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How AI planning could create financial market fragility

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Wharton experts are raising concerns about AI-driven financial market manipulation and runaway technology in a new paper titled "Financial Market Fragility in the Era of AI Planning." Finance professor Winston (Wei) Dou, finance and economics professor Itay Goldstein and Hong Kong University finance professor Yan Ji demonstrate how AI planning technologies could pave the way for collusive trading and increase financial market fragility.

Earth may have formed much of its water as the planet grew

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Earth may have produced much of its water during the planet's formation, as rocky pebbles reacted with the hydrogen-rich atmosphere surrounding the young planet, according to new research published in Nature Geoscience. The findings offer a potential explanation for how Earth acquired one of the essential ingredients for life and suggest that similar water-producing processes could be common on rocky planets beyond our solar system.

Trump-appointed CDC deputy director to resign after six months on the job

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Jennifer Shuford is expected to leave her post after midterm elections ‘to spend more time with my family’

The deputy director and chief medical officer of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will resign after six months on the job, according to an agency email obtained by the Guardian.

Dr Jennifer Shuford was appointed by Donald Trump in April as part of a four-person senior leadership team.

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