The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) last week scrubbed its website of any reference to the agency being “independent” after Brendan Carr, the FCC chair, testified in front of a Senate committee that “formally speaking, the FCC isn’t independent.”
On 28 January 2025, The Trends Journal alerted subscribers about this little-known Chinese AI startup, DeepSeek, that sent a bolt across the AI-driven stock market’s bow when it announced that it trained a free AI assistant for $6 million instead of the $100-million-plus that Open AI and other Western tech companies had to spend on their products.
Bari Weiss, the newly appointed head of CBS News, faced criticism on Sunday after it was revealed that she told “60 Minutes” not to run a story about the abuses that deportees have faced during the Trump administration after the piece’s reporter said the decision was based on “politics.”