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BrianStone retweeted
This @UKLabour Govt. says it’s new Sanctions Regulation is not about Israel 🇮🇱..
Not true !!
To-day was uncomfortably uncomfortable if you happened to be a shareholder in certain shares to-day.
Having said that, once the dust settles it might be a good time to pick up some bargains. That way at least you'll be in the market next time it shoots up (figuratively speaking).
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If true this could be very dangerous, essentially making out that someone has said something that they haven't actually said and in real time.
Very dangerous indeed.
🦔Microsoft filed a patent application for AI that can change what people say during a live broadcast. The system can remove or swap out words, then adjust the speaker’s mouth so the video still matches the new audio. Microsoft pitches it for live translation and fixing slip-ups, and says each viewer could set their own filters, like muting profanity. It could also keep the original recording on file. For now it’s only a filing, so it may never ship.
My Take
I’d leave this one in the patent drawer. Live TV is one of the few places left where people assume they’re seeing what happened, and a tool that hands each viewer their own edited version of a press conference wipes that out.
Markets trade on single words. A Fed chair hints at a cut or a CEO fumbles guidance on a call, and stocks move in seconds. Big funds already pay for raw feeds and instant transcripts, so they’d keep the unedited version. Most regular investors catch a clip on their phone an hour later. I’ve said for a while that AI fakes will turn the truth into something you pay for, and this would push retail even further behind.
Hedgie🤗
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BrianStone retweeted
Once again Caribbean and African countries have got their begging bowls out, demanding that Britain pays them 'Reparations'- If you don’t know what 'Reparations' are, it means people who have never been slaves, experienced slavery, or been in any way adversely affected by slavery, demanding financial compensation for slavery, from people who have never owned slaves, benefited from slavery, or been in any way involved in any kind of slavery...
Actions such as this are reprehensible.
It's happened before.
Nobody wins with this sort of thing.
At the very least the price of food will go up as a result of lost food.
Besides, there's not enough food in the world to start with.
People are starving on the streets in places.
Freezers at supermarkets across Europe hit by apparent cyberattacks
itv.com/news/2026-11-02/free…
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I'm not really a fan of interest rate increases, particularly because of some of the, perhaps, unintended repercussions that can result from them and from this clip it seems that a lot of folks in Australia are of a similar frame of mind.
Australian house prices are falling at their fastest rate in 40 years, with Sydney values down 10% since February.
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It's an interesting thought that PM Carney of Canada wants to look into becoming an associate member of the EU when at this point in time, Europe appears to be, to put it mildly, descending into massive civil unrest.
Violent protests are spreading across Europe, with looting and unrest putting police on edge as fires erupted on the streets of France.
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This was one of those days that comes now and then.
People who are invested, particularly in those stocks that were worst hit, must decide if the companies they're invested in will still be around next year (yes) and as a result should they run and hide, or back up the truck.
Ugly day for US stocks, especially tech (CNBC data below).
Sharp selloffs on even relatively minor earnings blemishes show investors have now pivoted to applying much greater scrutiny to AI capex, funding needs, monetization, and ROI.
This frisson in markets is not translating in a reassessment of the tech-led growth outlook, at least as of now.
#economy #markets #tech
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This is not good news for Google (or Alphabet share holders).
Google has suffered a record $500bn (£375bn) share-price wipe-out over fears that AI is eating into the search giant’s main advertising business.
Shares in Alphabet, Google’s parent company, crashed by as much as 13pc on Thursday, wiping hundreds of billions of dollars from its value.
🔗 telegraph.co.uk/business/202…
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I tend to think that of all the surveys as to what Britons would have wanted to hear from John Healey's first budget that not many would have had 'tuppence off gherkins' at the top of their list.
John Healey’s first Budget offers “tuppence off gherkins” while leaving major economic challenges unresolved, argues @timothy_stanley.
In his latest column, Stanley challenges the Chancellor’s promises of “breathing space”, criticising the lack of a clear plan for defence spending and the retreat from welfare reform ⬇️
telegraph.co.uk/politics/202…
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