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Inside Palantir’s Expanding Influence Operation
Data-mining company Palantir is poised to turbocharge its sales to the U.S. military under President Donald Trump, amid signs that his administration plans to loosen the hold of traditional defense contractors and tap Palantir executives for key government positions.
DOGE Sets Its Sights on Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid
The Republican record on Social Security: Getting worse all the time
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AI going DeepSeek
Most readers will know the news by now. DeepSeek, a Chinese AI company, released an AI model called R1 that is comparable in ability to the best models from companies such as OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta, but was trained at a radically lower cost and using less than state-of-the art GPU chips. DeepSeek also made public enough of the details of the model that others can run it on their own computers without charge.
Previously:
Interview with Deepseek Founder: We’re Done Following. It’s Time to Lead
Interview with Deepseek Founder: We’re Done Following. It’s Time to Lead
Interview with Deepseek Founder: We’re Done Following. It’s Time to Lead
An Yong: After your price cuts, ByteDance was the first to follow, suggesting they felt threatened. How do you view the new competitive landscape between startups and giants?
Liang Wenfeng: To be honest, we don’t really care about it. Lowering prices was just something we did along the way. Providing cloud services isn’t our main goal—achieving AGI is. So far, we haven’t seen any groundbreaking solutions. Giants have users, but their cash cows also shackle them, making them ripe for disruption.
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Silicon Valley venture capital blowing up the US defense industry + More
Silicon Valley venture capital blowing up the US defense industry
“I’m a propagandist, I’ll twist the truth, I’ll put forward only my version of it if I think that’s going to propagandize people to believe what I need them to believe.” – Palmer Luckey
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China banned sale of these minerals to the U.S. It matters to all of us
China banned sale of these minerals to the U.S. It matters to all of us
The ban will challenge many semiconductor manufacturers in the coming months. After two years of flat consumer demand, exacerbated by the global semiconductor shortage, many companies are predicted to struggle to stay afloat. Access to critical raw materials like gallium, germanium, and antimony is becoming increasingly important due to the heightened demand for electronics due to AI.
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DOGE’s Ties to the Military-Industrial Complex
DOGE’s Ties to the Military-Industrial Complex
Defense contractors: General Atomics, General Dynamics, Honeywell
n.b.: Phil Cox, was formerly with Americans For Prosperity and the Republican Governors Association. Both are affiliated with the Atlas Network through the Koch brothers.
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