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Egg recall escalates, American Airlines blames Boeing, and Christmas’s top toy: Business news roundup

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a new warning about thousands of recalled eggs sold at Costco (COST) stores due to potential contamination with salmonella, a bacterium that can cause serious infections. The recall has been elevated to the FDA’s highest risk level. Read more...

Last U.S. Crude Inventory Data Of 2024 Lifts Oil Prices By Over 1%

As oil markets turn their attention to the year ahead, crude inventories stateside have perhaps offered the final pointer of 2024 marginally lifting futures prices in a largely flat week of characteristically low trading associated with the festive season. In a scheduled data release on Friday, the U.S. Energy Information Administration said the country's crude

The Most Important Advice For Women In 2025

Are you ready? While there are indeed headwinds trying to hold women back as 2024 becomes 2025 – from the overturning of women’s reproductive rights to reversals of diversity policies and more – there were also historic gains for women in business and finance that can catapult women to the next level. The number of

Are RTO Mandates A Costly Distraction In The Age Of AI?

As 2024 draws to a close, a critical question regarding the future of work looms large: are return-to-office mandates truly in the best interests of businesses and their employees? While some CEOs frequently cite the need for in-person collaboration and cultural cohesion, a closer examination reveals a more pressing concern: maximizing shareholder value. However, the

LLMs Are Two-Faced By Pretending To Abide With Vaunted AI Alignment But Later Turn Into Soulless Turncoats

In today’s column, I examine the latest breaking research showcasing that generative AI and large language models (LLMs) can act in an insidiously underhanded computational manner. Here’s the deal. In a two-faced form of trickery, advanced AI indicates during initial data training that the goals of AI alignment are definitively affirmed. That’s the good news.

Apple Loop: iPhone Pro Details, Tim Cook’s AI Strategy, iPhone SE Challenges

Taking a look back at this week’s news and headlines from Apple, including iPhone Pro camera details, the iPhone SE challenge, Apple Silicon M5 improvements, Apple’s AI strategy, and Apple’s intervention in the Google Anti-Trust case. Apple Loop is here to remind you of a few of the many discussions around Apple during the quiet

How A Columbia Class Project Became Decentralized AI Solutions

If we examine the world's most successful tech companies closely, an interesting pattern emerges: most began in academic settings. Google was conceived at Stanford University , where Larry Page and Sergey Brin developed their search engine as part of a PhD project. Facebook was launched in a Harvard dorm room by Mark Zuckerberg to connect