players may be hurt. As long as there are no changes to Section 230, that grants…

Ripple-Linked Temenos Just Launched a Payments Hub on IBM Cloud

thecryptobasic.com Temenos, a payments company with links to Ripple since way back in 2016, has now launched a new payments hub on IBM Cloud. Swiss-based payment firm Temenos announced this…

Top GOP senator teams up with key Dem on ‘light-touch’ AI bill

politico.com Schumer spokesperson Allison Biasotti said the majority leader “does not view AI reforms as a partisan issue and believes the only way to fully harness its potential for…

Build Your Own Supply Chain Tech…In India

forbes.com When I joined Amazon in 2018 after two decades studying supply chain technology at Gartner , Oracle , and Stanford I was blown away. The gap between what Amazon’s Supply…

Google on trial: Feds challenge default web search deals

theregister.com The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has used the first week of its much-anticipated competition case against Google to argue that the search ads giant violated antitrust law…

Hedge Fund Titan Peter Brown Built A Large Language Model 35 Years Ago: Read What It Wrote

benzinga.com In a recent episode of “Goldman Sachs Exchanges: Great Investors,” Raj Mahajan, who is the firm's global head of Systematic Client Franchise, Global Banking and Markets, had…

Check Out What Whales Are Doing With IBM

benzinga.com Someone with a lot of money to spend has taken a bullish stance on IBM IBM. And retail traders should know. We noticed this today when the big position showed up on publicly…

IBM is 'off to the races' after gaining a new bull on Wall Street, Jim Cramer says

cnbc.com International Business Machines (IBM) rose nearly 3% on Wednesday after RBC Capital Markets initiated coverage on company shares with an outperform (buy) rating. Analysts…

How to name your AI so humans will like it

marketplace.org To anthropomorphize, or not to anthropomorphize? That is the question for marketing departments tasked with branding generative artificial intelligence. There is of course…

Amazon to Tap Its Own AI Model to Upgrade Alexa for Smart Homes

decrypt.co During its annual Devices event, Amazon showcased its latest products and features that bring artificial intelligence into the Amazon ecosystem and for smart home devices,…

Stock Market Sinks After Fed Announcement; Apple Down After Analyst Comments

investors.com The stock market's initial reaction to the Fed's decision to leave interest rates unchanged was negative as indexes sank to session lows. The S&P 500 reversed lower 0.2%,…

Stock Market Skittish After Fed Leaves Rates; Cloud Stock In Buy Zone

investors.com The stock market weakened in the past hour of trading, with the major indexes still mixed and near the lows of the day. Investors were skittish following the Federal…

The Ratings Game: IBM’s stock jumps as RBC sets new Wall Street-high target at a 9-year high

marketwatch.com Shares of International Business Machines Corp. rallied Wednesday after RBC Capital analyst Matthew Swanson set a Wall Street-high price target that suggests a nine-year…

Google Says Switching Away From Its Search Engine Is Easy. It’s Not

nytimes.com Google Says Switching Away From Its Search Engine Is Easy. It’s Not. Google says a change takes just a few steps, but a panel of designers found otherwise. The issue is at…

Microsoft Hiked Its Dividend

investors.com You don't have to give up big dividends if you like S&P 500 tech stocks. It's possible to get both — if you know the risks. Microsoft just boosted its dividend, by up 7…

Temenos and IBM Team to Help Banks Modernize Payments

pymnts.com Banking software platform Temenos is now part of IBM’s Cloud for Financial Services. Temenos said its payments hub is the first dedicated payments solution on the IBM…

Pinterest upgraded, Dollar General downgraded: Wall Street's top analyst calls

finance.yahoo.com The most talked about and market moving research calls around Wall Street are now in one place. Here are today's research calls that investors need to know, as compiled by…

Here are the 14 stocks Jim Cramer is watching, including Apple, Goldman Sachs, Amazon

cnbc.com Here are some of the tickers on my radar for Wednesday, Sept. 20, taken directly from my reporter's notebook: • (AAPL) had been exploring a stock trading feature on the…

A banner day for Pinterest; IBM picks up an upgrade: 5 big analyst picks By

investing.com Investing.com -- Here is your Pro Recap of the biggest analyst picks you may have missed since yesterday: an Outperform initiation for IBM, and upgrades for Pinterest, ,…

A banner day for Pinterest; IBM picks up an upgrade: 5 big analyst picks

finance.yahoo.com Investing.com -- Here is your Pro Recap of the biggest analyst picks you may have missed since yesterday: an Outperform initiation for IBM, and upgrades for Pinterest, Royal…

The Best Company to Work for in America

247wallst.com There are a lot of lists of best and worst companies to work for. In a new study from Indeed called the Better Works Awards, a company no one has heard of is at the top of…

Hedge fund CEO says staff installed mirrors around the office to stop him from crashing into them while he rode a unicycle

aol.com None The CEO of hedge fund Renaissance Technologies used to ride a unicycle around the office. • None Peter Brown said staff once had to install mirrors in the office to…

Unregulated AI Will Destroy 300 Million Jobs. Only Regulation Can Save Them

newsweek.com Goldman Sachs predicted this year that generative AI could cause 300 million full-time jobs to become automated. That would affect more people than the entire population of…

The CEO of a hedge fund that averaged a 66% return for 3 decades spoke about investing, hiring, and sleeping 2,000 nights in his office. Here are the 11 best…

aol.com None Brown had the idea for IBM's "Deep Blue," and has spent over 2,000 nights sleeping in his office. • None RenTech was founded by Jim Simons, a former MIT math professor…

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