VALLE DE BRAVO, Mexico — Once a glittering weekend getaway for wealthy residents of Mexico City, Valle de Bravo has been reduced to a shrinking, increasingly polluted puddle by a combination of drought, water transfers to the capital, bad planning and lawlessness. Residents said Thursday that Valle — as the reservoir has been known since … Read more
Dozens of poor nations have yet to regain their pre-pandemic levels of overall well-being, amid signs that the pandemic may have permanently depressed the world’s development trajectory, according to a U.N. report. Four years after societal lockdowns disrupted the global economy, every affluent nation has regained its pre-pandemic score on a U.N. ranking called the … Read more
Yaroslav Kushta/Getty Images The low-code and no-code market is big and will get even bigger. What’s more, the addition of AI-based assistance to these tools could lead to even greater market growth. The low-code and no-code market is worth $13.2 billion globally, with a growth rate of roughly 21% annually since 2019, according to research by … Read more
Conservative attorney George Conway highlighted the significance of a new development in the legal maelstrom surrounding former President Donald Trump. The New York Times reported Thursday that the Manhattan district attorney’s office is negotiating a deal with Allen Weisselberg, the former finance chief of the Trump Organization, that would require him to plead guilty to … Read more
Of all enterprise departments, product and engineering spend by far the most on AI technology. Doing so effectively stands to generate huge value — developers can complete certain tasks up to 50% faster with generative AI, according to McKinsey. But that’s not as easy as just throwing money at AI and hoping for the best. … Read more
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Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave HONG KONG — The Sham Chun River and adjoining wetlands, which separate Hong Kong from the Chinese city of Shenzhen, have throughout modern history served as a physical marker of the differences between the two territories and their distinct systems. Millions swam across the river from Communist-ruled … Read more
It’s not just your imagination. AI researchers themselves are having their minds blown by the sheer pace of AI development, too, a new survey has found. A wide-ranging survey of AI experts released this week backs up the perception that AI development really is accelerating at a dizzying pace — at least from the point … Read more
A ‘Wednesday’ spin-off is currently in the works with Amazon, which will follow Addams Family member Uncle Fester, who is played by Fred Armisen in the Netflix show, ‘Wednesday.’ A new spin-off is in the very early stages of development and is reported to have Armisen reprise his role as Uncle Fester, the paternal uncle … Read more
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — The Asian Development Bank said Friday that it has approved $200-million concessional loan to debt-stricken Sri Lanka to help stabilize the country’s finance sector following an unprecedented economic crisis that engulfed the Indian Ocean island nation last year. The bank’s announcement comes as Sri Lanka is awaiting International Monetary Fund approval … Read more