ECONOMIC UPDATE—MARKET OVERVIEW

ECONOMIC UPDATE—MARKET OVERVIEW

Go to the $6 weekend print edition of The Wall Street Journal... couldn’t find an article that gold prices spiked to new highs and closed at $3,225 per ounce. As we go to press, gold is up some $22 per ounce and spot gold is selling $3,231 per ounce.

FOREVERLAND: THE BRAIN UPLOAD IS NEARER

FOREVERLAND: THE BRAIN UPLOAD IS NEARER

Transhumanist Ray Kurzweil, who famously authored 2005’s The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology, has long predicted and wished for “immortality” via technology which would copy human minds into digital form.

Global Economy

SPOTLIGHT: BIGS GETTING BIGGER

SPOTLIGHT: BIGS GETTING BIGGER

When Donald Trump won the race to the White House back in November, there were high expectations that the equity markets would spike, the value of the dollar would rise and it would be high times for the Merger and Acquisition Gang.

SPOTLIGHT: CHINA’S AUTO INDUSTRY ON THE RISE

SPOTLIGHT: CHINA’S AUTO INDUSTRY ON THE RISE

Last month, retail auto sales in China leaped up 14.4 percent to 1.94 million vehicles, 40 percent more than in February and marking the greatest increase in any March since 2015, according to the China Passenger Car Association (CPCA).

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GOING OUT OF BUSINESS TRENDS

The economic landscape has presented an array of challenges that will profoundly affect the business community this year. 

The Israel War

Displaced Palestinian Families Flee With Car Loaded With Their possessions

GAZA DEATH TOLL

The IDF continued its massacre across Gaza last week—bringing the enclave's death toll to 50,983, with 116,274 injured. The Israeli military has killed more than 1,600 since the collapse of the ceasefire deal last month. 

Trends in AI

FROM THE “AI BEHAVING BADLY” FILE…

FROM THE “AI BEHAVING BADLY” FILE…

Large language model AIs have been known to “hallucinate”—make up things out of thin air. Now researchers at the Center for AI Safety and Scale AI (CASSA) have discovered that AIs also will deliberately lie if they feel pressured to do it.

Hi-Tech Science

The above are just a few of the many articles in the latest Trends Journal. CLICK HERE for the full edition.

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