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President Donald Trump announced a $6.25 billion donation from Michael and Susan Dell to support the new Trump Accounts children’s investment program.AFP via Getty ImagesWhen Michael and Susan Dell announced a $6.25 billion pledge to create investment accounts for 25 million children in America—an initiative popularly known as “Trump Accounts”—the news generated a lot of excitement, and for good reason. Rarely do we witness an intervention that simultaneously touches family finances, economic development policy and the broader national savings rate. The Dells’ pledge is an act of philanthropy, but it’s also a macro-economic event.The gift expands President Trump’s Invest America…
The US Senate has two proposals to deal with the expiring ACA tax credits. The Senate is expected to begin voting on these proposals in mid-December. Both proposals have advantages and disadvantages that may lead to their passage or termination. This article examines the current state of the ACA’s health care subsidies and how these two proposals stack up.Existing ACA tax creditsThe current ACA health care subsidy tax credits are set to expire at the end of 2025. The amount of tax credit a taxpayer is eligible to receive depends on their income. According to the IRStaxpayers must make between…
HONG KONG, CHINA – 2021/12/11: A pro-democracy activist holds up a yellow banner with the message “Free all political prisoners” during a protest in Hong Kong. (Photo by Miguel Candela/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagesXin Ruoyua young mother in her thirties, violently disappeared in a Chinese “black prisonAround July 2024. She is being held extrajudicially, with the charges and length of her sentence unknown. Her alleged crimes were the creation of an app that provided users with access to Christian hymns, worship music and devotional material. To exercise her religious freedom, she was separated from her child…
Experts studying the changing and evolving designs of neural networks express interest in the idea of ”higher-order attentional mechanisms” to replace those used in artificial intelligence transformers to date.Earlier this month, a group of academic authors presented what they call “Nexus,” a solution to a hurdle in standard attentional mechanisms, which they claim “struggle to capture complex, multiple relationships at a single level.””Unlike standard approaches that use static linear representations for queries and keys, Nexus dynamically refines these representations through nested self-healing mechanisms.” they wrote. “Specifically, the query and key vectors are themselves outputs of inner attention loops, allowing tokens…
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A health savings account (HSA) can be used to cover out-of-pocket expenses with tax-advantaged savings.gettyThe IRS has released new guidance on health savings account (HSA) updates as part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA). OBBBA expanded HSA eligibility and updated high-deductible health plan (HDHP) rules.The guidance explains the changes and addresses questions related to telehealth services, bronzes, and catastrophic plans under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that are treated as high-deductible health plans (HDHPs) and direct primary care settings.What are HSAs?HSAs were established by the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003, which was signed into…
This game is big, heavy and very anime accurate.Ollie BarderOver the years, many great Dancouga toys have been made, but this is by far the most impressive and easily one of the greatestDancouga was an 80s super robot show where the main and titular Dancouga mech was formed from four main vehicles: the Eagle Fighter, the Land Cougar, the Land Liger, and the Big Moth.Each vehicle had three modes: mecha, vehicle, and mechanical beast. Most of the early episodes had the Cyber Beast Force team using their respective vehicles to deal with an alien invasion of Muge.Around fifteen episodes in,…
SAN JOSE, CA – MARCH 18: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang delivers a keynote speech during the Nvidia GTC artificial intelligence conference at the SAP Center on March 18, 2024 in San Jose, California. The developer conference is expected to showcase new chips, software and AI processor technology. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)Getty ImagesNvidia co-founder Jensen Huang has been a very positive influence on President Trump. The same person who has long said that the word “tariff” is one of the most beautiful words in the English language is hearing more and more of the free trader in Huang. Huang has…
Data analytics science and big data with AI technology. The Analyst or Scientist uses a computer and a dashboard to analyze information about complex data sets on the computer. Insights Development EngineergettyAs 2025 draws to a close, where do we stand with artificial intelligence in the supply chain? What is real? What is hype? What AI is Really Working in Supply Chain Software Vendor Solutions?Machine learning has been part of advanced demand forecasting for over 20 years. But these solutions have become more powerful, even creating daily forecasts at the SKU level. Demand management solutions that use machine learning perform…