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� � � � � � You Might Like � � � � � � � � � How a billionaire-backed network of AI advisers took over Washington - POLITICO    A sprawling network spread across Congress, federal agencies and think tanks is pushing policymakers to put AI apocalypse at the top of the agenda — potentially boxing out other worries and benefiting top AI companies with ties to the network. Pictures taken inside September’s Senate AI Insight Forum — a meeting of top tech CEOs that was closed to journalists and the public — show at least two Horizon AI fellows in attendance. | Stefani Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images An organization backed by Silicon Valley billionaires and tied to leading artificial intelligence firms is funding the salaries of more than a dozen AI fellows in key congressional offices, across federal agencies and at influential think tanks. Continued here Jon Fosse, the Nobel Prize, and the Art of What Can't Be Named - The New Yorker    In Oslo, in September, I attended the preview of Jon Fosse's play "I Svarte Skogen Inne" ("Inside the Black Forest"). The theatre was small and dark, without a stage, and the scenery was minimal: a large illuminated rock in the middle, some scattered trees, and the audience members, many of whom were seated in folding chairs ringed around the rock. A trumpeter entered first, blowing long, melancholy notes, followed by a young man. The man explained that he had gone for a drive and, when his car had stalled, he had wandered into the woods. It grew darker and colder, and the audience heard the voices of an older man and an older woman speak about the young man, expressing their distress at the direction his life had taken. Then, without warning, a young woman appeared. She was called a younger woman in the script, but it would have been better to describe her as a presence—or, to borrow the title of Fosse's new novel, "Kvitleik," a shining. She was a modern angel, a peroxide blonde with stern cheekbones, in a glittering white slip dress and a white fur stole. Her hair was cropped. Her feet were bare and beautiful and caught the light from the rock with each step. She spoke to the man, urging him to return home. As he roamed the theatre, trembling, followed by her voice and the trumpet, he stopped right next to the chairs of the audience members to argue, to plead, although it was not always clear for what. "My own shame is bigger than myself," he screamed. I watched the faces of the audience; most of them remained impassive, stony. They looked down at their hands or feet and away from his stricken face. In their withdrawal, they seemed no different from the trees that surrounded them. The play was performed in Norwegian, and, although I had read the English translation of the script, by May-Brit Akerholt, beforehand, I did not understand the words as they were being spoken. It was strange to realize how little this mattered. The light, the trumpet, the sweat and the shame of the young man, the profound indifference of the world to him—all of it exceeded language. His characters seemed to know this as well as I did. "But there's something there," the older man said to the older woman. "Yes, larger than life, or at least something else other than life. But can you say something like that?" "No, not really," she responded. "For everything just becomes words." Continued here Don't like ads? Go ad-free with TradeBriefs Premium How To Show You Are A Leader At Work - Forbes    Today, the demand for leadership is not confined to designated managerial roles. Every individual, regardless of their position, can and should embody leadership qualities to foster a proactive and productive work environment. But how can you demonstrate leadership without a title? For starters, embrace the fact that leadership traits are present long before an upper-management title is bestowed. The traits emerge before the title—not the other way around. The conundrum of wanting to ascend to a leadership role while being evaluated on your present leadership capabilities can be daunting. But you are capable of exhibiting leadership skills, behaviors and mindsets as you execute your individual contributor tasks. That said, this won’t make an impact on your career unless you showcase these traits in areas where potential decision makers can witness them. There’s a difference between being a leader and a manager. True leadership revolves around people. While meeting deadlines and ensuring project completion is crucial for being a good manager, true leadership potential is gauged by your ability to motivate, inspire and guide people. Strengthen your people skills and focus on building relationships. Continued here Israel Is Walking Into a Trap - The Atlantic    It’s a trap. Hamas’s ruthless and spectacular attack on southern Israel last Saturday was many things: an atrocity, a display of militant ingenuity, and a demonstration of the weakness of Israeli intelligence and defenses. Israel and the Palestinians have a long history of brutality against each other, but the Hamas killing spree outdoes anything since Israeli-controlled Christian militias massacred unarmed Palestinian refugees in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps outside of Beirut in 1982. It may even have been the single most brutal act by either side in the 100-year-old conflict. But above all, it was intended as a trap—one that Israel appears about to fall into. Hamas’s leaders and their Iranian backers have a conscious strategy. Like almost all other acts of spectacularly bloodthirsty terrorism, Hamas’s assault on southern Israel was designed to provoke an emotional and equally or even more outrageous response by the targeted society. Hamas and Iran are attempting to goad the Israelis into Gaza for a prolonged confrontation—which is to say that the intended effect is precisely the ground assault Israel is now preparing in order to root out and destroy Hamas as an organization, kill its cadres and leadership, and destroy as much of its infrastructure and equipment as possible. Hamas surely would not have meticulously planned its audacious assault without also extensively planning a response to the hoped-for Israeli counterattack on the ground. The Israeli military will likely encounter a determined insurgency in Gaza. After all, Israel has had control of the land strip from the outside, but not on the inside. Israeli dominion over Gaza’s coastal waters, airspace, electromagnetic spectrum, and all but one of its crossings, including the only one capable of handling goods, has made Gaza a virtual open-air prison—run by particularly vicious inmates but surrounded and contained on all sides by the guards. Continued here

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