As AI burst into the world less than four years ago, companies grabbed for large language models for fear of failing their investors and falling behind their competitors.
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U.N. WARNS OF CATASTROPHIC AI RISKS
Every four to seven months, AI models are doubling their ability to handle complex assignments, outpacing both government policies regulating them and their own designers’ understanding of them, according to a new assessment by the United Nations Independent International Scientific Panel on Artificial Intelligence.
COMPANIES USING AI THE MOST ARE HIRING THE MOST, STUDY FINDS
So far, AI boosters’ claims that AI will create widespread jobs haven’t come true except, it seems, in companies that are making the most use of AI.
DEMOCRATS PROBE INVESTMENTS LINKED TO TRUMP FAMILY
Democrats in the U.S. Senate are looking into investments related to the Trump family that would seem to profit from Donald Trump’s policy decisions.
SPOTLIGHT: BIGS GETTING BIGGER
German pharma colossus Merck is paying $11.3 billion for Bio-Techne, a U.S. firm providing biochemicals, instruments, and other research tools to the biosciences industry.
“WHICH IS BETTER – TO BE RULED BY ONE TYRANT 3,000 MILES AWAY OR BY 3,000 TYRANTS ONE MILE AWAY?” – REV. MATHER BYLES (1706-1788)
Does it really matter if the instrument curtailing liberty is a monarch or a popularly elected legislature?
NETANYAHU: IDF WILL STAY IN LEBANON UNTIL HEZBOLLAH NO LONGER A THREAT
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that the IDF will remain inside Lebanon for as long as necessary, and until Hezbollah is no longer a threat – which stands in contradiction of the memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed between Washington and Tehran as a framework to permanently end the war.
“THE AMAZON OF CHINA” WILL REPLACE DELIVERY PEOPLE WITH ROBOTS
JD.com, China’s equivalent of Amazon in the U.S., has signed contracts with 120 vocational schools to retrain its 700,000 delivery couriers, who are going to be replaced by robots, founder Richard Liu told the Financial Times.
AI WINS ITS FIRST LAWSUIT
Garfield AI, Britain’s first AI-based law firm approved by the U.K.’s Solicitors Regulation Authority, has won a lawsuit after using AI and no lawyers to prepare its case.
AI IS INFLATION’S LATEST DRIVER
Oil prices have fallen and Donald Trump’s tariffs have had less inflationary impact than expected, but inflation is alive and well thanks to the relentless buildout of AI infrastructure.









