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IMF Video: AI Digital Gap: Making AI Accessible to All | New Economy Forum
AI is increasingly reshaping economies, societies, and growth trajectories. While its potential is immense, ensuring the equitable distribution of its benefits has become a pressing concern for policymakers, economists and technology firms both domestically, and globally. This discussion explores the conditions required to benefit from this AI revolution – ranging from infrastructure and human capital to fiscal measures – and the potential risks to deepen inequalities and trigger geopolitical tensions. https://www.imfconnect.org/content/imf/en/annual-meetings/calendar/open/2024/04/17/183616.html
Published: 22nd Apr 2024 11:56:13 By: IMF
IMF Video: A GovTech Playbook: Lessons Learned from Cross-Country Experiences | New Economy Forum
In this panel discussion, experts from around the world shared their experiences and insights on how governments are embracing GovTech to revolutionize governance, promote fiscal responsibility, and enhance citizen services. The panelists highlighted the successes and lessons learned from past initiatives, emphasizing how countries are fortifying their institutional capacities and harnessing the power of technology to propel their government services and operations into the digital age.
The discussion shed light on how nations are leveraging digital advancements to ensure the equitable distribution of benefits to all citizens. The esteemed panelists delved into practical experiences and identified the critical elements necessary for the successful adoption of GovTech across diverse global contexts. https://www.imfconnect.org/content/imf/en/annual-meetings/calendar/open/2024/04/17/182904.html
Published: 22nd Apr 2024 11:52:39 By: IMF
IMF Video: Leveraging Fiscal Rules and Frameworks to Navigate Today's Fiscal Challenges
For the 14th edition of the IMF Fiscal Forum, current and former senior policymakers & leading scholars discuss their experience and best practices in the design and implementation of rules-based fiscal frameworks to find the right balance in navigating current challenges.
Published: 21st Apr 2024 04:53:03 By: IMF
IMF Video: Press Briefing: Regional Economic Outlook for the Western Hemisphere, April 2024
Advances in technology are driving us towards a world of AI-augmented products and services, hailing new forms of interaction and a future where creativity and technology intertwine at a deeper level.
What is the impending impact on creativity and cognition?
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Published: 23rd Apr 2024 11:00:31 By: World Economic Forum
World Economic Forum Video: Building Equitable Transitions: Green and Fair | Davos 2024 | World Economic Forum
The promise of net zero in energy, transport, agriculture, housing and infrastructure will be unmet if the societal impact on jobs, access and affordability is not considered.
How can we align ambitious sectoral transitions with equitable and socially responsible outcomes?
This session is linked to the Equitable Transition Initiative of the World Economic Forum.
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Published: 22nd Apr 2024 11:00:36 By: World Economic Forum
World Economic Forum Video: Davos 2024: The Battle for Chips
In a significant heightening of the battle for global pre-eminence in the semiconductor industry, export bans on certain types of advanced chips, including those used to develop AI, have come into effect. What impact will these restrictions have on both innovation and the competitive landscape in advanced chipmaking as the industry takes centre stage in power relations between the major global economies?
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Chris Miller, Associate Professor, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University
Ashwini Vaishnaw, Minister of Railways; Minister of Communications; and Minister of Electronics and Information Technology, Ministry of Railways of India
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Published: 22nd Apr 2024 06:49:21 By: World Economic Forum
World Economic Forum Video: History-making in the High Seas | Davos 2024 | World Economic Forum
In 2023, the High Seas Treaty was signed into force, marking the end of more than a decade of multilateral negotiations. This agreement provides for the global governance of 95% of the ocean volume, addressing pollution, overfishing, climate change and biodiversity loss.
What are the implications for business and government in this new compact and how can stakeholders collaborate to exercise collective stewardship?
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Published: 21st Apr 2024 11:00:00 By: World Economic Forum
World Economic Forum Video: EU To Ban Single-Use Plastics & Understanding the 'Living Wage' | WEF | Top Stories of the Week
This week's top stories of the week include:
0:15 EU to ban single-use plastics – The European Union (EU) is taking a significant step towards reducing plastic waste by banning single-use plastics by 2030. This initiative is part of a broader plan to make packaging more sustainable across the EU.
1:44 Malaysia's semiconductor boom – Malaysia’s semiconductor industry is booming. It’s centred in Penang. A state in northern Malaysia. Major players from Europe and the US are setting up shop or expanding existing operations. As they seek to build new global supply chains for these vital components.
3:23 Heat risks for pregnant workers – One study has shown that it can double the risk of miscarriages and stillbirths and make low birth weights more likely. The study’s authors are calling for updated heat advice for pregnant mothers globally.
4:48 Understanding the 'living wage' – Across the world, 24% of employers now pay a living wage, while 54% of the rest expect to in the next 5 years according to a survey by PwC and WageIndicator. A living wage pays enough to provide a decent standard of living for both a worker and their family.
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Published: 20th Apr 2024 12:00:30 By: World Economic Forum
Economic Video: Musk Says Tesla to Accelerate Launch of Cheaper Cars
Tesla CEO Elon Musk says the firm is speeding up plans to launch less-expensive cars, aiming to start production as soon as this year. The move is a bid to revive sagging demand for electric vehicles following another disappointing quarter. Bloomberg's Craig Trudell reports.
Read more on this story here: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-23/tesla-tsla-stumbles-again-as-profit-sales-fall-short-of-estimates
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Published: 24th Apr 2024 08:55:06 By: Bloomberg Television
Economic Video: FTC announces ban on most noncompete agreements
Tesla said it would introduce 'new models' by early 2025 using its current platforms and production lines as it retreated from more ambitious plans to produce an all-new model that had been expected to cost $25,000.
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Published: 24th Apr 2024 06:28:05 By: Reuters
Economic Video: High-speed rail between Los Angeles and Las Vegas: What to know
Construction began on a high-speed rail that should take riders from Los Angeles to Las Vegas in about two hours one way. The private company building the bullet train expects it to be completed by 2028. Pasi Lautala, the director of Michigan Tech University's Rail Transportation Program, joins CBS News with more.
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Trump Media & Technology Group’s stock is tumbling again after the company announced a potentially massive new influx of shares. Forbes editor Dan Alexander reacts. #CNN #News
Published: 16th Apr 2024 12:30:13 By: CNN
Business Video: Boeing 737-800 engine cover falls off during Southwest flight
A Houston-bound Boeing 737-800 plane operated by Southwest Airlines returned safely to Denver International Airport on Sunday after an engine cover fell off and struck the wing flap, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
The agency said it will investigate.
In recorded air traffic control audio, one of the pilots said that “several passengers and flight attendants heard something loud hit the wing.”
In a statement to CNN, Southwest said passengers would take another plane to Houston and would be approximately three hours behind schedule.
“We apologize for the inconvenience of their delay but place our highest priority on ultimate Safety for our Customers and Employees,” the statement said. Southwest said no injuries were reported.
Boeing declined to comment and referred CNN to Southwest for information about plane and fleet operations.
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Published: 8th Apr 2024 12:10:48 By: CNN
Business Video: Ne-Yo on AI impact on music: 'How is it creative to mimic me?'
Late night host Jimmy Fallon poked fun at former President Donald Trump after shares of stocks in his social media platform, Truth Social, plunged over an SEC filing that revealed the company lost millions in revenue in 2023. #cnn #news
Published: 2nd Apr 2024 09:56:55 By: CNN
Business Video: Tesla sales plunge far more than expected
Tesla posted its first annual drop in sales since the first year of the pandemic, as increased electric vehicle competition from Chinese and Western automakers ate into demand.
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Tue, 23 Apr 2024 12:13:00 GMT Tesla is planning to lay off nearly 2,700 workers at its Austin factory in June, according to a notice filed by the company under federal labor law.
Tue, 23 Apr 2024 05:00:00 GMT JPMorgan Chase will today welcome employees and guests to a ribbon-cutting ceremony at its new state-of-the-art technology home in Glasgow. The building is located on Argyle Street in the heart of ...
Tue, 23 Apr 2024 02:21:00 GMT The US bank has 2,600 employees in the city, with the building creating 3,900 local construction jobs over the past five years ...
Wed, 17 Apr 2024 02:57:00 GMT The planned cuts affect about 13 per cent of the 400 bankers in the region, excluding Japan. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Tue, 16 Apr 2024 19:15:00 GMT Morgan Stanley plans to start cutting about 50 investment-banking jobs in the Asia-Pacific region this week, with at least 80% of the reductions in Hong Kong and China, people familiar with the matter ...