Bezos Tackles AI, Trump at Code Conference and other top stories.

• Bezos Tackles AI, Trump at Code Conference

  

  RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif.—At the Code conference here, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos talked about how important intelligent agents and machine learning will be for the future of computing, along with his thoughts on where Amazon is going, the media controversies revolving around Donald Trump and Peter Thiel, and the importance of space exploration and development. When it comes to intelligent assistants like Amazon's Alexa assistant, which drives its Echo family, Bezos said artificial intelligence a..

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• US to Curb Payday Lenders

  

  WASHINGTON—The Obama administration will announce Thursday the federal government’s first move to regulate high-interest, low-dollar “payday loans,” a $38.5 billion market currently left to the states. The crackdown on the payday industry—largely storefront lenders extending credit to 12 million lower-income households paycheck to paycheck—follows a series of actions by President Barack Obama and his aides to cement a change in the...

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• McDonald's moving HQ to Oprah's old Harpo Studios digs

  

  Less than a year after pulling the plug on a potential move to downtown Chicago, fast-food giant McDonald's is near a deal to shift its headquarters to the former Harpo Studios campus in the city's Fulton Market district.McDonald's is in advanced negotiations with Sterling Bay to move its headquarters to well over 300,000 square feet in a structure the Chicago developer plans to build on Randolph Street, according to people familiar with the deal.The office development is planned on Oprah Winfr..

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• No flood related epidemic in Lanka: health official

  

  A senior official of the Sri Lanka’s ministry of health has assured that there are no epidemics in the country weeks after the floods and landslides ravaged the island leaving more than 400,000 people affected. Dr Palitha Mahipala, director general of health services, confirmed that the flood affected areas are free from epidemics, reports Colombo Page. Mahipala said 59 medical teams comprising doctors, nurses and dispensers were working in makeshift camps in the flood affected areas to provid..

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