Online marketplaces are stocked to the brim with low-quality e-books generated by LLMs or cruder generative methods. It's nothing new—hucksters have been slapping together garbage ebooks by plagiarizing wikipedia and whatnot since the dawn of the format. But now it happens in incredible, overwhelming volume. — Read the rest
CENTRAL POINT, Ore. – In local business news, Central Point’s Erickson Helicopters announced Friday that it’s sold part of its operations. According to an Erickson press release, Helicopter Express has acquired Erickson’s aerial firefighting operations business and aircraft. Erickson’s other business operations will continue on their own. The two companies have been in business for […]
The survey of more than 1,200 child care providers found many optimistic about rising enrollments and more confident than they were in 2022 that they can sustain their businesses
The Fearless Fund is a venture capital fund that targets investments in Black and Brown women-owned businesses, and a White conservative activist has sued the fund, claiming that its focus on grantmaking for Black women is discriminatory.
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Spinnaker Trust lessened its position in shares of General Electric (NYSE:GE – Free Report) by 3.1% in the fourth quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 7,881 shares of the conglomerate’s stock after selling 250 shares during the period. Spinnaker Trust’s […]
A local businessman is taking on a new business endeavor: selling beef raised on his land in Trumbull County.
A man has been arrested on several charges of theft six months after a local business in Trinity reported roughly half a million dollars worth of property stolen.
“It really is time, and this is the time to do it.”
The new rule burdens American gun companies with regulations that will entrench “significant losses” they suffered after the October 2023 halt.
Two former United Nations employees in Montreal have been charged with participating in a conspiracy to sell Chinese-made drones and other military equipment in Libya, Canadian police said Tuesday. RCMP spokesman Sgt. Charles Poirier said the alleged offenses occurred between 2018 and 2021, when the two men were working at the International Civil Aviation Organization, a U.N. agency headquartered in Montreal. Police identified the two men as Fathi Ben Ahmed Mhaouek, 61, and Mahmud Mohamed...
Amazon wants the public and—especially other businesses—to know it’s not giving up on its Just Walk Out technology. Although the company is ditching the cashier-less checkout system at its Amazon Fresh grocery stores, it plans to sell the technology to more than 120 third-party businesses by the end of the year. Reaching that goal would double the number of non-Amazon enterprises that use Just Walk Out compared to last year. “For us, really making sure that we can service that third-party...