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James Hardcastle
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Analyst and strategy person at Digital Science 🏳️‍🌈 (he/him)
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Three entirely unrelated headlines from the Financial Times today
Screenshot headline from the FT: UK companies plan to invest in AI instead of hiring staff as costs rise A new poll says 51% of business leaders aim to redirect investment this year Headline from the FT: AI set to fuel surge in new US gas power plants Climate targets in peril as Big Tech turns to fossil fuels to feed energy demand Headline from the FT: California fires could be costliest disaster in US history, says governor Gavin Newsom accuses Donald Trump of spreading disinformation after president-elect calls emergency response ‘incompetent’
January 13, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Looks like Wiley is still very keen to license its content to more LLM developers and tech companies
Screenshot of Wiley Results press release. Text says: MANAGEMENT COMMENTARY “Continuous improvement is a way of life for us now, and it’s beginning to pay off in our quality growth and margin expansion,” said Matthew Kissner, Wiley President and CEO. “Learning has had a good year so far, both Academic and Professional, and Research delivered low-single digit growth with leading indicators and favorable comparisons signaling a better second half ahead. Additionally, we continue to see interest from tech companies and other corporate LLM developers for our high-value content and data to train and commercialize AI models.”
December 13, 2024 at 6:13 AM
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The unexpected economic cost of reclassifying Pluto. From www.timeshighereducation.com/news/when-sc...
Image of text "After the 2006 vote, he said he laughed at a journalist asking if the decision could have economic implications – until he returned to his office at Harvard and found that Pearson representatives were calling from London to tell him that they faced large losses from the need to destroy a warehouse-sized pile of his textbooks."
September 20, 2023 at 12:16 PM