Escambia delays decision on collecting CRA tax from Children's Trust Escambia requested the Children's Trust begin paying into its CRAs in March, but the Trust requested it be exempted from the requirement. 05/3/2024 - 9:35 am | View Link
State Tax Commission sends back Cole County assessment plan A matter of contention between Cole County commissioners and Cole County Assessor Chris Estes arose again Tuesday. The commission has been at odds with Estes for years for a variety of issues, ... 04/30/2024 - 10:00 pm | View Link
Futures Commission: Recycled tax-and-spend policies cloud city's bright future | Opinion Cincinnati leaders should reconsider how to free up money to pay for core government services without hiking taxes. 04/26/2024 - 2:55 am | View Link
Democrats are set to unveil their Colorado property tax relief plan this week. Here’s what’s in it. For last tax year, residential values skyrocketed an average of 40% across the state. The commission has struggled for months to come up with a proposal that reduces taxes enough to win over ... 04/23/2024 - 10:07 am | View Link
Sullivan commission OKs Westside TIF plan BLOUNTVILLE — The Sullivan County Commission unanimously approved throwing its support behind a tax increment financing plan for an auto dealership planned on the site of Westside Inn. 04/17/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
With summer movie season upon us, theaters are looking to draw crowds with a new interactive lobby attraction.
A long line to get into the theater is fairly standard for a hot movie in its opening weekend. A long line just to engage with a film’s lobby display, however, is not standard at all.
The housing market saw a 30% increase in active inventory in April, but that’s still 35% below pre-pandemic levels.
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In the past few days, you may have noticed something new inside Meta’s apps, including Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp: an artificially intelligent chatbot.
Within those apps, you can chat with Meta AI and type in questions and requests like “What’s the weather this week in New York?” or “Write a poem about two dogs living in San Francisco.” The assistant will come up with responses immediately, such as “The corgi was short, with a butt so wide, the lab was tall, with a tongue that would glide.” You can also instruct Meta AI to produce pictures — like an illustration of a family watching fireworks.
This is Meta’s response to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, the chatbot that upended the tech industry in 2022, and similar bots including Google’s Gemini and Microsoft’s Bing AI.
Builders are finally making a dent in the state’s housing shortfall, especially for apartments. But home prices and mortgage rates continue to outpace income gains, and affordability is worsening rather than improving.
“The story with interest rates is that they are only exacerbating the problem,” said Steven Byers, chief economist with the Common Sense Institute in Denver.
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — On a Monday morning last month, tech executives, engineers and sales representatives from Amazon, Google, TikTok and other companies endured a three-hour traffic jam as their cars crawled toward a mammoth conference at an event space in the desert, 50 miles outside Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
The lure: billions of dollars in Saudi money as the kingdom seeks to build a tech industry to complement its oil dominance.
To bypass the congestion, frustrated eventgoers drove onto the highway shoulder, kicking up plumes of desert sand as they sped past those following traffic rules.
A high school athletic director in Maryland has been accused of using artificial intelligence to impersonate a principal on an audio recording that included racist and antisemitic comments, authorities said last month.
Authorities said the case appears to be among the first of its kind in the country and called for new laws to guard against the technology.