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Trump’s Palantir-Powered Surveillance Is Turning America Into a Digital Prison
“We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission.”Ayn Rand Call it what it is: a panopticon presidency. President Trump’s plan to fuse government power with private surveillance tech to build […]
Ex-Google Chief Eric Schmidt Backs Firms Behind Blockchain Credit Bureau
High throughput blockchain Keeta is facilitating credit data platform SOLO to create PASS, an on-chain bank-grade financial identity layer. What to know: High throughput blockchain Keeta and credit data platform SOLO, companies both backed by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, are introducing an on-chain credit bureau to give digital asset […]
Tony Blair: Britain should have AI doctors and nurses
The former PM says humanity is entering its biggest transformation since the Industrial Revolution and that it’s ‘absurd’ not to do more in the NHS Britain should embrace a future of AI doctors, nurses and even teachers or risk being left behind in the biggest upheaval since the Industrial Revolution, […]
To Outrun the Complacent Class
“The emails showed the world’s leading climatologists busily working to organize a research cartel. Peer review was a legitimate source of authority when the process supported their positions. It was compromised, if not malicious, when it offered critics of the orthodoxy a platform. The wish to crush dissenting views, in […]
OpenAI’s $6.4 Billion Hardware Gamble Exposes the Closed AI Trap
The group’s massive bet on Jony Ive’s hardware venture isn’t a strategy. It’s desperation, says Shaw Walters, the founder of Eliza Labs, and creator of ElizaOS. OpenAI just spent $6.4 billion acquiring io, Jony Ive’s nascent hardware venture. As someone who grew up idolizing the Jobs-Ive partnership—Mac Addict subscription, Marathon on […]
Telegram Raises $1.7B Via Convertible Bonds: Bloomberg
The messaging app, with over 1 billion users, plans to use $955 million to buy back existing bonds and the remaining $745 million for growth. What to know: Telegram has secured $1.7 billion by issuing five-year convertible bonds, aiming to refinance existing liabilities and push out repayment deadlines. The messaging […]
Telegram Signs $300M Deal With Elon Musk’s xAI to Integrate Grok Into Its Messaging App, TON up 16%
Telegram will also receive 50% of revenue from xAI subscriptions sold via the app. What to know: Instant messaging app Telegram has signed a deal with Elon Musk’s xAI to integrate the Grok AI service within the app. Telegram founder Pavel Durov, revealed on X, that the two companies agreed to […]
Episode 478 – We Need To Talk About AI – James Corbett
Newspapers are printing summer reading lists of AI-hallucinated books. Apple “Intelligence” is making up fake BBC headlines. People are losing their minds as ChatGPT calls them “spiral starchildren” and “river walkers.” Like characters in a Loony Tunes skit, we have just run off the edge of a cliff and—with the […]
Technocracy and the Internet of Bodies
Technocracy and the Internet of Bodies by Greg Reese The software of life Read on Substack
