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� � � � � � You Might Like � � � � � � � � � More than half of business leaders worry gen AI will erode consumer trust - Fortune    Although they look fluffy and cute, llamas make excellent guard animals, which is why you might often spot the camel cousins standing proud in a field full of sheep. Naturally alert, llamas keep watch for predators encroaching on the paddock and make an alarm-like sound to ward off intruders. Their protective instincts are also why compliance software provider Vanta uses a llama as its mascot. “It seemed appropriate for a security company, but not as on the nose as a dog,” Vanta CEO Christina Cacioppo told me on a call recently.  Vanta has just published its latest State of Trust report, based on a survey of 2,500 “I.T. and business decision-makers across Australia, France, Germany, the U.K., and U.S.” Naturally, for a digital security company, the report considers “trust” primarily through the lens of data privacy, risk, and compliance. But Vanta’s survey provides some compelling data on how the IT community is tackling this year’s hottest topic: artificial intelligence. Continued here � � � � � � You Might Like � � � � � � � � � The Inside Story of Microsoft's Partnership with OpenAI - The New Yorker    At around 11:30 a.m. on the Friday before Thanksgiving, Microsoft's chief executive, Satya Nadella, was having his weekly meeting with senior leaders when a panicked colleague told him to pick up the phone. An executive from OpenAI, an artificial-intelligence startup into which Microsoft had invested a reported thirteen billion dollars, was calling to explain that within the next twenty minutes the company's board would announce that it had fired Sam Altman, OpenAI's C.E.O. and co-founder. It was the start of a five-day crisis that some people at Microsoft began calling the Turkey-Shoot Clusterfuck. Nadella has an easygoing demeanor, but he was so flabbergasted that for a moment he didn't know what to say. He'd worked closely with Altman for more than four years and had grown to admire and trust him. Moreover, their collaboration had just led to Microsoft's biggest rollout in a decade: a fleet of cutting-edge A.I. assistants that had been built on top of OpenAI's technology and integrated into Microsoft's core productivity programs, such as Word, Outlook, and PowerPoint. These assistants—essentially specialized and more powerful versions of OpenAI's heralded ChatGPT—were known as the Office Copilots. Unbeknownst to Nadella, however, relations between Altman and OpenAI's board had become troubled. Some of the board's six members found Altman manipulative and conniving—qualities common among tech C.E.O.s but rankling to board members who had backgrounds in academia or in nonprofits. "They felt Sam had lied," a person familiar with the board's discussions said. These tensions were now exploding in Nadella's face, threatening a crucial partnership. Continued here � � � � � � You Might Like � � � � � � � � � Don't like ads? Go ad-free with TradeBriefs Premium A Revelation About Trees Is Messing With Climate Calculations - WIRED    Every year between September and December, Lubna Dada makes clouds. Dada, an atmospheric scientist, convenes with dozens of her colleagues to run experiments in a 7,000-gallon stainless steel chamber at CERN in Switzerland. “It's like science camp,” says Dada, who studies how natural emissions react with ozone to create aerosols that affect the climate. Clouds are the largest source of uncertainty in climate predictions. Depending on location, cloud cover can reflect sunlight away from land and ocean that would otherwise absorb its heat—a rare perk in the warming world. But clouds can also trap heat over Arctic and Antarctic ice. Scientists want to know more about what causes clouds to form, and if that effect is cooling or heating. And most of all, says Dada, “We want to know how we humans have changed clouds.” In the sky, aerosol particles attract water vapor or ice. When the tiny wet globs get large enough, they become seeds for clouds. Half of Earth’s cloud cover forms around stuff like sand, salt, soot, smoke, and dust. The other half nucleates around vapors released by living things or machines, like the sulfur dioxide that arises from burning fossil fuels. Continued here � � � � � � You Might Like � � � � � � � � � The Sea Women of South Korea - The New Yorker    For hundreds of years, women in the South Korean island province of Jeju have made their living harvesting seafood by hand from the ocean floor. Known as haenyeo, or sea women, they use no breathing equipment, although a typical dive might last around two minutes and take them as deep as ten metres underwater. Wearing old-fashioned headlight-shaped scuba masks, most dive with lead weights strapped around their waists to help them sink faster. A round flotation device called a tewak, about the size of a basketball, sits at the surface of the water with a net hanging beneath it to collect the harvest. Some use a sharp tool to dig conch, abalone, and other creatures from the crevices on the seafloor. The photographer Hyung S. Kim regularly went to Jeju between 2012 and 2014 in order to photograph the haenyeo. He set up a plain white backdrop near the shore, and would persuade divers to have their pictures taken as they emerged from the water, usually after five or six hours of work. “This was a very difficult process,” Kim says. “They were not used to being photographed, especially against an artificially created background, so they would often avoid me entirely.” The resulting portraits (which are currently on display at the Korean Cultural Service in New York, in prints that span from floor to ceiling) show what will likely be the last generation of haenyeo. Of the approximately twenty-five hundred active divers today (down from more than twenty thousand in the nineteen-sixties), the vast majority are over the age of sixty. The youngest is thirty-eight, and the oldest woman Kim photographed was over ninety. Last year, South Korea applied to have the haenyeo added to UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage list. “For me, the photos of the haenyeo reflect and overlap with the images I have of my mother and grandmother,” Kim says. “They are shown exactly as they are, tired and breathless. But, at the same time, they embody incredible mental and physical stamina, as the work itself is so dangerous; every day they cross the fine line between life and death. I wanted to capture this extreme duality of the women: their utmost strength combined with human fragility.” Continued here

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