Hello and welcome to tonight virtual commonwealth program. My name is reed im a Technology Reporter with the Washington Post for employees to be the moderator for tonights program on a critical topic historical importance of the transformation brought on by artificial intelligent and virtual environments. As we have seen so acutely over the past three months with the covid19 pandemic in the social media with the killing of george floyd in minneapolis and its aftermath technology in online environments guide every aspect of our lives. Tonight i am pleased to be joined by two Silicon Valley pioneers to discuss these issues further. William davidow and Michael Malone, their new book the atoll must revolution was out now it delves deeply into the revolution we are living through regarding ai, the virtual environment. It can be purchased everywhere including bn. Com. A little bit about our speakers, William Davidow he earlier career worked at intel was credited to being one of the pioneers
Markets moved to the downside, Morgan Stanley at the Economic Team out with a note in the last few hours, talking about some of the risks. Markets as youhe start to see this payrolls turned back negative. What that means for the Downside Risk for the market at valuations that are by some measures full at this point. Romaine lets bring jim polson back. Upay, you see the nasdaq 100 0. 8 . Snp down half a percent. Down 2 on the day. Smaller, midcap cyclical names, that has kind of disappeared. That some of these names could come back anytime soon . Jim i think that whenever we have jitters about the virus reemerging, that creating a slowdown in economic reopenings , we will get the kind of today we got today where the market itself, great leadership by what is perceived as defensive investments, which is the new communications, consumer discretionary, that has growth outside of reliance solely on the economy. But i think we are in a new economic recovery and new bull market. Ultimately, i
Hurricane season, dumping around 4 inches of rain in the southern part of new jersey before making landfall further north this afternoon. The storm submerged neighborhoods throughout the day, making parked cars look like docked boats. I want everybody to be airflow. Reporter and with winds up to 50 miles per hour, enough to rip the siding off the building, fay is the fastest weve gotten to a named storm with the letter f on record. As fay stormed up new jerseys coast, new york city hunkered down, bracing for impact. Well, tonight, a heat dome is smothering much of the rest of the country, pushing extreme temperatures to extreme highs. As many as 75 records could be broken here in the coming days. To give you an idea, margaret, tucson, arizona, is expected to get up to 115 degrees. Unbelievable. Mola lenghi preparing there for some rain. Well, the Teachers Union in lamb l. A. , the nations second largest district, says schools should stay closed next month, when the new Academic Year be
Based to test its are needed to monitor discrimination. And chaotic scenes in kenya police fired tear gas at mourners trying to prevent the speedy burial of a popular singer. Now nearly 3 weeks after George Floyds death sparked massive demonstrations across america the Police Killing of another black man has triggered demonstrations anger and condemnation in the past couple of hours atlantas police chief has resigned after video of the fatal incident emerged police say racial brooks who had fallen asleep in his car at a Fast Food Restaurant dreiser failed a breath test and resisted arrest the officers tried using a taser on him but then a fight broke out brooks is seen taking the taser before hes fatally shot. While there may be debate as to whether this was an appropriate use of deadly force i firmly believe that there is a clear distinction between what you can do and what you should do i do not believe that this was a justified use of deadly force and have called for the immediate t
A sobriety test on racial brooks and said that he failed the test then you can see the video there is a struggle between racial brooks and these 2 Police Officers punches are thrown by mr brooks he then reportedly grabs one of the officers taser weapons and runs away with it and its alleged that he then turned on one of the officers who opened fire ive watched up video now were all seeing it ive heard at least 3 shots and racial brocks later died in hospital now the question here is what would the police have done it for a shot brooks was not an africanamerican what would they have done if it was any other situation in which they did not have to use deadly force now the chief of police of Atlanta Erica shields has offered her resignation the mayor of atlanta accepted protests are continuing theyre not abating and i think this latest incident in which you hear the mare of a major city in this country saying that was an excessive use of deadly force will just fuel what is a long burning