BALTIMORE, MD, February 25, 2025 – In an era in which influencer marketing dominates digital platforms, a groundbreaking study in the INFORMS journal Management Science unveils a surprising reality: sponsored content can harm an influencer’s reputation and reduce audience engagement.
On Jan. 21, OpenAI launched the $500 billion Stargate Project with partners like Arm, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Oracle. This initiative aimed to secure American AI leadership, create jobs, and boost the economy. Initially, this boosted the stock prices of these companies.
Living in limbo: An estimated 2 million U. S. federal employees were thrust into a decision they did not seek to make. A deadline from the Trump Administration was halted last week, and is now in the hands of a judge. When a deadline is set those employees will have to make a high-stakes choice: Take a buyout and resign, or they can choose to stay in an uncertain job environment, including the possibility of being laid-off or having significant changes in work duties or leave with a buyout. This current reprieve gives these federal employees a little more time, but the fundamental question for each of them remains: What’s the right move for your career and future?
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Would you train your workers and then squeeze them out by creating a hostile environment? Would you drive out these workers so they can go work for a competitor? The answer is obviously no. Yet this is what’s happening now in the U.S., with a rising number of U.S.-trained Chinese scientists leaving this country.
AMHERST, MA (WGGB/WSHM) - Although parts of the country won’t directly get hit by the storm, they will still feel the effects, more specifically when they go to the grocery store or go to purchase supplies for home improvement projects.
When munching on a chocolate bar, sipping a cup of coffee, or putting on your cotton shirt, have you ever wondered if your favorite products may involve forced labor? Even when you are eating fruits and vegetables grown in America, would forced labor come to mind? If not, it should. In fact, we should pressure firms to take proactive steps to stamp out forced labor.
The conflict that will define the next era pits liberal democracies against authoritarian / autocratic forms of government, and the battlefield will be shared between the literal battlefield as well as the development and deployment of advanced technologies, to include but not limited to Artificial Intelligence (AI). This was reflected in many of today’s comments around how the free countries of the world will employ AI in this conflict as opposed to how the adversaries of freedom will; discussion of this conflict was the key issue at the recent Special Competitive Studies Project Summit (SCSP).
A research duo who has previously applied their mathematical expertise to improve forensic processes such as fingerprint, sexual assault kits and ballistics analysis has identified their next area of interest—forensic genetic genealogy.
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