Ford announced this past week that it will slash 2024 production of its main EV truck line, the F-150 EV.
Category: 23 January 2024
COUNTDOWN TO WAR WITH RUSSIA: ESTONIA SAYS WORLD HAS FIVE YEARS TO PREPARE
Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas, who has been pushing for the U.S. to intervene in Ukraine’s fight against Russia since the beginning of the war, warned that NATO has five years to prepare for an all-out war with Russia, a claim that Moscow brushed aside.
IRAQ: U.S. FORCES LEAVE THE COUNTRY
Mohammed al-Sudani, the Iraqi prime minister, said in an interview last week that he wants to maintain good relations with the U.S., but he does not see the need for U.S. troops to remain in his country.
THE UNBEARABLE FAKENESS OF ELITE CARBON ZEALOTS AT DAVOS
The World Economic Forum’s Davos summit last week had no shortage of commentators calling for a more tightly controlled world.
MOZILLA WANTS TO KNOW: WHO’S FEEDING MICROSOFT’S AI COPILOT?
Mozilla, the not-for-profit project that makes the Firefox web browser, is asking people to sign a petition calling for Microsoft to come clean on how it's training its Copilot AI.
U.K.’S DEFENSE HEAD SAYS WEST SHOULD PREPARE FOR WAR WITH RUSSIA, CHINA, IRAN, AND NORTH KOREA
Grant Shapps, the British defense minister, said the U.K. needs to prepare for war within five years with Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea—the countries that the U.S. has already identified as the new “Axis of Evil.”
TAKE THEM AT THEIR WORD: ZUCKERBERG OUT TO BUILD “HUMAN LEVEL AI”
The quest to build an Artificial Intelligence which can match or outdo human intelligence is a concrete goal to many in the field of AI.
FUCK CONGRESS: BIDEN CONTINUES TO CARRY OUT STRIKES AGAINST YEMEN EVEN WHILE ADMITTING THAT THEY AREN’T WORKING
President Joe Biden admitted to a reporter at the White House last week that the airstrikes against Yemen will not deter the Houthis from carrying out attacks in the Red Sea, while continuing to order strikes without congressional approval.
SELLING PROPERTY? LIST IT WITH A CHATBOT
Real estate agents are discovering that having an AI chatbot is like having an extra troupe of salespeople.
AI MAY DISRUPT 40 PERCENT OF WORLD’S JOBS, IMF SAYS
AI will have an impact of some kind on as many as 40 percent of the world’s jobs, Kristalina Georgieva, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, said in a 14 January blog post.