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Uber Technologies, Inc. ( NYSE: UBER ) Barclays 22nd Annual Global Technology Conference Call December 11, 2024 4:20 PM ET Company Participants Prashanth Mahendra-Rajah - Chief Financial Officer Conference Call Participants Ross Sandler - Barclays Ross Sandler All right. We're going to get started. Thanks for everybody joining this meeting. My name is Ross Sandler. I'm in charge of Internet Research here at Barclays in the US. Super excited to have Prashanth from Uber. This isn't Prashanth's first time at the Barclays TMT Conference, but first time in the current capacity. So welcome. Prashanth Mahendra-Rajah Thank you. Thank you. Question-and-Answer Session Q - Ross Sandler I guess just to kick things off, so you've been in the role for about a year. What have you learned? What are the biggest takeaways over that year? Prashanth Mahendra-Rajah Yes. Thank you for having me. Last time I was here, I was in Semis. Blayne was covering me, and the day before I came out, Blayne downgraded me. So I told Ross, I'm only coming out if he can prove that he's got an Uber rating that's 4.7 or higher. And I'm very happy to say that he's a big tipper. So at Barclays' expense, no doubt, but still, we appreciate it. So I've been in the job now 14 months. And I'm sure what's on everyone's mind is AV, but let me just give you a couple of comments on what I've observed since joining Uber. And they sort of influence how I think about this business. What is pretty incredible about this company compared to some of the organizations I've been at before and this is really -- this is now my third time being a public CFO is many companies say they are mission-driven. I have never seen a company as focused as Uber is and how quickly they adapt to taking a new hill when given a charge. And that can be when Dara pointsFull House Resorts counsel Elaine Guidroz sells $41,606 in stock
Person accused of accosting Rep. Nancy Mace at Capitol pleads not guilty to assault chargeNorthern California was under a rare and brief tsunami warning alert Thursday that tested local emergency notification systems after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake shook part of the state. The National Weather Service canceled its alert after roughly an hour and before the tsunami was expected to arrive. In that hour, some cities and counties ordered evacuations while others relied on social media and text messages to inform people of the warning. Some people headed for higher ground, while others drove to the beach to get a better view. People took to social media to figure out why a warning was issued and then canceled so quickly, and how the NWS determines when to send alerts. Here are answers to more questions. What exactly is a tsunami? The word for tsunami comes from the Japanese characters for harbor and wave. It's a series of extremely long waves set in motion when energy from an earthquake causes the ocean floor to suddenly rise or fall, according to the National Weather Service. How common are they in California? Since 1800, California's shores have been struck by more than 150 tsunamis, most of them minor, according to the California Geological Survey. Phones buzzed Thursday when the National Weather Service issued its warning just minutes after the quake struck west of Ferndale, a small city in coastal Humboldt County. It read in part: “You are in danger. Get away from coastal waters. Move to high ground or inland now.” Why was there an alert if there wasn't a large tsunami? The National Weather Service Bay Area posted on the social platform X early Friday that the region doesn't get tsunami alerts often and “there are lot of questions, frustration, and even some anger” about Thursday's event. A warning alert is the most serious of four tsunami alerts, including a watch alert for a possible tsunami and an advisory alert telling people to stay out of the water and away from the shore. The last time California received a warning alert was 2011 when an earthquake in Japan caused about $100 million in damages along the California coast. Basically, a distant, offshore earthquake or other trigger event gives scientists more time to analyze data and confirm that a large tsunami was generated before sounding a warning. But Thursday’s earthquake was local and close to the coast, forcing a hasty high-level alert in order to give people the maximum time to prepare as tsunami waves can travel very fast, up to 500 mph (800 kph) in the deep ocean, the NWS wrote. “By the time we actually observe it, it may be too late, because it's right there in our back doors,” said Dalton Behringer, a meteorologist with NWS Bay Area, on Friday. Scientists used the time Thursday to monitor buoys and get more information on the earthquake itself, he said. They canceled the alert after seeing little sea-level change and determining the quake was a strike-slip type of temblor that shifts more horizontally and is less prone to cause tsunamis, he said. “These things happen so infrequently for us, I think it just caught a lot of people off-guard,” he said. How did Northern California respond? Authorities in Eureka, the biggest city in Humboldt County, sent texts and went door-to-door to order businesses in high-risk areas to evacuate, said City Manager Miles Slattery. He said only a small portion of the city was at risk, and Thursday's test run showed evacuees need to work on leaving by foot, rather than by car. In the San Francisco Bay Area, the commuter light-rail system known as BART stopped traffic in all directions through the underwater tunnel between San Francisco and Oakland, and the San Francisco Zoo’s visitors were evacuated. Responses varied as fire and police in Berkeley evacuated certain areas of the city while in San Francisco, officials sent alerts and messages on social media telling residents to stay away from water, beaches, harbors, marina docks, and piers. “Move at least one block inland,” said the San Francisco Department of Emergency Management. Emergency personnel in vehicles with public address systems also went to make sure no one was on beaches and other low-lying areas. But some critics said San Francisco should have sounded its loud emergency sirens, which have been off-line since 2019 for repairs. In San Mateo County, just south of San Francisco, officials considered but decided against sounding its tsunami warning sirens after receiving more comprehensive information from the NWS that any tsunami would affect coastlines north of the Golden Gate Bridge, said Michelle Durand, a spokesperson for the county. Fire and police cleared the beaches while emergency personnel gathered to monitor the situation, she said, which “prioritized both public safety and the prevention of unnecessary panic.”
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Minutes after South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law on Tuesday night, plunging the country into its worst crisis in decades, his stunned finance minister knew his priorities: throw everything at defending the currency. By around 11 p.m., Choi Sang-mok, who was among the majority of cabinet members who opposed martial law, had set up an emergency meeting at the Seoul Bankers Club, an unofficial meeting place for top policymakers from the central bank, finance ministry and banking and markets regulators. As soldiers stormed the nation’s parliament, Korea’s top four financial authorities, known as F4, activated an emergency playbook that had been used during past crises, scrambling to head off a crippling selloff in the won before Asian markets awoke. Choi led discussions between the authorities, three people familiar with the meeting told Reuters, with the Bank of Korea responsible for efforts to stabilise the currency. The first announcement came swiftly. South Korea would inject unlimited cash into markets as needed, the finance ministry said, which pulled the won back from lows last seen in 2009 during the global financial crisis. “It was BOK Governor Rhee Chang-yong’s idea to put this message out quickly,” one government official told Reuters, on the condition of anonymity. “Rhee said it was really important to pre-emptively act, as the news should be a bigger shock to foreign investors than for local people.” In the four decades since South Korea was last under martial law, the nation has weathered several crises and significantly evolved its systems to eschew the strongman politics of the past and focus instead on ensuring economic stability. Lessons from the 1998 Asian financial crisis formed the basis for the playbook. That episode ran deepest for South Korea, a country hugely exposed then to short-term debt and a playground for foreign speculators, forcing it into what many Koreans saw as a humiliating rescue package from the International Monetary Fund. Citizens donated their gold to a depleted national coffer. “We have had many crises. We experienced ups and downs through those crises, including the pandemic, and have a set of tools ready,” said one Bank of Korea official, speaking on condition of anonymity. The last time Korea’s four big agencies intervened this heavily in markets was in 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic toppled its export-driven markets. Korea’s current struggles with anaemic growth, labour strikes, a budget impasse and the troubles of trade partner China meant authorities were already on heightened alert for sharp currency swings. The won is down 9% this year against the dollar, while the KOSPI index has shed 8%, both lagging their emerging market peers. Foreign money has been leaving Korea’s stock market since August, with outflows in four months topping $14 billion. “They were obviously aware of the fact that there would be a little bit of panic, particularly from foreigners, and so they did the right thing,” said Jon Withaar, who manages an Asia special situations hedge fund at Pictet Asset Management. “This is now really what governments and central banks do now, when they see these types of events, they just offer unlimited liquidity. That was the playbook in COVID.” Until this week, Choi was one of Yoon’s conservative loyalists in the cabinet who served multiple government positions since the president was elected in March 2022, starting as a secretary of the economy division. He advanced to chief economic secretary, a position that allowed him to travel with Yoon around the world, before taking his current job in December 2023. During this week’s chaos, Choi was the “control tower”, sources said, directing the messaging and responses through the next day and even as subsequent developments led to the entire cabinet offering to resign. The detailed contingency plan has a long list of actions to take in every possible market scenario, beginning with the first set of reassuring messages to markets to specific funding and rescue operations, said one former policymaker who handled currency matters in the finance ministry. All the same, martial law was not on the list of possible crises under this plan, other sources said. Choi was at the cabinet meeting Yoon convened between 9 p.m. and 10 p.m. on Tuesday to discuss his martial law plans, which government official sources said most members opposed, or expressed concerns about. Just hours earlier, Choi had been at a forum for global and local investors celebrating South Korea’s inclusion in the FTSE Russell’s benchmark WGBI bond index. By 11 p.m. he had summoned his team to the Seoul Bankers Club. Choi was at the venue before everyone else, an official who went to the meeting said. “Finance Minister Choi came from the presidential office cabinet meeting. He was fiercely opposed to this absurd plan,” said another. Kang Youngkyu, spokesman at the ministry, declined to comment when asked whether Choi had attended the cabinet meeting and opposed Yoon’s martial law plans, but said he “led the F4 meetings around 11 p.m. on Tuesday and reviewed contingency plans with his colleagues throughout the night.” Announcements from the F4 followed in quick succession. The BOK said it will hold an extraordinary monetary policy board meeting in the morning, and the Financial Supervisory Service said it will deploy measures to stabilise markets. By 1 a.m. in Seoul, parliament had declared the martial law decree invalid. The F4 persisted with measures, held overnight meetings with their deputies, met again at 7 a.m. and pledged to keep markets functioning normally while the financial regulator said it was ready to deploy a 10 trillion won ($7.06 billion) stock market stabilisation fund. The plan mostly worked. The won is off its two-year lows and Korea’s stock market, one of the emerging world’s worst performers this year, has lost just over 2.5% over the past three days. BOK Governor Rhee expressed relief on Thursday. “The good thing is that it could have really worsened how foreigners view (South Korea) if martial law had been in place for a very long time,” he said at a press conference. “But this changed in just six hours.” Source: Reuters (Additional reporting by Jihoon Lee in Seoul and Ankur Banerjee in Singapore; Writing by Vidya Ranganathan; Editing by Sam Holmes)
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SHARPSVILLE — Artificial Intelligence, or AI, isn’t necessarily new — although it is “newer” for school districts, Sharpsville school Superintendent John Vannoy said. To that end, the Sharpsville school board recently adopted a new policy to guide the use of generative AI in education. “It’s pretty hard not to use it. Even when you’re googling stuff, you’re using an AI,” Vannoy said. “It’s something that we’re starting to use, so this policy just gives us some parameters on the usage of AI.” The policy underwent its second reading at the Sharpsville school board’s latest meeting on Dec. 3. It was unanimously approved by the board members present. According to the policy, generative artificial intelligence is defined as “an advanced subset of AI that is capable of generating new content from learned data and pattern recognition across various mediums such as text, code, images, audio and video data.” The policy includes measures such as “only district-authorized Generative AI tools and resources may be used on district computers and in district schools and programs,” the policy states. Vannoy said generative AI has “tons” of educational opportunities, and while the policy isn’t expected to change how AI is currently used in the district, school officials thought it would be a good idea to have a policy in place moving forward. Technology in some form or another is already present in much of the district’s curriculum, such as the district’s one-to-one technology initiative or the use of Woz ED projects, which allows for programming robots or the use of augmented reality/virtual reality programs. “For the students, it’s native to them because they’ve grown up with all these technological innovations,” Vannoy said. “They usually pick up on it faster than we do.” Like David L. Dye on Facebook or email him at .NoneWhat's next for Matt Gaetz: 5 possibilities
The record will show that tight end Trey McBride had a great season, Marvin Harrison Jr. has a promising future, the Cardinals' defense played over its head for much of the year and Arizona was almost a good football team in 2024. Key word — almost. A frustrating stretch continued on Saturday when the Cardinals (7-9) lost 13-9 to the host Los Angeles Rams . Arizona was pushing for a go-ahead touchdown in the final minute, but Kyler Murray's pass took an unlucky bounce off McBride's helmet and LA's Ahkello Witherspoon made a spectacular grab for the interception, snagging the ball just before it hit the turf. “I think we can compete with anybody, but again, that doesn’t count,” second-year coach Jonathan Gannon said. “It’s about winning and losing, you what I mean? I just got to do a better job, but I know they’re doing the right things.” The Cardinals did a lot of things right against the Rams. Despite being eliminated from the postseason, Arizona competed hard. Murray completed 33 of 48 passes for 321 yards and a touchdown — but also had two interceptions. McBride caught 12 passes for 123 yards, including his first TD catch of the year. Harrison had one of his best games with six catches for 96 yards. “I’m going to choose to be positive about it,” Murray said. “I see a light at the end of that tunnel. I think we’re a couple plays away, a couple of plays away from being a 10-win team or right where we want to be, going to the playoffs or winning the division.” The Cardinals' defense played well for most of the game, limiting the Rams to 257 yards. But in the end, it was another loss. The Cardinals have dropped five of six after starting 6-4. “I know we’re close, man, and I know it’s hard to see that,” Gannon said. “For me, that’s hard to take on the chin but we’ll get better from it. We’ll get better.” The Murray-to-Harrison connection was much better on Saturday, producing several big plays. Gannon challenged Harrison to be more physical against opposing defensive backs last week, and the receiver responded, looking much more like the player the Cardinals expected when they selected him with the No. 4 overall pick. “I think the physicality of it, coming from college to the league, guys don’t realize how physical you can be when you get to the league,” Murray said. “He's going to be big time.” After doing a great job of taking care of the ball over the first 11 games, Murray has thrown seven interceptions over the past five. A few of those came in late-game situations when he had to take a chance and force a pass, but it's still not a good trend. McBride had his third 100-yard game of the season, showing sure hands and fighting through contact for extra yards. The third-year player has 1,081 yards receiving this season, becoming just the second tight end in franchise history to exceed 1,000 yards. The other was Hall of Famer Jackie Smith, who had 1,205 yards in 1967. He has 104 catches and is just the 10th tight end in NFL history to top 100 in a season. Arizona's special teams have been very good for most of the year, but Los Angeles' block of an extra point attempt by Chad Ryland in the third quarter proved costly. If the Cardinals had trailed by three points on the final drive instead of four, they would have had the option of kicking a tying field goal in the final minute. RB James Conner tried to battle through a knee injury against the Rams, but gained just 4 yards on the ground. His status for the season's final game is uncertain. LB Joey Blount (ribs) and CB Elijah Jones (ankle) were inactive. 822 — Harrison's receiving yards on the season. That ranks third for a rookie in franchise history behind Anquan Boldin (1,377 in 2003) and Frank Sanders (883 in 1995). Arizona's final game will be at home on Sunday against the San Francisco 49ers, who are also eliminated from the playoff race. 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The United Arab Emirates arrested three suspects they say were involved in the killing of an Israeli-Moldavan rabbi whose body was found on Sunday, days after he was reported missing in Dubai. Investigations into the murder of Zvi Kogan are still underway, the UAE Ministry of Interior said, according to state news agency WAM. “The UAE and its institutions are fully committed to safeguarding the safety and security of its citizens, residents, and visitors,” the ministry said. No detail was provided on the identity of the suspects. Security authorities in the UAE had earlier located the body of Kogan, the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office said, calling his apparent murder it an “abhorrent act of antisemitic terrorism.” “The State of Israel will use all means, and will deal with these murderers, and those who dispatched them, to the fullest extent of the law,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said during a cabinet meeting on Sunday. “None of them will get away.” Israel said it’s reinforcing its recommendation to avoid non-essential travel to the UAE. It also recommended avoiding businesses and gathering places identified with the Israeli and Jewish population, avoiding posting travel details on social media, and reducing movement. “There is concern that there is still a threat on the ground against Israeli and Jews in the area,” the National Security Council said. Since the start of the Israel-Hamas war in October 2023, the Israeli government has warned its citizens traveling abroad of possible attacks by Iranian or Iran-backed operatives. It’s raised the alert level in dozens of countries, including the UAE. Netanyahu said that he appreciates the cooperation of the UAE in investigating the Kogan’s disappearance and death. “We will strengthen the ties between us in the face of attempts by the axis of evil to harm the relationship of peace between us,” Netanyahu said. “We will strengthen them and we will work to expand regional stability.” Kogan, 28, had been living in the UAE as an emissary of Chabad-Lubavitch, a Jewish organization. He’d been working for several years, together with colleagues, on “establishing and expanding Jewish life in the Emirates,” including making kosher food widely available, according to a Chabad website. He was joined there by his wife, Rivky, after their marriage in 2022. “This vile antisemitic attack is a reminder of the inhumanity of the enemies of the Jewish people,” Israeli President Isaac Herzog said in a post on X. “It will not deter us from continuing to grow flourishing communities in the UAE or anywhere.” ©2024 Bloomberg L.P. Visit bloomberg.com. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Northern California was under a rare and brief tsunami warning alert Thursday that tested local emergency notification systems after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake shook part of the state. The National Weather Service canceled its alert after roughly an hour and before the tsunami was expected to arrive. In that hour, some cities and counties ordered evacuations while others relied on social media and text messages to inform people of the warning. Some people headed for higher ground, while others drove to the beach to get a better view.