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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...

How The Devil May Cry Anime's Best Episode Was Made

How The Devil May Cry Anime's Best Episode Was Made https://ift.tt/aDVLWkf

Devil May Cry's anime adaptation launched on Netflix last week, and between all of the demon-slaying and quips, the standout episode of the first season is a surprisingly whimsical origin story of the characters Mary Arkham--AKA Lady--and the show's primary antagonist, the Rabbit. Featuring two contrasting animation styles, the episode explores the motivations behind these characters, and it does so without any dialogue for the bulk of its runtime.

According to showrunner Adi Shankar, the decision to paint the Demon Realm as a more magical reality was inspired by his childhood in Calcutta, India. "When I was a kid, Time Magazine called it the dirtiest city in the world, just rampant poverty everywhere," Shankar said. "I can't speak to everyone's experience, but that really, deeply, and profoundly affected me as a kid. So I was trying to really just capture this feeling of hopelessness and how you're powerless to do anything about it. In the show, the Human world is more serious. The Demon world is kind of cute."

Shankar explained how poverty had become the norm in India at that point, and while he wasn't born into it, he still wanted to do something to help as a child. Those strong emotions found their way into Devil May Cry, while Shnakar's thoughts on how people are encouraged to share every part of their lives online also had an impact on the production of Devil May Cry's sixth episode.

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