Notes and Notable 3
The Gap store in Pittsburgh's Shadyside neighborhood has closed. It's the latest change in the shopping district along Walnut Street.
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China has been subsidizing the manufacturing and exporting of illicit fentanyl precursor chemicals and other synthetic narcotics through tax rebates and other means, according to newly revealed details released Tuesday by the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party.
“Many of these substances are illegal under the PRC’s own laws and have no known legal use worldwide,” the 64-page report states.
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Why are student loans more deserving of forgiveness than any other kind of debt?
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The escape from humanity’s never-before-escaped widespread material deprivation, starting about 250 years ago, owed almost nothing to government planners.
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A lot of twins showing up in NBA.
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Meta is pushing harder to compete with ChatGPT by putting its AI assistant everywhere. You're going to start seeing it in the search boxes of Instagram and Facebook. There's now a standalone web app. Google Search has been integrated. And the first two Llama 3 models are being released ahead of a 400 billion parameter, multimodal version that's being trained. "At this point, our goal is not to compete with the open source models,” Mark Zuckerberg told me. “It’s to compete with everything out there and to be the leading AI in the world."--Heath on X
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Latin American immigrants are starting businesses at more than twice the rate of the U.S. population as a whole.
The jump in Latino entrepreneurship has driven up the overall share of new businesses owned by immigrants, who accounted for 36% of launches last year compared with 25% in 2019, according to a new analysis of Census Bureau data. New business creation by white and native-born Americans has slowed in the past two years, following a broad surge early in the pandemic.
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