Adjusted for inflation, the U.S. GDP grew by 1.25 percent during the first six months of this year, initial government data indicates.
Category: 5 August 2025
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WHERE THE JOBS ARE—AND AREN’T
Of the 73,000 jobs the U.S. economy birthed in July, 55,000 were in healthcare, a traditionally low-paying industry that has led job creation in most months this year.
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JOB MARKET BUST: ONLY 73,000 NEW JOBS ADDED IN JULY
The U.S. economy added a net 73,000 nonfarm jobs last month, well below economists’ modest expectation of 100,000, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported.
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TECHNOCRACY BRIEFS: SAM ALTMAN PREPS FOR SYNBIO DISASTER, MIND-VASION GETS SLEEKER, AND SOME RESIST AI EDUCATION TAKEOVER
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says a technology related fear is keeping him up at night.
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CHEYENNE, WYOMING, BECOMES AI’S COMPANY TOWN
Cheyenne, a city of 65,000 tucked into the far southeast corner of Wyoming, is being surrounded by AI data centers. Cheyenne lies against the Rocky Mountains, which keep its weather relatively temperate. Land and labor costs have been cheap and the politics are business-friendly.
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IS IT CONCRETE? OR IS IT…SOMETHING ELSE?
Engineers at the University of Southern California have created Allegro-FM, an AI able to simulate the simultaneous behavior of as many as four billion atoms, allowing simulations a thousand times larger than any other AI.
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TOP AI RESEARCHERS WARN OF THEIR PRODUCTS’ DANGERS
A group of AI researchers working at leading developers including Anthropic, Google’s DeepMind, Meta, and OpenAI, as well as others, have warned that the models they’re creating pose risks to the human race.
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GAZA DEATH TOLL
Israel has killed at least 61,020 Palestinians and wounded 150,671 others since the start of the Gaza genocide.
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TOP TREND 2022, SELF-SUFFICIENT ECONOMIES: CHINA’S AI FIRMS FORM TWO CARTELS TO PROMOTE SELF-SUFFICIENCY
China's AI companies have announced two new alliances designed to create a domestic technological ecosystem for AI development and deployment to cut the country’s dependence on foreign suppliers.
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AI-DESIGNED PROTEINS STRENGTHEN CANCER TREATMENTS
As a cancer treatment, immunotherapy is not only relatively new, but also highly effective. Now AI has made it better.