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Tom Lee is an accomplished equity research analyst and serves as a managing partner at Fundstrat Global Advisors. A couple of months ago, Lee provided an update on his outlook on chip megastar Nvidia ( NVDA 3.69% ) . Nvidia's run over the last two years is nothing short of unprecedented. Excitement surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) has led to a generational surge in demand for Nvidia's data center services and graphics processing unit (GPU) chipsets. While it's natural to think that Nvidia's momentum is going to slow down at some point, Lee sees things differently -- calling for tenfold growth from current levels over the next decade. Below, I'm going to explore a bull and bear case surrounding Lee's 10x forecast on Nvidia. After carefully considering all angles, I hope investors can come away with more knowledge surrounding both the catalysts and headwinds that could impact Nvidia over the next decade. The bull case for Nvidia If you've been following my articles during the AI boom, you'll know that I see Nov. 30, 2022 as the unofficial start date of the AI revolution. Why so specific? Because that's the day OpenAI released ChatGPT to the masses and sparked a worldwide phenomenon for the ages. In many ways, I view the launch of ChatGPT akin to the early days of Facebook and the birth of social media. NVDA Revenue (Quarterly) data by YCharts Just look at the slope of the lines illustrating Nvidia's revenue, net income, and free cash flow over the last two years (with Nov. 30, 2022 being the start date depicted above). Nvidia's accelerated growth stems from unparalleled demand for its GPU chipsets. When I say "unparalleled" I'm not exaggerating -- Nvidia has acquired an estimated 90% of the GPU market, and there are many reasons to believe the company's momentum is just beginning. Industry research suggests that investments in AI infrastructure are going to exceed trillions of dollars over the next several years. Nvidia's new Blackwell GPU architecture, combined with its successor product dubbed Rubin (slotted for a 2026 launch), positions the company well to acquire incremental market share as AI investments continue to scale. The pace at which Nvidia is innovating, combined with its strong financial profile underscored by consistently rising profits, makes it difficult to buy into a pessimistic narrative over the company. Nevertheless, smart investors know that there are more stones to turn over before betting the house on Nvidia. The bear case for Nvidia One of the reasons Nvidia's GPU sales have skyrocketed stems from how the company's technology stack actually works. You see, Nvidia's GPUs (hardware) run on the company's compute unified device architecture (CUDA) software. This tight integration makes it extremely difficult for businesses to leverage products and services from other chipmakers. As I expressed in this piece from a few months ago , the Department of Justice (DOJ) could very well decide to investigate Nvidia's business practices given the company is arguably becoming a monopoly. Translation: The government could force Nvidia to loosen its grip and make the CUDA system more malleable so that it works seamlessly with GPU hardware developed by other companies. Should this occur, Nvidia's growth rate would decelerate and the company's market share would likely begin to shrink. Admittedly, the idea above is rooted more in speculation than reality. However, a more realistic headwind Nvidia is facing comes from competition. Nvidia's largest customers include cloud hyperscalers such as Microsoft , Alphabet , and Amazon , as well as "Magnificent Seven" cohorts Meta Platforms and Tesla . While increasing investments in AI infrastructure can be a good thing for Nvidia, it's important for investors to understand that this dynamic could also be a detriment for the company. Each of the companies referenced above is either investing in its own homegrown chips or is known to be supplementing its Nvidia GPUs with those offered by lower-cost alternatives -- namely from Advanced Micro Devices . The bottom line At the end of the day, I think that it is highly unlikely that Nvidia's valuation will rise 10x over the next decade. While I remain bullish on the company overall, I simply struggle to see how the company's growth can continue generating multibagger -style returns over the next several years. To me, Nvidia is still a rock-solid stock to own for exposure to the AI industry, but I think calling for tenfold growth in the face of direct and internal competition plus the potential for government intervention is a bit of an overzealous call.
Kiwis are in for an early dose of later this week - with temperatures pushing past 30C in parts of the country. MetService is forecasting highs of 28C, 31C and 29C for Napier, Hastings and Gisborne respectively on Thursday. “That’s well above average for this time of year – but we’re of course knocking on the door of summer,” MetService meteorologist Mmathapelo Makgabutlane said. That warmth will be felt in most regions: Auckland, Hamilton, Tauranga and Whangārei are likely to experience highs in the early to mid-20s over the remainder of the week. Further south tomorrow, the mercury is likely to rise as high as 27C in Christchurch – well past its November average of 19C – while Timaru is in for a toasty maximum of 26C. “Those day-time temperatures are certainly on the warm side, but some of the overnight temperatures also don’t dip too low,” Makgabutlane said. Aucklanders were in for balmy lows of 16C and 17C over the next few nights, with high humidity likely to hamper sleep across the city. “But even parts of Southland have minimum temperatures in the mid-teens, which is fairly warm.” Makgabutlane said the heat was coming with a ridge of high pressure meeting a northwesterly air flow – drawing warm, moist air over New Zealand. On Thursday, a frontal system was also forecast to begin bringing rain and wind to the South Island, with the wettest weather expected in the west. But little of that was likely to reach parched northeastern areas like Hawke’s Bay. “If we’re lucky, there may be a little bit of rain from that, but there’s nothing substantial on the cards.” The dry and hot conditions are , months away from the peak of summer. Fire and Emergency New Zealand Hawke’s Bay district manager Glen Varcoe confirmed fire-risk indices were late last week elevated to high across the Ahuriri and Heretaunga districts, including Napier and Hastings and coastal regions north to Wairoa. Last Thursday, police said both fire safety officers and police had been investigating five bush and scrub fires in Northern Hawke’s Bay, in some cases suspected deliberately lit. are likely to be warmer than average through to January, with frequent northwesterly winds leading to more days above 25C. Also raising the odds for hot summer weather was the potential for marine heatwave conditions – already occurring in seas to the east of New Zealand – to expand and intensify.abrdn Emerging Markets Equity Income Fund, Inc. (AEF) Announces Results Of Strategic Review Including: Changes To The Fund’s Name And Investment Strategy, A 20% Tender Offer And Renewed Performance-based Conditional Tender Offer Policy, And An Increase To Managed Distribution PolicyFrom the future of the 3-point line to the demise of the Splash Brothers, LeBron James' struggles, and the less-than-popular All-Star Game revamp, the 2024-25 NBA season is shaping up as one of change. To that end, could this be the year the Grizzlies finally go all the way? Read on and we'll show you how to watch NBA without cable and from anywhere with a VPN . Ja Morant has launched them into a four-way battle for the Western Conference title, with SGA's Thunder, Jalen Green's Rockets and Luka Doncic's Mavericks, who made the NBA Finals for the first time in their history last season, only to fall agonizingly short against the Celtics. Evan Mobley's Cavaliers are shaping up as Boston's main competition at the summit of the Eastern Conference, though KAT's Knicks and Moe Wagner's Magic are also looking strong. The Bucks have shown that they mean business too, laying down the gauntlet with an NBA Cup triumph off the back of an MVP-worthy series of performances from Giannis Antetokounmpo. Here's everything you need to know to watch NBA live streams this season. Watch NBA from anywhere Away from home at the moment and blocked from watching the basketball on your subscriptions? You can still watch your usual NBA live stream thanks to the wonders of a VPN (Virtual Private Network). The software allows your devices to appear to be back in your home country regardless of where in the world you are. So ideal for hoops fans away on vacation or on business. Our favorite is NordVPN . It's the best on the market: Watch NBA live stream in the U.S. For the 2024-25 season, NBA games are being televised nationally on TNT, ESPN, ABC /ESPN3 and NBA TV in the U.S.. If you've already cut the cord and don't have a cable package, you can get all of those channels through an OTT cable TV alternative . Sling TV is one of the better options. It includes TNT, ESPN and ESPN3 in its Orange plan, with prices starting from $46/month and your first month half-price. You can add NBA TV via the $11 per month Sports Extra add on. An even cheaper option for this year is HBO's streaming service Max with its B/R Sports Add-On, which is being included for free for a limited time. The B/R Sports Add-On brings access to all the NBA Playoffs games on TNT. Max prices start at $9.99/month with ads, going to $15.99/month ad-free. Or there's a special on at the moment with 20% off if you pay for a whole year upfront. How to watch NBA live streams in the U.K. TNT Sports has the rights to NBA basketball in the U.K.. You can get TNT by subscribing to the Discovery Plus Premium plan for £30.99/month, or you can add TNT Sports through Sky, BT, EE or Virgin Media to watch via your television provider. If you're not in the U.K. right now but already subscribe to TNT Sports and Discovery Plus, try using NordVPN to watch the NBA as if you were back at home. How to watch NBA online and on TV in Canada TSN and Sportnet share the rights to NBA basketball in Canada. If you don't have cable, you could subscribe to TSN+ instead, which lets you get access to all TSN has to offer on an $8/month or $80/year subscription basis. The Sportsnet Plus streaming service starts at $19.99/month. How to watch NBA live stream in Australia Aussies will find NBA live streams on ESPN via Foxtel . Don't have Foxtel and don't want to subscribe? Specialist streaming service Kayo Sports is also showing the NBA basketball, with its affordable, commitment-free plans starting from just $25/month, and hosting plenty of cricket, AFL, rugby , F1 and loads of other live sports besides. There's also a 7-day FREE trial for anybody who hasn't used the service before. Not in Australia right now? You can simply use a VPN like NordVPN to watch all the action on your Kayo account as if you were back home. More from Tom's GuideSanwo-Olu: We’re Committed To Creating Ecosystem To Boost Economic Growth
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President was admitted Monday to MedStar Georgetown University Hospital in Washington after developing a fever. The 78-year-old was hospitalized in the “afternoon for testing and observation," Angel Urena, Clinton's deputy chief of staff, said in a statement. “He remains in good spirits and deeply appreciates the excellent care he is receiving,” Urena said. Clinton, a Democrat who as president from January 1993 until January 2001, the in Chicago this summer, and campaigned ahead of November's election for the unsuccessful White House bid of Democratic Vice President . In the years since Clinton left the White House, he's faced some health scares. In 2004, he underwent quadruple bypass surgery after experiencing prolonged chest pains and shortness of breath. Clinton returned to the hospital for surgery for a partially collapsed lung in 2005, and in 2010 he had a pair of stents implanted in a coronary artery. Clinton responded by embracing a largely vegan diet that saw him lose weight and report improved health. In 2021, the former president while being treated for an infection that was unrelated to COVID-19, when the pandemic was still near its height. An aide to the former president said then that Clinton had a urological infection that spread to his bloodstream, but was on the mend and never went into septic shock, a potentially life-threatening condition. The aide said Clinton was in an intensive care section of the hospital that time, but wasn’t receiving ICU care. The Associated Press
Story by Kiki Aranita, The Philadelphia Inquirer (TNS) There will soon be two more reasons to arrive early at the airport, as new local vendors join the ranks of Bud & Marilyn’s , Sabrina’s , La Colombe, Elixr Coffee , and Jim’s South St. Famous Cheesesteaks at the Philadelphia International Airport: the legendary Oyster House and the rapidly expanding Federal Donuts & Chicken . With their arrival in spring 2025, the B/C connector will look even more like the streets of Center City. Less than a decade ago, your pre-flight options at PHL were probably a cheese plate at Vino Volo or a chicken sandwich from Chick-fil-A. If you had the privilege of holding an American Express Platinum card, you could have had access to the admittedly good salad and buffet bar in Terminal A’s Centurion Lounge, which opened in 2017 . But over the past several years, MarketPlace PHL (the developer and landlord for shops and restaurants at the airport) has built out a sizable roster of local fare. Both Federal Donuts and Oyster House will exist under the airport’s “Founded in Philly” umbrella, which was established this past year and, more than ever before, follows through on the goal that PHL should mimic travelers’ experiences in the city itself. The restaurants are working with Atlanta-based Jackmont Hospitality , the food service company that brought Elixr Coffee into PHL earlier this year, replacing a Starbucks. “We want the customer to come in and say, ‘I recognize these restaurants,’” said Simon Lorady, the vice president of business development at Jackmont, who is originally from Philly . “In an airport, people are on the go and unfocused. We find in studies that they are very anxious. They don’t want to take risks in an airport and default to safer menus.” If you follow airport news, you might recognize Jackmont Hospitality as the same company that operates One Flew South, Atlanta International Airport’s fine-dining restaurant, which has twice been nominated for the James Beard Foundation Awards in 2014 and 2015 and is the only airport restaurant to have achieved this. Demolition has begun for both restaurants. Federal Donuts’ first airport location will be its 12th overall — one of many locations in the works for the private equity-backed fried chicken and donut chain . It will take the place of PHL Flavors, which had supplanted Pinkberry after its pandemic closure. The menu is being finalized, but it will feature most of its current offerings, including, of course, donuts and fried chicken. “This new location will allow us to serve our local fans as they head out of town and to introduce travelers to FD&C as they arrive in our birthplace,” Federal Donuts CEO Jeff Benjamin said. Oyster House will occupy the former location of Legal Sea Foods, which closed in 2020, and take over a small adjacent flower shop. The airport location will have a similar menu to Center City’s Oyster House, with a glass-encased raw bar along the concourse and a craft cocktail program. As part of the licensing agreement, Oyster House chefs will train cooks hired by Jackmont. Sam Mink, who took over in 2009 as the third-generation owner and operator of Oyster House, had once vowed never to open another one. “A company had approached me about this possibility ten years ago but I wasn’t ready at the time,” he said. “We’re excited to be a strong local brand at the airport, to greet visitors as they come into the city, and for our locals to have a martini and plate of oysters before they leave on vacation.” “Sam was a tough nut to crack,” Lorady said. “But I think this relationship is going to go well.” Marketplace PHL is gearing up for an influx of millions of visitors to Philadelphia, in anticipation of the Semiquincentennial (Philadelphia250), the FIFA World Cup, the MLB All-Star Game, NCAA March Madness and the PGA Championship. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File) AP One Oyster House signature that won’t make the jump are the oyster plates that adorn the walls of the decades-old Sansom St. restaurant. Instead, the PHL location will feature photographs of previous incarnations of the Oyster House, owned by Mink’s father and grandfather. Lorady declined to specify the length of the agreements, “The leases are going to be long,” he said. “These will be strong relationships, not flashes in the pan. And there are other things coming down the horizon. They will be part of the local program.” Marketplace PHL is gearing up for an influx of millions of visitors to Philadelphia, in anticipation of the Semiquincentennial (Philadelphia250), the FIFA World Cup, the MLB All-Star Game, NCAA March Madness and the PGA Championship. “Even more ‘Founded in Philly’ announcements are coming soon,” hinted Mel Hannah, Vice President and General Manager of MarketPlace PHL. “With a huge 2026 on the way, we are excited to announce the addition of these two locations, with more to come.” The projected openings at PHL are in line with national trends — airport dining has been upgraded across the country, as airport concessionaires bring cities’ best-known brands portside while airlines and credit card companies fiercely compete for customer loyalty with ever more extravagant dining experiences . ©2024 The Philadelphia Inquirer. Visit inquirer.com . Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC. 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February 2025 Sports Calendar“It can’t be bargained with. It can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop.” That famous quote from is actually a pretty compelling ad for hiring a robot, if you’re the kind of person who’d hire a terminator. It also reminds us of a startup’s that suggests companies replace human workers with bots. ... is a San Francisco-based software startup that offers AI-powered business development representatives, which it calls “Artisans.” Many other companies also sell AI chatbots designed to help sales employees with their workflows, but Artisan deployed a marketing campaign across San Francisco with posters of Ava, one of its chatbot avatars, and lines like: “Stop hiring humans” “Artisans won’t complain about work-life balance” “Artisan’s Zoom cameras will never ‘not be working’ today” Many have mocked the billboards, that we could also replace partners and children with bots, while others have expressed anger. But is it working? Artisan CEO Jaspar Carmichael-Jack to that the ads are “somewhat dystopian, but so is AI” and claimed that they have increased brand awareness and sales leads. That doesn’t necessarily imply that more people are “hiring” Ava or that Artisan’s bots have or even could fully replace humans, despite not needing to do things like eat or sleep. What we do know is that people are increasingly worried about layoffs amid economic uncertainty and AI’s rise — and it’s not entirely unfounded: In April, there were ~65k layoffs in the US, of which were attributed to AI. Experts have said we’ll need social safety nets in place for people who lose their jobs due to AI, but we don’t have them yet. So this marketing campaign succeeded in that it sure has people talking, but we’ll see if that’s a good thing for Artisan.
FERGUS FALLS, Minn. (AP) — A jury convicted two men on Friday of charges related to human smuggling for their roles in an international operation that led to the deaths of a family of Indian migrants who froze while trying to cross the Canada-U.S. border during a 2022 blizzard. Harshkumar Ramanlal Patel, 29, an Indian national who prosecutors say went by the alias “Dirty Harry,” and Steve Shand, 50, an American from Florida, were part of a sophisticated illegal operation that has brought increasing numbers of Indians into the U.S., prosecutors said. They were each convicted on four counts related to human smuggling, including conspiracy to bring migrants into the country illegally. “This trial exposed the unthinkable cruelty of human smuggling and of those criminal organizations that value profit and greed over humanity,” Minnesota U.S. Attorney Andy Luger said. “To earn a few thousand dollars, these traffickers put men, women and children in extraordinary peril leading to the horrific and tragic deaths of an entire family. Because of this unimaginable greed, a father, a mother and two children froze to death in sub-zero temperatures on the Minnesota-Canadian border,” Luger added. The most serious counts carry maximum sentences of up to 20 years in prison, the U.S. Attorney’s Office told The Associated Press before the trial. But federal sentencing guidelines rely on complicated formulas. Luger said Friday that various factors will be considered. in determining what sentences prosecutors will recommend. Federal prosecutors said 39-year-old Jagdish Patel; his wife, Vaishaliben, who was in her mid-30s; their 11-year-old daughter, Vihangi; and 3-year-old son, Dharmik, froze to death Jan. 19, 2022, while trying to cross the border into Minnesota in a scheme Patel and Shand organized. Patel is a common Indian surname, and the victims were not related to Harshkumar Patel. The couple were schoolteachers, local news reports said. The family was fairly well off by local standards, living in a well-kept, two-story house with a front patio and a wide veranda. Experts say illegal immigration from India is driven by everything from political repression to a dysfunctional American immigration system that can take years, if not decades, to navigate legally. Much is rooted in economics and how even low-wage jobs in the West can ignite hopes for a better life. Before the jury’s conviction on Friday, the federal trial in Fergus Falls, Minnesota, saw testimony from an alleged participant in the smuggling ring, a survivor of the treacherous journey across the northern border, border patrol agents and forensic experts. Defense attorneys were pitted against each other, with Shand’s team arguing that he was unwittingly roped into the scheme by Patel. Patel’s lawyers, The Canadian Press reported , said their client had been misidentified. They said “Dirty Hary,” the alleged nickname for Patel found in Shand’s phone, is a different person. Bank records and witness testimony from those who encountered Shand near the border didn’t tie him to the crime, they added. Prosecutors said Patel coordinated the operation while Shand was a driver. Shand was to pick up 11 Indian migrants on the Minnesota side of the border, prosecutors said. Only seven survived the foot crossing. Canadian authorities found the Patel family later that morning, dead from the cold. The trial included an inside account of how the international smuggling ring allegedly works and who it targets. Rajinder Singh, 51, testified that he made over $400,000 smuggling over 500 people through the same network that included Patel and Shand. Singh said most of the people he smuggled came from Gujarat state. He said the migrants would often pay smugglers about $100,000 to get them from India to the U.S., where they would work to pay off their debts at low-wage jobs in cities around the country. Singh said the smugglers would run their finances through “hawala,” an informal money transfer system that relies on trust. The pipeline of illegal immigration from India has long existed but has increased sharply along the U.S.-Canada border. The U.S. Border Patrol arrested more than 14,000 Indians on the Canadian border in the year ending Sept. 30, which amounted to 60% of all arrests along that border and more than 10 times the number two years ago. By 2022, the Pew Research Center estimates more than 725,000 Indians were living illegally in the U.S., behind only Mexicans and El Salvadorans. Jamie Holt, a Special Agent with Homeland Security Investigations, said the case is a stark reminder of the realities victims of human smuggling face. “Human smuggling is a vile crime that preys on the most vulnerable, exploiting their desperation and dreams for a better life,” Holt said. “The suffering endured by this family is unimaginable and it is our duty to ensure that such atrocities are met with the full force of the law.” One juror Kevin Paul, of Clearwater, Minnesota, told reporters afterward that it was hard for the jurors to see the pictures of the family’s bodies. He said he grew up in North Dakota and is familiar with the kind of conditions that led to their deaths. “It’s pretty brutal,” Paul said. “I couldn’t imagine having to do what they had to do out there in the middle of nowhere.” Goldberg reported from Minneapolis.Aurora eyes addition to engineering contract for northeast side roadwork
Five New York City public employee pension funds, along with Oregon’s public employee retirement fund, allege that former chairman Rupert Murdoch and other Fox Corp. leaders deliberately turned a blind eye to liability risks posed by reporting false claims of vote rigging by election technology companies Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic USA. Smartmatic is suing Fox News for defamation in New York, alleging damages of $2.7 billion. It recently settled a lawsuit in the District of Columbia against One America News Network, another conservative outlet, over reports of vote fraud. Dominion also filed several defamation lawsuits against those who spread conspiracy theories blaming its election equipment for Donald Trump’s loss in 2020. Last year, Fox News settled a defamation lawsuit filed by Dominion in Delaware for $787 million. The shareholder plaintiffs also allege that Fox corporate leaders ignored “red flags” about liability arising from a 2017 report suggesting that Seth Rich, a Democratic National Committee staffer, may have been killed because he had leaked Democratic party emails to Wikileaks during the 2016 presidential campaign. Rich, 27, was shot in 2016 in Washington, D.C., in what authorities have said was an attempted robbery. Fox News retracted the Seth Rich story a week after its initial broadcast, but Rich’s parents sued the network for falsely portraying their son as a criminal and traitor. Fox News settled the lawsuit in 2020 for “millions of dollars,” shortly before program hosts Lou Dobbs and Sean Hannity were to be deposed, according to the shareholder lawsuit. Joel Friedlander, an attorney for the institutional shareholders, argued that Fox officials waited until the company’s reporting about Rich became a national scandal before addressing the issue. Similarly, according to the shareholders, corporate officials, including Rupert Murdoch and his son, CEO Lachlan Murdoch, allowed Fox News to continue broadcasting false narratives about the 2020 election, despite internal communications suggesting that they knew there was no evidence to support the conspiracy theories. “The Murdochs could have minimized future monetary exposure, but they chose not to,” Friedlander said. Instead, he argued, they engaged in “bad-faith decision making” with other defendants in a profit-driven effort to retain viewers and remain in Trump’s good graces. “Decisions were made at the highest level to promote pro-Trump conspiracy theories without editorial control,” Friedlander said. Defense attorneys argue that the case should be dismissed because the plaintiffs filed their lawsuit without first demanding that the Fox Corp. board take action, as required under Delaware law. They say the plaintiffs also failed to demonstrate that a pre-suit demand on the Fox board would have been futile because at least half of the directors face a substantial likelihood of liability or are not independent of someone who does. Beyond the “demand futility” issue, defense attorneys also argue that allegations that Fox officials breached their fiduciary duties fail to meet the pleading standards under Delaware and therefore should be dismissed. Defense attorney William Savitt argued, for example, that neither the Rich settlement, which he described as “immaterial,” nor the allegedly defamatory statements about Dominion and Smartmatic constitute red flags putting directors on notice about the risk of defamation liability. Nor do they demonstrate that directors acted in bad faith or that Fox “utterly failed” to implement and monitor a system to report and mitigate legal risks, including defamation liability risk, according to the defendants. Savitt noted that the Rich article was promptly retracted, and that the settlement included no admission of liability. The Dominion and Smartmatic statements, meanwhile, gave rise themselves to the currently liability issues and therefore can not serve as red flags about future liability risks, according to the defendants. “A ‘red flag’ must be what the term commonly implies — warning of a risk of a liability-causing event that allows the directors to take action to avert the event, not notice that a liability-causing event has already occurred,” defense attorneys wrote in their motion to dismiss. Defense attorneys also say there are no factual allegations to support claims that Fox officials condoned illegal conduct in pursuit of corporate profits, or that they deliberately ignored their oversight responsibilities. They note that a “bad outcome” is not sufficient to demonstrate “bad faith.” Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster is expected to rule within 90 days.Under the auspices of HE the Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim al-Thani, Qatar University (QU) organized the 7th International Conference on Entrepreneurship for Sustainability and Impact (ESI) under the theme "Redefining Business in the Era of the AI Revolution." The conference, which concluded Tuesday, brought together researchers, experts, entrepreneurs, and policymakers, who discussed over four days, innovation and entrepreneurship amid the profound changes driven by artificial intelligence. AI has revolutionised the business landscape, reshaping problem-solving and decision-making across industries. In this context, the conference gathers leading academics, experts, and entrepreneurs to explore the significant impacts of AI on various sectors. Topics include climate change solutions, the circular economy, AIs role in logistics and entrepreneurship, digital finance, retail, accounting, higher education, and more. Organised by the Center for Entrepreneurship and Organizational Excellence (CEOE) at the College of Business and Economics, the conference aimed to present actionable recommendations for policymakers and foster collaboration between academia and the private sector to address societal challenges, focusing on sustainability in alignment with Qatar National Vision 2030. The opening session that was attended by HE the Minister of Commerce and Industry Sheikh Faisal bin Thani al-Thani, a number of officials, and representatives of economic sectors. President of QU Dr Omar al-Ansari delivered a speech in which he pointed out the importance of adopting advanced technologies in business development. "QU reaffirms its commitment to fostering innovation and international entrepreneurship through knowledge generation that supports a sustainable, knowledge-based economy. We strive to prepare an innovative generation to address institutional and societal challenges while contributing to Qatar's sustainable development," Dr al-Ansari added. For her part, Dean of the College of Business and Economics at QU and the conference chair Dr Rana Sobh underscored the conference's role as a global platform for academics, experts, entrepreneurs, and policymakers to discuss cutting-edge innovations and strengthen ties between academia and various industries. "At the College of Business and Economics, we remain dedicated to advancing research and providing innovative solutions to societal challenges in line with Qatar National Vision 2030's emphasis on sustainability and innovation," she added. In turn, Director of the CEOE at QU and co-chair of the conference Dr Said al-Banna said: "This conference opens doors to exploring the evolving business landscape in the age of AI, attracting over 450 research papers from more than 50 countries. This global interest underscores the importance of integrating technology with sustainable business practices while preserving core human values amidst rapid technological advancements." Related Story 6th Qatar International Art Festival opens at Katara Over 600 healthcare professionals attend family medicine conference in DohaRanil’s ascent in the UNP to become PM after the Premadasa assassination
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