Putin’s latest speech is one that should never have been made. With his ill-considered speech, Putin has lent his weight to U.S. neoconservative propaganda that he is in a weakened and challenged position and that the U.S. can win in Ukraine. With the Ukrainian forces essentially defeated, the fake news “mutiny” is precisely what the neoconservatives needed to keep the conflict alive, which is why Scott Ritter thinks Victoria Nuland might have instigated the “coup.”
On the surface, it has seemed a (sort of) positive development: the world’s largest asset manager, BlackRock, one of the largest U.S. based banks, Bank of New York-Mellon, and the largest U.S. crypto exchange, Coinbase, all working together to gain the greenlight for a Bitcoin Spot ETF.
A new report by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has moderated previous calls for outright bans of cryptocurrencies.
Using deep-learning neural net AI to mine public (and certainly other) data, and report on travelers to government agents?
On 22 May, a fake photo created by an artificial intelligence (AI) showing an explosion at the Pentagon was posted on Twitter. The image immediately went viral.
Bioscientist Kevin Esvelt at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology asked students to use Chat GPT, Google’s Bard, or any similar “large language model” AI to find a virus capable of launching a global pandemic and help them gather the elements needed to manufacture it.
ChatGPT and other generative artificial intelligences (AI) will add as much as $4.4 trillion a year to the global economy, according to a new study from the McKinsey Global Institute.
Borrowing a technique from plants, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania’s dental school have infused lettuce with the three proteins that make up insulin, the drug that controls symptoms of diabetes.
At the University of Cambridge, researchers have created a solar-powered reactor that can turn carbon pulled from the air into “syngas” or synthetic gas, a hydrocarbon that can be used as a fuel or chemical feedstock in a variety of manufacturing processes.
The world is running short of clean water at a time when the global population is growing.