All posts tagged: Sums

Kimi, Crude, & Carney: Rabobank Sums Up The Geopolitical Chaos

Kimi, Crude, & Carney: Rabobank Sums Up The Geopolitical Chaos

Published by Jenni Sidey

Authored by Molly Schwartz, Rabobank cross-asset macro strategist, Trading Playbooks The advancement of one of China’s AI models, Kimi, has sharpened attention on the latest US plans to counter China’s growing AI challenge. Kimi is reportedly more powerful than several US flagship models, though not yet as powerful what lies on the frontier. However, Kimi operates at a fraction of the cost per token. That cost advantage raises the competitive threat to US AI leadership more broadly, including for other leading firms in the space, and Trump is once again taking a page out of China’s playbook by cracking down on the free market and unfettered competition. With tariffs, the US sought to limit China’s influence to bolster its own struggling manufacturing sector. Now, the more immediate question is whether Washington will do the same in an attempt to maintain its lead in the AI race…and if it will be successful. According to Axios, “the Commerce Department last year considered adding multiple Chinese AI labs to its ‘Entity List,’ which would effectively cut off US …

US Embassy Offers Large Cash Sums For Groups In Lebanon To Promote America’s Image

US Embassy Offers Large Cash Sums For Groups In Lebanon To Promote America’s Image

Published by Jenni Sidey

Via The Libertarian Institute The US Embassy in Lebanon announced that the State Department is offering grants of up to $250,000 to groups that help promote American propaganda.  “The US Embassy in Beirut is opening a new Notice of Funding Opportunity for 2026,” a statement published this week explained. “We’re looking for partners to implement programs that strengthen ties between the US and Lebanon, with a focus on highlighting US-led peace and stabilization efforts, and advancing digital literacy to help people identify and push back on false, adversarial narratives.“ American Embassy in Beirut. The State Department website says the program is expected to award $500,000 to at least two groups to promote US propaganda in Lebanon. It adds that the program’s goal is to “strengthen local public understanding of US-led peace and stabilization efforts, and its role as a partner committed to security, economic opportunity, and responsible regional leadership.” Washington is attempting to broker a peace agreement between Tel Aviv and Beirut. However, Israel is at war with Hezbollah, a non-state military that operates outside of the control …

A short scene, one that kinda sums up my legal experience suing a generative AI company: a long-titled short essay

A short scene, one that kinda sums up my legal experience suing a generative AI company: a long-titled short essay

Published by Jenni Sidey

Paul Tremblay is the author of Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep, out now from William Morrow. Below, he discusses a moment in the court room that summed up his experience suing a generative AI company. (Photo credit: Tim Llewellyn) In the spring of year redacted, I found myself on the coast opposite the one on which I live, cloistered within a glass-entombed meeting room, and having to spend seven legal hours answering questions posed to me by a lawyer representing a giant corporation. Not my idea of fun.  The deposition would turn out to be the penultimate event of my almost two years as a plaintiff in a class action lawsuit, suing a generative AI company on behalf of writers who have had their works scraped and fed into a large language model without having granted permission and without remuneration. The ultimate event was reading through a transcript of the lawyer’s questions and my answers and discovering to my horror that I speak with the verbal repetitive tics of Foghorn Leghorn combined with the …

Groups Set Up to Shill AI and Data Centers Are Pouring Huge Sums of Money Into the Midterm Elections

Groups Set Up to Shill AI and Data Centers Are Pouring Huge Sums of Money Into the Midterm Elections

Published by José Betancourt

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Artificial intelligence remains deeply unpopular with the American public. One poll found it’s even more reviled than ICE, which is no small feat given the mass protests that erupt whenever the agency’s goons march into another US city. A few political action groups are hoping to turn that around. Going into the 2026 midterm elections, the Financial Times reports, newly-formed PACs with major tech industry backing are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to shape how voters think about AI regulation. Some of the groups cast a wide net, like Leading the Future, a super PAC backed by Trump donors and AI barons like OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman, Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale, and tech venture capital giant Andreessen Horowitz. Founded in August of 2025, Leading the Future has raised over $125 million to back pro-AI candidates who oppose state-level regulations, according to the FT. Others, like the pro-regulation PAC Public First Action, serve as vehicles for individual AI …

Nobody sums up the riddle of this England team better than Will Jacks

Nobody sums up the riddle of this England team better than Will Jacks

Published by Sam Flores

With the bat, Jacks once again arrived with England facing strife. Both openers perished within the opening eight balls; Jos Buttler’s expression, after edging Lockie Ferguson behind to fall for a duck, was of the hangdog variety once again. When Curran was caught by a full-length dive from Phillips, England were marooned on 100 for five after 14.3 overs, needing another 60 from 33 balls. This World Cup, Jacks has tended to feast on pace. But with the R Premadasa Stadium offering sharp turn, Jacks recognised that he could not wait for the seamers to return. Against his fourth delivery, he reverse-swept Ish Sodhi for four over backward point. With England needing 43 from the last three overs, he recognised the need to target Phillips’s off-spin. Jacks ended the over with three emphatic blows – a heave over midwicket for six, a straight drive for four and a pull through square leg. After another scruffy performance, England’s moment of victory felt apt. Jacks missed an attempted pull off Matt Henry, but the ball deflected off …

Szoboszlai’s ‘disrespectful’ showboating sums up Liverpool season of self-sabotage

Szoboszlai’s ‘disrespectful’ showboating sums up Liverpool season of self-sabotage

Published by Sam Flores

Arne Slot makes six changes to the side that drew at Arsenal last Thursday. The good news is that Hugo Ekitike is back in the squad after missing the last two matches. Liverpool: Mamardashvili; Frimpong, Van Dijk, Gomez, Robertson; Szoboszlai, Mac Allister, Jones; Ngumoha, Chiesa, Gakpo.Subs: Alisson, Endo, Konate, Kerkez, Wirtz, Ekitike, Gravenberch, Nyoni, Ramsay. For Barnsley, captain Luca Connell is serving a ban so Davis Keillor-Dunn will lead the side out. Barnsley: Cooper; Watson, de Gevigney, Shepherd,,O’Keeffe, Ogbeta; Phillips, Yoganathan, Keillor-Dunn, Bland; Cleary.Subs: Flavell, Roberts, McGoldrick, Jalo, O’Connell, Gent, Kelly, Barratt, Farrell. Source link

Infuriating Video Sums Up How Microsoft Is Ruining Windows With AI

Infuriating Video Sums Up How Microsoft Is Ruining Windows With AI

Published by José Betancourt

If you were already skeptical — if not livid — about Microsoft’s ongoing campaign to drown Windows 11 with useless AI features, you’re really going to hate this video. In a 30 second clip uploaded over the weekend, programmer Ryan Fleury demonstrates how even using Window 11’s purportedly AI-powered search bar to do exactly what it tells you to do doesn’t come close to working as advertised.  At the start of the video, the settings page search bar, with its gleaming AI icon, recommends searching “My mouse pointer is too small.” This goes against the common search function wisdom that you should look up using keywords, not entire sentences, but whatever: AI magic can take care of that for you, right? But as it turns out, when Fleury searches “My mouse pointer is too small,” as exactly phrased by the search suggestion, nothing turns up. He waits around ten seconds with no luck, either. But when he looks up “test” afterwards, he gets three results. “This is not a real company,” Fleury fumed. He was …