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Harvard Is Big Business at Its Worst
17Dec By adminNo Comments
World

Harvard Is Big Business at Its Worst

Dec. 17, 2023 11:38 am ETMost Americans probably heard of the Harvard Corp. for the first time last week, when it issued a supercilious statement affirming its support for Harvard President Claudine Gay. The corporation, Harvard’s governing body, wrote that Ms. Gay “is the right leader to help our community heal and to address the very serious societal issues we are facing.”The statement was effectively a middle finger to alumni such as hedge-fund titan Bill Ackman, who had demanded Ms. Gay be canned after she equivocated before Congress over whether calling for the genocide of Jews violated Harvard’s rules against bullying. The corporation wished to convey it wouldn’t bow to outside pressure.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cde...
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Hawley Aims at Wokeness and Misses
12Nov By adminNo Comments
Health

Hawley Aims at Wokeness and Misses

Nov. 12, 2023 12:51 pm ETConservatives celebrated when the Supreme Court ruled, in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010), that corporations have a right to free speech. Now Sen. Josh Hawley (R., Mo.) has joined Bernie Sanders to propose legislation that defies Citizens United. Mr. Hawley is up front about wanting to silence publicly traded corporations because he doesn’t like what some have to say. “Corporate America has funneled billions of dollars into elections in favor of politicians who favor their woke, social agendas,” he says in a press release. He wants to “hold mega-corporations’ feet to the fire and stop their dollars from buying our elections.” He exhorts: “To my conservative friends, listen, there is no reason we should want to empower these mega-corporations....
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Will Biden’s Meetings with A.I. Companies Make Any Difference?
25Jul By adminNo Comments
Entertainment

Will Biden’s Meetings with A.I. Companies Make Any Difference?

On Friday, the Biden Administration announced that seven leading American artificial-intelligence companies had agreed to put some voluntary guardrails around their products. Google, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Inflection pledged to insure that their products are meeting safety requirements before releasing them to the public; that they will engage outside experts to test their systems and report any vulnerabilities; and that they will develop technical mechanisms to let users know when they are looking at A.I.-generated content, likely through some kind of watermarking system. They also said that they were committed to investigating and mitigating the societal risks posed by A.I. systems, including “harmful” algorithmic bias and privacy breaches. There are three ways ...
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