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Xbox CEO Joins Federal Reserve’s Productivity And Jobs Task Force Amid Tumultuous Time

Xbox CEO Joins Federal Reserve’s Productivity And Jobs Task Force Amid Tumultuous Time https://ift.tt/SzyVoWR The United States central bank, the Federal Reserve, has announced new task forces to "advance the conduct of monetary policy," and its board has chosen Xbox CEO Asha Sharma to help guide one task force pertaining to AI, as part of a wider effort to help create jobs and keep prices stable. The new Productivity and Jobs task force will look into the "economic impact of new general-purpose technologies," including AI, to help the Fed make better policy decisions. Sharma is joined on this task force by billionaire businessman and venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, along with Stanford University economics professor Charles I. Jones--he is currently on leave from the university to become a scholar-in-residence at the AI company Anthropic. Fed chairman Kevin Warsh said the new task forces are part of the group's "commitment to price stability a...

Expendables 4 Director Breaks Down Wild Bike Stunt In Which X Games Star "Almost Bit The Dust"

Expendables 4 Director Breaks Down Wild Bike Stunt In Which X Games Star "Almost Bit The Dust" https://ift.tt/xZOsefS

Who do you call when you need to revive a popular action franchise like The Expendables after nearly a decade-long hiatus? Probably a stunt performer. Enter Scott Waugh, Expendables 4 director and a former stuntman who was "born and raised on set"--his late father, Fred, was a movie and TV stuntman going all the way back to the 1960s, and both Scott and his brother, Ric, are stuntmen-turned-directors.

"Being an ex-stuntman always gives me a little bit of a leg up coming into a set," Waugh said. "So to come in with these action heroes, I don't want to say I'm on common ground with them, but there is a commonality between us."

Warning: This article describes a particularly cool action sequence from late in the film.

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