Science is producing a longer and longer list of candidates to replace plastics made from petroleum and natural gas. Thanks to work by scientists at Northeast Forestry University in Harbin, China, bamboo’s version has just moved up in the rankings.
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TECHNOCRACY BRIEFS: PARASITE AI COMPANIES CONTINUE BLEEDING GEN Z
Whether by scraping their content and data without compensation, or by replacing them on entry rungs in the work world, AI companies are accelerating the exploitation and functional destruction of young workers.
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CHINA’S AI INDUSTRY TARGETS AFRICA
Two Chinese tech powerhouses have combined to stake their country’s claim to Africa’s AI industry.
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WALMART SIGNS WITH CHATGPT
Walmart has become the latest retailer to let shoppers buy products directly through ChatGPT without leaving the app.
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AI’S VOICE NOW SOUNDS ALL TOO HUMAN
On July 9, a woman sent $15,000 to someone she thought was her daughter, who was on the phone crying that she’d been in an accident and needed the money to stay out of jail.
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AN AI BECAME SELF-REFLECTIVE AND IMPROVED ITS PERFORMANCE
A coalition of AI scientists has trained an AI by Mistral, a French developer, to think before it speaks. Taking that pause has improved the AI’s ability to use common sense and doubled its score on a math test.
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WHY CHATBOTS GUZZLE SO MUCH ENERGY
The rush to build electricity-sucking AI data centers has overwhelmed the energy industry, as we reported in articles including “AI’s Insatiable Appetite for Electricity” (16 Jul 2024) and “By 2030, AI Will Need More Electricity Than Japan, IEA Says” (6 May 2025).
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JAILED IN AMERICA FOR FREE SPEECH
In the aftermath of the murder of Charlie Kirk, many folks who dared to express views of him and his work outside the mainstream lost their jobs, professional standing and State Department visas as they were fired or otherwise disciplined by employers or bureaucrats who concluded that anti-Kirk views could harm the employers’ businesses or were inconsistent with institutional values.
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TRUMP JR CONTINUES TO MAKE SUCCESSFUL BETS: DRONE COMPANY WINS ITS LARGEST CONTRACT EVER FROM THE PENTAGON
Unusual Machines, a drone company backed by Donald Trump Jr., just won its biggest contract ever from the Pentagon to produce 3,500 drone motors and other equipment—with another order expected in 2026 for an additional 20,000 components, the Financial Times reported.
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HIDING THE EVIDENCE: ISRAEL REFUSES TO ALLOW INTERNATIONAL JOURNALISTS TO VIEW DESTRUCTION IN GAZA
A European human rights group accused Israel of continuing to stonewall international journalists from entering Gaza to prevent the world from seeing the atrocities and destruction caused by the IDF with the full backing of third states.