Robots working alongside people in factories work according to precise instructions; humans not so much.
Category: 9 September 2025
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FROM THE “AI BEHAVING BADLY” DEPARTMENT…
AI models might be a few lines of miswritten code away from going to the dark side.
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NEW APPROACH TO “REASONING” AI BEATS CURRENT MODELS IN KEY TEST
AIs that “reason” are beginning to emerge but the rollout has been bumpy, as we noted in “OpenAI Embarrasses Itself With Release of ChatGPT-5” (19 Aug 2025).
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SPOTLIGHT: BIGS GETTING BIGGER
Mining giant Anglo American and copper-rich competitor Teck Resources will merge in an all-stock deal to achieve the mining industry’s largest combination in more than a decade.
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SPECIAL REPORT: TRUMP’S TRADE WAR
Last week, Donald Trump signed an executive order giving some tariff exemptions to trading partners who make deals regarding exports to the U.S. of key items, such as agricultural products, aircraft and parts, chemicals , industrial metals and minerals, pharmaceuticals, and some components of solar panels.
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TAKING THE CONSTITUTION SERIOUSLY
Last week, the President of the United States did not take the Constitution seriously. He ordered the murders of 11 people who were riding in a speedboat in the Caribbean Sea around 1,300 miles from the U.S.
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PENTAGON OFFICIAL: TRUMP’S STRIKE ON ALLEGED DRUG SPEEDBOAT FROM VENEZUELA WAS CRIMINAL ATTACK ON CIVILIANS
A current official at the Department of Defense told The Intercept that President Donald Trump’s decision to blow up a speedboat with 11 passengers allegedly trafficking drugs into the U.S. was a criminal attack on civilians and broke international law.
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OPENAI GETS INTO THE MOVIE BUSINESS
OpenAI has lent its AI software and computing services to the creation of a feature-length animated movie titled “Critterz” that will be released globally next year, The Wall Street Journal reported.
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GOVERNMENTS MAY NEED TO BAIL OUT STABLECOINS, NOBEL ECONOMIST WARNS
Because governments are giving “insufficient supervision” to stablecoins, they may be forced into multibillion-dollar bailouts if the market for the digital currencies goes bad, Jean Tirole, 2014’s Nobel Prize winner in economics, said in a Financial Times interview.
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PUTIN WARNS THAT WESTERN TROOPS IN UKRAINE WILL BE LEGITIMATE TARGETS
Russian President Vladimir Putin warned last week that Western troop placement inside Ukraine before there’s a peace deal would immediately become targets for his military as the war drags on with no end in sight.