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The DOGE operation, as exposed by ProPublica, reveals a troubling fusion of unchecked corporate influence, administrative opacity, and ideological extremism within the highest levels of government.
DOGE will not only reshape public institutions in the image of Silicon Valley techno-libertarianism but will also enshrine a two-tiered system of access and influence that disenfranchises everyone...

54% of Americans now access news primarily through social and video platforms, surpassing TV (50%) and news websites/apps (48%).
This is not just a story about platform preference but about the fragmentation of authority and trust. Traditional newsrooms, governed by editorial standards, are being supplanted...

GPT-4o: The current trajectory is unsustainable. Governments must regulate AI’s water use. AI firms must voluntarily exceed legal obligations or face public and legislative backlash.
Citizens should not be guilt-tripped into compensating for a corporate footprint they cannot meaningfully influence.

Giving models the tools to self-improve through reinforcement learning-driven generation of self-edits—instructional sequences for finetuning themselves.
With projections suggesting we may exhaust publicly available human-generated text by 2028, synthetic self-improvement mechanisms like SEAL provide a scalable solution for ongoing model training.

GPT-4o: The Amsterdam Riots of 7 and 8 November 2024—The Dutch government did not fail outright, but the absence of proactive national coordination on such a politically charged date...
...especially when involving Israeli interests, Jewish communities, and Middle Eastern tensions — points to a gap in anticipatory governance.

The grievances of young men are real and cannot be ignored, lest they be permanently ceded to the forces of demagoguery and reaction.
At the same time, validating their misdirected anger and the toxic ideologies that exploit it will only deepen the dangerous fractures in our society.

Gemini provides a detailed and sober analysis of the rhetoric employed by Donald Trump and his key political allies, placing it in direct comparison with the language of Nazi Germany.
The evidence demonstrates that the parallels are not fleeting, superficial, or hyperbolic. They are consistent, strategic, and functional.

Each AI breakthrough carries not just financial opportunity but environmental and ethical cost. Unregulated AI is unsustainable AI.
AI as both a tool for environmental resilience (e.g., smart agriculture, climate modeling, biodiversity monitoring) and a contributor to ecological degradation (e.g., high carbon emissions, e-waste).

Tao’s conversation with Lex Fridman reveals more than the inner workings of mathematics—it illustrates how deep theoretical inquiry can illuminate both the power and the limits of abstraction.
Ultimately, the future of AI — and of knowledge — will depend on those who, like Tao, can see across disciplines and dare to model what we cannot yet fully grasp.

The UK’s most comprehensive study to date on the integration of generative artificial intelligence (AI) into the film, television, and video game industries.
The report identifies copyright as the dominant issue, especially in light of AI models being trained on massive datasets of copyrighted content without permission or compensation.

Amidst this landscape of executive ambition and policy turmoil, the judiciary has acted as a critical counterweight, blocking or modifying administration initiatives that overstep legal boundaries.
This very resistance, however, has rendered the judiciary a target, facing potential threats to its independence and operational capacity.
