2025-05-19
Denial or Reform? How Pakistan Might React to Military Setback vs. India
As Pakistan Confronts Military Failure, Will it Follow the Path of Russia, Congo, or Armenia?: With world leaders in the audience, Pope Leo XIV gave his inaugural mass. Among his...
How Reliable Are Human Judgments in AI Model Testing?
Chameleon AI performs well in human evaluations, with high inter-annotator agreement and strong safety results—even under adversarial prompts—rivaling GPT-4V and Gemini.
The relationship doesn't have to end, it just might need to change
Glenn Fleishman writing for Six Colors: Can We Still Love Apple? Should We Ever Have?Maybe it is the right time for this love affair to come to an end. Not...
PT-91 Twardy: Poland Took the Russian T-72 Tank and Made it a ‘Powerhouse’
Key Points – Poland’s PT-91 Twardy, developed in the 1990s, is a comprehensive modernization of the Soviet-era T-72 main battle tank, designed to enhance its capabilities. -Key Polish upgrades include...
AI Data Centers Are Draining Our Planet Dry — And No One Is Talking About It
The hidden water crisis they don’t want you to know about.Continue reading on The Startup »
The Unbreaking team is starting to publish “clear and rigorously cited explanations...
The Unbreaking team is starting to publish “clear and rigorously cited explanations of what’s happening to our government and why it matters”. Their first three are on Medicaid, Transgender Healthcare,...
WSJ: ‘Apple Considers Raising iPhone Prices, Without Blaming Tariffs’
Rolfe Winkler and Yang Jie, reporting last week for The Wall Street Journal (main link is a gift link, but also here’s a News+ link): Apple is weighing price increases...
I die therefore I am. I feel therefore I live
Published on May 19, 2025 8:27 PM GMTA few months ago, I realized the thing I’d built my identity on—intelligence—might not survive the AI era. It hit harder than I...
Bankrupt 23andMe Just Sold Off All Your DNA Data
Your DNA results are in — and they're 100% the property of a pharmaceutical manufacturer. It was announced today that 23andMe, the consumer-genomics company that sold take-home DNA kits, will...
Trump Tells Walmart to ‘Eat the Tariffs’
The president of the United States, on his blog: Walmart should STOP trying to blame Tariffs as the reason for raising prices throughout the chain. Walmart made BILLIONS OF DOLLARS...
France’s Leclerc Main Battle Tank vs. Challenger 2: Hypothetical Armored Battle
Key Points – France’s Leclerc and the UK’s Challenger 2 are among NATO‘s premier main battle tanks, each possessing distinct advantages. -The Leclerc, introduced in 1992, excels in mobility with...
What if Chinese AI becomes misaligned first?
Published on May 19, 2025 7:35 PM GMTThis is an alternative scenario I wrote for the AI 2027 bounty.The date is January 20, 2033.You are Pete Buttigieg, President of the...
Product Strategy Masterclass from Global Authority on Strategy
Author of "Playing to Win," Roger Martin reveals why 95% of companies fail to build a strategy that actually drives results and how to craft one that wins.
One Year in DC
Published on May 19, 2025 7:46 PM GMTDiscuss
South Korea Doesn’t Need An Aircraft Carrier
Key Points – South Korea has reportedly scrapped its 2021 plan to build a $5 billion, 30,000-ton light aircraft carrier for 20 F-35B stealth fighters. -Instead, Seoul will pursue a...
Ed Smylie, Who Saved the Apollo 13 Crew With Duct Tape, Dies...
Ed Smylie, Who Saved the Apollo 13 Crew With Duct Tape, Dies at 95. “He and about 60 other engineers had less than two days to invent a solution using...
★ More Insight and Not-Negativity
I never linked to the viral blog post where Jobs was quoted recommending my article, I never mentioned it in a post, but I *did* acknowledge it, in what is...
Ex-FBI Agent: Elon Musk's Drug Habit Made Him an Easy Target for Russian Spies
Elon Musk's well-documented drug and partying habits made him an easy target for Russian secret service agents spying on him, former FBI agent Johnathan Buma told German television broadcaster ZDF...
America Makes AI Chip Diffusion Deal with UAE and KSA
Published on May 19, 2025 7:10 PM GMTOur government, having withdrawn the new diffusion rules, has now announced an agreement to sell massive numbers of highly advanced AI chips to...
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