The U.S. is expected to follow the United Kingdom’s lead and provide the Ukrainian military with tank rounds with depleted-uranium rounds that can pierce the coat of Russian tanks but raise health concerns for people in areas these munitions are used.
Bitcoin has lost 60 percent of its value after peaking in November 2021. The FTX crypto exchange spectacularly collapsed last November, vaporizing billions of dollars in clients’ holdings. The U.S. is suing exchanges Binance and Coinbase.
Call it more Chokepoint, or crippling “regulation by enforcement”, but the Securities and Exchange Commision (SEC) suing Binance and Coinbase in the space of two days galvanized crypto supporters and Congress last week.
It’s all about decentralization and putting users in control of their data and assets. That’s how Ryan Wyatt of Polygon Labs explained the fundamental importance of blockchain technologies to members of Congress this past week.
While other governments are deliberating how best to regulate AI, China’s leaders are already at work shutting down websites and arresting suspects.
Well, that trend forecast didn’t take long.
On 4 April 2023, in “AI, THE PERFECT AGENT TO REWRITE HUMAN HISTORY,” we predicted that AI would be considered the “perfect agent” to rewrite human history and works of literature.
A joint military project among Australia, the U.K., and U.S. has made an initial test of a swarm of drones equipped with AI.
Artificial Intelligence advising government pols and bureaucrats?
It’s something The Trends Journal predicted well before Microsoft’s announcement this past week that it was making a gov-compliant edition of its cutting edge generative ChatGPT (pioneered by Microsoft partner OpenAI) available to its Federal clientele. (See “THE AI LEGISLATOR YOU DIDN’T VOTE FOR,” 23 Aug 2022.)
In studying the impact of AI on phone jockeys at a Fortune 500 company’s customer service call-in center, researchers from Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that newer workers benefited the most.
Two naturally occurring substances have been shown in studies to retard, and perhaps reverse, aging in test animals.