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Morningstar, Inc. Increases Quarterly Dividend to 45.5 Cents Per ShareNEW YORK, Dec. 06, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Insight Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ: INAQ) announced today that its stockholders have approved an extension of the time period by which the Company has to consummate an initial business combination (the “Business Combination Period”) from December 7, 2024, to March 7, 2025 (the "Extended Termination Date"). The extension was made through the adoption of the Fourth Extension Amendment to the Company’s amended and restated certificate of incorporation (the “Charter”), which was filed today with the Delaware Secretary of State. Adoption of the Fourth Extension Amendment required approval by the affirmative vote of at least 65% of the Company’s outstanding shares of common stock. The proposal was approved by the Company’s stockholders holding 4,950,037 shares, representing approximately 75.93% of the Company's outstanding shares of common stock. About Insight Acquisition Corp. Insight Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ: INAQ) is a special purpose acquisition company formed solely to effect a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses. Insight Acquisition Corp. is sponsored by Insight Acquisition Sponsor LLC. For additional information, please visit insightacqcorp.com. About Alpha Modus Alpha Modus is engaged in creating, developing and licensing data-driven technologies to enhance consumers' in-store digital experience at the point of decision. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Cornelius, North Carolina. Alpha Modus is party to a business combination agreement with Insight Acquisition Corp. ( INAQ ) whereby Alpha Modus plans to become a publicly trading company (the “Business Combination”). For additional information, please visit alphamodus.com . Contacts: Insight Acquisition Corp. Chelsea Saffran csaffran@Insightacqcorp.com Alpha Modus Shannon Devine MZ Group +1(203) 741-8841 shannon.devine@mzgroup.usJust six in ten voters believe Sir Keir Starmer will still be Prime Minister at the end of 2025 following a disastrous start for his government. And there is deep gloom about the state of the economy with almost six in ten expecting the UK to enter recession next year. However voters also have little confidence in Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch, with only half expecting her to remain as leader of the opposition for the next 12 months according to exclusive polling by Ipsos. Some Labour MPs are already discussing the possibility of Sir Keir quitting Number 10 instead of staying to fight the next election with Health Secretary Wes Streeting and Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner touted as potential replacements. The survey found 61 percent of voters believe it is fairly or very likely that Sir Keir will still be Prime Minister by the end of neat year. Labour’s first six months in office following July’s election victory have been dominated by rows over means-testing winter fuel payments and increases to employer National Insurance contributions. Party insiders argue that the Government has also made progress delivering on manifesto commitments such as re-nationalising rail services, improving buses, giving more rights to renters and improving employment laws, but fear the party is failing to communicate its successes. The new year will see an attempt to shift away from gloomy messaging on the economy with the introduction of new laws designed to strengthen community policing, step up border security and build more homes. However one Labour MP critical of Sir Keir said: “We came into power without a plan and I don’t think Keir ever really wanted to be Prime Minister. He thought he would be the person to rebuild the party after all the damage when Jeremy Corbyn was leader, and then someone else would actually win an election.” Insiders also fear Chancellor Rachel Reeves will take the blame for the struggling economy, despite her efforts to pin responsibility on a “black hole” in the public finances inherited from the Conservatives . Office for National Statistics figures have shown the economy contracted by 0.1 percent in October following a similar fall in September and inflation is above the 2 percent target at 2.6 percent, making cuts in interest rates unlikely until it falls. The Ipsos polling shows voters are pessimistic about the economy with 57 percent of voters expect the UK to be in recession next year. One expert said the economy is in fact likely to improve, but voters may not feel richer as a result. Julian Jessop, Economics Fellow at the Institute of Economic Affairs said: “The economy is probably already in a recession in terms of output per head, but growth should resume next year. “Most people will still see their incomes rise faster than prices, and the increases in public spending will offset at least some of the weakness in the private sector. “Nonetheless, this may continue to feel like a recession for many small businesses, and to people struggling to pay higher mortgages or worried about keeping their jobs.” Conservatives hoping to capitalise on Labour’ woes are in a battle with Nigel Farage ’s Reform UK, which last week claimed it had overtaken the Tories on membership numbers with 131,680 members now signed up. Ms Badenoch insisted this was “not true”, saying the Conservative Party “has gained thousands of new members” since she became leader. Reform hope to make gains in May’s local elections but strategists believe they may reach a “tipping point” in 2026 if they can beat the Conservatives in elections for both the Welsh Assembly, where polls suggest they may come top, and Scottish Parliament, where current polling suggests Reform could finish third behind the SNP and Labour. But Reform also hopes to strike a blow to Labour in by-elections in 2025. A Reform source said: “We are the one party that can appeal to both Tory heartlands and Labour heartlands.”
3 things about the iShares S&P 500 ETF (IVV) every smart investor knowsNew Delhi, The country's private telecom operators face twin challenges on investment recovery in the New Year – customers leaving their network after tariff hikes and satellite players mainly Elon Musk's Starlink eyeing a chunk of their bread and butter data business. Private operators have invested around ₹ 70,000 crore in telecom infrastructure and radiowave assets this year to expand the coverage of next-generation 5G services which is one of the main highlights of 2024 for the sector. To recover investments and protect margins, private telcos resorted to tariff hikes in mid-year but that move backfired. Around 2 crore subscribers dropped their connections. Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea jointly lost 2.6 crore customers due to a 10-26 per cent price hike. Around 68 customers switched to state-run player BSNL which refrained from price hike. The loss-making PSU still offers generation-old 3G service and is on the path of rolling out 4G network across the country. Despite subscriber loss, private players need to recover investment and invest more in 5G to offer new-age services to drive future growth. According to EY India Markets and Telecom leader Prashant Singhal, the cumulative investment of Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea was around ₹ 70,200 crore in 2024. Digital Infrastructure Providers Association Director General Manoj Kumar Singh says the telecom infrastructure sector looks at a cumulative investment of ₹ 92,100 crore to ₹ 1.41 lakh crore in 2022-2027 to support the 5G ecosystem. Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia also backed telecom operators on the tariff hike issue citing investments made by companies in the network. The rollout of 5G services in 2024 has paved the way for the adoption of emerging technologies like artificial intelligence which offers huge growth potential. "5G deployment has been a game-changer. We've witnessed a significant surge in 5G base transceiver stations, rising from 412,214 in December 2023 to 462,854 by November 2024,” says DIPA, whose members include Indus Towers and American Tower Corporation. Impending huge investments in 5G and maintaining healthy margins in the face of subscriber loss are not the only challenges for private telecom players. A new threat from satellite broadband service providers is staring at private telcos in the New Year. The satellite broadband sector has seen intense lobbying on the spectrum allocation issue in 2024. Private telecom operators led by Mukesh Ambani-promoted Jio have been for strongly protesting against the administrative allocation of spectrum to satellite broadband service providers like Elon Musk's Starlink. Telcos fear that allocation of radiowaves to satellite broadband providers without auction will come at a low price and make a dent in their data subscriber market share. The government's decision to allocate satcom spectrum without auction also saw political mud-slinging with opposition members equating the move with 2G spectrum case. As per the Comptroller and Auditor General of India , 2G spectrum allocation caused a notional loss of ₹ 1.76 lakh crore to the national exchequer. Scindia said the country cannot forget the "2G scam" a blot on the country's history. "A scam that not just led to a colossal loss of ₹ 1,76,645 crore to the exchequer, but also gave government-corporate collaboration its worst name, a.k.a crony capitalism," he said on X. The minister reiterated that even administrative allocation of spectrum to satcom players will be done at a price recommended by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India . Indian Space Association Director General AK Bhatt has batted for expeditious allocation of satcom spectrum, saying it would help satcom players start their services in India as soon as possible and bring the unconnected areas under the coverage. According to analysts, satcom players’ entry may delay mobile services tariff hikes by telcos and new entrants may trigger another round of price war which may push the sector into another round of financial stress as well as lower investments in the network. Private players like Vodafone Idea are already ridden under huge debt. It has awarded a ₹ 30,000 crore contract to Nokia, Ericsson and Samsung for the supply of 4G and 5G network equipment for three years. GX Group CEO Paritosh Prajapati says that the investment in the Indian telecom sector will continue as operators are looking to improve their network. EY India Markets and Telecom leader Prashant Singhal cautions that it is crucial for the telecom industry to find a balance between tariff rationalisation to recover their investments without compromising on subscribers' experience. "Telecom companies should not ignore low paying customers and it is very much required to include them in the data-led digital economy as per government mission of inclusive development. Operators also need to invest in building infrastructure on which the entire digital economy including start-ups, e-commerce are thriving," says Singhal. According to a joint report by Google, Temasek and Bain & Company, India's internet economy alone is expected to register a six-fold growth and touch about ₹ 80 lakh crore by 2030. The report estimated that India's internet economy was in the range of ₹ 12.86 lakh crore to ₹ 14.5 lakh crore in 2022. Singhal said that internet companies or the new age businesses are generating high margins and their corporate social responsibility funds can be used for building rural and remote networks where returns are low for telecom operators. Telecom industry body COAI has been pushing for revenue sharing with foreign big tech companies like Google, Amazon, Facebook, WhatsApp etc as videos, images and other content on these platforms are estimated to consume 80 per cent bandwidth. "The massive traffic created by LTGs has significantly strained telecom networks, compelling TSPs to invest an additional ₹ 10,000 crore in infrastructure in 2023, according to our study. “While TSPs bear these costs, LTGs, without contributing, amass multiple incomes through subscriptions, ads and data-driven marketing, with revenues largely outside India's tax ambit," COAI Director General SP Kochhar said. He said that telcos also faced the blow of equipment theft as well during the year. Telecom equipment theft has emerged as a major issue affecting Indian TSPs, incurring an estimated ₹ 800 crore in losses already, causing major disruptions in 4G/5G expansions and impacting the quality of mobile services, Kochhar said. Also, the year 2024 ends with the unsolved menace of pesky and fraud calls with scamsters powered by high-speed 5G networks devising new strategies like digital arrest, misusing AI to extort money. This article was generated from an automated news agency feed without modifications to text.
I f 2024 was the year of large language models (LLMs), then 2025 looks like the year of AI “agents”. These are quasi-intelligent systems that harness LLMs to go beyond their usual tricks of generating plausible text or responding to prompts. The idea is that an agent can be given a high-level – possibly even vague – goal and break it down into a series of actionable steps. Once it “understands” the goal, it can devise a plan to achieve it, much as a human would. OpenAI’s chief financial officer, Sarah Friar, recently explained it thus to the Financial Times : “It could be a researcher, a helpful assistant for everyday people, working moms like me. In 2025, we will see the first very successful agents deployed that help people in their day to day.” Or it’s like having a digital assistant “that doesn’t just respond to your instructions but is able to learn, adapt, and perhaps most importantly, take meaningful actions to solve problems on your behalf” . In other words, Miss Moneypenny on steroids. So why are these automated Moneypennys suddenly seen as the next big thing? Could it have something to do with the fact that the tech industry has spent trillions of dollars building colossal LLMs with – as yet – no plausible return on that investment in sight? That’s not to say that LLMs are useless; for people whose work involves language they can be really helpful. And computer programmers find them very useful. But for many industries, at the moment they still look like a solution in search of a problem. The arrival of AI agents may change that. Using LLMs as the basic building-blocks of virtual agents that can efficiently carry out many of the complex task-sequences that constitute “work” in organisations everywhere might prove irresistible. Or so the tech industry thinks. And so, of course, does McKinsey, the mega-consultancy that provides the subliminal hymn sheet from which CEOs invariably sing. Agentic AI, burbles McKinsey , “is moving from thought to action” as “AI-enabled ‘agents’ that use foundation models to execute complex, multistep workflows across a digital world” get adopted. If that is indeed what is going to happen, then we may need to rethink our assumptions about how AI will change the world. At the moment we are mostly obsessed about what the technology will do to either individuals or humanity (or both). But if McKinsey & Co are right then the more profound longer-term impact might come through the way AI agents change corporations – which, after all, are really machines for managing complexity and turning information into decisions. The political scientist Henry Farrell, an astute observer of these things, has sussed this possibility. LLMs, he argues , “are engines for summarising and making useful vast amounts of information”. Since information is the fuel on which large corporations run, they will adopt any technology that provides a more intelligent and contextual way of handling information – as opposed to the mere data that they currently process . So, says Farrell, corporations “will deploy LLMs in ways that seem dull and technical, except to those immediately implicated for better or worse, but that are actually important. Big organisations shape our lives! As they change, so will our lives change, in a myriad of unexciting seeming but significant ways.” At one point in his essay, Farrell likens this “dull and technical” transformative impact of LLMs to the way the humble spreadsheet reshaped large organisations. This provoked a genteel outburst from Dan Davies, an economist and former stock analyst whose book The Unaccountability Machine was one of the nicest surprises of this year. He points out that spreadsheets “made a whole new style of working possible for the financial industry in two ways”. First, it enabled the creation of much bigger and more detailed financial models, and therefore a different way of budgeting, compiling business plans, assessing investment options, etc. And second, the technology enabled one to work iteratively. “Rather than thinking about what assumptions made the most business sense, then sitting down to project them, Excel [Microsoft’s spreadsheet product] encouraged you to just set out the forecasts, then sit around tweaking the assumptions up and down until you got an answer you could live with. Or, for that matter, an answer that your boss could live with.” The moral of that story is clear. The spreadsheet was a revolutionary technology when it first appeared in 1978, just as ChatGPT was in 2022. But now it’s a routine, integral part of organisation life. The advent of AI “agents” built from GPT-like models looks like following a similar pattern. In turn, the organisations that have absorbed them will also evolve. And then the world may eventually rediscover that famous adage attributed to Marshall McLuhan’s colleague John Culkin: “We shape our tools and then the tools shape us.” Talking economics Transcript of a fascinating interview with the remarkable economist Ha-Joon Chang, on economics, pluralism and democracy. AI or A-nay “The phoney comforts of AI scepticism” is a vigorous essay by Casey Newton on the two “camps” in the arguments about AI. What Trump did next “I have a cunning plan...” Charlie Stross’s blogpost is a sketch for a truly dystopian story about the aftermath of Trump’s inauguration.He was already a middle-class icon, his economic reforms a decade old, the license-raj of socialist India gradually giving up the ghost. Almost fortuitously, I was to speak at a function, arranged by an NGO. One of the other speakers was Dr Manmohan Singh, then leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha. The organisers had invited my editor-in-chief, and he, being Kolkata-based, had passed it on to my reticent resident editor in New Delhi, who instructed me, then a member of The Statesman's bureau, to go ahead. After the initial speakers, a senior bureaucrat and then, a worldly gentleman who had "worked in government and in the private sector" and worked "in India and abroad," it was my turn. Using the data in the book/brochure the NGO was releasing, I pointed out that the funds appeared to be unequally divided, some regions or sectors were getting dollar (or Euro) showers, others had little to work with. Would this inequality, I wondered, lead to misuse? I used the word some NGOs have learned to despise: "lifestyle." In the audience, I sensed a ripple of antagonism. Finally, Dr Singh spoke. "I fully agree with Shri Chowdhury," he began. Dr Singh said he was aware of the inequality, and had spoken with his friend, the activist "Bunker" Roy about it. They had tried to find a way, tried to ensure the funds were more equitably distributed, but his and Roy's efforts had encountered resistance. And nothing, absolutely nothing, had changed. I called him the next morning, just to thank him, after being suitably warned that Dr Singh wouldn't come on the line. He did, incredibly,and thanked me for bringing up the issue and regretted he as finance muinister hadn't been able to do anything. That was my first conversation with Dr Singh; I didn't imagine I would be on his plane to Washington D.C. before the Indo-US nuclear deal was signed, and then to London, to Sapporo and to Tokyo, Manila and Hanoi. I wasn't ever close to him, but during every interaction whether in Rashtrapati Bhavan after investiture ceremonies, in Parliament or other places, he was polite, he was helpful, he was always a thoroughly decent man. There was Dr Singh, the unlikely warrior. On his way to Sapporo, Japan for the G7 meet (he would meet George W. Bush for the first time there), he literally marched out of his cabin and replying to my question, announced that the government had gone to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), necessary to ensure that the Indo-U.S. nuclear deal happened, after which the Left parties, supporting his government, walked out. It was an important moment, and perhaps without his insistence, the strategically-important deal wouldn't have happened. In the Oval Office in 2008, he told George W. Bush, "Mr President. Everyone in India loves you." He was referring to a newspaper opinion poll that said that Bush was the most admired foreign leader. Having heard that as one of the reporters present, I wondered, on air (I was working for TIMES NOW), what Prakash Karat and Sitaram Yechury of the CPI(M) would have to say about it. And this, when the Left was supporting his government. Even as PM, he was unfailingly modest. Which Prime Minister has ever called a cabinet colleague "Sir"?" He did, early on in UPA-1 and Pranab Mukherjee, then defence minister and later, President of India, replied: "You're the Prime Minister. You shouldn't call me "Sir." But the PM hadn't forgotten that when he was Governor of the Reserve Bank, Mukherjee was finance minister of India. The "Sir" came back again, this time in public. After Mukherjee's car had been hit by a truck on a highway in West Bengal and he was being brought to New Delhi, Singh was there to receive him at the R&R Hospital. "Sir. You've been badly injured," he exclaimed when Mukherjee arrived. Once, when there was considerable turmoil within the cabinet, both Dr Singh and Mukherjee were in the United States. Mukherjee went to New York to call on the PM. "What kind of Prime Minister are you? You've not said anything. You've not been supportive." Mukherjee, outraged, said to the PM. Later, he would tell me: "He is such a nice man. He was apologetic and I calmed down." Dr Singh could be patient, even when he didn't have to be. On a flight to the USA, as he began a largely impromptu press briefing, a disoriented journalist suddenly realised that the PM was before us. "I want to know about reform?" he loudly demanded. "We began the process in 1991," the PM began and replied to a question in considerable detail. Actually, he needn't have answered it. Disclaimer: These are the personal opinions of the author Get Latest News Live on Times Now along with Breaking News and Top Headlines from India Opinion, Opinion and around the world.
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Surveillance tech advances by Biden could aid in Trump’s promised crackdown on immigrationCustomers who don’t update their energy plans are paying about $317 more a year than those who shop around, according to an electricity price report released by the competition watchdog on Monday. Energy bills have been reduced nationwide, chiefly through federal and state subsidies, but the annual survey from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission found that households prepared to switch providers were saving 17 per cent more than their loyal counterparts. ACCC commissioner Anna Brakey says customers who have not changed electricity plans in the past 12 months are probably paying more than they need to. Credit: Oscar Colman The gap was biggest in Victoria, where loyal customers paid about 19 per cent, or $291, more on their annual energy bills than those who switched providers. In NSW, the difference was 15 per cent, or $297, while South Australians saw the largest dollar-value difference at $334. Flat-rate offers in these states and South East Queensland dropped in the year to August, sliding 4 per cent on average. The cost of “time-of-use” offers, which charge different rates based on when customers use electricity, decreased by 5.5 per cent, while those on demand offers – pricing plans that charge customers based on the maximum amount of power they use during peak times – saw the least benefit. Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) commissioner Anna Brakey urged customers to contact their electricity provider to ask if a cheaper electricity plan was available. “If you haven’t changed electricity plans in the past 12 months, chances are you are paying more for your electricity than you need to,” she said. Federal energy bill relief and rebates in Queensland, Western Australia and Tasmania also cut power bills. Electricity prices dropped 17 per cent in the three months to September, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics. The reduction in power bills, along with lower fuel prices, were major reasons for the fall in overall inflation to 2.8 per cent in the September quarter . Excluding the rebates, electricity prices would have risen by 0.7 per cent. Treasurer Jim Chalmers said the commission’s report showed the government’s efforts to take some of the sting out of electricity prices were making a meaningful difference. “Our energy rebates are an important part of the story here, but not the whole story,” he said, noting the increase in people shopping around for a better deal, stronger competition between retailers and better conditions in international energy markets. It comes as the major parties spar over the future of the energy sector. Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has made the contested claim that his $331 billion nuclear energy plan would be 44 per cent cheaper over 25 years than Labor’s plan to transition to a system substantially reliant on renewable energy. Cut through the noise of federal politics with news, views and expert analysis. Subscribers can sign up to our weekly Inside Politics newsletter .
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