Authored by Alan Cassels via The Brownstone Institute, O is for Obesity…. Back in the days, we saw a fat lady sing, Her song rich and lovely, our hearts would soon ring. And with her size so big, we silently mocked her,But we never thought once she should just see a doctor. But that has all changed. […]
Authored by Pepe Escobar, Whatever the barbarians may be potting, the fact that matters is that China is already deep into the next phase, where it is expected to replace the United States as the world’s primary consumer market. The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the […]
Authored by Lewis Liu via CityAM.com, Today’s AI systems fail badly in out-of-distribution scenarios, as shown by their inability to interpret real-world geopolitical crises. Large language models reflect the ideological biases of their creators, undermining claims of neutral “general” intelligence. The real economic opportunity lies in tightly governed artificial narrow intelligence, not in premature claims […]
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Over the past year, the Trump administration has emphasized the importance of artificial intelligence (AI) adoption to both “deliver the highly responsive government the American people expect and deserve” and help the Department of Defense “maintain its global military preeminence.” This effort builds on initiatives from the Biden administration and the first Trump administration, which encouraged agencies to experiment with AI […]
You might have thought it wasn’t possible, but leftist activist rhetoric has become even more unhinged than usual in the past month as ICE agents try to do their lawful jobs in Democrat controlled sanctuary cities like Minneapolis. During the Obama Administration, ICE carried out millions of deportations of illegal aliens without a peep from […]
Submitted by Mitchell Vexler, socialism is defined as a political system advocating that the means of production and distribution are owned or regulated by the community as a whole. Words that you may have heard of being representative of socialism are collectivism, communalism, communism, leftism, progressivism, Marxism, Bolshevism, Leninism, Trotskyism, welfarism, Maoism, neo-Marxism, social democracy, […]
Stocks sold off and gold hit a new record as trade tensions between the US and Europe erupted over Trump’s push to take control of Greenland (which we learn today is due to Norway’s snub of Trump for the Nobel peace prize). While US cash markets are closed for the MLK holiday, S&P futures dropped […]
Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft has evolved into a high-stakes dispute over whether OpenAI stayed true to the mission it was founded on or quietly outgrew it while relying on that original promise. Musk is seeking between $79 billion and $134 billion in damages, a figure derived from an expert valuation that treats […]
The Justice Department is investigating leftist Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey over an alleged conspiracy to impede federal immigration agents during deportation operations, sources familiar with the matter told CBS News. Sources say the probe centers on statements Walz and Frey have made about ICE and Border Patrol agents deployed to the […]
