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[ad_1] If it weren’t for the gallery assistant’s haughty, dismissive tone, I probably would never have stolen the painting.To be clear, I’m not normally an art thief. My day jobs are as a civil rights lawyer and a law professor. Visual art is rarely my scene. So when my date invited me to see the Ai Weiwei exhibition in New York’s Chelsea neighborhood this past winter, I wasn’t exactly thrilled.But walking into the Vito Schnabel Gallery, I was enthralled by the artist’s playful repurposing of — of all things — Lego blocks. The same plastic bricks that I’d used to…

[ad_1] This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Sara Thomas, 22, a 2025 graduate from the University of Chicago and incoming investment banking analyst at Morgan Stanley. Business Insider’s recent “Path to Wall Street” series highlighted how finance careers continue to attract young talent, despite the industry’s long hours and demanding entry-level roles. Entry-level bankers typically earn about $110,000 a year, not including bonuses. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.I had barely decided on banking as a career choice when I had to start preparing for interviews.My experience was similar to most stories I’ve heard…

[ad_1] New York CNN  —  Apple is about to reveal what’s next for its most important products at its annual Worldwide Developer’s Conference on Monday. This year, the stakes are significantly higher than usual. Apple announced its long-awaited push into artificial intelligence at last year’s event by introducing Apple Intelligence, a suite of AI-powered features for the iPhone and other products. But delays and underwhelming capabilities have put Apple on its back foot. The company has struggled to convince consumers and Wall Street that it’s a leader in the crucial technology, which is expected to overhaul the way people work,…

[ad_1] Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for freeYour guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the worldUS companies with risky credit ratings are rushing to sell junk bonds ahead of an expected resurgence of trade tensions in July that could depress demand for corporate debt.Companies with weaker credit ratings tapped the high-yield bond market for $32bn in May, the most since October, according to data from JPMorgan. Junk bond sales in the first week of June already have surpassed April’s $8.6bn total.Bankers and investors say they expect a steady flow of new debt sales during…

[ad_1] Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for freeYour guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the worldThe gulf between borrowing costs in the US and Eurozone has reached the greatest level since before the Covid-19 pandemic and is set to widen further, just as Donald Trump grows increasingly frustrated at the US Federal Reserve’s wait-and-see approach to rate cuts.The difference in interest rates has increased to over 225 basis points — the biggest divide since September 2019 — after the European Central Bank on Thursday lowered borrowing costs by a quarter-point to 2 per cent.As…

[ad_1] The High Court of England and Wales says lawyers need to take stronger steps to prevent the misuse of artificial intelligence in their work. In a ruling tying together two recent cases, Judge Victoria Sharp wrote that generative AI tools like ChatGPT “are not capable of conducting reliable legal research.” “Such tools can produce apparently coherent and plausible responses to prompts, but those coherent and plausible responses may turn out to be entirely incorrect,” Judge Sharp wrote. “The responses may make confident assertions that are simply untrue.” That doesn’t mean lawyers cannot use AI in their research, but she…

[ad_1] Progress is rarely linear, and AI is no exception.As academics, independent developers, and the biggest tech companies in the world drive us closer to artificial general intelligence — a still hypothetical form of intelligence that matches human capabilities — they’ve hit some roadblocks. Many emerging models are prone to hallucinating, misinformation, and simple errors.Google CEO Sundar Pichai referred to this phase of AI as AJI, or “artificial jagged intelligence,” on a recent episode of Lex Fridman’s podcast.”I don’t know who used it first, maybe Karpathy did,” Pichai said, referring to deep learning and computer vision specialist Andrej Karpathy, who…

[ad_1] President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday that revises and rolls back cybersecurity policies set in place by his Democratic predecessors, Barack Obama and Joe Biden. In a White House fact sheet, the administration claims that Biden’s Executive Order 14144 — signed days before the end of his presidency — was an attempt “to sneak problematic and distracting issues into cybersecurity policy.” Among other things, Biden’s order encouraged agencies to “consider accepting digital identity documents” when public benefit programs require ID. Trump struck that part of the order, with the White House now saying this approach risks “widespread…

[ad_1] CNN  —  A climate of fear is perceptible in the United States today, and it must be resisted no matter what, CBS News correspondent Scott Pelley says. “People are silencing themselves for fear that the government will retaliate against them, and that’s not the America that we all love,” Pelley told Anderson Cooper in an exclusive interview after CNN’s Saturday telecast of “Good Night, and Good Luck.” The Broadway play, which recounts CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow’s unflinching 1954 broadcasts about Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s Cold War witch hunts, has stirred comparisons between McCarthyism and Trumpism, and between the CBS…

[ad_1] Taipei, Taiwan CNN  —  In the largest single foreign investment in US history, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company has unveiled a $100 billion investment, drawing global attention and prompting concern in Taiwan. TSMC, which produces more than 90% of the world’s advanced semiconductor chips that power everything from smartphones and artificial intelligence (AI) applications to weapons, will build two new advanced packaging facilities in Arizona, among others. Here’s everything you need to know about advanced packaging technology, which has seen exponential demand growth along with the global AI frenzy, and what that means for the struggle between the US and…