Education stocks sold off last week after Chegg Inc., which publishes textbooks, study guides, and other learning materials, warned that the surge of students’ interest in the ChatGPT artificial intelligence (AI) was hurting sales and “having an impact on our customer growth rate,” CEO Dan Rosensweig said in a call with analysts.
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DISARM THE IRS, DE-MILITARIZE THE BUREAUCRACY AND DISMANTLE THE STANDING ARMY
“There are instruments so dangerous to the rights of the nation and which place them so totally at the mercy of their governors that those governors, whether legislative or executive, should be restrained from keeping such instruments on foot but in well-defined cases. Such an instrument is a standing army.”
—Thomas Jefferson, 1789
MORE THAN 200 PRESCRIPTIONS ARE KNOWN TO CAUSE DEPRESSION
Depression can stem from a wide variety of biological, psychological and environmental factors, including other medications. More than 200 drugs have depression as a listed side effect.
BLOCKCHAIN BATTLES
Beware of scams asking to connect to your browser extension crypto wallet.
They can drain your crypto before you realize what’s going on. And the scams can build whole authentic looking Twitter feeds (and / or other social media feeds) and websites around their ploys.
USING CRYPTO TECHNOLOGY TO DISTRIBUTE BENEFITS AND OVERSEE DEVELOPMENT OF AI
A just-published Magazine by Cointelegraph article, “How to control the AIs and incentivize the humans with crypto,” is positing crypto frameworks for developing and more fairly distributing the benefits of AI.
GOLD PRICE HOVERS NEAR ALL-TIME HIGH
Last September when gold prices were sinking, The Trends Journal forecast that prices had bottomed. As we go to press, spot gold is selling at $2035 per ounce.
A BATTERY TO FLY AN AIRPLANE
China’s Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Ltd. (CATL), the world leading manufacturer of lithium-ion batteries for vehicles, says it will soon begin mass-producing an “ultra-high density condensed battery” that can store twice as much energy by weight as Tesla’s state-of-the art 4680 battery.
DR. CHATBOT BETTER THAN HUMAN PHYSICIANS – ACCORDING TO HUMAN HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS
A study from the University of California San Diego (UCSD) asked physicians to write responses to actual human health questions, then compared their answers to those given by a ChatGPT artificial intelligence (AI) to the same queries.
ANOTHER STEP TOWARD A “FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH” PILL
A research team at the Chinese Academy of Sciences injected an extract from grape seed into elderly mice and found that the treatment increased their longevity by 9 percent, the equivalent of almost 7 extra years for a human.
ECONOMIC UPDATE—MARKET OVERVIEW
It’s a numbers game. And of course like most games, those dealing the cards can rig the game. Oh what wonderful news last week. With more jobs created than The Street anticipated, equity markets soared on the “news” that despite the Bankster Bandits raising interest rates for the 10th time in a row, nonfarm payrolls increased 253,000 for April.









