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Auckland business consultant Katie*, 29, describes herself as self-contained. "When I was growing up, my mother would sometimes call me secretive . "I don't like that word as it makes me sound dishonest. I didn't lie about things – well, maybe about parties and whether adults were supervising them." (Relatable.) "I've just always been a private person. I wasn't that girl who told her parents or her friends or her boyfriend everything. READ MORE: 'I came off the pill and was no longer attracted to my husband' "We all keep secrets. I think of it not so much as being secretive, but as keeping some things private." Katie says she keeps some secrets from her partner of three years. One being aspects of her relationship history, including her cheating on an ex-partner. "It was just once. I would never cheat on my current partner. I don't think he needs to know about it." READ MORE: 'The lingerie I thought my husband bought me for Christmas, actually went to his secret lover' Katie also keeps some secrets when it comes to the therapy she's getting. "He knows I have anxiety and some issues I'm working through. But I haven't told him I have some OCD [Obsessive-compulsive Disorder] symptoms." For Katie, repetitive behaviours occupy 10 to 15 minutes a day – something she hides from him. "I haven't outright lied, but I have deflected about what I've been doing. Because it would worry him. I feel like he'd start observing exactly what I was doing, which would make me self-conscious and sort of ashamed. "And I'm getting on top of the OCD stuff. I do share with him most other things going on in my life. He knows everything about my finances, my politics, my goals etc." There are secrets and then there are secrets . Most people would agree it's fine to keep small secrets from your partner: for instance, how much their mother annoys you, that you follow former cast members of The Bachelor on Instagram, or that you used to have a crush on a friend of yours. A friend of mine, Charlotte*, gives some examples of what she'd consider 'OK secrets'. "Surprises: secrets for now, but I'll reveal them later and it'll be good. "Confidences: things other people tell me in confidence, or things I have to keep confidential for work. READ MORE: 'We'd been trying for a baby for a year before he mentioned his vasectomy' "White lies and benign omissions: I don't tell my partner how much his hair is thinning, I choose not to say how much it annoys me when he does X, I tell him I'm sure X likes him, I withhold my scary medical appointment coming up until close to the time or afterwards. "Private information: choosing not to disclose what I fantasise about, which partner was better at oral, that I'm insecure about this body part, that I was assaulted before we met. I wouldn't call any of the above 'being secretive' even though there are secrets." In a Psychology Today story called 'Why We Keep Secrets From Our Partners', Susan Krauss Whitbourne – Professor Emerita of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Massachusetts – writes that "not everyone feels completely comfortable engaging in self-disclosure, even to the people we hold most dear". She writes that some secrets are fine to keep, but that there may be an issue if the secret directly affects or concerns your partner. She also explains why people may keep these secrets. "First and foremost, particularly for women, is [a] reluctance to hurt their partner or damage the relationship. "Keeping a secret allows them to avoid their partners' disapproval. Shame is another driver for keeping secrets, as individuals in romantic relationships may feel that what they're doing would not only lead their partner to disapprove, but to lose faith in them." "But protecting those secrets that may lie in the core of your identity keeps your partner from having a complete picture of you, flaws and all. "The longer you keep such secrets, the more difficult they become to keep, and the more they can jeopardise the pathways of communication between you." Several women tell me that they see privacy and secrecy as different things. "Secrecy has more implications of deceit," one says. "Privacy is about choices around what you might share." Philippa* feels uncomfortable with the idea of keeping secrets from your partner. "But I also 100 per cent believe we have the right to be private, even when we're in relationships, and that nobody has the right to know things we don't want to tell them. "Case in point: my husband and I have been together for many years, and there are so many things he doesn't know about my life before we met – for example, how many people I've slept with. RELATED: The Divorce Diaries: 'He ended up with my Pilates instructor in lockdown' "He asked me once and I said it was none of his business. He also doesn't know that I had relationships back in the day with a couple of guys that I still maintain friendships with." "I'm a very private person and I don't like talking about my feelings. I don't like to confide in anybody. "Even though my husband is the love of my life and the person I trust above all others, I still wouldn't choose to tell him everything that goes on in my head. I have the right to be private and keep things to myself!" Meanwhile, Fiona* likes some "emotional privacy" in her relationship. "I don't feel the need to go into details about everything." When does she think keeping secrets from your partner is or isn't OK? "Maybe it depends on the secret. "Everyone is free to make decisions about what they do or don't want to share with a partner, but ultimately some things are bound to have an impact – i.e. if it impacts the other person or the relationship." "If someone can't talk to their person about something, the reason for why may point to issues in their relationship. "For instance, whether each person feels safe enough to share their past pain with their partner. RELATED: The Divorce Diaries: 'I returned from a trip to find my husband had moved out' "On the other hand, sometimes a little private time, healing, or therapy may help the person work through their pain – and they can later communicate what's happened with a bit of perspective, or reframing, or in a way that may be informative rather than damaging." As for Katie, her therapist has gently suggested that perhaps she could tell her partner about the OCD symptoms. "Now that I'm really thinking about this, maybe I could tell him? I don't know. It would be hard." If their positions were reversed? "Yeah, I'd want to know." This article was originally published on Capsule , and is republished here with permission. FOLLOW US ON WHATSAPP HERE : Stay across all the latest in celebrity, lifestyle and opinion via our WhatsApp channel. No comments, no algorithm and nobody can see your private details.
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Coffee is a beloved beverage for many around the world, known for its rich flavor and energizing effects. However, excessive coffee consumption can have negative impacts on our bodies. Quitting coffee can lead to a variety of changes in our bodies, both positive and challenging. In this article, we will explore the transformations that occur within your body after quitting coffee for a month.VALPARAISO, Ind. (AP) — Valparaiso hired longtime Marietta coach Andy Waddle as its new football coach, athletic director Laurel Hosmer announced Monday. Waddle is scheduled to be formally introduced on campus Wednesday. He spent the last 12 seasons turning around the Division III program located in Southeastern Ohio. There, he went 55-61 after inheriting a winless team. He led the Pioneers to their first 8-0 start last season and matched the 1920 squad's school record with a 13-game winning streak that started in 2023. In 2024, Marietta made its first postseason appearance since 1973. Waddle went 16-5 over the past two seasons and produced seven winning records over the last eight seasons. The Pioneers had only two winning seasons in the previous 20 years. “I think there is a great group of young men on the (Valparaiso) roster, and we’re excited to invest in those student-athletes and continue to add more high-quality people and football players to the program,” Waddle said of the program located in Indiana's northwest corner. “I think Valpo is not only an outstanding fit for me professionally, but also an outstanding fit for me and my family.” Waddle spent eight seasons working with the defense as an assistant for his alma mater, Wittenberg, where he was an all-conference defensive back. He also has coached at Mansfield University in Pennsylvania and at Maryville College in Tennessee. “His experience building success and winning culture as a head coach, passion for developing student-athletes on and off the field and high character made it clear he was the right leader for our football program,” Hosmer said in a statement. The move comes two weeks after Hosmer announced the school would not give Landon Fox a contract extension after his deal expired. Fox was 21-42 in six seasons at Valparaiso. Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here . AP college football: https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-football-poll and https://apnews.com/hub/college-football
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“Kamala is for they/them. Trump is for you,” was the message of a widely aired ad for Donald Trump’ 2024 campaign. But a resurfaced 2016 clip shows how much the president-elect’s view on transgender rights has shifted in eight years. A snippet from Trump’s first presidential run has resurfaced on social media, capturing his drastic shift on the matter, after South Carolina Rep Nancy Mace introduced a resolution to ban transgender women from using the women’s restroom in the Capitol building. The resolution comes after Delaware voters elected Sarah McBride to the House, making her the first transgender member of Congress. The April 2016 clip shows Trump, then considered a long-shot presidential candidate, telling the “Today” show hosts that transgender Americans should be allowed to use any bathroom they want. At the time, North Carolina lawmakers were considering a controversial “bathroom bill,” mandating people use the restrooms that correspond to the sex on their birth certificate. Trump objected to the measure: “Leave it the way it is...There have been very few complaints the way it is. People go. They use the bathroom that they feel is appropriate.” However, once president, his position did not reflect this interview’s sentiment. Two months into his first term, Trump ended Obama-era federal protections for transgender students that required public schools to allow them to use bathrooms matching their gender identities. Two years later, his administration proposed a Department of Health and Human Services rule that would allow faith-based foster care and adoption agencies to continue to receive federal funding while permitting them to exclude LGBTQ+ parents. Following this move, Human Rights Campaign president Alphonso David branded Trump “the worst president on LGBTQ issues ever.” On the 2024 campaign trail, Trump has continued on his anti-trans tirade. At an NRA speech in April, he vowed, if elected, to direct an FDA-formed panel “to investigate whether transgender hormone treatments and ideology increase the risk of extreme depression, aggression and even violence.” Trump slammed Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz as being “very heavy into transgender.” Trump told “Fox & Friends” in August: “Anything transgender he thinks is great, and he’s not where the country is on anything.” His “Agenda 47” promises to cut federal funding for schools pushing “radical gender ideology” onto students and federal programs . He has vowed to bar transgender athletes from playing on sports teams that correspond with their gender identity. He has also promised to use the federal government to “stop” gender-affirming healthcare for minors and labeled the care “child abuse” and “child sexual mutilation” — and baselessly claimed that children go to school and undergo “brutal” gender-affirming operations. Trump’s repeated threats to transgender Americans prompted a massive influx of calls to an LGBTQ+ hotline from young people after he was elected. The Trevor Project , a nonprofit focused on suicide prevention among queer youth, reported a nearly 200 percent increase in conversations with election-related keywords such as “election” and “rights.” It wasn’t just Trump pushing this rhetoric, though. Republican candidates spent more than $65 million on anti-transgender ads this election cycle, according to an analysis from the New York Times .
Speaking in Parliament on 18 December, President Anura Kumara Dissanayake pledged that under the leadership of his party, “we will never allow a situation like 2022-23 to reoccur in our country”. If AKD and the National People’s Power (NPP) intend to keep this promise, they will have to get a lot more serious about industrialising an economy dependant on services and remittances. It is regrettable that the President’s speech, while announcing welcome relief for the poor through tax cuts, allowances and subsidies, paid scant attention to increasing investment in the real economy. This is a deadly trap that centre-left governments often fall into. Naturally, the wretched conditions following economic collapse require immediate relief measures. However, long term increases in consumption can only be achieved through investment in the real economy. There have been a multitude of interpretations of the root causes of the economic crisis in 2022-23 which led to hours-long blackouts, acute shortages of fuel and cooking gas, a devaluation of the rupee, and soaring inflation. The mainstream explanation has focused almost exclusively on the Government’s budget deficit, and the Central Bank’s financing of it. The reality is that this crisis was a long time coming, rooted in the country’s fundamentally colonial economic structure that is dependent upon tourism, remittances, and low-value-added exports. Historically, a strong focus on value-added manufacturing has been the only way for countries to sustain rapid growth levels, develop indigenous technology, and uplift the living standards of the majority of people. The only exceptions to this rule are small countries that are either rich in natural resources (e.g. UAE, Qatar, etc.) or function as tax havens and centres for financial services (e.g. Luxembourg, Ireland, etc.). With a population of 22 million—comparable to Syria, Burkina Faso, or Chile—Sri Lanka is hardly a ‘small country’. Uplifting our large rural population requires industrialisation. In the lead up to the 2024 elections, one of the NPP’s most articulate voices for industrialisation was Chathuranga Abeysinghe, now serving as Deputy Minister of Industries and Entrepreneurship Development. Abeysinghe has often made sensible points about the need for state-ownership of energy and finance, combined with support for technology transfer and upgrading, to jump start the process of industrialisation. However, his eclectic choice of benchmarks countries, including India, China, Malaysia, and Vietnam, is confused at best. China and Vietnam are socialist countries ruled by a Communist Party. These countries derive legitimacy from the reproduction and growing productivity of an industrial working class. Meanwhile, India and Malaysia feature a relatively strong class of industrial capitalists, who have a vested interest in the perpetuation of interventionist industrial policies. Sri Lanka is unlike both of these, being a liberal democracy dominated by merchant capital (business interests invested in sectors such as trade, finance, and real estate). Setting on a path of industrialisation would necessarily bring any government in Sri Lanka on a collision course with the interests of merchant capital. There can be no industrialisation without tackling parasitic interests in the economy, including the likes of predatory financial services, agricultural middle-men, and import mafias. These domestic interests function as fronts for large-scale multinational companies which seek to keep countries in the Global South as captive markets. There may be ways to peacefully convert at least some factions of merchant capital into industrial capital. South Korea was able to convert its landlord class into an industrial capitalist class through extensive land reforms which redistributed land to the tiller while compensating the landlords with bonds that were reinvested in industry. The challenge for NPP policy makers is to devise incentive structures to direct investment into strategic manufacturing sectors that can deliver long term productivity gains. Industrialisation is no easy task. The interests opposed to it often cloak themselves in humanitarian concern for workers and the environment. Yet the reality is that industrialisation is most oppressive for a business class used to making easy money through trade, finance, real estate, and tourism. Operating a factory, managing scores of workers, competing with international standards, and innovating new products and process will demand much more from our private sector than they are used to. This is precisely why the State, helmed by a political party dedicated to the cause, is needed to drive this process. For better or worse, the NPP’s electoral campaign about corruption and system change captured the imagination of large swathes of the electorate, helping them win both the Presidency and a supermajority in Parliament. However, more work needs to be done to unravel the structural causes of so-called corruption and the exact nature of the system that holds Sri Lanka down. At Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, we recently published a dossier titled, “How Neoliberalism Has Wielded ‘Corruption’ to Privatise Life in Africa”. Here, we pointed out how the role of the private sector in corruption is avoided or minimised by official definitions of corruption. The biggest losses of revenue for countries in the Global South are not from petty bribery by government officials, but large-scale drain of finances through practices such as tax evasion, transfer pricing, and trade misinvoicing. In the case of Africa, investment into extractive sectors significantly increases the opportunity for private sector corruption and opaque pricing practices. In the case of Sri Lanka, it is our dependency on food and energy imports, and reliance on low value-added exports, that is conducive to private sector corruption. In such a pattern of (under)development, there is hardly any need for capitalists to reinvest profits into developing a domestic industrial ecosystem. If the NPP wants to fulfil its mandate of anti-corruption and modernisation of the country, and if it wants to prevent an economic crisis akin to what occurred in 2022, industrialisation is the only way forward. There is no alternative.When comparing the current form of both teams, it is evident that Bayer Leverkusen and Inter Milan are in red-hot form, making this matchup even more intriguing. Leverkusen's high-octane attacking style clashes with Inter's tactical solidity and clinical finishing, setting the stage for an exciting and unpredictable encounter.
The 49ers will do everything they can to finish the 2024 season with a 9-8 record but coach Kyle Shanahan isn’t thinking beyond that. A 12-6 loss to the Los Angeles Rams all but ended their playoff aspirations with games at Miami, at home against Detroit and the regular-season finale in Arizona still to play. For a team that had played in the NFC Championship Game four out of the last five years and played in two Super Bowls, it’s a huge letdown. “I’ll talk about 2025 when we get to 2025,” Shanahan said in a conference call with local media Friday. “But you have hope every year. You put together the best team possible, you go and practice and you go out there and you battle. So that’s what we do every single offseason. “You figure out how to get the best players possible through free agency and the Draft, you try to keep your best players as possible, you go to work and you show up for Week One.” The 49ers are coming to grips with being an also-ran. The reasons for the 49ers’ slide go much further than making a bad choice last offseason to bring in linebacker De’Vondre Campbell as a temporary replacement for Dre Greenlaw, who was rehabbing a torn Achilles. The 49ers are working through the process of removing Campbell from the roster either through suspension or release after he declined to play against the Rams. One thing Shanahan has no intention of doing is questioning his team’s want-to and preparation, even of those qualities have resulted in something foreign for the 49ers in terms of playing clean football. “I thought our guys showed up ready to play,” Shanahan said. “I thought we battled and a few key plays were the difference in the game. But I thought our guys sold out and I expect them to sell out the next three games.” While the 49ers’ commitment wasn’t an issue other than Campbell, their execution and playmaking was a huge problem on offense. The 49ers gained 191 yards of total offense, the second-lowest number since Shanahan arrived in 2017 and took control of the offense. It’s only the second time the 49ers failed to gain 200 yards of offense in 141 games with Shanahan as head coach. The only time they gained fewer yards was a 31-7 loss to Philadelphia in the NFC Championship game played for more than three quarters without a viable quarterback since Brock Purdy (elbow) and Josh Johnson (concussion) were injured and Purdy had to re-enter the game unable to pass. The 49ers were so anemic against the Rams they failed to reach the red zone just one week after going 5-for-6 in a 38-13 win over the Chicago Bears. Asked if he could ever remember that happening as a play-caller, Shanahan said, “I’m not sure. I’ve been doing this a long time.” On the 49ers’ second series, Purdy found tight end George Kittle for a 33-yard gain — the play set up a 53-yard field goal by Jake Moody for a 3-0 lead — and the 49ers didn’t have a snap that gained more than 18 yards the rest of the night. They averaged 3.6 yards per snap and were 3-for-12 on third-down conversions. “I know that we were averaging like three yards a play at halftime. I don’t know what it was after that,” Kittle said. “They came out with some funky looks once in a while, but I just thought as skill positions, whether it was tight end, quarterback, running back, fullback, wide receiver, I just thought we could have stepped up our game and played better and we didn’t. “ Purdy insisted there were plays there for the taking — rain or no rain. “The weather was the weather in the first half, but even with that, I think there were still some ops for us to convert on third down and move the chains,” Purdy said. “In the second half there were drives where we could’ve stayed on the field. I had to be better for this team and didn’t play my best.” GREENLAW’S RETURN Linebacker Dre Greenlaw’s return was an inspiration to Shanahan and his teammates, with the 49ers’ linebacker registering eight first half tackles and ranging sideline to sideline as if he’d never had a ruptured Achilles. He departed when his leg tightened up, with Monday bringing the news that it had more to do with fatigue than another injury. With the 49ers getting a mini-bye this weekend before visiting Miami in Week 16, Greenlaw could be good to go for another start. “He’s got some soreness. He’s day to day,” Shanahan said. It reminded Shanahan of Greenlaw in Year 3, when he had a groin injury in the opener that needed surgery, and other than 13 snaps in Week 11 against Minnesota, didn’t play again until the regular-season finale against the Rams when he had 12 tackles. “We needed to win that to go to the playoffs,” Shanahan said. “And that game, I thought he had one of the best games I’ve ever seen from linebacker play and it was looking a lot like that last night too. Exactly the same, it was just only a half a football, but it was amazing.” THE INJURY FRONT — Left tackle Trent Williams continues to heal slowly from an ankle injury but Shanahan hopes to get him in the lineup before the season is over. “He’s trying to get back, but it’s just been a frustrating injury for him,” Shanahan said. ” t hasn’t healed like he or we would like. Having these 10 more days before our next game, hopefully that gives a better chance” — Defensive end Nick Bosa emerged from the Rams game without any setbacks to his oblique/hip injuries. “It was awesome to get Nick back and he really helped us,” Shanahan said. “It was a good sign that they didn’t tell me about anything today.” — Linebacker Dee Winters is day to day with a neck injury. SNAP JUDGEMENTS 64: Linebacker Fred Warner, cornerback Deommodore Lenoir and cornerback Renardo Green each played all but one snap on defense. 60: One game after playing a career low 15 snaps, safety Ji’Ayir Brown played 60 snaps with Malik Mustapha missing the game with a chest injury. Brown came out of the game with a groin injury and is day to day. 54: Guards Aaron Banks and Dominick Puni, tackles Jaylon Moore and Colton McKivitz, center Jake Brendel and Purdy played every offensive snap. 51: Starting split end Jauan Jennings was targeted nine times from Purdy while missing just three snaps but had just two receptions for 31 yards. 41: The 75.9 percent figure of snap counts was the most for Isaac Guerendo in his rookie season after coming in questionable with a foot sprain. Backup Patrick Taylor Jr. played just three snaps. 30: Greenlaw made a remarkable return in his first game back from rupturing an Achilles tendon last Feb. 11. 26: Linebacker Demetrius Flannigan-Fowles, playing with a sore knee, played 26 snaps mostly after Greenlaw’s departure with Campbell refusing to enter the game. 10: Tashaun Gipson got his first work on defense since rejoining the 49ers on Nov. 7. 5: Edge rusher Ronald Beal Jr., who has had trouble getting traction as a pass rusher all season, played sparingly with Nick Bosa (47), Leonard Floyd (39) and Yetur Gross-Matos (31) getting the bulk of the work.
Overall, the decrease in oil prices offers a glimmer of hope for a more affordable future, but only time will tell if this trend will continue and how it will impact the global economy in the long run.Celebrity couple Xu Xinyi and Zhaoyu have been making headlines once again, this time for their fun and interactive live streaming session where they showcased their DIY hair styling skills. As part of a promotional event for a hair care brand, the couple took on the challenge of creating new hairstyles for each other within a time limit of just 3 hours, much to the delight of their fans.This bull market has been running rampant for more than two years, but it's an unusual one. Most bull runs don't have to share time with inflation crises, and the monetary pressure that started to build in 2021 is finally easing. The macroeconomic boost from that shift could keep this bull running longer than usual. While the bullish trend has been having a broad impact on the stock market, some stocks can be expected to benefit more than others as the investor-friendly run continues. These two supercharged tech companies could deliver market-beating returns over the next few years. How to play the digital advertising turnaround in style Anders Bylund (Criteo): One of the most game-changing aspects of this bull market is the ongoing return to normal consumer spending behavior. People largely reined in their discretionary spending when inflation surged a few years ago. The list of industries that faced lower sales in that tight economy has a lot of overlap with the sectors that do a lot of brand-oriented marketing. From luxury goods and travel services to cars and smartphones, consumer demand tightened up and brand advertising slowed down. Why spend big money on targeted ads when people aren't willing to buy anything? So digital advertising was pushed into an extra-deep downturn. Now, the leaders of that industry are poised to come back swinging as consumer spending recovers. Criteo ( CRTO 3.47% ) is a fine example of this rebound opportunity. The Paris-based marketing campaign manager's stock is down 22% from recent highs, but the business is poised to perform in a healthier economy. Speaking during the October earnings call , retiring CEO Megan Clarken outlined a thrilling growth opportunity. "Retail media facilitates the targeting of high-intent shoppers by brands primarily on retailer sites and extending reach across the open web," she said. "Performance media focuses on targeting high-intent shoppers for direct-to-consumer brands, primarily on the open web and social platforms. In other words, our solutions have a hyper focus on addressing or advertising to consumers who are on their buyer journey. " So Criteo should benefit greatly when luxury brands and brand-oriented advertisers boost their marketing budgets again. And that's already happening, just in time for the holiday shopping season. Meanwhile, the stock is trading for just 1.1 times sales and 9 times expected forward earnings. These valuation ratios would be cheap for a tired old retailer -- they're dirt cheap for a tech stock with proven growth chops that is arguably heading into a game-changing sector turnaround . Down 34%, Micron can deliver wins for long-term investors Keith Noonan : Micron Technology ( MU -0.12% ) is a leading provider of memory-chip solutions. The company's business has been posting huge performance improvements in conjunction with artificial intelligence ( AI ) trends, but some investors appear to be betting that the good times will soon come to an end. On the heels of recent pullbacks, Micron stock is down roughly 34% from the high it hit earlier this year. While the company's future sales and earnings will almost certainly be uneven and shaped by cyclical industry trends, its recent performance points to the emergence of catalysts that will have positive long-term impacts on the business. Micron's revenue increased 93% year over year to $7.75 billion in the fourth quarter of its fiscal 2024, which ended Aug. 29. That explosive growth was spurred by AI-driven demand for the company's DRAM and high-bandwidth-memory solutions. Along with the surge in sales, strong demand for its higher-end products helped the business post a non-GAAP (adjusted) net profit of roughly $1.34 billion -- improving from a loss of roughly $1.18 billion in the prior-year period. Micron stock is now valued at roughly 11 times this year's expected earnings. Given the cyclical nature of the company's business, it doesn't make sense to put too much weight on the company's price-to-earnings multiple when assessing the stock. However, it could still signal an attractive risk-reward profile for investors who approach the stock with an understanding of the cyclical guesswork involved. Depending on demand and pricing trends in the memory chip space, the company's performance can make big shifts in short order. Along those lines, some Wall Street analysts are concerned that weakness in the consumer market and oversupply in the high-bandwidth memory segment will soon lead to softer sales and earnings results. But the company's current valuation suggests that investors are being too bearish about Micron's near-term and long-term outlooks. Spending on data-center infrastructure to support the training, deployment, and scaling of AI applications is likely still in a relatively early stage of its long-term growth trajectory. While Micron's business will remain heavily cyclical and its results will be shaped by industry trends, it appears that the market is underappreciating the company's potential to be a lasting beneficiary of the AI revolution.
Encode, the nonprofit org that co-sponsored California’s ill-fated SB 1047 AI safety legislation, has requested permission to file an amicus brief in support of Elon Musk’s injunction to halt OpenAI’s transition to a for-profit. In a proposed brief submitted to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California Friday afternoon, counsel for Encode said that OpenAI’s conversion to a for-profit would “undermine” the firm’s mission to “develop and deploy ... transformative technology in a way that is safe and beneficial to the public.” “OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, claim to be developing society-transforming technology, and those claims should be taken seriously,” the brief read. “If the world truly is at the cusp of a new age of artificial general intelligence (AGI) , then the public has a profound interest in having that technology controlled by a public charity legally bound to prioritize safety and the public benefit rather than an organization focused on generating financial returns for a few privileged investors.” OpenAI was founded in 2015 as a nonprofit research lab. But as its experiments became increasingly capital-intensive, it created its current structure, taking on outside investments from VCs and companies including Microsoft. Today, OpenAI has a for-profit org controlled by a nonprofit with a “capped profit” share for investors and employees. But in a blog post this morning, the company said it plans to begin transitioning its existing for-profit into a Delaware Public Benefit Corporation (PBC), with ordinary shares of stock and the OpenAI mission as its public benefit interest. OpenAI’s nonprofit will remain, but will relinquish control of the company in exchange for shares. Musk filed for a preliminary injunction to halt the company’s transition to a for-profit, which has long been in the works, late in November. He accused OpenAI of abandoning its original philanthropic mission to make the fruits of its AI research available to all, and of depriving rivals including his AI startup, xAI, of capital through anticompetitive means. OpenAI has called Musk’s complaints “baseless” and simply a case of sour grapes. Facebook’s parent company and AI rival, Meta, is also supporting efforts to block OpenAI’s conversion. In December, Meta sent a letter to California attorney general Rob Bonta, arguing that allowing the shift would have “seismic implications for Silicon Valley.” Lawyers for Encode said that OpenAI’s plans to transfer control of its operations to a PBC would “convert an organization bound by law to ensure the safety of advanced AI into one bound by law to ‘balance’ its consideration of any public benefit against ‘the pecuniary interests of [its] stockholders.’” Encode’s counsel notes in the brief, for example, that OpenAI’s nonprofit has committed to stop competing with any “value-aligned, safety-conscious project” that comes close to building AGI before it does, but that OpenAI as a for-profit would have less incentive to do so. The brief also points out that the nonprofit OpenAI’s board will no longer be able to cancel investors’ equity if needed for safety once the company’s restructuring is completed. “OpenAI’s touted fiduciary duty to humanity would evaporate, as Delaware law is clear that the directors of a PBC owe no duty to the public at all,” Encode’s brief continued. “The public interest would be harmed by a safety-focused, mission-constrained nonprofit relinquishing control over something so transformative at any price to a for-profit enterprise with no enforceable commitment to safety.” Encode, founded in July 2020 by high school student Sneha Revanur, describes itself as a network of volunteers focused on ensuring voices of younger generations are heard in conversations about AI’s impacts. Encode has contributed to various pieces of AI state and federal legislation in addition to SB 1047, including the White House’s AI Bill of Rights and President Joe Biden’s Executive Order on AI .
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Overall, the announcement of the FIFA Best XI of the Year has ignited a passionate debate among football fans, with the dominance of Manchester City players and the perceived snub of Real Madrid players at the center of the controversy. While the selected players undoubtedly possess exceptional talent and skill, the debate over the selection process and the criteria used by FIFA is likely to continue in the coming days as fans and experts continue to dissect and discuss the Best XI lineup.Mission schools should treat all students fairly – Aheto-TsegahDad stabbed to death in argument with Kroger coworker, TN cops say. ‘My role model’