The Trap of Survival: Reprogramming the Boy Child | Toyosi Akerele-Ogunsiji | TEDxAdmiralty Way
TEDx Talks· 2025-12-17 17:04
This topic is very close to come for me and it's because if you were listening to me in a dark room and nobody told you that I was female, you would typically assume it was a man that was speaking. And so I grew up in the middle of boys, being very comfortable around boys, having a lot of male friends. And I would comfortably say that the very first set of people that validated me even as a girl growing up in Nigeria were my my my friends, my boyfriends. And so I've grown to respect and love and trust men b ...
Are You Really Ready for Marriage? | Saurabh Goswami | TEDxRajouri Garden
TEDx Talks· 2025-12-17 17:04
Good afternoon. I am Sorup Gowami, the managing director of Ultra Rich Weddings Limited. We are a public limited company and we do matchmaking services.Matrimony services we provide to the business families, industrial houses, listed company owners and top-notch professionals. We also have another brand absolute matrimony. com in which we provide matrimony services to the professionals.While coming to the platforms and all first question needs to be answered are you ready for marriage. People who are alread ...
Fear, trust, and human insight in the AI evolution | Parth Gargish | TEDxWest Vancouver
TEDx Talks· 2025-12-17 17:04
When was the last time any of you felt uneasy with a change. It could be when you were downloading a new app or updating a new app in your phone and you felt why they cannot let things be the way they were. Or maybe when you were at your workplace and they suddenly announced AI automation and the whole room goes quiet.We have all had those moments, right. Because as humans, we are wired to resist change. And there's nothing new about it.When the printing press was invented, people thought this would flood t ...
Inside China’s Controversial $167 Billion Mega-Dam | Exclusive Preview
Bloomberg Originals· 2025-12-17 17:01
For decades, the Three Gorges Dam has stood as a symbol of China’s engineering might. A project so vast that NASA said it measurably altered the Earth’s rotation, making days 0.06% microseconds longer. The Three Gorges Dam generates more electricity than any other power plant on Earth.Enough to light up more than 70 million homes a year. But on the edge of the Himalayas, China is planning something even more ambitious, on a river you may never have heard of. This is the project of the century.The most impre ...
Why U.S. workers are clinging to their jobs
CNBC· 2025-12-17 17:01
Almost one in five job seekers surveyed said they're not confident that they will find a great job that they like. >> We're in a situation where that economic uncertainty is manifesting itself in fewer people quitting as well as fewer organizations hiring. There's kind of less movement in the market right now.>> I think wage growth has cooled, job switching premiums have shrunk and a lot of workers worry that their pay won't keep up with rising costs. So, I think they're clinging to stability in a time of u ...
Bank of America CEO: Every Single Bank Is Coming | HUGE Ripple XRP News
NCashOfficial - Daily Crypto & Finance News· 2025-12-17 17:00
Market Trends & Industry Dynamics - Big banks are shifting from anti-crypto to pro-crypto, recognizing the value of blockchain technology [1] - Within 12 months, crypto is expected to be integrated into all parts of financial services [1] - US banks are heading for a multi-year on-chain future as regulatory approvals accelerate Bitcoin and crypto integration [12][15] - Every single bank will eventually be on-chain, with the US banking system moving to blockchain [12] Company Initiatives & Developments - JP Morgan moved 16 trillion in one day using blockchain technology and is working on stablecoins and exploring tokenization [1] - JP Morgan launched its first tokenized money market fund on Ethereum, breaking $4 trillion [1] - Bank of America recommended clients allocate up to 4% of their portfolio to Bitcoin and crypto [12] - Bank of America is considering launching a USD-pegged crypto stablecoin if lawmakers pass legislation [19] Regulatory Landscape & Future Outlook - Senate Banking Committee confirms Bitcoin and crypto market structure bill will not advance in 2025; markup is expected in early 2026 [9] - The financial industry is ready to adopt crypto payments if regulators give the green light [11] - 2026 is shaping up to be a significant year for crypto due to potential regulatory clarity [22]
Code World Model: Building World Models for Computation – Jacob Kahn, FAIR Meta
AI Engineer· 2025-12-17 17:00
[music] Great to be here everyone. I'm Jacob Khan. I'm a researcher at at Farret Medai.I'm going to talk today about the code world model which I'll abbreviate as CWM and what it means to build world models for computation. This is work done by an incredible team at fair uh extends all over the world and I'm very grateful to be collaborating with them. So what's our goal with CWM.Our primary goal is to build models that reason, plan and make decisions. And we start with code because it's an interesting sand ...
Using AI Generated Kernels to Instantly Speed Up PyTorch – Natalie Serrino, Gimlet Labs
AI Engineer· 2025-12-17 17:00
[music] Hey everyone, how's it going. So, my name is Natalie. I'm a co-founder of Gimlet Labs and um yeah, just a little bit of background about why Gimlet's looking at AI generated kernels.Let's just get right to it. Um we're building an agentic inference cloud focused on performance and efficiency. And the thing that we've seen with all these talks so far is with agents, they're not just one chat model.They're complex pipelines of multiple models, multiple stages, tool calls, and the compute backing these ...
How Trump’s Fed Attacks Set the Stage for the Central Bank's Biggest Test | WSJ
The Wall Street Journal· 2025-12-17 17:00
Hey, do you have a minute. Great. I moved the desense graph up.The Fed's independence from the White House isn't set in law. It's not written in stone. It's a loose collection of norms that developed over several decades that everybody sort of agreed to abide by.But Donald Trump hasn't. He's badgered and attacked the Fed chair Jay Powell over his reluctance to lower interest rates. >> We have a a stupid person, frankly, at the Fed.>> He's gone after the Fed for spending too much money on an expensive buildi ...
Unlocking the power of programmable money | Adri Wischmann | TEDxHarderwijk
TEDx Talks· 2025-12-17 16:58
[applause] You probably handled money in some form or shape today. But do you know how money really works. Have you ever thought about how money is going to change in the next 10 years or so.I promise you at the end of my talk you will have a new perspective on the future of money. [clears throat] Imagine a family gathering, grandchildren running around and grandmother is sitting at the head of the table. She wants to give them some pocket money.So she takes out her wallet and she has this classical wallet, ...