UK and Japan set to agree investment deal worth £18bn

Keir Starmer says commercial and government agreements will create tens of thousands of jobsThe UK and Japan are set to agree £18bn worth of investment, creating tens of thousands of jobs.Prime minister Keir Starmer will welcome his Japanese counterpar…

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AI Is Not a Fascist Artifact

Several people have asked what I thought when Jürgen Geuter, writing as tante, argued that AI is a fascist artifact. He’s not saying AI is being deployed badly. He’s saying AI is inherently fascist. He places it in the category Langdon Winn…

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Source: the White House imposed export controls on Mythos partly over suspicions a China-linked group had accessed it (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)

Reed Albergotti / Semafor:
Source: the White House imposed export controls on Mythos partly over suspicions a China-linked group had accessed it  —  THE SCOOP  —  The White House imposed export controls on Anthropic’s …

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How the AI boom is revolutionizing US stock markets, as hyperscalers cut buybacks and boost capex, including Alphabet’s planned ~$85B in equity offerings for AI (Robert Armstrong/Financial Times)

Robert Armstrong / Financial Times:
How the AI boom is revolutionizing US stock markets, as hyperscalers cut buybacks and boost capex, including Alphabet’s planned ~$85B in equity offerings for AI  —  Big Tech no longer prints money; …

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