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To secure its leadership position in lifestyle hospitality, Hyatt is acquiring Standard International. The acquisition includes the Bunkhouse Hotels and The Standard brands and continues Hyatt's growth in the lifestyle sector. The transaction is expected to close later this year for an initial cost of $150 million and an additional $185 million for each additional property added to the portfolio. Standard International delivers lifestyle properties worldwide The Standard, High Line, New York City Standard Hotel As part of the acquisition, Hyatt will establish a New York City-based lifestyle group. Led by Amar Lalvani, executive chairman of Standard International, the group…
Health authorities said the patient had travelled from Africa and ordered new arrivals from 42 “risk countries” to get tested.Thailand has confirmed its first case in Asia of the more contagious and deadly MPOX virus. The disease control agency confirmed on Thursday that a 66-year-old European patient who travelled to Saudi Arabia from Africa was infected with lineage 1b of the virus. The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared a global public health emergency regarding clade 1b, a strain that is transmitted through casual contact and causes death in about 3.6% of cases. The variant is causing a surge in…
The European Union's gas storage facilities can cover up to a third of gas demand in the winter. advertisementFor the second year in a row, the European Union has met its target of filling gas storage capacity to 90 percent capacity ahead of the crucial winter period, giving it several weeks to spare.The European Commission said on Wednesday that the target was met on Aug. 18, 10 weeks ahead of the Nov. 1 deadline. That amounts to just under 92 billion cubic metres of gas, enough to cover almost a third of the 27-member nation's winter gas needs.”We think this…
Mount Sinai will sponsor free and discounted community play in Long Island City and at Wollman Rink to celebrate unique partnershipNEW YORK, NY, Aug. 22, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Today, Mount Sinai Health System announced a partnership with CityPickle in Long Island City and Wollman Rink in Manhattan, the home of pickleball in New York City, to bring joy, community togetherness and promote physical wellness through the popular sport of pickleball.Through collaboration with the community, CityPickle aims to make pickleball, one of the fastest growing sports in the U.S., more accessible. With locations in Long Island City and Manhattan's Wollman…
First, it helps to know what cards you have in your wallet and what you typically purchase with them. I have the Capital One Venture X Rewards credit card (fees and charges), one of the best travel credit cards, and I use it for everyday purchases that don't fall into the bonus earning categories of other cards. With the Capital One Venture X Rewards credit card, you earn 2 miles per dollar on all eligible purchases, 5 miles per dollar on flights and vacation rentals booked with Capital One Travel, 5 miles per dollar on purchases with Capital One Entertainment…
The group says open-source AI systems can be used for any purpose without permission, and researchers should be able to inspect their components and study how the systems work. It should also be possible to modify the system for any purpose, including changing the output, and to share it with others for use for any purpose, with or without modifications. Additionally, the standard seeks to define a level of transparency for the training data, source code, and weights of a given model. The lack of open source standards has been a problem until now. While OpenAI and Anthropic's decisions to…
6 things Elon Musk's Grok 2 AI chatbot can do that ChatGPT can't NurPhoto via Getty Images You may know that xAI is Elon Musk's new artificial intelligence company, founded in July 2023. But you may not know that xAI's latest AI model, Grok-2, is gradually being rolled out on X (formerly Twitter) for premium users. Grok-2's advantage over other LLMs is that it was trained on X's billions of tweets and real-time data. Rowan Cheung is the founder of The Rundown, a fast-growing AI newsletter that delves into the latest developments in AI. In less than two years, The…
The first time a venture fund mistook me for an executive assistant to a male co-founder, I laughed. The second time it happened, I explained matter-of-factly, “I'm actually the CEO.” By the third time, I began to wonder why the tech industry at large couldn't grasp the idea of a female executive in generative AI. While it may be easy to scapegoat the so-called “pipeline problem” and claim that there aren't enough women making it through the maze of academia and industry, the percentage of women pursuing careers in artificial intelligence is pretty similar to the overall trend in STEM.…
Listen to this story: Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android .Your browser does not support this element.A celebratory mood erupted in late July in the town of Aikawa, on Sado Island off Japan's west coast. Hundreds of people cheered as they watched a livestream of the moment the town's gold mine was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. “The islanders' dream has finally come true,” Mayor Watanabe Ryugo said. The moment also signaled a possible improvement in diplomatic ties between Japan and South Korea.The Sado mines have a 400-year history. However, when discussing the mines, government…
Listen to this story: Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android .Your browser does not support this element.The thought of war in Asia is scary enough; the thought of nuclear war is even more dire. But someone has to think about it. So Andrew Metrick, Philip Sears, and Stacey Pettyjohn of the Washington think tank Center for a New American Security (CNAS) recently brought together experts to conduct a tabletop exercise — a kind of war game — to explore how a nuclear war between the U.S. and China might break out. The results were disappointing.In the exercise…