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The Academy Award winner, actor, screenwriter, producer and Water.org co-founder joins CNBC’s Tania Bryer at the World Economic Forum in Davos alongside CEO & co-founder of Water.org, Gary White, to ...

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The world is a pretty complicated place. Just think about all the moving parts it takes to get sliced bread delivered, regularly, to your local grocery store and then apply that to every facet of life ...

Artificial intelligence is transforming how we cure disease, defend nations, and deliver goods. But the same technology driving this surge of innovation is also testing the limits of the system that ...