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“President Trump will fire his first tariff salvo on Saturday against those notorious American adversaries . . . Mexico and Canada. They’ll get hit with a 25% border tax, while China, a real adversary, will endure 10%. This reminds us of the old Bernard Lewis joke that it’s risky to be America’s enemy but it […]
“The first step in winning a public debate, indeed in any effective communication, is to get attention for your message. But that in and of itself is not enough. Attention is the means, not the end, because the end is persuasion. Once you have people’s attention, then you can try to persuade them with your […]
“The market reaction, when it came, was brutal. On January 27th, as investors realised just how good DeepSeek’s “v3” and “R1” models were, they wiped around a trillion dollars off the market capitalisation of America’s listed tech firms”. Fonte: The Economist Link: The real meaning of the DeepSeek drama
When asked for his reasons for delaying the ban on TikTok, President Trump, a man not unfamiliar with changing his mind, said: “Because I got to use it.” Fonte: The Guardian Autore: Emily Taylor Link: Why Trump’s change of heart on TikTok? This is about self-interest, not security
“Two topics dominated the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos last week: Donald Trump and artificial intelligence. Of the two, the latter was the more interesting and almost certainly the more significant”. Fonte: Financial Times Autore: Martin Wolf Link: We will have to learn to live with machines that can think
“The world’s first “reasoning model”, an advanced form of artificial intelligence, was released in September by OpenAI, an American firm. o1, as it is called, uses a “chain of thought” to answer difficult questions in science and mathematics, breaking down problems to their constituent steps and testing various approaches to the task behind the scenes […]
“Their migration was a way to protest the TikTok ban, but it had an unexpected side effect: It brought Chinese people and Americans closer together”. Fonte: The Washington Post Autore: Youyou Zhou Link: How the TikTok ban brought Americans and Chinese closer
“When Donald Trump won back the White House in November, his team credited a series of people as they revelled in victory speeches. Taking the stage alongside Trump, UFC chief executive Dana White shouted to a cheering crowd: “I want to thank the Nelk Boys, Adin Ross, Theo Von, Bussin’ with the Boys and, last […]
“When President Donald Trump announced a half-trillion-dollar of private-sector investment in American artificial-intelligence (AI) infrastructure on January 21st, his second day in office, he basked in the accolades of the three men backing the “Stargate” project: OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Son Masayoshi, a Japanese tech mogul, and Larry Ellison of Oracle, an IT firm”. Fonte: The […]
“If the Chinese-owned TikTok is deemed definitively by the US to be a national security threat, it is hard to see how the UK or other western countries could conclude differently”. Fonte: The Guardian Autore: Dan Sabbagh Link: Is TikTok a national security threat – or is the ban a smokescreen for superpower rivalry?
