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13.03.26 - 16:36
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Avocado on Ice: Can Meta Afford to Pause While Google and OpenAI Sprint Ahead? (24/7 Wall St.)
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In December, media reports first surfaced that Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) was quietly developing a next-generation AI model code-named Avocado, positioned as the successor to its popular Llama series of large language models. The model had been internally targeted for a first-quarter launch, meaning this month. Yesterday, though, The New York Times reported that Meta has ... Avocado on Ice: Can Meta Afford to Pause While Google and OpenAI Sprint Ahead?
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12.03.26 - 07:42
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Noma chef resigns amid shocking allegations of physical abuse of staff (The Guardian)
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René Redzepi also steps down from non-profit board after accusations of both physical and psychological abuseRené Redzepi, the head chef and co-founder of Noma, announced Wednesday he was resigning from his internationally acclaimed Copenhagen restaurant following allegations that he had physically abused his staff.Redzepi had been facing protests in Los Angeles before a four-month pop-up that launched this week. His resignation comes after the New York Times detailed shocking allegations of physical and psychological abuse, including claims that he “punched employees in the face, jabbed them with kitchen implements and slammed them against walls”. Continue reading......
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12.03.26 - 03:21
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No, New York Times, Climate Change Isn′t Driving Inflation (ZeroHedge)
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No, New York Times, Climate Change Isn't Driving Inflation
Authored by Anthony Watts via ClimateRealism.com,
In The New York Times (NYT) article “Is Climate Change Making Inflation Worse?,” writer Lydia DePillis suggests that extreme weather linked to global warming is quietly raising the price of everyday goods like food, electricity, and insurance.
The framing is, at best, misleading and, at worst, flat-out false. Inflation is a monetary phenomenon driven by fiscal policy, central banking decisions, supply-chain disruptions, and energy policy choices — there is no evidence climate change has altered in a way that impacts any of those factors. The NYT erroneously substitutes weather anecdotes and speculative projections for demonstrated economic causation. However, since instances of extreme weather haven't become more frequent or severe in recent decades, climate change can't be causing “inflationary” impacts.
The NYT opens by asserting that there is “mounting evidence th...
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12.03.26 - 03:21
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AG Bondi Moves To Secure Military Housing After Threats, Joining Other Trump Officials (ZeroHedge)
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AG Bondi Moves To Secure Military Housing After Threats, Joining Other Trump Officials
Attorney General Pam Bondi has reportedly moved into heavily guarded housing at a military base in the Washington area after receiving multiple threats.
Several sources familiar with the situation say the threats came from drug cartels as well as political critics, prompting the relocation. Bondi joins a growing list of Donald Trump administration officials who now live at secure military facilities in and around the nation's capital due to heightened security concerns.
“Ms. Bondi moved from an apartment in the city within the past month in response to an array of threats flagged to her staff by federal law enforcement, these people said, including an uptick in criticism of Ms. Bondi, and threats relayed by investigators,” the New York Times reports.
“One catalyst was an increase in threats following the capture and prosecution of President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela in January, according to a se...
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10.03.26 - 04:30
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Global Times: Healthy China - another ′Chinese solution′ (PR Newswire)
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BEIJING, March 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Earlier this year, The New York Times published an article titled "In China, A.I. Finds Pancreatic Cancer That Doctors May Miss," detailing the medical journey of a retired bricklayer from Ningbo, East China's Zhejiang Province. Leveraging advanced......
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10.03.26 - 01:06
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Investigation Suggests US Navy Likely Behind Attack That Killed 150 Schoolgirls In Iran (ZeroHedge)
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Investigation Suggests US Navy Likely Behind Attack That Killed 150 Schoolgirls In Iran
It's looking more and more like the US Navy was responsible for killing more than 150 Iranian schoolgirls in the first hours of Operation Epic Fury, according to separate analyses of new video performed by research firm Bellingcat and the New York Times, who each tapped weapons experts to study the footage. Their conclusions contradict President Trump's casual accusation that inaccurate Iranian weapons were to blame.
Excavators dig more than 100 graves for schoolgirls believed to have been killed by US Navy Tomahawk cruise missiles on Feb 28
The strike occurred in the southern city of Minab on the morning of Saturday February 28 -- Saturday is a school day in Iran. Iran reports that 175 people were killed, mostly children, at the girls' elementary school near an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps base. While some, including former National Security Advisor John Bolton, reflexively blamed Iran for ha...
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08.03.26 - 21:57
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How To Ensure A Harmonious Future With AI (ZeroHedge)
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How To Ensure A Harmonious Future With AI
Authored by Peter Solomon via RealClearWire.com,
Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents human civilization with many spectacular benefits as well as the potential for significant dangers. AI can increase productivity, efficiency, creativity and research results in many industries. In medicine, AI can enhance the accuracy of diagnoses, design individualized treatments, and accelerate drug development. But AI will lead to significant job losses and could reduce privacy. And AI agents have encouraged human suicide, lied to users, and have been employed to create scams as well as deep fakes, including photos and videos. Several tragic cases of delusional interaction have been reported by The New York Times in "Trapped in a ChatGPT Spiral."
Warnings of AI Dangers
Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking warned that “The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.”
Geoffrey Hinton, the Nobel Prize-winning “Go...
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04.03.26 - 15:27
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Futures Bounce, Oil Slides After Report Of Iran Backchannel Outreach (ZeroHedge)
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Futures Bounce, Oil Slides After Report Of Iran Backchannel Outreach
It was shaping up as a catastrophic, margin-call driven Wednesday session after Japan's Nikkei tumbled about 4% and Korea's Kospi suffered its biggest drop ever, plunging by a record 12%. But after initially plunging overnight, S&P futures rose as much as 0.4% after the New York Times reported that operatives from Iran's Ministry of Intelligence used backchannels to contact the Central Intelligence Agency a day after US-Israeli attacks began. The report also stated that US officials are skeptical that either the Trump administration or Iran is ready for an offramp. Then futures faded modestly after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said a proposed 15% global tariff may take effect this week, bringing trade tensions back into focus as traders followed developments in the Middle East. As of 8:00am ET, futures for the S&P 500 - extremely illiquid and jittery - were little changed after rising as much as 0.4%, while Nasdaq fu...
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