Crude prices make record jump as Trump’s measures fail to calm markets
07.03.2026 02:20
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Crude prices make record jump as Trump’s measures fail to calm markets
Trump's decision to put one of the top American AI companies on a possibly extinction-causing blacklist is bad for the whole AI industry, tech advocates say — and for Trump's own ambitions to see the United States outcompete China.
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Don't break out the freedom fries just yet:
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Meanwhile: www.eenews.net/articles/tru...
It was just a few weeks ago that the administration was posting AI-generated videos celebrating its efforts to make cars less fuel-efficient:
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... after wiping out hundreds of billions of dollars in Biden's tax breaks and subsidies for electric cars, batteries, chargers and clean power.
They're not looking under THOSE rocks.
Something more frightening than Iranian drones: paying taxes?
How did the @Anthropic negotiations with the Defense Department go down? This seems about right.
Plus an OpenAI cameo.
H/t @albertatech.bsky.social
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"Dubai’s Western expats — an exotic mix of high-flying corporates, influencers and holiday-goers like me — were poorly equipped to handle a crisis.
"Few people chose to take the stairs... Several residents waited in the reception area with their chihuahuas and cats
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The fate of one of the last thriving coral reefs in Florida could soon be wiped out — not by hot-tub water temperatures or the mysterious plague of stony coral tissue loss disease, but by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Seen near DC: When you've installed solar panels on your house but don't want your neighbors to know the electrical gear is from Tesla.
Missile and drone attacks have severely disrupted shipping in the Persian Gulf as Iran has blocked the Strait of Hormuz — a key chokepoint between Asia and Europe.
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"The more times it remembers something, the less it does."
Same.
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Will Brendan Carr warn NBC that the men's team needs to get equal time?
"Within hours of declaring that the federal government will end its use of artificial-intelligence tools made by tech company Anthropic, President Trump launched a major air attack in Iran with the help of those very same tools."
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The benefits of an alliance with Russia have limits, as Assad, Maduro and now Khamenei have learned: www.politico.eu/article/vlad...
But so do the benefits of the United States' friendship, U.S. allies are saying:
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Oh, those innocent days when the hyperloop was just an idea in a blog post and we were still describing Elon Musk as a "PayPal entrepreneur"
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"There was no conspiracy, no evidence of fraud. The truth was far simpler, far dumber, and far more prescient: Musk and his lieutenants truly had no idea what they were doing."
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"Interviews with 6 current and former U.S. officials and members of Congress underscored widespread worries that sustained Iranian responses could deplete waning U.S. air defenses and leave tens of thousands of American troops in the region unprotected"
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Everyone go see The Paranoid Style when they come to your town. Everybody gets down!
Which of these things is not like the other?
Hours after Trump and Hegseth attacked @anthropic.com for insisting on restrictions for mass surveillance and killer robots, its rival OpenAI announces a deal with the Pentagon to... uh... restrict mass surveillance and killer robots.
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"If AI-enabled planning fails, it will not be because the technology was insufficient but because structure became cheap and easy, obscuring where tradeoffs should be made. When AI-generated coherence is allowed to stand in for decision... the hard choices of command recede."
The U.S. government attacks on private enterprise will continue until the struggle against Chinese Communism is won:
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It was inevitable the US would hit the AI firms:
"It is just not realistic that we are going to have private companies develop the Machine God and then the government is just going to sit there and say, 'Oh, that’s interesting.' We were always going to nationalize."
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"This is simply attempted corporate murder," former Trump AI adviser Dean Ball wrote. "I could not possibly recommend investing in American AI to any investor; I could not possibly recommend starting an AI company in the United States."
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It seemed inevitable that @anthropicbot.bsky.social's Claude and OpenAI's ChatGPT would meet in the final round of @gothamchess.bsky.social's 2nd chatbot chess championship. But you won't believe what happened next.
Or maybe you will. How would I know what you believe?
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Station Manager Ken has the chance to do the funniest thing ever.
It seems weird to call a floor vote at all unless you intended for it to pass.
I still have so many questions about the House vote.
Why call a vote on an aviation safety bill written by members of your own party only to defeat it?
If the House has its own ideas about what the bill should look like, fine. But why not pass a House version and then negotiate a compromise?