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December 19, 2023

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DEEPSEEK RECASTS CHINA’S AI INDUSTRY

Since announcing its open-source, world-class, cheap AI in January, DeepSeek has seen its technology restructure China’s AI industry.

SPECIAL REPORT: TRUMP’S TARIFFS, THE UPS AND DOWNS, FOR BETTER AND FOR WORSE

U.S. president Donald Trump has announced a 10-percent tariff on all goods entering the country and has custom-tailored higher rates on about 60 countries Trump sees as putting “unfair” tariffs, taxes, or regulatory restrictions on U.S. imports.

THE UNITED STATES HAS BECOME A TWO-TIER COUNTRY

I recently read an article by investigative historian Eric Zuesse, author of America’s Empire of Evil, that began “One of the core features of nazism (not the German political Party but its core ideology) is racism, which allows some ethnicities (or “races”) to be advantaged by law, and other ethnicities to be discriminated against by the law—it is, at its very core, AGAINST equal rights under law.”

A TOUGH NEW KIND OF PLASTIC THAT DISSOLVES IN SALT WATER

Plastics are useful to hold all kinds of things when you want them to but not so useful afterward. The strong bonds that make them unbreakable as containers also make them unbreakable when they’re trash.

ISRAEL RAMPS UP WAR AGAINST SYRIA AND LEBANON AS NETANYAHU VISITS WHITE HOUSE

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was in Washington on Monday to meet with President Donald Trump to discuss issues in the Middle East as his military continued to extend its reach in Lebanon and Syria.

NEW TEST SHOWS WHETHER AN AI IS LIKELY TO CAUSE “CATASTROPHIC HARM”

OpenAI’s engineers have assembled a suite of 75 very hard tests to determine whether an AI is capable of “autonomous machine learning engineering”—in other words, able to rewrite or otherwise modify its own code.

WAR ON CHILDREN: 100 CHILDREN KILLED OR INJURED A DAY SINCE GENOCIDE RESUMES IN GAZA, UN SAYS

The U.S.-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza—that resumed last month—is killing or injuring at least 100 children a day and turning the enclave into a “no land” for “young lives,” Philippe Lazzarini, the head of UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, said.

OPEC+ WILL BOOST OUTPUT IN MAY AS OIL PRICES TANK

Meeting on 4 April, two days after Donald Trump announced his tariff war, ministers from eight member countries of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and their allies (OPEC+) agreed to increase oil production by 411,000 barrels a day beginning next month.

MICROPLASTICS ACCUMULATE IN YOUR BRAIN MORE THAN OTHER ORGANS

Research shows microplastics become trapped in brain blood vessels when consumed by immune cells, leading to reduced blood flow and impaired cognitive function in mice.

TRUMP IS PREPARING TO BOMB IRAN, REPORT SAYS

The U.S. and Israel are planning to carry out a major strike on Iran that aims to eliminate the country’s nuclear program that the White House claims could be used to quickly develop nuclear weapons, Dan Hodges, a journalist for The Daily Mail, reported.

ISRAEL RAMPS UP GAZA GENOCIDE

The Israeli military asserted itself on the ground in northern Gaza last week as the IDF issued new evacuation orders amid its renewed bombing campaign across the war-torn enclave.

PRODUCTION BEGINS ON FIRST LIGHT-POWERED NEURAL COMPUTER CHIP

Production has begun on company Q.ANT’s light-powered neural processing unit. The company plans to deliver 1,000 in the next 12 months.

HARVARD COULD LOSE $9 BILLION IN FEDERAL FUNDING IF IT DOESN’T BOW TO TRUMP

The Trump administration announced last week that it would review about $9 billion in federal grants for Harvard as it looks into the school’s approach to dealing with antisemitism on campus, which one professor said was more a “dominance test” than an actual attempt to defend Jewish students.

LONDON POLICE RAID QUAKER BUILDING TO BREAK UP ANTI-GENOCIDE PROTEST GROUP

London’s Metropolitan Police last week carried out a massive raid at a Quaker meeting house in the city to break up a gathering of individuals preparing to protest the genocide in Gaza—in the latest move by the government to intimidate and snuff out any criticism of Israel as it butchers Palestinians inside the enclave.

AI DRUG DESIGN FIRM RAISES $600 MILLION

Isomorphic Labs, a spinout of Google’s DeepMind AI development arm, has raised $600 million in its initial funding round outside of the company.

PRINCETON LATEST SCHOOL TO SEE FUNDING STRIPPED FOR SUPPORTING FREE-SPEECH AND ALLOWING ANTI-GENOCIDE PROTESTS

New Jersey’s Princeton was informed by the Trump administration last week that the federal government will suspend funding for research grants during a probe into the school’s handling of alleged antisemitism on campus.

ECONOMIC UPDATE—MARKET OVERVIEW

As we had forecast, two of our Top Trends for 2025 are The Wild Card and The Trump Card, and day-after-day, those cards are being dealt. And who plays them and where they go, nobody knows.

A PLEA FOR ACTION AND AWARENESS: THE HYPER-DEBT BUBBLE AND THE COMING SYSTEM LOCK-UP

We, you and I, are standing on the edge of a global engineered event, the intentional locking up of the world financial system.

SPECIAL REPORT: TRUMP’S TARIFFS, THE UPS AND DOWNS, FOR BETTER AND FOR WORSE

‘NEUROMARKETING’ WILL PUT THE SQUEEZE ON YOUR MIND TO EAT GMO AND GE CITRUS

Researchers at the University Florida have been studying consumer attitudes concerning Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) foods and Genetically Edited (GE) foods.

Hundreds Of Americans Attend "Hands Off" Protests In Providence, Rhode,Island, And Across The Country

‘HANDS OFF!’ RALLIES BREAK OUT ACROSS THE U.S. TO PROTEST MUSK / TRUMP…NOT A PEEP ABOUT THE U.S.-BACKED GENOCIDE

There’s one thing that so-called conservatives and liberals in the U.S. have in common: they love Israeli genocide and, no matter how angry they could be about the other side’s domestic policies—they fall right into line when it comes to Israel.

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U.S. SENDS MILITARY ASSETS TO IRAN’S DOORSTEP

The United States military is rushing to send assets into the Middle East to bolster its forces amid its airstrike campaign on the Houthis and increased tensions with Iran over its nuclear program and support of the Yemeni group.

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Global Economy

SPOTLIGHT: BIGS GETTING BIGGER

Dealmakers are not waiting for Donald Trump’s policies of tax cuts and relaxed regulation to come into effect.

CAR MARKET UPSET: BYD SETS SALES RECORD, TESLA SLUMPS

BYD, China’s premiere maker of hybrid and electric vehicles (EVs), saw its sales rocket up 58 percent in this year’s first quarter, the company said. Sales of pure EVs rose 39 percent.

OPEC+ WILL BOOST OUTPUT IN MAY AS OIL PRICES TANK

The Israel War

Injured Palestinian Father And Son Sit In Front Of Demolished Building

GAZA DEATH TOLL

The death toll inside the enclave has hit 50,752 with thousands missing under the rubble.

The Israeli And Lebanese Flags Side By Side

ISRAEL RAMPS UP WAR AGAINST SYRIA AND LEBANON AS NETANYAHU VISITS WHITE HOUSE

Viktor Orban, Hungary's Prime Minister, Gives A Press Conferenece

HUNGARY EMBRACES GENOCIDE KING NETANYAHU, WITHDRAWS FROM THE ICC

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was enveloped in warmth during his visit last week to Budapest last week to meet with Hungary’s Premier Viktor Orbán—who announced that he withdrew his country from the International Criminal Court (ICC), which issued an arrest warrant for the Israeli for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in 2024.

Trends in AI

AI DRUG DESIGN FIRM RAISES $600 MILLION

Isomorphic Labs, a spinout of Google’s DeepMind AI development arm, has raised $600 million in its initial funding round outside of the company.

MICROSOFT HALTS DATA CENTER PROJECTS IN FOUR COUNTRIES

Microsoft has paused or scrapped data center construction projects in Australia, Indonesia, the U.K., and the U.S. states of Illinois, North Dakota, and Wisconsin.

OPENAI IS NOW AMONG THE WORLD’S MOST VALUABLE COMPANIES

OpenAI has closed a $40-billion funding round, the most money ever raised in one round by a tech company.

Global Economy

The Israel War

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