Ursula von der Leyen, the head of the European Commission, said the EU needs to come together to ramp up weapon production because the world has become a much “rougher” place.
Category: 20 February 2024
UKRAINE MP: NO NATO, WE MUST GO NUCLEAR
Alexey Goncharenko, a Ukrainian MP, said Ukraine must obtain a nuclear weapon—or produce one itself—if it stands a chance against Russia.
MINING VENTURE USES AI TO PINPOINT MAJOR COPPER DEPOSIT
KoBold Metals, a Californian mining venture that counts Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates as investors, has used AI to locate a major copper deposit in Zambia.
DIRECT HIT: CREW ABANDONS BELIZE-FLAGGED CARGO SHIP AFTER HOUTHI MISSILE STRIKE OFF YEMEN
The Houthis continued its push to end Israel’s genocide in Gaza and successfully struck a Belize-flagged cargo ship in the Gulf of Aden with at least one missile—crippling the ship that may eventually sink to the bottom.
GOOGLE PLEDGES €25 MILLION TO EMBED AI IN EUROPE
Google has pledged €25 million, equivalent to about $27 million, to help people and businesses in Europe learn to use AI.
AI: SHOW ME THE MONEY
AI is starting to make money for companies other than Microsoft and Nvidia.
ISRAEL WON’T ACHIEVE ABSOLUTE VICTORY OVER HAMAS: ISRAELI INTEL
Even if the Israeli military crushes Hamas’s organized military force in Gaza, the “terror group and a guerrilla group” will survive, according to Israeli intelligence.
LOVE AMONG THE ONES AND ZEROS
As loneliness and social isolation are being recognized as a public health issue in developed countries, AI is fielding squads of romantic partners to bring warmth to a chilly world.
BIBI REJECTS CALL FOR A TWO-STATE SOLUTION
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu repeated Friday that there will be no Palestinian state as long as he’s in charge, a slap in the face for the Biden administration and war whores in Congress who have said a two-state solution is the only way to achieve true peace in the region.
GOOGLE’S DUCKIE NOW JOINED BY “GOOSE”
Duckie, Google’s internal chatbot for its employees, has been joined by “Goose,” an AI that has been “trained on the sum total of 25 years of engineering expertise at Google,” according to an internal company document.