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U.S. military needs to modernize, embrace robotics and AI, Gen. Milley says
Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told a packed National Press Club Luncheon audience June 30 that the United States must accelerate military modernization to be able to utilize robotics and artificial intelligence in the next 10 to 15 years. The soon-to-retire four-star general said the two technologies will get heavy emphasis in a “joint warfighting concept” that the Pentagon will finalize next month and that will include plans, incorporating each of the nation’s military services, to maintain overwhelming U.S. military superiority to deter any future large-scale war…
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Aerospace, defense analyst identifies trends, explains editorial role
Industry analysts often serve multiple roles, providing unique insight to institutional investors, as well as journalists in business and trade media. In the latest edition of Update-1, the National Press Club podcast, Club Broadcast/Podcast Team co-chair Adam Konowe speaks with Sash Tusa of Agency Partners LLC, a London-based firm that provides independent equity research. Sash Tusa The interview, recorded on location at the biennial Paris Air Show, also captures trend-related civil and military news from the week-long event, the aviation’s largest industry-focused gathering. Update-1 is…
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Club awards Veronica Irwin its 2023 Shirley & Dennis Feldman Fellowship
The National Press Club, the world’s leading professional organization for journalists, has chosen Veronica Irwin of San Francisco as the recipient of its 2023 Shirley & Dennis Feldman Fellowship. The award for graduate students is a one-time scholarship of $5,000. Irwin, a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, recently worked as a breaking news reporter at Protocol. She will enter New York University’s Business and Economic Reporting Program this fall. The judges were impressed with Irwin’s writing skills and versatility. She has covered a wide range of topics, including…
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Special Envoy Kennedy seeks more inclusive N. Ireland economy
U.S. Special Envoy to Northern Ireland for Economic Affairs Joe Kennedy III called for a more inclusive economy to take advantage of the country’s “peace dividend” during a National Press Club event on Tuesday. Kennedy, who was appointed in December by President Joe Biden, said the country’s economy can become more inclusive by increasing the level of skilled workers through apprenticeships and other schemes; by boosting the number of female business leaders and entrepreneurs; and by improving access to childcare. Special Envoy to N. Ireland Joe Kennedy III (podium) called for a program of…
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Gershkovich's colleagues, family keep light shining on his wrongful detention in Russia
The U.S. government and the public must continue to shine a light on the wrongful imprisonment of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich in Russia in order to secure his release, his colleagues said Thursday, July 13, at a National Press Club press conference. Gershkovich’s case will be presided over by a judge once it comes to court, and the entire process of charges, appeals and arbitration typically takes 12-18 months, with the next hearing scheduled for Aug. 30, said Jason Conti, general counsel for Dow Jones & Co., publisher of The Wall Street Journal. “At some point there…
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Hutchinson positions himself as law and order supporter as he stumps for GOP nomination
Former Arkansas governor Asa Hutchinson brought his long-shot White House bid to the National Press Club Monday, July 17, appearing at a Headliners Newsmaker event to outline an eight-point plan to reform federal law enforcement – and to draw a distinction between himself and the current GOP frontrunner. “Donald Trump has done great harm to our rule of law in this country and to federal law enforcement,” Hutchinson said. “He has undermined their credibility in the eyes of the public.” Casting his policy proposal as a counterweight to the former president’s fiery attacks on the FBI, Hutchinson…
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Images posted on internet are training AI algorithms, Photo Team hears from computer scientist
A computer scientist told the National Press Club's photojournalism group recently that the billions of photos posted on the internet are training algorithms for generating images made with artificial intelligence. Robert Pless, computer science professor and a specialist in computer vision at George Washington University, described the algorithms and their development by leading generative AI image software at a meeting of the Club's Photo Team July 12. Pless told the attendees that generative AI uses algorithms called large language models trained by massive text and image collections to…
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SEC chairman says AI technology needs guardrails to avoid steering economy into a financial crisis
Gary Gensler, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, warned Monday, July 17, that the widespread adoption of artificial intelligence by stock exchanges and other financial markets may create dangerous conflicts of interest and instability even as it promotes efficiency and cuts costs. Speaking at a National Press Club Headliners luncheon, Gensler, who has pushed to extend SEC rules to the new technology, said AI may well “heighten financial fragility” by promoting herd behavior “with individual actors making similar decisions because they are getting the same signal from a base…
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Chief of National Guard Hokanson says political strife puts service members on defensive
Alabama Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville has held up roughly 250 military nominees because he doesn't like the new Pentagon reproductive health policies, and his protest is having a "great impact" on military families waiting on officer promotions, Gen. Daniel Hokanson said Thursday morning, July 27, at a National Press Club Headliners Newsmaker. Hokanson, who serves as the Department of Defense chief of the National Guard Bureau and member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that "when you stop that system, it's not just the generals that are impacted; it is the colonels that would become…
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True crime podcast on murders of journalists in Miami 30 years ago was cathartic for creators
The unsolved murders of three Haitian radio journalists in Miami three decades ago resonate today in how the mainstream media fails to adequately cover ethnic communities in U.S. cities, according to a journalist who first covered the murders and dove back into the story in a recent podcast. The cultural and political dynamics that seeded the murders in Little Haiti, a Miami neighborhood that is home to many Haitian exiles, raises bigger questions about how new arrivals to this country are treated, said Ana Arana, a Club member who discussed the podcast, "Silenced: The Radio Murders," at…
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