The economic landscape has presented an array of challenges that will profoundly affect the business community this year.
Category: 25 February 2025
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WHEN THE ECONOMY FALLS, JOBS GO WITH IT
Federal job cuts continue as President Donald Trump and his Department of Government Efficiency head Elon Musk slash government waste.
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TECHNOCRACY BRIEFS: MICE GIVEN HUMAN “LANGUAGE GENE,” AND AI THAT CAN DESIGN GENETICS ACROSS ALL ORGANIC LIFE
Scientists and experts from UC Berkeley, Arc Institute, UCSF, Stanford University, and NVIDIA, have created an AI model called Evo 2 that they say can design genetic code “across all domains” of organic life.
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ALLEN INSTITUTE CLAIMS AN AI MODEL THAT BEATS DEEPSEEK
The nonprofit Allen Institute for AI has announced its new open-source AI competes with or bests DeepSeek’s V3 model and OpenAI’s ChatGPT 4-o in several standard benchmark tests.
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THIS AI CAN READ YOUR MIND WITH A BRAIN SCAN AND MINIMAL TRAINING
Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have smartened up an AI “brain decoder” so now it can work faster and with more versatility.
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WALMART EXPECTS SLOWER GROWTH THIS YEAR
Walmart booked a 5.1-percent increase in sales last year, posting $681 billion in revenue, more than other companies in the world.
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MUSK’S xAI WILL HIRE “THOUSANDS OF TUTORS” THIS YEAR TO TRAIN GROK AI
Elon Musk’s xAI will bring on thousands more "AI tutors" this year, three unnamed employees told Business Insider.
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GOVERNMENTS ARE SUDDENLY MUCH LESS INTERESTED IN AI SAFETY
“The AI future is not going to be won by hand-wringing about safety,” U.S. vice-president J.D. Vance told a European conference earlier this month.
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U.S. HOUSING STARTS TUMBLE IN JANUARY
New single-family home construction in the U.S. slumped 8.4 percent in January, year on year, dropping for the first time since October. Multifamily starts were down by 13.5 percent, according to commerce department data. The pullback followed a 16-percent surge in home starts in December, leading some economists to believe that some construction was advanced to......
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“WEIRD” AI-DESIGNED CHIPS ARE BETTER THAN HUMANS HAVE MADE
In a few hours working with a deep-learning system, an AI has designed a new wireless computer chip, a feat that would have taken human engineers weeks to carry out, according to engineers at Princeton University’s engineering school and the Indian Institute of Technology.
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