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Q1 2019: US credit card issuer snapshot

Accenture

American Express renewed the Delta program through 2029; Synchrony renewed Payment Solutions relationships with P.C. Partnership developments. Richard & Son, Rheem, and Suzuki; Synchrony moved the Walmart portfolio into held-for-sale; Affirm launched its partnership with Walmart in stores (February 2019), and online (April 2019)?.

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AI Development Can’t Be Paused—But It Can Be Regulated

FICO

In 2017 Google principal researcher and AI visionary Ray Kurzweil predicted that the singularity would occur by 2045, and that computers would have human-level intelligence by 2029. Also in 2017 Altman blogged: As we have learned, scientific advancement eventually happens if the laws of physics do not prevent it.