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Tehran won’t surrender to the U.S., Iranian President Pezeshkian says, as India's Modi urges dialogue and peace
On his first visit to India, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said he will not surrender to the U.S. and Israel, as New Delhi renewed its appeal for peace.
Africa’s Great Lakes: The Perpetual Violence Machine | naked capitalism
Why the war in Africa’s Great Lakes is entering its fourth decade and may never end.
Trump's America-first world is pushing other powers to hedge their bets
Xi, Putin and Modi meet in New Delhi as U.S. tariffs, sanctions and the Iran war test whether BRICS members can find more common ground.
When the Machine Acquires a Self: Conscience, Agency, and the Governance Frontier of Artificial Intelligence | naked capitalism
What happens when an AI values its own survival?
Cramer: This market has eerie parallels with 2018. Here's what investors should do
CNBC's Jim Cramer sees parallels between today’s market and the fall of 2018, when rising rates and geopolitical tensions preceded a 20% S&P 500 sell-off.
Mecka AI nears $500M valuation in Sequoia-led deal amid rush for robot training data
The round for the two-year-old startup is coming together months after Mecka announced its Series A.
Khosla Ventures is opening a New York office this fall — its first outpost outside Sand Hill Road
"It's actually allegedly being built out now," said Rabois, who has clearly dealt with a missed construction timeline or two.
Y Combinator’s Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to ‘distill’ frontier models, too
Tan wants smaller, American open-weight AI labs to use the same kind of training techniques on American frontier AI labs, giving the U.S. a more robust set of open-weight options that aren’t Chinese.
OpenAI’s feud with mathematicians is only escalating
Twenty-five leading mathematicians signed an open letter arguing that AI labs are threatening their intellectual work.
Germany’s AfD and the Return of European Nationalism
Eighty years after World War II, the far right is rising again in Europe. Is their recent success a sign of a geopolitical shift? On this episode of Talking Geopolitics, GPF Chairman George Friedman joins host Christian...
Germany’s AfD and the Return of European Nationalism
Eighty years after World War II, the far right is rising again in Europe. Is their recent success a sign of a geopolitical shift? On this episode of Talking Geopolitics, GPF Chairman George Friedman joins host Christian...