Trump Denies Tariff ‘Exception’ for Electronics, Promises New Electronics Tariffs Soon

Late Friday news broke that U.S. President Trump’s new tariffs included exemptions for smartphones, computer monitors, semiconductors, and other electronics. But Sunday morning America’s commerce secretary insisted “a special-focus type of tariff” was … Continue reading Trump Denies Tariff ‘Exception’ for Electronics, Promises New Electronics Tariffs Soon

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Palantir’s ‘Meritocracy Fellowship’ Urges High School Grads to Skip College’s ‘Indoctrination’ and Debt

Stanford law school graduate Peter Thiel later co-founded Facebook, PayPal, and Palantir. But in 2010 Thiel also created the Thiel Fellowship, which annually gives 20 to 30 people under the age of 23 $100,000 “to encourage students to not stick around … Continue reading Palantir’s ‘Meritocracy Fellowship’ Urges High School Grads to Skip College’s ‘Indoctrination’ and Debt

After Meta Cheating Allegations, ‘Unmodified’ Llama 4 Maverick Model Tested – Ranks #32

Remember how last weekend Meta claimed its “Maverick” AI model (in the newly-released Llama-4 series) beat GPT-4o and Gemini Flash 2 “on all benchmarks… This thing is a beast.”
And then how within a day several AI researchers pointed out that even M… Continue reading After Meta Cheating Allegations, ‘Unmodified’ Llama 4 Maverick Model Tested – Ranks #32

America’s Dirtiest Coal Power Plants Given Exemptions from Pollution Rules to Help Power AI

Somewhere in Montana sits the only coal-fired power plant in America that hasn’t installed modern pollution controls to limit particulate matter, according to the Environmental Protecction Agency. Mining.com notes that it has the highest emission rate … Continue reading America’s Dirtiest Coal Power Plants Given Exemptions from Pollution Rules to Help Power AI

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