The AI Hype Index: AI-designed antibiotics show promise
Separating AI reality from hyped-up fiction isn’t always easy. That’s why we’ve created the AI Hype Index—a simple, at-a-glance summary of everything you need to know about the state of…
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Trump ignores GOP’s cries of ‘socialism’ over Intel stake, vows more deals coming
Donald Trump has a message for critics who think turning the U.S. government into a major stockholder of Intel is a “socialist” move: More is coming. “I will make deals like that for our…
Trump Plans Comprehensive Crime “Crackdown” Bill With Republicans
But her treatment does stand in stark contrast to the publishing giant’s recent history of documenting the country’s first ladies. Hillary Clinton, Michelle Obama, and Jill Biden all…
Unlocking enterprise agility in the API economy
Elsewhere, Coca-Cola integrated its global systems using APIs, enabling faster, lower-cost delivery and improved cross-functional collaboration. And Uber moved to microservices with API…
US: Wall St opens muted in countdown to Nvidia earnings
Wall Street’s main indexes opened flat on Wednesday (Aug 27) as investors awaited AI leader Nvidia’s results, which are expected to test the momentum of the broader…
Democrats Flip Key Seat in District Trump Won by Double Digits
In 2024, Donald Trump won Iowa’s first state Senate District handily, by 11 points. In a Tuesday special election, Democratic candidate Catelin Drey won an upset 10-point victory, as the…
Cracker Barrel stock rebounds after it ditches its new logo. It’s not the first brand to walk back a redesign
Cracker Barrel released a new logo earlier this month and, to put things lightly, it didn’t go over well. The restaurant chain lost nearly $100 million in market value as it faced outrage…
Susan Collins Drowned Out in Boos as Protesters Disrupt Ceremony
Republican Senator Susan Collins’s ribbon-cutting ceremony Tuesday turned into a public shaming as more than 200 protestors gathered to jeer the centrist from Maine. This was Collins’s…
Spotify and the problem with our ‘everything app’ era
How many apps do you use to chat with other people? I don’t mean tweeting out into the ether. I mean actually interacting with a fellow human in a one-to-one way. For most people, the…
The Era of AI-Generated Ransomware Has Arrived
While such activity so far does not appear to be the norm across the ransomware ecosystem, the findings represent a stark warning. “There are definitely some groups that are using AI to…
Taiwan charges three with stealing TSMC 2nm secrets for Tokyo Electron
Taiwanese prosecutors on Wednesday (Aug 27) charged three people with stealing trade secrets relating to TSMC’s most advanced 2-nanometre chips to help a Japanese company that makes…
The Download: introducing: the Security issue
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Introducing: the Security issue It would be naïve…
Tech billionaires are building their own private cities. Here’s who’s doing what where
Having $1 billion isn’t enough these days. To be seen among the richest of the rich, you now need your own private sanctuary. For some, that means a sprawling compound. Increasingly,…
Transcript: GOP Senator Shocked at How Badly Trump Screwing His Voters
Thorne: Stunned that someone like Senator Murkowski is surprised by this, but also it makes sense. This is actually what we’re seeing from a lot of voters in rural Virginia this year. Part…
Profit dives at China’s top food delivery firm Meituan amid intense competition
China’s leading food delivery group Meituan, reported on Wednesday (Aug 27) a fall of 89 per cent in second-quarter adjusted net profit as it looks to stave off rising competition in the…
The New Medicine Tariffs Are a Prescription for Disaster
They’ll make Americans sicker, poorer, and less innovative. Source link
Social Security Is No Longer the Third Rail of American Politics
It’s proximate cause for a shotgun wedding. Source link
The NAACP Cracks Its Own Code
A soap opera skeleton key to black Democrat fealty. Source link
The Cure for Racial Discrimination in Medical Education
If colleges and universities want the American taxpayer’s support, they should be forced to focus on merit alone. Source link
Firing Lisa Cook
Can Trump fire her? The question does not admit of an easy answer. Source link
Singapore shares end flat amid Fed pressure and ahead of Nvidia earnings release
Local stocks ended Wednesday (Aug 27) unchanged while regional markets closed mixed, as investors weighed political pressure on the US Federal Reserve and awaited a key earnings report…
How large language models can reconstruct forbidden knowledge
In the late 1970s, a Princeton undergraduate named John Aristotle Phillips made headlines by designing an atomic bomb using only publicly available sources for his junior year research…
Trump Is Calling the Supreme Court’s Bluff on the Fed
Cook, for her part, said that she would not step down. “President Trump purported to fire me ‘for cause’ when no cause exists under the law, and he has no authority to do so,” she said. “I…
The Trump Recession Is Coming
You don’t hear much about a recession anymore. That’s not because Trump was right when he was speaking in North Carolina last August. True, he won and the country certainly hasn’t entered…