Day: May 7, 2023

By Daniel Kline Warren Buffett rarely pulls a punch when he answers questions during Berkshire Hathaway’s annual investors’ meeting. For about six hours, split between two sessions, the Oracle of Omaha sits onstage with his right-hand man Charlie Munger, and sometimes other Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A) – Get Free Report executives, taking questions from people in the packed arena where the event is hosted and from remote shareholders. It’s a unique way of conducting this type of session because it’s not analysts or even journalists asking the questions but shareholders. That’s because Buffett be… Read More “Warren Buffett Makes Cataclysmic Prediction On AI”

NEW YORK — It was murder. Or a fatal mistake. Or maybe even justified. For some in a city divided by Jordan Neely’s videotaped death, the verdict was already in: His death in a choke-hold killing, as found by the medical examiner, was a homicide and the former Marine seen with his arm wrapped around the man’s neck aboard a Manhattan F train was responsible. “I’m broken to see that,” said Andre Witter, 30, of Morningside Heights, who believes race played a role in the Black man’s death at the hands of white straphanger Daniel Penny. “What did he do? What did he do? Nothing would have been enou… Read More “Hero or killer? Opinions over subway chokehold death of Jordan Neely has divided NYC”

By Luc Olinga Is it a handover between the old and the new guard of American capitalism? It looks like it. The image of Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger praising Elon Musk is perhaps an acknowledgment of the Techno King as the new pioneer of business on this side of the Atlantic. Admittedly, Buffett, 92, and Munger, 99, two legendary and revered investors, have often had good words and compliments for CEOs and other entrepreneurs in their long careers, but the timing of Musk’s praises is not insignificant. The occasion is also interesting. The co-founder and CEO of Tesla (TSLA) – Get Free Rep… Read More “Elon Musk Receives High Praise from Two Legends”

Artificial intelligence research has accelerated in recent years, and people are interacting with AI more frequently. In-home AI assistants and self-driving cars were once things out of science fiction but are now becoming a reality. Some researchers and activists wonder if AI is nearing the point of sentience, the ability to think and feel on the same level as humans. Some worry that sentient AI could overtake humanity, while others are concerned about subjugating an intelligent life form to do our bidding. So, how will we know whether an AI has become sentient? We’ll break down the history o… Read More “How Will We Know When Artificial Intelligence Has Become Sentient?”

By Luc Olinga Is it a handover between the old and the new guard of American capitalism? It looks like it. The image of Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger praising Elon Musk is perhaps an acknowledgment of the tech mogul as the new pioneer of business on this side of the Atlantic. Admittedly, Buffett, 92, and Munger, 99, two legendary and revered investors, have often had good words and compliments for CEOs and other entrepreneurs in their long careers, but the timing of Musk’s praises is not insignificant. The occasion is also interesting. The co-founder and CEO of Tesla (TSLA) – Get Free Repo… Read More “Elon Musk Receives High Praise from Warren Buffett And Charlie Munger”

After seeming to have calmed down over early spring, the internal conflict between Wagner mercenary group boss Yevgeny Prigozhin and the Russian Defense Ministry has escalated dramatically. In the early morning of May 5, Prigozhin recorded a video in front of what he claimed to be the bodies of dozens of Wagner mercenaries supposedly killed that day around Bakhmut in Donetsk Oblast. In an expletive-filled rant, the Wagner boss directly blamed Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and General Staff head Valery Gerasimov for the fighters’ deaths, saying that Wagner was being deprived of the amm… Read More “Wagner a ‘shadow of what it once was’: Russia security expert on the rage of mercenary boss Prigozhin”