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MUMBAI: The combined market valuation of six of the top-10 most valued firms surged Rs 2.03 lakh crore last week as the Indian stock market ended with gains. In the trading session from December 2 to December 6, Nifty closed at 24,677 with a gain of 2.27 per cent or 546 points and Sensex closed at 81,709 with a gain of 2.39 per cent or 1,906 points. This was the third consecutive week when the stock market closed in the green. Among the top 10, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank, Infosys, Reliance Industries, and State Bank of India (SBI) were gainers, while Bharti Airtel, Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC), ITC, and Hindustan Unilever were laggards. The market capitalisation of TCS surged by Rs 62,574 crore to Rs 16,08,782 crore. The market valuation of HDFC Bank jumped Rs 45,338 crore to Rs 14,19,270 crore. Infosys added Rs 26,885 crore taking its market cap to Rs 7,98,560 crore and the market capitalisation of Reliance Industries surged by Rs 26,185 crore to Rs 17,75,176 crore. The market capitalisation of SBI soared by Rs 22,311 crore to Rs 7,71,087 crore. ICICI Bank added Rs 19,821 crore to its market capitalisation to Rs 9,37,545 crore. On the other hand, the market capitalisation of Bharti Airtel declined by Rs 16,720 crore to Rs 9,10,005 crore. The market valuation of ITC went lower by Rs 7,256 crore to Rs 5,89,572 crore and the market capitalisation of Hindustan Unilever declined by Rs 2,843.01 crore to Rs 5,83,673.71 crore. LIC's market cap declined by Rs 1,265 crore to Rs 6,21,937.02 crore. On Friday, the stock market ended with a marginal loss. Sensex and Nifty declined by 56 points and 30 points, respectively.BASEBALL Major League Baseball American League BOSTON RED SOX — Set their 2025 Major League coaching staff: Alex Cora (Manager), Ramón Vázquez (Bench Coach), Andrew Bailey (Pitching Coach), Pete Fatse (Hitting Coach), Ben Rosenthal (Assistant Hitting Coach), Kyle Hudson (Third Base Coach/Outfield Instructor), and Charlie Madden (Bullpen Catcher) will resume their roles on the staff. Jason Varitek will serve as Game Planning and Run Prevention Coach. José Flores has been named First Base Coach/Infield Instructor. Parker Guinn has been hired as Catching Instructor/Bullpen Catcher. Chris Holt was named Bullpen Coach on November 14, 2024. Dillon Lawson was named Assistant Hitting Coach on October 27, 2024. National League ATLANTA BRAVES — Agreed to terms with OF Carlos D. Rodríguez on a one-year contract. Hired Hugh Quattlebaum and Carlos Méndez to the major league coaching staff as assistant hitting coaches. CHICAGO CUBS — Agreed to terms with C Matt Thaiss on a one-year contract. COLORADO ROCKIES — Agreed to terms with LHP Lucas Gilbreath on a one-year contract. LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Agreed to terms with RHP Dustin May on a one-year contract. NEW YORK METS — Agreed to terms with 1B Joey Meneses and C Jakson Reetz on minor league contracts. SAN DIEGO PADRES — Agreed to terms with INF/OF Tyler Wade on a one-year contract. BASKETBALL National Basketball Association UTAH JAZZ — Signed F David Jones to a two-way contract. FOOTBALL National Football League NEW YORK GIANTS — Released QB Daniel Jones. PHILADELPHIA EAGLES — Signed LB Ochaun Mathis to the practice squad. Released LB David Anenih from the practice squad. Placed DL Bryce Huff on injured reserve. SEATTLE SEAHAWKS — Activated DB Rayshawn Jenkins from injured reserve. TENNESSEE TITANS — Placed DB L'Jarius Sneed and LB Jack Gibbens on injured reserve. HOCKEY National Hockey League BOSTON BRUINS — Recalled C Marc McLaughlin from Providence (AHL). Reassigned C Georgii Merkulov to Providence. NASHVILLE PREDATORS — Recalled D Adam Wilsby from Milwaukee (AHL). NEW YORK RANGERS — Reassigned C Jake Leschyshyn to Hartford (AHL). TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS — Recalled D Philippe Myers from a conditioning loan from Toronto (AHL). Placed LW Matthew Knies on injured reserve. Signed C Alexander Nylander to a one-year contract. VEGAS GOLDEN KNIGHTS — Signed C Brett Howden to a five-year contract extension.
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SAN DIEGO , Dec. 5, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Sempra (NYSE: SRE) (BMV: SRE) today announced it has been recognized by Newsweek as one of "America's Most Responsible Companies" for 2025, earning this distinction for the sixth consecutive year. The annual list ranks companies based on their commitment to corporate responsibility in the areas of corporate governance and responsible social and environmental practices. Sempra has been included since the list's inception. "At Sempra, we believe our responsible business practices improve the value of our franchise. By strengthening governance and risk management and improving the safety and resiliency of our business operations, it allows us to better meet the needs and expectations of our customers, while also adding scale to our business," said Lisa Larroque Alexander , senior vice president of corporate affairs and chief sustainability officer for Sempra. "We will continue to approach global energy challenges with an entrepreneurial mindset, steadfast optimism and confidence in our vision of delivering energy with purpose." Newsweek's recognition of Sempra as one of "America's Most Responsible Companies" is based on publicly available key performance indicators derived from the company's Corporate Sustainability Report and an independent survey that asked U.S. citizens about their perception of Sempra's commitment to corporate social responsibility. Details of Sempra's approach to responsible stakeholder engagement and corporate governance can be found in the company's most recent Corporate Sustainability Report, which is available here . In addition to being recognized on Newsweek's America's Most Responsible Companies list, Sempra is included in the FTSE4Good Index and JUST 100 list, has been named one of TIME Magazine's World's Best Companies and one of Fortune Magazine's World's Most Admired Companies , and earned a perfect score on the CPA-Zicklin Index of Corporate Political Disclosure and Accountability , among other accolades. About Sempra Sempra (NYSE: SRE ) is a leading North American energy infrastructure company focused on delivering energy to nearly 40 million consumers. As owner of one of the largest energy networks on the continent, Sempra is electrifying and improving the energy resilience of some of the world's most significant economic markets, including California , Texas , Mexico and global energy markets. The company is recognized as a leader in sustainable business practices and for its high-performance culture focused on safety and operational excellence, as demonstrated by Sempra's inclusion in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index North America and in The Wall Street Journal's Best Managed Companies. More information about Sempra is available at sempra.com and on social media @Sempra . View original content to download multimedia: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/sempra-named-among-newsweeks-most-responsible-companies-302324298.html SOURCE Sempra Best trending stories from the week. Success! An email has been sent to with a link to confirm list signup. Error! There was an error processing your request. You may occasionally receive promotions exclusive discounted subscription offers from the Roswell Daily Record. Feel free to cancel any time via the unsubscribe link in the newsletter you received. You can also control your newsletter options via your user dashboard by signing in.Rakovina Therapeutics Announces Closing of Oversubscribed $3M Private Placement
Decked out in his full policeman outfit on Saturday morning on CNN , Victor Willis, lead singer of the Village People, praised President-elect Donald Trump 's dance moves despite his version of the "Y.M.C.A." dance veering from the original choreography. Appearing with CNN's Michael Smerconish to discuss his change of heart on Trump using "Y.M.C.A." at events, Willis said that Trump's stiff, twisting moves "are his." "The moves are his...but when we do the show, we spell 'Y.M.C.A.' out (with our arm motions). He does what works for him, and the people like it. It's OK. It's an 'A' for me," the disco group's lead singer told Smerconish. In a Monday Facebook post, Willis explained that despite initially asking Trump in 2020 to stop using his group's 1978 hit, he decided to allow it after realizing Trump's genuine enjoyment of the song. Willis acknowledged that the song's association with Trump's campaign has greatly benefited its chart performance and sales. He asserted that Trump had obtained the necessary license from BMI, making his use of the song legal. In the same post, Willis also criticized the continued portrayal of "Y.M.C.A." as a "gay anthem," threatening legal action against media outlets that refer to it as such. He clarified that while he doesn't mind the LGBTQ+ community embracing the song, it was never intended to convey any specific message to the gay community. The notion, he argues, is based on misconceptions about the song's lyrics and the fact that some members of the Village People and one of its writers were gay. Willis says the song is meant for everyone and should not be narrowly categorized. Especially since Trump's election win over Vice President Kamala Harris , a host of American athletes have imitated the president-elect's dance moves that he breaks out as "Y.M.C.A." plays at his rallies. Willis told Smerconish on Saturday that he appreciates the renewed popularity brought by its use in Trump's campaign. "The money was not really the reason that I allowed him to do it," he said. "The reason that I allowed him to keep using 'Y.M.C.A.' is because he seemed to genuinely like the song, and there were so many other artists that were stopping him from playing their music. Willis added: "So I called BMI and asked them to not terminate his political use license and to let him continue using the song...because it was bringing so much joy to the American public." Newsweek has reached out to the Trump transition team Saturday morning for comment. In June 2020, Willis demanded that Trump stop using Village People's music after the then-president threatened military action to quell protests following the police killing of George Floyd . Three months later, a spokesperson for the Village People told Bloomberg that Willis would not sue Trump "simply out of spite," as Willis is not a "Trump hater." The spokesperson clarified that Willis had not granted permission for the song's use at rallies because it was not legally required. Willis added that Trump should "at least do the 'Y.M.C.A.' dance while he's at it." While Trump continued to play "Y.M.C.A." at his rallies during his 2024 presidential campaign, Karen Willis, the Village People's manager and Willis' wife, sent a cease-and-desist letter to Trump's campaign in May 2023. The letter condemned a Mar-a-Lago performance of the group's song "Macho Man" by impersonators dressed as the Village People, which sparked confusion and falsely implied the band's endorsement of Trump. Karen Willis demanded that Trump cease using the band's image and likeness, threatening legal action against the campaign for the unauthorized use of both the band's image and music. Victor Willis said in an appearance on Fox & Friends this week that he would consider performing for Trump "because he has done so much for 'Y.M.C.A.' and brought so much joy to so many people with the song." However, in the same interview and in a separate interview this week with CNN's Laura Coates, Willis said he would "probably not" perform at Trump's inauguration if he were asked. The group's leader voiced support for Harris' presidential campaign to Billboard in October.Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More It is now just over two years since the first appearance of ChatGPT on November 30, 2022. At the time of its launch, OpenAI viewed ChatGPT as a demonstration project designed to learn how people would make use of the tool and the underlying GPT 3.5 large language model (LLM). A LLM is a model based on the transformer architecture first introduced by Google in 2017, which uses self-attention mechanisms to process and generate human-like text across tasks like natural language understanding. It was more than a successful demonstration project! OpenAI was as surprised as anyone by the rapid uptake of ChatGPT, which reached one hundred million users within two months. Although perhaps they should not have been so surprised. Futurist Kevin Kelly, also the co-founder of Wired , advised in 2014 that “the business plans of the next 10,000 startups are easy to forecast: Take X and add AI. This is a big deal, and now it’s here.” Kelly said this several years before ChatGPT. Yet, this is exactly what has happened. Equally remarkable is his prediction in the same Wired article that: “By 2024, Google’s main product will not be search but AI.” It could be debated if this is true, but it might soon be. Gemini is Google’s flagship AI chat product, but AI pervades its search and likely every other one of its products, including YouTube, TensorFlow and AI features in Google Workspace. The bot heard around the world The headlong rush of AI startups that Kelly foresaw really gained momentum after the ChatGPT launch. You could call it the AI big bang moment, or the bot heard around the world. And it jumpstarted the field of generative AI — the broad category of LLMs for text and diffusion models for image creation. This reached the heights of hype, or what Gartner calls “The Peak of Inflated Expectations” in 2023. The hype of 2023 may have diminished, but only by a little. By some estimates , there are as many as 70,000 AI companies worldwide, representing a 100% increase since 2017. This is a veritable Cambrian explosion of companies pursuing novel uses for AI technology . Kelly’s 2014 foresight about AI startups proved prophetic. If anything, huge venture capital investments continue to flow into startup companies looking to harness AI. The New York Times reported that investors poured $27.1 billion into AI start-ups in the U.S. in the second quarter of 2024 alone, “accounting for nearly half of all U.S. start-up funding in that period.” Statista added : “In the first nine months of 2024, AI-related investments accounted for 33% of total investments in VC-backed companies headquartered in the U.S. That is up from 14% in 2020 and could go even higher in the years ahead.” The large potential market is a lure for both the startups and established companies. Hype does not equal use, at least not immediately A recent Reuters Institute survey of consumers indicated individual usage of ChatGPT was low across six countries, including the U.S. and U.K. Just 1% used it daily in Japan, rising to 2% in France and the UK, and 7% in the U.S. This slow uptake might be attributed to several factors, ranging from a lack of awareness to concerns about the safety of personal information. Does this mean AI’s impact is overestimated? Hardly, as most of the survey respondents expected gen AI to have a significant impact on every sector of society in the next five years. The enterprise sector tells quite a different story. As reported by VentureBeat , industry analyst firm GAI Insights estimates that 33% of enterprises will have gen AI applications in production next year. Enterprises often have clearer use cases, such as improving customer service, automating workflows and augmenting decision-making, which drive faster adoption than among individual consumers. For example, the healthcare industry is using AI for capturing notes and financial services is using the technology for enhanced fraud detection. GAI further reported that gen AI is the leading 2025 budget priority for CIOs and CTOs. What’s next? From gen AI to the dawn of superintelligence The uneven rollout of gen AI raises questions about what lies ahead for adoption in 2025 and beyond. Both Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman suggest that artificial general intelligence (AGI) — or even superintelligence — could appear within the next two to 10 years, potentially reshaping our world. AGI is thought to be the ability for AI to understand, learn and perform any intellectual task that a human being can, thereby emulating human cognitive abilities across a wide range of domains. Sparks of AGI in 2025 As reported by Variety , Altman said that we could see the first glimmers of AGI as soon as 2025. Likely he was talking about AI agents, in which you can give an AI system a complicated task and it will autonomously use different tools to complete it. For example, Anthropic recently introduced a Computer Use feature that enables developers to direct the Claude chatbot “to use computers the way people do — by looking at a screen, moving a cursor, clicking buttons and typing text.” This feature allows developers to delegate tasks to Claude, such as scheduling meetings, responding to emails or analyzing data, with the bot interacting with computer interfaces as if it were a human user. In a demonstration, Anthropic showcased how Claude could autonomously plan a day trip by interacting with computer interfaces — an early glimpse of how AI agents may oversee complex tasks. In September, Salesforce said it “is ushering in the third wave of the AI revolution, helping businesses deploy AI agents alongside human workers.” They see agents focusing on repetitive, lower-value tasks, freeing people to focus on more strategic priorities. These agents could enable human workers to focus on innovation, complex problem-solving or customer relationship management. With features like Computer Use capabilities from Anthropic and AI agent integration by Salesforce and others, the emergence of AI agents is becoming one of the most anticipated innovations in the field. According to Gartner , 33% of enterprise software applications will include agentic AI by 2028, up from less than 1% in 2024, enabling 15% of day-to-day work decisions to be made autonomously. While enterprises stand to gain significantly from agentic AI, the concept of “ambient intelligence” suggests an even broader transformation, where interconnected technologies seamlessly enhance daily life. In 2016, I wrote in TechCrunch about ambient intelligence, as a “digital interconnectedness to produce information and services that enhance our lives. This is enabled by the dynamic combination of mobile computing platforms, cloud and big data, neural networks and deep learning using graphics processing units (GPUs) to produce artificial intelligence (AI).” At that time, I said that connecting these technologies and crossing the boundaries necessary to provide seamless, transparent and persistent experiences in context will take time to realize. It is fair to say that eight years later, this vision is on the cusp of being realized. The five levels of AGI Based on OpenAI’s roadmap, the journey to AGI involves progression through increasingly capable systems, with AI agents (level 3 out of 5) marking a significant leap toward autonomy. Altman stated that the initial impact of these agents will be minimal. Although eventually AGI will “be more intense than people think.” This suggests we should expect substantial changes soon that will require rapid societal adjustments to ensure fair and ethical integration. How will AGI advances reshape industries, economies, the workforce and our personal experience of AI in the years to come? We can surmise that the near-term future driven by further AI advances will be both exciting and tumultuous, leading to both breakthroughs and crises. Balancing breakthroughs and disruptions Breakthroughs could span AI-enabled drug discovery, precision agriculture and practical humanoid robots. While breakthroughs promise transformative benefits, the path forward is not without risks. The rapid adoption of AI could also lead to significant disruptions, notably job displacement. This displacement could be large, especially if the economy enters a recession , when companies look to shed payroll but remain efficient. If this were to occur, social pushbacks on AI including mass protests are possible. As the AI revolution progresses from generative tools to autonomous agents and beyond, humanity stands on the cusp of a new era. Will these advancements elevate human potential, or will they present challenges we are not yet prepared to face? Likely, there will be both. In time, AI will not just be part of our tools — it will seamlessly integrate into the fabric of life itself, becoming ambient and reshaping how we work, connect and experience the world. Gary Grossman is EVP of technology practice at Edelman and global lead of the Edelman AI Center of Excellence. DataDecisionMakers Welcome to the VentureBeat community! DataDecisionMakers is where experts, including the technical people doing data work, can share data-related insights and innovation. 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