Humpday Recommendations May 10th, 2023

Watch: Jonathan Pryce on stage fright. Ever feel self-conscious, anxious, and fearful when speaking or performing in front of other people? This four-minute interview clip offers a surprising insight on stage fright and performance anxiety from Jonathan Pryce, one of the world’s great stage and screen actors. – Willis

Read: "How Napoli finally won the Serie A title – 33 years AD (after Diego)." If you're from Naples, Christmas came in May this year. Why? Enjoy this gem of a feature by The Athletic writer James Horncastle, perhaps the best piece of soccer journalism I've ever read. — Carlos

Read: The Fugitive Princesses of Dubai. What led a Dubai princess to flee her country in an intricately planned escape plot with the help of a Scandinavian jujitsu champ? And why did she subsequently disappear off the face of the earth only to reemerge back in Dubai? This New Yorker story has palace intrigue, suspense, and near-perfect prose. – Gabrielle

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​British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak speaks during a news conference at the AI Safety Summit in Milton Keynes, near London, last November.
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Six months after British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak hosted a global summit on artificial intelligence at Bletchley Park, the United Kingdom is making moves to start regulating AI.

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It seems like every company worth its salt has a Chief AI Officer, aka CAIO, these days – or, at least, every company that wants to buy into the hype.

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Courtesy photo by Humane via ABACAPRESS.COM via Reuters

Most of the artificial intelligence we talk about comes packaged in software: chatbots, image generators, and other tools that add an AI kick to your typical internet experience. But one company’s efforts to fuel a brand-new hardware product with AI is getting … less-than-stellar reviews.

US Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announces a major grant at the Samsung semiconductor plant in Taylor, Texas, on Monday, April 15, 2024.

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The Biden administration is busy courting global semiconductor manufacturers to build stateside, recently handing billions to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company to expand its chip fabrication plant in Phoenix, Arizona.

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This part of the Communications Decency Act has become a lightning rod for critics on both sides of the political aisle seeking to punish Big Tech for perceived bad behavior. But will 230 apply to generative AI services like ChatGPT or Claude?

Former President Donald Trump walks out of the courtroom following the first day of jury selection at the Manhattan Criminal Court in New York, NY on Monday, April 15, 2024.

Jabin Botsford/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear a case that could eliminate some of the federal charges Donald Trump is facing in the case accusing him of plotting to subvert the 2020 election and the prosections of the hundreds of rioters involved in the Jan. 6 attack.

Ghana, Accra, 2023-02-16. Young schoolchildren in uniform learning multiplication tables. Illustration image of children in a school in Ghana. A little girl is at the blackboard reciting in front of the class.
Photograph by Jean-Francois Fort / Hans Lucas via Reuters

On Monday, the International Monetary Fund warned that Accra’s plans to settle some of its $13 billion in debt would breach the terms of its bailout, pushing the country to the brink.

An anti-Israel billboard with a picture of Iranian missiles is seen in a street in Tehran, Iran April 15, 2024.
Majid Asgaripour/Reuters

Though the barrage of over 300 drones and missiles was largely intercepted and caused minimal damage, it marked the first-ever direct attack on Israeli soil by Iran – raising pressure for the Jewish state to retaliate.