Archive for the 'Economy' Category
Nvidia CEO Says Kids Shouldn’t Learn to Code – They Should Leave It Up to AI
February 26th, 2024Mmm hmm. Via: tom’sHARDWARE: At the recent World Government Summit in Dubai, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang made a counterintuitive break with what he thinks is a long tradition of tech CEOs advising youngsters to learn how to code. Huang argued that, even at this early stage of the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution, programming is no […]
CIA Had Secret Bases in Ukraine and Waged War Against Russia for Decade
February 26th, 2024The Secret History of the US Russia Energy War. First 10 mins of a 50 min rant, annotated with receipts. Rant from subscriber Office Hours this week. Full 50 mins tmrw. The intent here is to explain The Grand Ukraine Energy Play that is the big prize of the current conflict. pic.twitter.com/9I5SEEJGXW — Mike Benz […]
Highly Efficient Recovery and Recycling of Cobalt from Spent Lithium-Ion Batteries
February 25th, 2024Not investment advice: Fundamentals on cobalt seem very bad, but none of what follows is close to making a meaningful impact on commercial availability. Look at the cobalt price chart using one month candles. Hmm… Via: American Chemical Society: The growing demand for lithium-ion batteries (LiBs) for the electronic and automobile industries combined with the […]
Why Coles Just Hired U.S. Defence Contractor Palantir
February 25th, 2024When I worked for FedEx decades ago, employees had to code every minute of our time on the clock into specific activities. This was all self reported on a paper time sheet and then we entered the times and work codes into our “Supertrackers” (the handheld computers you see FedEx employees using) at the end […]
Rivian Stock Drops 25%
February 23rd, 2024Via: LA Times: Rivian Automotive Inc. emerged as a darling of investors — a brand with promise of bringing the “cool” factor to the once-red-hot market for electric vehicles. But the Irvine-based company hit the brakes Wednesday, announcing a 10% cut to its workforce and lower production expectations. The news sent its stock plummeting. The […]
Magic AI: “We’ve Raised $117 Million… to Build an AI Software Engineer”
February 21st, 2024We've raised $117M from @natfriedman and others to build an AI software engineer. Code generation is both a product and a path to AGI, requiring new algorithms, lots of CUDA, frontier-scale training, RL, and a new UI. We are hiring! pic.twitter.com/I3fOLmrKA8 — Magic.dev (@magicailabs) February 15, 2024 Via: BayAreaInno: A San Francisco startup using artificial […]
Tennessee Company Accused of Using Child Labor to Clean Slaughterhouses
February 21st, 2024What happens to the ones who aren’t cleaning the slaughterhouses? Biden Administration Facilitates Sex Trafficking and Rape of Immigrant Children, Florida Grand Jury Reports ‘Modern-Day Slave Traders’: Hawley Demands Probe Into 85,000 ‘Lost’ Migrant Children HHS Whistleblower Says Government Complicit in Trafficking; Child Admits Being ‘Pimped’ by Sponsor Biden Secretly Flying Underage Migrants Into NY […]
NYC Mayor To Give Migrants Debit Cards Worth Up To $10,000
February 21st, 2024Via: NY Post: It takes money to make money, as the old saying goes, and apparently, it also takes money — as much as $53 million — to give money away. Earlier this month, The Post broke the story that Mayor Eric Adams is giving out pre-paid cash cards to migrants. Unusually for the mayor, […]
Japan Bets $67 Billion to Become a Global Chip Powerhouse Once Again
February 21st, 2024Via: Bloomberg: Deep in the snowy northern island of Hokkaido, Japan is pouring billions of dollars into a long-shot bet to revive its chip-making prowess and insulate its economy from growing US-China tensions. … A freshly created homegrown venture, Rapidus Corp., is looking to mass produce state-of-the art 2 nanometer logic chips in 2027 from […]
The War On Children
February 20th, 2024Via: The War On Children: Worth watching, especially for parents pic.twitter.com/k6gb2CMVqU — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 18, 2024
