Just 19 percent of European Central Bank (ECB) employees think the bank “does a good job of promoting the most competent people,” a new Ipso survey found.
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CHINA’S AUTOMAKERS CONTINUE STRONG SALES IN APRIL
Coming off a robust first quarter, China’s “new energy” vehicle makers such as BYD and Xpeng reported strong sales continued through April.
GLOBAL CRYPTO PLATFORMS PLAN OFFICES IN U.S.
Encouraged by Donald Trump’s enthusiasm for digital assets and his administration’s moves to rescind strict oversight measures, cryptocurrency trading platforms are actively looking to open outlets for U.S. customers.
BLOCKCHAIN BATTLES
Democrats who formerly backed a major crypto legislative bill that included positive regulations to further dollar backed stablecoins are now stalling the measure in Congress.
THE PROBLEM WITH LOCAL CURRENCIES
In 2022, we were among the first anywhere in the world to forecast that weaponizing the dollar against Russia in the wake of the Russia Ukraine conflict would hurt dollar reserve currency status.
TECHNOCRACY BRIEFS: ‘JUNIOR PARTNER’ SYMBIOSIS IN FULL SWING
A recent article in Psychology Today put forward the idea that addressing problems with AI safety and “alignment” with serving human interests, might be solved by a “bold” new way of envisioning the integration of humans and AI.
SYNTHETIC DEVOLUTION: CRISPR BACON
Meat from gene-edited pigs may be the first widely consumed gene modified animal product in the U.S., now that the FDA has just approved it for sale.
BY 2030, AI WILL NEED MORE ELECTRICITY THAN JAPAN, IEA SAYS
When Chinese startup DeepSeek revealed its top-line AI was trained using far less money, and less electricity, than Western companies had used for theirs, some analysts and utility companies were briefly able to hope that AI will need less power in the future than projected.
AI DAMAGES TRUST IN ONLINE CONTENT EVEN MORE
On average, people think 59 percent of what they see on the Internet is factually inaccurate, outright false, or created by AI, according to a new survey of 2,000 U.S. adults by Talker Research.
GOLDMAN SACHS INVESTS IN AI MUSIC VENTURE
Goldman Sachs has bought a piece of Splice, a British audio library of riffs, vocal hooks, and other musical sounds that composers can rent to assemble pieces of music for as little as $13 per use.