Israel, SG and UK all lead the US on the AI startups per GDP basis. Is #US really falling behind on technological innovation and initiatives? Would it have a long term impact that our leaders are not seeing now? - Image curtsy The Daily Shot®

#Apple hastily dived into AI race in a cleaver way to boost iPhone Sales but #Tesla CEO Elon Musk says he is worried about data privacy through Apple’s partnership with the #Microsoft backed company #OpenAI therefore he won't allow Apple products to be used throughout his companies. Although Musk has a vested interest in his own xAI, having his own rival AI start-up, he can be right as Microsoft is very well known for quietly collecting a vast amount of user data for decades. - Part of the update - curtsy of Barron's

The NYS Department of State has new Secretary of New York State: Walter T. Mosley.

Sometimes #NEWS are biased. Sometimes they carry propaganda. Sometimes they invoke things difficult to fathom. Hope we do our due diligence in seeking and seeing what's right and wrong. And we hope, media are unbiased. We hope NEWS are neutral. That's a good direction to human civilization as we're heading towards futuristic future not towards the barbarism, back to stone-age.

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The #US #CPI remained flat in May, beating forecasts and lifting #Bitcoin prices by nearly 4% on Wednesday: But bitcoin prices quickly retreated on Thursday as traders grappled with the possibility of just one rate cut by the Federal Reserve by the end of the year.

Thuldai wishes all the fathers in the world: A Happy Father's Day! Celebrate your day and evening like never before, filled with joy and laughter. After all, it's the strong shoulders of fathers that carry all the weight with grace. Cheers to you, amazing dads!

Apple's AI Leap: 1.5 billion devices to get game-changing ChatGPT upgrade with iPhone 15 and up, as well as Apple silicon lineup that runs macOS Sequoia.

In observance of the #Juneteenth holiday, all major U.S. stock exchanges will be closed on Wednesday, June 19, 2024.

Google introduces and pushes Artifact Registry phasing out Container Registry by March 18, 2025.

What is Artifact Registry?

It provides a single location for storing and managing your packages and Docker container images. You can: integrate it with Google Cloud CI/CD services or your existing CI/CD tools, store artifacts from Cloud Build, deploy artifacts to Google Cloud runtimes, including Google Kubernetes Engine, Cloud Run, Compute Engine, and App Engine flexible environment.

Most importantly, you can also leverage Identity and Access Management that provides consistent credentials and access control.
Similarly, protect your software supply chain, manage container metadata and scan for container vulnerabilities with Artifact Analysis. Further, you can enforce deployment policies with Binary Authorization, protect repositories in a VPC Service Controls security perimeter, create multiple regional repositories within a single Google Cloud project, group images by team or development stage and control access at the repository level.

Artifact Registry integrates with Cloud Build and other continuous delivery and continuous integration systems to store packages from your builds. You can also store trusted dependencies that you use for builds and deployments.

Jensen Huang (CEO, nVidia): “Greatness does not come from intelligence. Greatness comes from character, and character isn't formed out of smart people; it's formed out of people who have suffered."