The following are some of the news items mentioned in the last few days:

  • On Ukraine war : US has contributed about 60B USD so far, with an additional 35B in financial assistance
  • EU to divert 95B euros in Covid funds for military
  • Google has built an AI lab assistant to help scientists accelerate biomedical research, as companies race to create specialised applications from the cutting-edge technology. They call it AI co-scientist
  • Disney has dropped DEI as a performance factor
  • BlackRock has canceled meetings with companies in the middle of shareholder battles because it fears that it could violate guidance on investor activism that the US SEC issued last week