Energy realism will make a comeback starting this week. It’s in the cards of President Donald Trump’s second go-around as President, and even California senses the jig is up.
Category: 21 January 2025
TRUMP MEME COIN: FIRESTORM THIS WEEK, FIZZLE NEXT?
So a President-Elect Trump officially endorsed meme coin hit the crypto trading markets last week, just days before his inauguration.
U.S. BLACKLISTS CHINA’S “OPENAI”
The U.S. government has listed Zhipu, China’s most prominent developer of large language AI models, among the Chinese companies U.S. firms are forbidden to do business with. Several of Zhipu’s affiliated companies also made the list.
A THIRD OF COMPANIES’ AI PROJECTS WILL BE SCRAPPED THIS YEAR, GARTNER SAYS
At least 30 percent of companies’ AI implementations will be abandoned this year after being tested, due to unexpectedly high costs, inadequate preparation to handle related risks, or fuzzy ideas of what the purpose of AI’s use or expected outcomes were to be, according to consulting and research firm Gartner.
OPENAI RELEASES ITS LATEST “REASONING” MODEL FOR PUBLIC TESTING
OpenAI has quickly followed its o1 “reasoning” AI, released in September, with the o3 and o3-mini versions that can “do increasingly complex tasks that require a lot of reasoning,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a live-streamed announcement.
AI INVESTORS AND ADOPTERS FEAR BECOMING “ROADKILL”
Osborne. SAI. Tandy. Computer brands that made a splash in their day but now are a spot on the road of tech history.
AI WAS THE BUZZ AT CES
AI stole the spotlight at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES), the annual tech-palooza at which companies show off their newest inventions to dazzle lovers of all things digital.
PHARMACY-BENEFIT MANAGERS MADE WINDFALL PROFITS BY HIKING DRUG PRICES: FTC
Major pharmacy-benefit managers pulled in $7.3 billion from 2010 to 2022 by driving up drug prices, according to a new report released by the Federal Trade Commission.
RECENT RULE CHANGE WILL PUT CALIFORNIANS ON HOOK TO COVER COST OF RECENT WILDFIRES
Californians were still putting out what remained from this month’s massive wildfires in Los Angeles when they learned that they will likely be on the hook for higher home insurance payments as a result of the massive destruction—no matter how far they live from the fires.
HERBICIDE GLYPHOSATE DANGEROUS FOR INFANTS
A commonly used herbicide called glyphosate impacted the health of newborns in rural areas across the U.S. by contributing to lower birth weights and shortened pregnancies when exposed to the mother during pregnancy, a new study said.