US unveils another round of military aid for Kiev — RT World News

The Pentagon has announced an additional $275 million in weaponry for Ukraine, including HIMARS rockets President Joe Biden’s administration is spooling up yet another military aid package for Ukraine, announcing $275 million in additional weaponry to help Kiev fight Russian forces. The latest round of Ukraine aid is the 24th drawdown of Defense Department “defense … Read more

Film Independent Sets Producing Lab Fellows, Unveils Latinx Residency – Deadline

EXCLUSIVE: Film Independent has set Lexi Tannenholtz (Booger), Robert Colom (Mountains), Aya Hamdan (Out of Water), Shao Min Chew Chia (The Plutonians), Sabrina Stoll (Tiny Birds with Broken Brains) and Pin-Chun Liu (Wonderland) as the participants and projects for its annual Producing Lab, now in its 22nd year.  Film Independent’s Producing Lab is an intensive that looks to … Read more

Conversica Unveils Powerfully Human™ AI Capabilities That Transform Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success Teams and Make Bots Obsolete

Article content New Generation Revenue Digital Assistants™ Feature Major Advancements Built to Uniquely Fuel Revenue Growth; Scale Conversational Engagement with Real-Life, Two-Way Interactions FOSTER CITY, Calif. — Conversica, Inc., the leading provider of conversation automation solutions for enterprise revenue teams, today unveils the most humanlike AI advancements available to its Conversational AI platform. The new … Read more

Credit Suisse Unveils Massive Overhaul After Staggering $4 Billion Loss

Credit Suisse the second-biggest Swiss lender after UBS, said it would cut jobs and spin off its investment banking business as it reported a 4 billion franc ($4 billion) loss for the third quarter. The company also intends to raise $4 billion by selling shares as part of what Chairman Axel Lehmann dubbed a “blueprint … Read more

Germany unveils recreational marijuana plan — RT World News

The substance will be sold in licensed stores and produced locally under the Health Ministry’s proposal Germany has agreed to legalize the possession and supply of small amounts of marijuana in a “licensed and state-controlled framework,” German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach revealed at a press conference on Wednesday. Under the federal cabinet’s plan, licensed businesses … Read more

Renminbi hits 2007 low after Xi unveils harder line leadership

China’s renminbi has hit its weakest level against the dollar since 2007 as concerns over President Xi Jinping’s appointment of a harder line leadership team and a struggling economy spread from equities to currency markets. The renminbi, already hit this year by a widening interest rate differential with the US, fell as much as 0.6 … Read more

South African leader unveils anti-corruption plan, but doubts follow

South Africa’s president has introduced long-anticipated measures to tackle endemic corruption, subjecting even himself and his Cabinet to closer scrutiny of their personal spending and lifestyles. But some analysts question whether reforms that would help the government regain the trust of a fed-up public will ever be carried out. President Cyril Ramaphosa, speaking on national … Read more

Netflix Unveils ‘The Lying Life Of Adults’ Art — Global Briefs – Deadline

Netflix Unveils ‘The Lying Life Of Adults’ Launch; Teaser Art Netflix’s upcoming six-part Italian drama The Lying Life of Adults will launch on January 4, 2023. Teaser art for the Fandango-produced series has also been unveiled this morning. The drama, based on My Brilliant Friendcreator Elena Ferrante’s book of the same name, follows the life of Giovanna, as she … Read more

Xi unveils loyalist leadership team to cement consolidation of power

Xi Jinping officially secured a third term as the Chinese Communist party’s head and unveiled a new leadership team packed with loyalists, a day after orchestrating the removal of former rival Li Keqiang from the party’s top ranks and further consolidating his grip on power. In what is normally the climax of party congresses, held … Read more

Hong Kong unveils completed retail CBDC project that has a CBDC-backed stablecoin

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority presented its completed Aurum retail central bank digital currency (CBDC) prototype on Oct. 21. The system, developed in conjunction with the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Innovation Hub, has a unique structure that reflects the intricacies of the existing system for issuing money in Hong Kong. Aurum consists of a … Read more