On Wednesday, during a gathering at Mar-a-Lago attended by some of Donald Trump's closest associates, a speaker demanded, "Where is the George Soros of the right?" In a scene that an attendee captured on video, Elon Musk, the fifty-three-year-old South African-born billionaire who reportedly spent about a hundred and thirty million dollars to aid Trump's campaign and support other Republicans in competitive races, raised his arm. Amid loud cheers, the speaker declared, "God bless you, Elon. We are so, so grateful." Musk has claimed publicly that he has never asked Trump for any favors, and that Trump has not offered him any. Despite spreading misinformation on X, his social-media platform, and heavily financing the campaign of someone who plotted an autogolpe, he has also denied being a political extremist.

The Tao of Data Science column explores how centuries of philosophers have been tackling the key problems of machine learning and data science. Karl Popper is best known for the view that science proceeds by "falsifiability" -- the idea that one cannot prove a hypothesis is true, or even have evidence of truth by induction (yikes!), but one can refute a hypothesis if it is false. Suppose Popper was a modern data scientist and needed to implement a machine learning solution to predict some phenomenon of interest. Given his philosophy of science, how would he have proceeded to implement his model? Popper would implement a causal model.

George Soros, billionaire and founder of Soros Fund Management LLC, speaks at an event on day three of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, on Thursday, Jan. 24, 2019. George Soros, the billionaire philanthropist, issued a warning on Thursday that advancements in the field of artificial intelligence pose a "mortal threat" to humanity when they're made by repressive regimes, The Financial Times reports. The 88-year-old, who made his money in the hedge fund industry, reportedly made his comments during a "provocative" speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos. While China is not the only authoritarian state in the world, it is the most powerful and technologically advanced, Soros said. "This makes [Chinese president] Xi Jinping the most dangerous opponent of open societies," he said.

NEW YORK - Billionaire George Soros warned of the dangers of artificial intelligence in the hands of authoritarian regimes such as China and called President Xi Jinping "the most dangerous" opponent of open societies. "The instruments of control developed by artificial intelligence give an inherent advantage of totalitarian regimes over open societies," the former hedge fund manager said on Thursday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Soros said China is developing a centralized database that will use algorithms to determine whether a person poses a threat to the one party system. Soros, 88, has become an lightning rod for his political views and philanthropic efforts. A longtime supporter and financial backer of progressive causes and Democratic politicians, he's become a target of right wing activists.

The billionaire philanthropist George Soros has delivered a stinging attack on China with a warning that Xi Jinping's regime is using breakthroughs in machine learning and artificial intelligence to repress its people. Soros used his annual dinner at the World Economic Forum to say Xi was the most dangerous opponent of open societies and to call on the west to crack down on Chinese tech companies that he said were being used as a means of authoritarian control. "I want to call attention to the mortal danger facing open societies from the instruments of control that machine learning and artificial intelligence can put in the hands of repressive regimes. I'll focus on China, where Xi Jinping wants a one-party state to reign supreme," Soros said. 'The reality is that we are in a cold war that threatens to turn into a hot one' In the past, Soros has used his keynote Davos address to attack Donald Trump, and he again criticised the US president for his handling of China.

Facebook has admitted it used a controversial PR firm to "investigate" George Soros, a Facebook critic who is the subject of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. In a post that has since provoked an outrage of its own, Facebook admitted it used the Definers PR firm as part of an effort to discredit people who raised questions about whether it was good for society. Bosses including Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg had denied any knowledge that the firm had been hired or what it was doing. But now it has admitted the company had hired Definers to "do work" on Soros, following his criticism of the site at the start of the year. Uber has halted testing of driverless vehicles after a woman was killed by one of their cars in Tempe, Arizona.

Where can you find an unbiased, personal finance app that serves purely in your interests? An app that analyzes your bank accounts, your recurring subscriptions and your spending habits to figure out how to save you money? Clarity Money is cofounded by Adam Dell, Michael Dell's brother, and backed by some heavy hitters including the Soros Fund, Maveron Partners and Bessemer Venture Capital. Once you download the app and link your bank accounts, Clarity Money promises to analyze your accounts and make suggestions to save you money. It uses data science and machine learning to negotiate bills, create a savings account, find lower interest rate credit cards and/or personal loans, transfer money between accounts, and deliver actionable insights based on your spending patterns, credit score and credit cards.