Perplexity’s CEO Sees AI Agents as the Next Web Battleground
Wait though … Perplexity—like other AI search engines—has been criticized for hallucinating and getting things wrong. We welcome this criticism, because it’s the best way for us to…
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CBO Adds Fuel to Republican Budget Fight With Damning Deficit Forecast
The Congressional Budget Office’s most recent score of President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act is the worst one to date. The agency estimates the legislation would add $2.4 trillion…
AI & Job Losses: Straws in the Wind
The week of May 26, 2025: AI and graduate (un)employment, tariffs, nuclear power, Apple, and much more. Source link
Democrat Sweeps to Stunning Victory in South Carolina Special Election
The Democratic candidate in a South Carolina special election swept to a landslide victory Tuesday night, becoming the youngest person elected to the state legislature in nearly a decade.…
Wells Fargo reaches ‘pivotal milestone’ as the Fed lifts an unprecedented restriction
Wells Fargo was released from a punitive, seven-year-long $1.95 trillion cap on its assets on Tuesday after the U.S. Federal Reserve lifted the regulatory measure, allowing the bank to…
Republicans Rush to Suck Up to Elon Musk After New Budget Bill Threat
Congressional Republicans are stuck between a rock and a hard place as their former financier, Elon Musk, threatens to use his gargantuan fortune to unseat anyone who supports the…
Trump Officials Blocked Key Portion of Report Exposing Growing Deficit
The Navy documents also list other ships that are being considered for renaming. They include USNS Thurgood Marshall, USNS Ruth Bader Ginsburg, USNS Harriet Tubman, USNS Dolores Huerta,…
Trump Whines About How Hard It Is to Make a Trade Deal With China
The Navy documents also list other ships that are being considered for renaming. They include USNS Thurgood Marshall, USNS Ruth Bader Ginsburg, USNS Harriet Tubman, USNS Dolores Huerta,…
California’s Trans-Athlete Ruse
Democrats will have difficulty restraining their gender zealots. Source link
Elon Musk Eviscerates Trump’s Budget Bill in Series of New Posts
The Navy documents also list other ships that are being considered for renaming. They include USNS Thurgood Marshall, USNS Ruth Bader Ginsburg, USNS Harriet Tubman, USNS Dolores Huerta,…
Trump’s 50% tariffs on steel and aluminum are imminent. Here’s what to know
U.S. President Donald Trump has promised to hike nearly all of his tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum to a punishing 50% on Wednesday, a move that would hammer businesses from…
The Download: AI’s role in math, and calculating its energy footprint
The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Elon Musk has turned on Trump He called Trump’s domestic policy…
Matty Matheson is dropping a new signature Gozney oven
Matty Matheson is a star and producer on the award-winning shoe The Bear, a massive YouTube personality, best-selling cookbook author, restaurateur, entrepreneur, and more. No one will…
How Nepal became one of the world’s fastest growing EV markets
Nepal’s capital Kathmandu is one of the most polluted cities in the world. But it’s also one of the fastest-growing markets for EVs: Nepal’s electric cars now outsell new fossil-fueled…
Facing a Changing Industry, AI Activists Rethink Their Strategy
In the spring of 2018, thousands of Google employees pressured the company into dropping a major artificial intelligence contract with the Pentagon. The tech giant even pledged to not use…
Transcript: Trump Rages at GOP Bill Fiasco as Elon Admits It’s a Scam
Sargent: Yeah. Speaking of that, we should clarify that Trump is just lying in saying they’ll only cut waste, fraud, and abuse. The bill would cut hundreds of billions of dollars from…
What to know about China’s rare earth export controls
Global manufacturers have raised the alarm on China’s decision to curb exports of rare earths alloys, mixtures and magnets. Here is an overview of rare earths and China’s measures: What…
<i>Tornado</i> Fails History and Genre
A filmmaker distorts the past and dooms mankind’s future. Source link
Test Results Confirm How Bad the Fact-Checking Was on Algerian Boxer Imane Khelif
The confident claims that the boxer is a woman look less defensible today. Source link
How to Get More Growth from the Republican Tax Bill
If the ‘price’ of making full expensing permanent had to be additional spending cuts, that would be a trade worth making. Source link
Let June Be Life Month
A rallying cry to affirm the dignity of every human life and encourage a culture in which children are cherished and moms are supported. Source link
Striking Down Tariffs: A ‘Coup’ Prevented, Not Attempted
Rejecting unilateral presidential tariffs was not an act of judicial activism by the U.S. Court of International Trade. It protected the separation of powers. Source link
The Race to Build Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’ Missile Defense System Is On
While the US military has spent lavishly on missile defense over the past few decades, it has “little to show” for it, argues a recently revised report published by the Panel on Public…
San Francisco transformed an old parking lot into affordable housing for public school teachers
After nearly a decade of planning and consultation, the San Francisco Unified School District has made its first venture into the unexpected—and increasingly relevant—business of…