Today is sci-tech day, but the only topic of much interest has to do with President Donald Trump and artificial intelligence. In a wide-ranging rant at the UN General Assembly in New York City yesterday, he suggested that AI be instead called superintelligence . Of course, he had a few other remarks . President Donald Trump said he was considering whether to “annihilate” Iran, called the U.S. economy “the envy of the world” and suggested a name change for AI, in a speech at the United Nations General Assembly. The wide-ranging speech came ahead of several anticipated meetings on the sidelines with world leaders, including his first with Venezuela’s interim president, Delcy Rodríguez, since the administration’s capture of Nicolás Maduro earlier this year. Today, Chinese President Xi Jinping is set to arrive in Washington, D.C., to meet with Trump to talk trade, Taiwan and A I. Trump later said U.S. envoys met with Iranian officials for three hours on the sidelines of the gat...
I was on my way to completing Part 3 of the series on My Family, when I instead thought I would rather today tell the story of Tony Bennett. About that title, he actually passed away in 2023, but if he lived, he would have turned 100 last month. Was born Anthony Dominick Benedetto in New York City in 1926. Father ailed, so the family grew up in poverty. Began singing at the age of 10, the year his father passed away. At 13 was a singing waiter in Italian restaurants in New York City. Drafted into the army near end of World War II, and spent some time in the European front line he would later described as a front-row seat in hell. Several times escaped death. Left the military as a Private First Class. Pearl Bailey and Bob Hope helped Tony get started in 1949, with Hope suggesting a shortened name, Tony Bennett. At the age of 24, signed to Columbia Records in 1950, with Mitch Miller producing and Percy Faith providing the orchestral arrangement, released in 1951 was Bec...