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Interesting timing, eh what?&nbsp;From CryptoBriefing, September 14:&nbsp;The Department of Defense has moved nearly 90% of classified AI workloads off Anthropic's closed-source models, accelerating a pivot toward open-weight alternatives built by Nvidia and Palantir&nbsp;&nbsp;The US defense establishment is breaking up with Anthropic, and the split is anything but amicable. The Department of

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This is one way to be rid of the extraneous vowel in oesophagus.*https://t.co/5jgCQYXSMr— Emma Manzini (@EmmaManzini) September 10, 2026&nbsp;If one is interested in&nbsp;extraneous vowels&nbsp;we have on offer "The Plague That Broke English (And Why the Founding Fathers Didn’t Sound British)" with the outro:Okay, but why does the word Queue have four silent vowels?&nbsp;

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Combining a couple posts from the lockdown days as a follow-up to the post immediately below, (House Speaker-in-Waiting) "Jeffries Says Democrats to Meet Tuesday on AI Action: ABC News":I've never read anything that Ayn Rand wrote.At the age when many young people are either assigned or discover The Fountainhead or Atlas Shrugged I was trying to absorb a fire hose of other information and didn't

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Mr. Jeffries is currently House Minority Leader. He would be elevated to the speakership should his party take control of the House of Representatives after the November mid-term election.When I saw that President Obama had seen the political opportunity* in&nbsp;Jacob Coxon's resignation tweet from Anthropic, I thought of a 2022 post that was introduced by another Chicago community organizer and

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From Marc Chandler at Bannockburn Global Forex:The combination of heightened expectations for the Federal Reserve to lift rates late this week coupled with the high oil prices have helped lift the US dollar broadly today. Yet, the PBOC set the dollar's reference rate at a new 3 1/2-year low today.&nbsp; Among the G10 currencies, the Swedish krona has been the hardest hit. It is off around 0.8% as

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SoftBank, common, via TradingView, last five days:&nbsp;5,802 JPY last, down 738 (−11.28%)

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Xeet #1:&nbsp; For my first post, I’m sharing a letter @NVIDIA signed on why open models matter. AI will transform every industry, power every company, and be built by every country. Open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable sovereignty. The world needs both frontier closed models and frontier open models. https://t.co/AUKzoQ5Ikb— Jensen

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Mr. Sacks is, among other things, Co-Chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.From his personal Xitter account, Sept. 13:Dario has written that we need to “pace the frontier,” and Sam has agreed. People may be surprised by my response: go ahead. You guys are the frontier. By any reasonable metric — market share, revenue growth, model capability — the two of you have

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From ZeroHedge, September 13:&nbsp;Coordinated calls by the top AI execs, including Dario Amodei, Sam Altman and even Elon Musk, to slow development of the technology are likely to weigh on chipmaker and supply-chain stocks in the near term, Bloomberg reports, but will probably have limited long-term impact as spending on computing infrastructure remains strong, market watchers say, at least

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From the San Francisco Standard, September 10:‘Trying to steal a house’: How Sea Cliff was engulfed in SF’s strangest property disputeYears after a home’s owners moved out, new people with conflicting deeds moved in. Now the neighborhood has reached a boiling point.&nbsp;In September 2025, a San Francisco real estate agent named Cathy Robles received an email from&nbsp;a man looking to sell a

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From CNBC, September 13:&nbsp;Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said the “toughest dilemma” about his proposal to slow the advancement of AI is what happens if China does not do the same.Amodei published an essay on Saturday urging AI companies to slow how quickly they improve their most advanced models.The essay landed during a pivotal time for the AI industry, which is facing public backlash over its

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From the New York Times, September 13:&nbsp;During a private fund-raiser, the former president warned that the technology could be “dangerous” if not managed urgently and with a clear plan.Former President Barack Obama warned during a recent private fund-raising event that artificial intelligence technology could be “dangerous” if not properly managed, as he implored Democrats to aggressively

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SoftBank hardest hit.An exclusive at Fortune magazine, September 12:&nbsp;AI concerns hit a fever pitch this week when an Anthropic employee warned on X that all of humanity could be destroyed by the technology and that major frontier labs were “gambling with our lives.”&nbsp;The probability of doom, or “p(doom),” is real and has been publicly discussed in the AI community for years. Elon Musk’s

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Whether or not this means the end of the breakneck speed of AI build-out that we've seen over the last three years is an open question. On that question my frame of reference is China agreeing to every&nbsp;CO₂&nbsp;curtailment procedure proposed by various transnational bodies as long as said proposals only applied to the West.What this development means for India, Europe and other lesser

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From the New York Post, August 26:A young student hoping to step into Book Week in the most delightful way has been dealt a cruel blow after her mother received the wrong costume just days before the parade. While planning to attend her Melbourne school festivities as the iconic Mary Poppins, CostumeBox instead sent the 10-year-old girl a Kim Jong Un costume. The family has been left in a

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A topic near and dear.*From Knowable Magazine, September 10:Missing from the archaeological record, fiber innovations like string played a huge role in the daily lives of our ancestors. Researchers are working to weave together new insights from the traces they left behind.&nbsp;When an abstract-looking ivory artifact emerged from the Hohle Fels cave in southern Germany in 2015, archaeologists

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For our younger readers, "nudge" was a fad that came out of behavioral economics wherein people who wanted other people to bend to their will at least had the decency to pretend they weren't trying to coerce/manipulate their intended manipulees.It was very popular in government circles ca. 2008 - 2023. At it's height in the twenty-teens you couldn't go a week without someone writing something

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From Mumbai's FirstPost, September 8:Chinese electric vehicle maker XPeng says it has commissioned an automated production line designed to manufacture advanced general-purpose humanoid robots, in what the company describes as a first for the industry.The announcement came from XPeng CEO He Xiaopeng, who shared images of the facility and a humanoid robot on X. According to He, the production

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We haven't had any Elon posts recently but that headline is evergreen, on any given day someone somewhere is publishing something on Mr. Musk.Our most recent mention of the man was the outro from September 9's "Meanwhile, In Shanghai: Investors Demand Brain - Computer Interface Companies":....Also quite a few posts on&nbsp;Elon Musk and Neuralink and on&nbsp;Dr. Miguel Nicolelis.Which led me to

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Most of our visitors know this stuff but here we have such a good exposition it may be worth a gander for even the time-constrained reader Bold emphases mine. From Frontiers in Psychology, Feb. 5, 2015: Small samples and evolution: did the law of small numbers arise as an adaptation to environmental challenges? Gorka Navarrete1*, Carlos Santamaría2 and Dan Froimovitch3 1Laboratory of Cognitive

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&nbsp;Rest in Peace

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&nbsp;From the Bureau of Labor Statistics, September 11:CONSUMER PRICE INDEX - AUGUST 2026The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 0.4 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis in August after rising 0.1 percent in July, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Over the last 12 months, the all items index increased 3.4 percent before seasonal adjustment.The index

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From ZeroHedge, September 10:The global diesel market - already trading at record prices - is set to further tighten in the coming months and keep fuel prices high, raising the prices of all goods and threatening the inflation targets of the central banks.Industry officials, who gathered at the APPEC petroleum conference in Singapore this week, warned that the market has not seen the worst of the

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From Investor's Business Daily, September 10:Global spending on "clean" energy and clean tech plunged 17% in the first half of 2026, according to Rhodium. The research firm's new report peels back global spending trends across solar energy, electric vehicles, sustainable aviation fuel, and manufacturing. Investments in the first quarter in particular fell so much than even a Q2 bump couldn't make

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I'm still smarting over the cat pee story.&nbsp;A working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research, August 2026:ABSTRACTIn 2008, the aggregate market value of U.S.-listed firms was roughly one-third higher than that of European-listed firms. By 2023, it was more than 300% higher, a difference of $34 trillion. The valuation gap is broad-based, rather than concentrated among a few

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