Posts by Riah Marton
Ghost oil ships dock in Venezuela, showing challenge for US
The International Energy Agency estimates the current oversupply at a record 3.8 million barrels a day [HOUSTON] Two so-called ghost oil ships are currently loading off the coast of Venezuela, highlighting the challenges the Trump administration faces trying to disrupt exports of the South American country’s primary source of revenue. The supertankers, the largest class…
Read MoreWall Street ends lower; fears of AI bubble and inflation send investors away
Other companies that have benefited from AI bets but went into reverse on Friday included SanDisk [BENGALURU] The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq closed down more than 1 per cent on Friday (Dec 12) with investors leaving technology for other sectors as Broadcom and Oracle fuelled concerns about an artificial intelligence (AI) bubble and rising…
Read MoreTeen Mom’s Cheyenne Floyd Gives Birth to Baby No. 3, Second With Zach Davis
Kailyn Lowry & Elijah Scott With construction worker Elijah, Kailyn felt she had finally built that strong foundation. “It’s been very different from my other partners and my kids’ other dads,” she told People of Elijah, dad to her son Rio and twins Verse and Valley. “He pours concrete, he gets down and dirty at…
Read MoreTrump signs order to limit state AI regulations, with California in the crosshairs
The battle between California and the White House escalated as President Trump signed an executive order to block state laws regulating artificial intelligence. The president’s power move to try to take over control of the regulation of the technology behind ChatGPT through an executive order Thursday was applauded by his allies in Silicon Valley, who…
Read MoreIn Depth: China bad-debt managers’ bet on bank stocks could backfire
A NEW player has emerged in the boardrooms of China’s major banks: the “Big Four” state-owned asset management companies (AMCs) created to clean up the bad debts of four state-owned commercial lenders. The balance sheets of the “Big Four” are now glowing with profits — thanks not to their core task, but to a surge…
Read MorePodcast industry is divided as AI bots flood the airways with thousands of programs
Chatty bots are sharing their hot takes through hundreds of thousands of AI-generated podcasts. And the invasion has just begun. Though their banter can be a bit banal, the AI podcasters’ confidence and research are now arguably better than most people’s. “We’ve just begun to cross the threshold of voice AI being pretty much indistinguishable…
Read MoreRHOSLC’s Jen Shah Seen Publicly for First Time Since Prison Release
Jen Shah is back in the Crossroads of the West. After the Real Housewives of Salt Lake City alum was released early from the Federal Prison Camp (FPC) in Bryan, Texas—serving only two of her six-and-a-half year sentence for wire fraud—she was photographed at the Salt Lake City International Airport. The 52-year-old appeared overjoyed to…
Read MoreIs Your Skin Barrier Damaged? How to Tell and How to Fix It, According to an Expert
There always seems to be a new skincare trend that the internet is obsessed with. From red light therapy to hypochlorous acid sprays, there’s no shortage of products we think we need. However, Chelsea Strauser, Dermstore’s VP of Buying, says these trends are reflective of what’s going on with people’s skins currently. And right now, she…
Read MorePregnant Hayley Erbert Details Role Derek Hough Will Play During Baby’s Birth
The Hough family patriarch is originally from Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, and met future wife Mariann Heaton on the ballroom team at Ricks College (now Brigham Young University-Idaho). Bruce and Mariann—both from Mormon families and the children of ballroom-dancing parents—settled in Salt Lake City. There he worked as a communications executive and co-founded supplement maker Nutraceutical…
Read MoreDisney invests $1 billion in OpenAI, licenses Mickey Mouse to Sora AI platform
OpenAI said Thursday it reached a licensing deal with the Walt Disney Co. to use more than 200 popular Disney characters including Mickey Mouse, characters from “Frozen” and Yoda from “Star Wars” in OpenAI’s text to video tool Sora. Disney has also agreed to invest $1 billion in the San Francisco AI startup. The deal…
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