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Don't like ads? Go ad-free with TradeBriefs Premium US risks 'funding our own destruction' if investor capital flows to Chinese defense firms, key lawmaker says    Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wisconsin, has appealed to the Biden administration to introduce stricter curbs on US investment in China, according to a letter obtained by the Financial Times. In the letter to President Biden, he said new limits on US investments expected soon from a White House executive order should include Chinese public markets where stocks and bonds are traded — not just direct investments from private equity and venture capital funds. "If American capital continues to flow to Chinese military companies, we are at risk of funding our own destruction," Gallagher, who is chairman of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, later told the FT. Continued here You Might Like � � � � � � � � � How America's biggest retailers plan to use technology to catch organized retail theft    Artificial intelligence is rapidly taking root in almost every field, and though the balance between theoretical potential and productivity will only become clear over time, one new test is taking place in the world of big-box retail, where AI is being used in tandem with anti-theft technology to fight against a growing wave of organized retail crime. Large-scale theft of merchandise has been rising in the past few years, costing retailers billions in losses and endangering shoppers and employees, from the stores to distribution and in the supply chain. Walmart, Target, Lowe's, Kroger, Macy's, CVS and other major retailers are teaming up with technology companies to develop and deploy next-generation video surveillance systems, facial-recognition cameras, license-plate and vehicle readers, autonomous security robots, radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags, smart case locks and predictive analytic software. While versions of this type of security tech have been in place for years, they're now being superpowered by AI. Continued here With the Emmys Postponed, What's Next for This Year's Film and TV Tentpoles?    It's been a full three months since the Writers Guild of America (WGA) - the union representing film and television writers across the US - went on strike and several weeks since the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) joined their colleagues on the picket lines. And while the recent news that studios and writers would soon resume talks seems positive, it's impossible to overstate the effect that these strikes (and more to the point, the refusal by the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers [AMPTP], which bargains on behalf of the studios, to negotiate up until now) will have on this year's entertainment landscape. News broke last week that the 75th annual Emmy Awards would be postponed from their original date of September 18 to as late as January 2024; but what will happen with the other film and TV award ceremonies this season? Theatrical releases like Yorgos Lanthimos's Poor Things and Julio Torres's Problemista have already been delayed by the strike, but read on for a full breakdown of how this year's film festivals are being affected. This year's Venice Film Festival is chock full of high-profile projects. Despite the strike-related removal of Luca Guadagnino's tennis drama Challengers from its lineup, the festival appears to be moving ahead more or less as it was before the WGA and SAG strikes began in earnest. Union members are prohibited from doing promotional work for the movies they're in, meaning that this year's red carpet might be a little more desolate than usual, but Venice's dates haven't changed. (In other words, don't worry, creeps: The Woody Allen and Roman Polanski films slated to premiere in Venice will go on unbothered.) Continued here

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