Tag: form
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House Oversight Committee says it plans to form a subcommittee for Trump’s ‘Department of Government Efficiency’
WASHINGTON — The House Oversight Committee announced Thursday that Republicans plan to create a subcommittee that would work with Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy on President-elect Donald Trump’s recently announced advisory group, the “Department of Government Efficiency.” The GOP-controlled panel said in a post on X that the subcommittee, which would be formed for the…
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River raft guides form rescue crews after Hurricane Helene
Hampton, an experienced river guide and volunteer firefighter, said he’d never done rescues in floodwaters this dangerous before. The French Broad normally runs at about 2,000 cubic feet per second this time of year, he estimated. That’s already fast, but in the storm’s immediate aftermath, its discharge was literally off the chart maintained by the…
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AI music companies say their tools can democratize the art form. Some artists are skeptical.
Artificial intelligence-made musical creations continue to go viral, from tunes like “10 Drunk Cigarettes” to “BBL Drizzy.” But despite AI-generated music’s recent popularity, use of the technology has faced intense criticism. Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment and Warner Music Group sued the AI music companies Uncharted Labs and Suno this summer over software that…
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Microsoft, BlackRock form group to raise $100 billion to invest in AI data centers and power
Microsoft and BlackRock are part of a group of companies collaborating to pull together up to $100 billion to develop data centers for artificial intelligence and the energy infrastructure to power them. The companies are part of the Global Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Investment Partnership, or GAIIP, which was announced in a press release on Tuesday. The other participants are Global…