Day: May 14, 2023

The rebuild of the Chicago White Sox rebuild might be months away, but it’s already apparent the current plan no longer appears operative. In the meantime we’re just going to have to get used to the idea the window probably has closed before the core could live up to its advance billing. The Sox entered Saturday night’s game against the Houston Astros 14 games under .500 at 13-27, the fourth-worst start in franchise history. There have been games that might suggest better days are ahead but not enough in a stretch to convince most fans it wasn’t a mirage. Dylan Cease managed to stop the bleedi… Read More “Paul Sullivan: Time for the Chicago White Sox to redo the rebuild after one of the worst starts in franchise history?”

By Jessica Frank-Keyes Emerging AI technologies will have a bigger impact on the global economy than the Industrial Revolution, a leading expert has predicted. Emad Mostaque, the founder of Stability AI, the maker of a free AI-image generating tool Stable Diffusion, has suggested artificial intelligence (AI) will be bigger than Google and Facebook within a decade. Speaking on the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme, Mostaque said he agreed with the UK’s former chief scientific advisor Sir Patrick Vallance about the effect of AI. “By next year this technology is going to be everything,… Read More “AI will have ‘bigger economic impact’ than Industrial Revolution, expert predicts”

The Kremlin has been breaking a lot of records lately, and not in a good way. One dubious title is that of the most sanctioned country: since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year, Russia has become subject to more than 13,000 restrictions. That’s more than Iran, Cuba, and North Korea combined. Still, Russian GDP fell just 2.1%in 2022, and is forecast by even the cautious International Monetary Fund (IMF) to grow in 2023 — unlike the UK economy, for example. This allows the Kremlin to claim that sanctions are ineffective, but there is a qualitative as well as quantitative effect. Sancti… Read More “Alexandra Prokopenko: How Sanctions Have Changed Russian Economic Policy”

The British government said Saturday that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will visit Tokyo this week to sign a new bilateral defense and technology deal with Japan ahead of a Group of Seven summit in Hiroshima. The premier will also host a reception of business leaders as he looks to promote investment in Britain during his first visit to Japan since taking office last October. “I look forward to visiting Japan, a vital economic and defense partner for the U.K. in the Indo-Pacific,” Sunak said in a press release. The government did not elaborate on the new deal nor the details of the business leade… Read More “Britain, Japan to reach new defense, technology agreement”