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Stock market today: Wall Street edges back from its records as bitcoin briefly pops above $100,000WASHINGTON , Dec. 5, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Shield AI, the defense technology company building autonomy for the world, has announced it is expanding its work with Palantir Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: PLTR), a leading provider of AI systems, to develop and deliver large-scale command and control of autonomous uncrewed systems, including operations in GPS- and communications-denied environments. With Warp Speed, Palantir's manufacturing OS for American re-industrialization, Shield AI is doubling down on its commitment to delivering scalable, AI-powered solutions to protect service members and civilians. By leveraging Shield AI's advanced Hivemind software development kit, along with Palantir's suite of powerful software solutions—including enterprise resource planning, geospatial intelligence, and operational decision-making tools—the partnership combines the strengths of both companies to address the most critical defense challenges. "Shield AI and Palantir have both built technology products proven in the most demanding environments," said Brandon Tseng , Shield AI's President, Co-founder, and former Navy SEAL. "Our partnership is about bringing together Palantir's software dominance and Shield AI's expertise in autonomy to deliver the best possible outcomes for customers. It's exciting to scale up what we've been working on together in this next chapter of our partnership." This announcement builds on work Shield AI and Palantir showcased at the Association of the U.S. Army's (AUSA) Annual Meeting and Expo in October, where the companies demonstrated the integration of Shield AI's Hivemind with Palantir's Gaia. This integration created a unified command-and-control system for autonomous systems. Hivemind's proven autonomy capabilities—demonstrated on platforms like the V-BAT , F-16, MQM-178 Firejet, and Nova quadcopter—now seamlessly integrate with Gaia's geospatial intelligence tools, enabling real-time mission execution and precision targeting. "The American Industrial Base needs Warp Speed," said Shyam Sankar , Palantir's Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President. "Shield AI stands out in their field, having achieved mission impact and product results where others have struggled. This partnership, and Shield AI's deploying of our newly announced manufacturing OS will enable faster and better delivery to customers, and ultimately aid in the defense of the West." About Palantir Technologies Inc. Foundational software of tomorrow. Delivered today. Additional information is available at https://www.palantir.com . Forward-Looking Statements This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. These statements may relate to, but are not limited to, Palantir's expectations regarding the amount and the terms of the contract and the expected benefits of our software platforms. Forward-looking statements are inherently subject to risks and uncertainties, some of which cannot be predicted or quantified. Forward-looking statements are based on information available at the time those statements are made and were based on current expectations as well as the beliefs and assumptions of management as of that time with respect to future events. These statements are subject to risks and uncertainties, many of which involve factors or circumstances that are beyond our control. These risks and uncertainties include our ability to meet the unique needs of our customer; the failure of our platforms to satisfy our customer or perform as desired; the frequency or severity of any software and implementation errors; our platforms' reliability; and our customer's ability to modify or terminate the contract. Additional information regarding these and other risks and uncertainties is included in the filings we make with the Securities and Exchange Commission from time to time. Except as required by law, we do not undertake any obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future developments, or otherwise. Media Contact Lisa Gordon, media@palantir.com About Shield AI Founded in 2015, Shield AI is a venture-backed defense technology company whose mission is to protect service members and civilians with intelligent systems. In pursuit of this mission, Shield AI is building the world's best AI pilot. Its AI pilot, Hivemind, has flown jets (F-16; MQM-178 Firejet), a vertical takeoff and landing drone (MQ-35 V-BAT), and three quadcopters (Nova, Nova 2, iPRD). The company has offices in San Diego , Dallas , Washington DC and abroad. Shield AI's products and people are currently in the field actively supporting operations with the U.S. Department of Defense and U.S. allies. For more information, visit www.shield.ai. Follow Shield AI on LinkedIn, X and Instagram. 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Furthermore, the Hawk-Eye system serves as a valuable tool for players to analyze their performance and identify areas for improvement. By reviewing the trajectory of each ball and studying the patterns of their opponents, players can gain valuable insights into their strengths and weaknesses, enabling them to refine their strategies and elevate their gameplay. Wang Chuqin's endorsement of the system reflects a mindset of embracing new technologies and using them to his advantage in pursuit of excellence.
In recent years, with the rapid development of technology and innovation, new forms of productivity have been emerging constantly, contributing to the transformation and upgrade of various industries. The concept of "new productivity" encapsulates the integration of cutting-edge technologies, digitalization, artificial intelligence, and automation, redefining the way we work, produce, and live. This relentless push towards innovation and efficiency has brought forth a new era of economic growth and development.
Zhengzhou Bath Center Reports Multiple Fainting Incidents, Victims Sent to Hospital for Treatment and Stable ConditionLululemon Achieves Revenue Growth Through Expansion into County Towns, Becoming the Fastest Growing Market in ChinaIn conclusion, the landscape of Premier League football continues to shift and evolve, with clubs making bold decisions that could have far-reaching implications for their futures. Manchester United's choice not to appoint a sporting director and Arsenal's pursuit of Dan Ashworth are just the latest examples of the intrigue and drama that define the beautiful game. Only time will tell how these developments will shape the destiny of these two historic clubs in the seasons to come.During Easter break from college many years ago, my father and I were sitting by his pool having a beer together. He was upset that his medical malpractice insurance might be increasing tenfold for his specialty, and was blaming political decisions for being at least part of the reason. After a brief period of silence, he says "It's a good thing we have politics to employ politicians, because a lot of them couldn't get a job doing anything else". I remember laughing out loud at his off the cuff comment, and I have never forgotten it. Might be an appropriate statement again considering national election results and possible pending government post nominations. Karl Appell Northwest side Disclaimer: As submitted to the Arizona Daily Star. Follow these steps to easily submit a letter to the editor or guest opinion to the Arizona Daily Star. Respond: Write a letter to the editor | Write a guest opinion Subscribe to stay connected to Tucson. A subscription helps you access more of the local stories that keep you connected to the community. Catch the latest in Opinion Get opinion pieces, letters and editorials sent directly to your inbox weekly!
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The first wheel in this dual-wheel drive model is consumption. Consumer spending plays a crucial role in driving economic activity, creating demand for goods and services, and stimulating production and employment. In a rapidly changing global landscape, it is essential for countries to cultivate a strong consumer base that is willing and able to spend on a wide range of products and services.1. Facilitate Capital Formation In Alternative Investments and Private Funds For over 20 years, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Staff has limited closed-end funds from investing in private funds unless the closed-end funds are available only to accredited investors (or qualified purchasers). Also, for over 20 years, the SEC Staff has imposed a flat 15 percent-of-assets ceiling for investments by a closed-end fund in hedge funds and other private funds (for example, hedge funds or private equity funds) that are excluded from investment company regulation by virtue of section 3(c)(1) and/or section 3(c)(7) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (Investment Company Act). It is unclear what the legal basis is for these limitations under the Investment Company Act or the rules thereunder. The new SEC leadership should consider changing these SEC Staff positions to provide retail investors access to private funds with all of the protections imposed under the Investment Company Act and Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (Advisers Act). 2. Revisit the Accredited Investor (AI) Standard One of the most common gateways to accessing alternative investments, including private funds, is for an investor to meet the AI Standard. The AI standard is the cornerstone of the private placement exemption in Regulation D, which is usually relied upon when marketing interests in private funds. The AI Standard was last updated and expanded in August 2020 (AI 2020 Final Rule) (e.g., to include, among others, natural persons holding in good standing certain professional certifications or designations, irrespective of income/net worth). However, the AI 2020 Final Rule stopped short of adopting other possible ways of revising (and expanding) the AI Standard that were discussed by the SEC in the proposing release. This includes a change that would permit investors whose assets are managed by registered investment advisers or broker-dealers to be treated as accredited investors and lower the asset and income thresholds in the definition of an accredited investor. As a result, the current AI Standard financial thresholds remain a significant component of the AI Standard and may no longer be an accurate proxy for an investor’s financial sophistication. The new SEC leadership should consider the following: revisiting the proposed changes to the AI Standard (never adopted in the AI 2020 Final Rule); and revising the AI Standard to incorporate further alternative means of establishing investor sophistication appropriate to allow investors to participate in private offerings of securities – this could be done via SEC rulemaking, including as a result of legislation authorizing and/or directing the SEC to take such action. 3. Address Unresolved Issues In the Custody Rule In February 2023, the SEC proposed significant amendments to the Custody Rule under the Advisers Act (Rule 206(4)-2)) (“Custody Rule Proposals”). To date, the SEC has not adopted the Custody Rule Proposals and, due to significant industry pushback, it is not anticipated that the Custody Rule Proposals will ever be adopted in their current form. Nonetheless, there are at least two significant unresolved matters with respect to the Custody Rule that could use clarification from the SEC under the new administration either in new proposed rule revisions or in other guidance. First, under the Custody Rule, an investment adviser with custody over client funds or securities generally needs to hold those assets at a “Qualified Custodian,” which typically means a bank or broker-dealer. However, there are many asset classes such as cryptoassets, certain privately offered securities, derivatives and loans that cannot easily and efficiently be custodied at a Qualified Custodian. It would be helpful to the investment management industry if the new SEC leadership considered providing additional exceptions to the Qualified Custodian requirements with respect to such assets. For example, one possible alternative would be for the SEC to allow registered investment advisers to adopt prescribed policies and procedures designed to protect client assets in cases where it is impracticable to custody such assets at a Qualified Custodian. Second, under the Custody Rule, an investment adviser is deemed to have “custody” of client assets if it has the authority to withdraw funds or securities from a client’s account. The SEC has provided a limited exception to this definition of custody for investment advisers that trade client securities on a delivery versus payment basis (DVP). DVP is a settlement procedure that requires a buyer’s cash payment for securities to be received at or before the seller’s delivery of securities. Most publicly traded securities settle on a DVP basis. However, many other securities do not settle on a delivery versus payment basis and where the investment management industry would benefit from clarity as to when and whether trading authority over such assets would cause an investment adviser to have custody (e.g., certain loan investments). 4. Rethink/Reform “Pay-to-Play” Rule The “Pay-to-Play” Rule under the Advisers Act (Rule 206(4)-5) has been widely criticized as being unduly punitive and inflexible. Under the rule, donations made by certain personnel of an investment adviser to candidates for, or incumbents in, state or local office who have the ability to hire, or influence the hiring of, the adviser by a government entity (e.g., a government pension plans) can trigger a two-year bar against the adviser receiving compensation from such government entities. Among other critiques levied against the rule: Its de minimis donation thresholds (which max out at a $350 donation per official, per election – lower in some cases) are so low as to impair legitimate political expression and far below the levels that raise reasonable concerns of undue influence. Although there is a limited exception for contributions that the donor claws back within 60 days of discovery, that exception cannot “cure” contributions in excess of $350, making it too circumscribed to be meaningful. Under the rule’s look-back provisions, donations made by newly hired personnel more than six months before joining an advisory firm are excepted from the rule, but not if that person will be involved in soliciting any clients for their new firm – even if the firm screens the new employee from soliciting or personally profiting from business connected with those prior donations. New SEC leadership should take a fresh look at the rule, which could include raising the associated de minimis thresholds and providing more practical “self-help” remedies for firms to cure inadvertent breaches without having to petition for SEC exemptive relief. More broadly, the SEC could reassess whether the “Pay-to-Play” rule is a necessary or appropriate tool for the agency to retain, or whether existing campaign finance and anticorruption regulations already effectively regulate the underlying issues that the rule was meant to address. 5. Offer Interpretive Guidance Rather Than Regulating by Enforcement The SEC, under the direction of Chairman Gary Gensler, has certainly been busy. There has been little surprise anymore when it comes to the extraordinary volume and pace of actual and potentially industry-shifting and complex matters arising from both SEC rulemakings and enforcement actions – many of which impact investment advisers. Considering the administration change, new SEC leadership and likely shifting regulatory priorities, the markets and industry participants would benefit from continued willingness at the SEC to consider requests for exemptive orders and interpretive guidance (where appropriate). For example, in late 2020, the SEC finalized rules governing marketing under the Advisers Act (Marketing Rule), as well as good faith determinations of fair value under the Investment Company Act (Fair Value). The SEC has brought enforcement actions under both rules, which at the same time have presented implementation and interpretive challenges and would benefit from additional Staff FAQ guidance (currently, the Staff has published four and two FAQs on the Marketing Rule and Fair Value rule, respectively). For example, the SEC Staff should: Consider, among other things, (i) harmonizing the FINRA advertising rule with the SEC’s Marketing Rule; (ii) providing guidance as to what the SEC Staff expects an adviser to do to establish that it reasonably believes hypothetical performance is useful and relevant to its clients; and (iii) clarifying when attribution analysis is considered investment performance that must be presented net of fees. Evaluate providing guidance/examples related to investments valued using level 2 inputs.
Recently, Shandong Province in China has announced a new tax reform on water resource fees, which is set to bring about significant changes in promoting water conservation and providing policy incentives for better water management. This new method of taxation is part of the government's efforts to address water scarcity issues and encourage sustainable use of water resources.The Americas Trailer Previews Tom Hanks-Narrated Nature Docuseries
Title: Parents Transfer Shanghai Property to Daughter's Name, Regret Later - Property Dispute Sparks Family ConflictEAST LANSING, Mich. — The sight was a common one for Andrew Kolpacki. For many a Sunday, he would watch NFL games on TV and see quarterbacks putting their hands on their helmets, desperately trying to hear the play call from the sideline or booth as tens of thousands of fans screamed at the tops of their lungs. When the NCAA's playing rules oversight committee this past spring approved the use of coach-to-player helmet communications in games for the 2024 season, Kolpacki, Michigan State's head football equipment manager, knew the Spartans' QBs and linebackers were going to have a problem. "There had to be some sort of solution," he said. As it turns out, there was. And it was right across the street. Kolpacki reached out to Tamara Reid Bush, a mechanical engineering professor who not only heads the school's Biomechanical Design Research Laboratory but also is a football season ticket-holder. Kolpacki "showed me some photos and said that other teams had just put duct tape inside the (earhole), and he asked me, 'Do you think we can do anything better than duct tape,?" Bush said. "And I said, 'Oh, absolutely.'" Bush and Rylie DuBois, a sophomore biosystems engineering major and undergraduate research assistant at the lab, set out to produce earhole inserts made from polylactic acid, a bio-based plastic, using a 3D printer. Part of the challenge was accounting for the earhole sizes and shapes that vary depending on helmet style. Once the season got underway with a Friday night home game against Florida Atlantic on Aug. 30, the helmets of starting quarterback Aidan Chiles and linebacker Jordan Turner were outfitted with the inserts, which helped mitigate crowd noise. DuBois attended the game, sitting in the student section. "I felt such a strong sense of accomplishment and pride," DuBois said. "And I told all my friends around me about how I designed what they were wearing on the field." All told, Bush and DuBois have produced around 180 sets of the inserts, a number that grew in part due to the variety of helmet designs and colors that are available to be worn by Spartan players any given Saturday. Plus, the engineering folks have been fine-tuning their design throughout the season. Dozens of Bowl Subdivision programs are doing something similar. In many cases, they're getting 3D-printed earhole covers from XO Armor Technologies, which provides on-site, on-demand 3D printing of athletic wearables. The Auburn, Alabama-based company has donated its version of the earhole covers to the equipment managers of programs ranging from Georgia and Clemson to Boise State and Arizona State in the hope the schools would consider doing business with XO Armor in the future, said Jeff Klosterman, vice president of business development. XO Armor first was approached by the Houston Texans at the end of last season about creating something to assist quarterback C.J. Stroud in better hearing play calls delivered to his helmet during road games. XO Armor worked on a solution and had completed one when it received another inquiry: Ohio State, which had heard Michigan State was moving forward with helmet inserts, wondered if XO Armor had anything in the works. "We kind of just did this as a one-off favor to the Texans and honestly didn't forecast it becoming our viral moment in college football," Klosterman said. "We've now got about 60 teams across college football and the NFL wearing our sound-deadening earhole covers every weekend." The rules state that only one player for each team is permitted to be in communication with coaches while on the field. For the Spartans, it's typically Chiles on offense and Turner on defense. Turner prefers to have an insert in both earholes, but Chiles has asked that the insert be used in only one on his helmet. Chiles "likes to be able to feel like he has some sort of outward exposure," Kolpacki said. Exposure is something the sophomore signal-caller from Long Beach, California, had in away games against Michigan and Oregon this season. Michigan Stadium welcomed 110,000-plus fans for the Oct. 26 matchup between the in-state rivals. And while just under 60,000 packed Autzen Stadium in Eugene, Oregon, for the Ducks' 31-10 win over Michigan State three weeks earlier, it was plenty loud. "The Big Ten has some pretty impressive venues," Kolpacki said. "It can be just deafening," he said. "That's what those fans are there for is to create havoc and make it difficult for coaches to get a play call off." Something that is a bit easier to handle thanks to Bush and her team. She called the inserts a "win-win-win" for everyone. "It's exciting for me to work with athletics and the football team," she said. "I think it's really exciting for our students as well to take what they've learned and develop and design something and see it being used and executed." Get local news delivered to your inbox!
The name YU7 may seem simple at first glance, but its significance goes beyond just a combination of letters and numbers. When pronounced as "Y-U-7," it conveys a sense of youthfulness, unity, and progression. The "Y" symbolizes the youthful spirit and energy that Xiaomi embodies, always looking towards the future with enthusiasm and passion. The "U" represents unity, bringing together people from all walks of life to share in the excitement of new possibilities. And the number "7" is often associated with luck and prosperity in Chinese culture, signaling a bright future ahead for the YU7 and its users.NoneIf the world wasn't already put on notice, Raiders' Brock Bowers did it vs. Chiefs by breaking several records again
Man-Ying's face is a gift to us all, a reminder of the beauty that lies within each of us, waiting to be captured, celebrated, and shared with the world. In her, we find a muse, a friend, and a beacon of light in a world that is often dark and uncertain. And in her, we find the true meaning of beauty – a reflection of our own inner light, shining brightly in an ever-changing world.
In the official statement, Alibaba expressed deep regret and concern over the fire at the data center, acknowledging the impact it has had on their customers and the wider community. The company emphasized that ensuring the safety and security of their customers' data is their top priority, and they are working diligently to minimize the impact of the incident on their operations.
Whitehorse Canada Games Centre ice rinks closed due to issue with compressor