a turning point for al, especially generative ai. that s the tech that creates human like text or imagery based on user prompts. chatgpt was launched in november 2022 and is now widely used. but in march of last year, elon musk was one of many leading figures who warned that it could pose a profound risk to society and humanity. however, it s now common in consumer products, including in the tesla self driving cars sold by mr musk, and it s increasingly used by businesses to in their own operations. too. so here we ll explore the impact of ai on some of the world s biggest businesses. and i ll be checking out what catches my eye on the convention floor. is it a bird? is it a plane? no, it s xpeng aeroht s flying car.
if you enjoy working out, you may be supporting far right extremism or at least that is what msnbc wants you to believe. left wing is being ridiculed for this recent tweet which reads, the far right s obsession with fitness is going digital and links to opinion piece posted in march of last year that goes to describe connection between physical fitness and white supremacy. you can t make this up. it reads, it appears far right has taken advantage of at-home fitness trim for radicalization of combat sport spaces. physical finance, hitler focused on jujitsu. i mean, emily, i don t know where to begin. emily: i know, i was thinking
windows in southeast iowa, they need their workers and need to keep them. employee retention is top of mind and certainly one of our top priorities. reporter: so the company over the past few years spent $30 million on housing, child care centers and restaurants in the small town where it s based and offered signing bonuses for certain positions. now the cocompany saysys retetention ratetes are up 36% from the year before. we have the team members that we need at this point moving forward as compared to the high demand and needs during the pandemic. reporter: pella is clearly not alone. as the economy added 209,000 jobs last month, new government numbers show in may job openings were down nearly 20% from their peak in march of last year, and while some 4 million people quit their jobs in may, that number is also trending down, 11% from its pandemic peak.
post office nearby, there was a jewelry shop around the corner, so this was a busy area of the city and this is a city which, for instance i was here in april and march of last year, the city was a ghost town. but now, because this is very close to the front line, there are lots of soldiers, but also the situation has stabilized to such an extent that many people have begun to return, and it s the middle of summer, it s nice and warm, so people are out enjoying themselves, going to restaurants, going to shops, just enjoying the warm summer weather. so, yes, this is there s no nothing really legitimate about targeting the middle of a town, regardless of whether there are soldiers or civilians there, wolf. good point, ben wedeman, be careful over there, thank you very, very much. let s go to russia right now where president vladimir putin had more to say today about the mutiny by wagner mercenary fighters. the future of his regime under intense scrutiny right now,
could face 15 years behind bars. tonight, his legal team says they re confident jurors will find penny s actions on the train were justified, the manhattan d.a. declining to comment. the federal reserve hit the pause button today on hiking interest rates as it tries to tame inflation. tom costello is in washington. the fed is also signaling this pause may be temporary. that s right. the fed has raised rates ten times since march of last year, and inflation is coming down, now running at 4% compared to 9% a year ago, but fed chairman powell was signaling the fed still expects to raise rates at least two more times this year, largely because core inflation, which strips out food and energy, remains high. but unemployment remains very low. this is the first rate hike pause in more than a year as the fed tries to slow the economy to tame inflation, but it s a hawkish pause with more rate hikes coming, perhaps as soon as next month. the big question remains, can the fed slow the economy