Archive for the 'Economy' Category
Interrogation of Trump Doral Shooter Jonathan Oddi: “Do You Know Sean Combs?” “Puff Daddy?” “Yeah.”
September 20th, 2024[???] Is Jonathan Oddi alive? I have not been able to figure that out. Jonathan Oddi remains in jail and his trial is ongoing. He has not yet been sentenced. This has been going since 2018!? Case Information Court Case No.: F18010338 State Case No.: 132018CF0103380001XX In other news, Diddy placed on suicide watch. Via: […]
Microsoft Electricity Purchase Agreement Will Restart Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant for AI Data Centers
September 20th, 2024Via: The Verge: Microsoft just signed a deal to revive the shuttered Three Mile Island nuclear power plant. If approved by regulators, the software maker would have exclusive rights to 100 percent of the output for its AI data center needs. Constellation, the owner of the Three Mile Island plant, announced a power purchase agreement […]
Australia’s Biggest Medical Imaging Lab Is Training AI on Its Scan Data Without Patient Consent
September 19th, 2024Via: Crikey: Australia’s biggest radiology company has handed over the private medical scans of potentially hundreds of thousands of patients, without their knowledge, to a start-up company that will use the scans to train artificial intelligence, in what privacy experts say is a practice that the law should protect against.
Fed Slashes Rates By 50bps
September 18th, 2024Via: ZeroHedge: The economy is so great, it needs an crisis-level rate cut 2 months before the election.
How Did You Know To Question Their Health Advice?
September 17th, 2024pic.twitter.com/RTIiBoeghz — cryptogon (@cryptogon) September 17, 2024
Omnipresent AI Cameras Will Ensure Good Behavior, Says Larry Ellison
September 17th, 2024In 2017, I wrote about where I thought mass surveillance was headed in the U.S.: I think the reality is that a dossier on every “citizen” is being automatically maintained. The dossier contains everything from purchases to Internet activity, audio from phone calls, to full contents of emails. Income. Library records. Travel records. etc. Additionally, […]
OpenAI Releases o1, Its First Model with ‘Reasoning’ Abilities
September 13th, 2024Via: The Verge: OpenAI is releasing a new model called o1, the first in a planned series of “reasoning” models that have been trained to answer more complex questions, faster than a human can. It’s being released alongside o1-mini, a smaller, cheaper version. And yes, if you’re steeped in AI rumors: this is, in fact, […]
Me Trying to Make Small Talk in September
September 11th, 2024pic.twitter.com/cwgLRPjr4C — cryptogon (@cryptogon) September 11, 2024
The WHO: Building a Permanent Pandemic Market as Medical Patents Expire
September 11th, 2024Via: Unlimited Hangout: In the face of a potentially industry-ending slew of patent cliffs, Big Pharma has begun acquiring biotechnology companies to stave off collapse. To get these drugs to market, the industry is pursuing the only solution left for their dying model: a full takeover of the WHO to capture the global regulatory system.
Britain: “High Risk” of Corruption on Contracts Related to Covid Response, “Equivalent to One in Every £3 Spent”
September 11th, 2024Since Covid was a totally premeditated scam, that would mean that 100% of the contracts were fraudulent. Via: BBC: An anti-corruption charity says it has identified significant concerns in contracts worth over £15.3bn awarded by the Conservative government during the Covid pandemic, equivalent to one in every £3 spent. Transparency International UK found 135 “high-risk” […]
