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Category: 11 February 2025
SAM ALTMAN ADMITS AI IS NOT SPREADING THE WEALTH
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman pondered in a blog post this past week how to more widely spread the wealth being generated by fast advancing AI technologies.
GET DEEPSEEK, GET 20 YEARS IN PRISON?
The new motto in the U.S. when it comes to tech competition with China is: If you can’t beat them, ban them.
THE SINGULARITY AND THE SOUL
Of course mere humans will cede the critical decisions regarding our planet’s future to an Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI).
PHONE DATA SHOWS TIES BETWEEN U.S. DEFENSE SEC. AND THE MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX 2.0
Pete Hegseth, the new head of the Pentagon, has a Venmo account that shows close ties to members of the military-industrial-complex 2.0—from Palantir to Anduril—companies already with close ties to President Donald Trump and his administration.
HUCKABEE SAYS THERE’S NO SUPPORT FOR A TWO-STATE SOLUTION AMONG EVANGELICAL LEADERS
Mike Huckabee, U.S. President Donald Trump’s pick for Israel ambassador, spoke to All Israel about a 90-minute meeting he attended last week with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and 14 prominent Evangelical and how there was “recognition that there was no support for this continued, failed policy of a two-state solution.”
BITCOIN TO THE CORE: CAN IT REMAIN DECENTRALIZED, PRIVATE AND FREE?
One of the major attributes that Bitcoin advocates argue as a strength is the fact that no centralized entity owns the bitcoin network, or bitcoin software.
CHINA BLASTS U.S. ‘COERCION’ AFTER PANAMA BACKS OUT OF BELT AND ROAD DEAL
China was critical of the U.S. last week after Panama announced that it will back out of the Belt and Road initiative—blaming Washington for applying pressure on the country before its decision.
RUBIO FORCED TO BACKTRACK ON CLAIM THAT U.S. NAVY WOULD HAVE FREE ACCESS TO CANAL
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio had to walk back claims last week that—through hard-nose diplomacy—Washington was able to make Panama yell ‘Uncle’ and agreed to grant U.S. Navy ships free access to the Panama Canal that would have saved the Pentagon about $12 million a year.
TRUMP GIVES ORDERS TO OBLITERATE IRAN IF ASSASSINATED
U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters last week that he left his advisers' orders to obliterate Iran should the country assassinate him while he is in office—just while he announced a new “maximum pressure” campaign against his adversary to prevent Tehran from developing a nuke.