Andrew Huberman Predicts A “Scary” New Way Humans Will Radically Alter Their Brains Stanford neuroscientist Andrew Huberman is predicting a startling future in which humans could undergo gene therapy and use an AI-powered wearable to literally turn up their own motivation. Huberman laid out the futuristic scenario during an appearance on the “Invest Like the Best” podcast, describing technology that could allow people to […]

Forest Majeure: Finland Orders Google To Halt Work At Two Data Centers Less Than A Month After €13BN Splash The data center delay contagion has officially gone global. Just hours after we laid out how Oracle’s 1.3GW Wisconsin campus became the next domino to slip after the indefinite delay of the company’s New Mexico-based, Project Jupiter, and on the same day Google locked up 3.6GW of Constellation’s nuclear output in PJM, […]

“Don’t Be Evil”? Ex-Google CEO Schmidt’s Attack Drones Get Warheads From US Army Bomb Plant The U.S. Army’s McAlester Army Ammunition Plant is a massive munitions plant located in southeastern Oklahoma and will soon be producing warheads for former Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s suicide drone arsenal. Defense Blog reports that McAlester plant officials held a “ribbon-cutting ceremony to open the partnership” with Schmidt’s drone […]

The Few Dominating AI Could Wield Insane Concentration Of Power, Researcher Warns Authored by Jacob Burg and Jan Jekielek via The Epoch Times, Imagine a world where intelligent machines easily outmatch humans across a broad spectrum of tasks, deconstructing complex concepts and mathematical equations in seconds, and bringing to life creative products and ideas that once seemed inseparable from the human mind. In this world, your […]

Brazil’s Rightward Shift: UBS-Hosted Consultancy Puts Bolsonaro’s Runoff Election Odds At 85% Brazil’s benchmark Ibovespa index surged above 200,000 for the first time Monday, posting its biggest one-day gain in more than six years, while the real rallied sharply after right-wing Senator Flávio Bolsonaro finished ahead of socialist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the first round of the presidential election. Market […]

Explosion Rocks Venezuela’s Second-Largest Refinery More bad news for the global refining market broke late Tuesday when Venezuela’s second-largest refinery halted operations after a fire erupted at the facility. The 310,000-barrel-a-day Cardon refinery shut down earlier today, according to a Reuters report citing people familiar with the matter, who said a gas line connected to its diesel hydrotreater exploded. Footage: […]

Anthropic President Daniela Amodei Created A Stuffed-Animal Advisory Council While At OpenAI Before Anthropic existed, Daniela Amodei reportedly developed an unconventional method for sorting through difficult decisions at work: she and her husband created an imaginary group of advisers using plush toys, according to the NY Post. The couple gave each toy a distinct temperament and point of view, then used those characters to […]

Nurse: Stillbirths Exploded After COVID Shots Hit Maternity Wards Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, A California labor-and-delivery nurse says her Fresno hospital went from a handful of stillbirths a year to more than 20 in a single month once COVID shots were pushed on pregnant women, then answered the pile-up with an email on how to handle the dead. The same product is now sitting in a federal file parents were told […]

Former Sunrise Movement NGO Board Member Abdul El-Sayed Linked To Far-Left Group Whose Leader Now Urges… Leaders of Sunrise Movement, a far-left climate nonprofit legally classified as a 501(c)(4) organization, said in a recent online meeting that they want to “engage in civil disobedience and get arrested.” The video of the nonprofit’s far-left radical leaders was published on X by Karlyn Borysenko, who describes herself as an […]

Trump Outrages Dems & Republicans Alike With Garbled ‘Take Out Los Angeles’ Line President Trump addressed a full house for his Monday night midterm campaign rally in Grand Island, Nebraska – but his comments on the Iran war, gas prices, and musings about a nuclear weapon taking out American cities created an avalanche of controversy. Making the case for his launching Operation Epic Fury, Trump at one point in the speech said, […]

New Report Confirms Biden’s DOJ Did Target Parents Who Spoke Out At School Board Meetings The Justice Department’s Weaponization Working Group released a report Monday concluding that former Attorney General Merrick Garland’s Oct. 4, 2021 school board memo grew out of pressure from the Biden White House and turned the department’s law enforcement powers on parents. The report describes how DOJ officials under President Joe Biden […]

The AI Race With China Has Seven Fronts Authored by Noosheen Hashemi via RealClearMarkets, At the White House on Tuesday, President Trump, Speaker Mike Johnson and leaders of America’s major AI companies emerged with a voluntary accord calling for robust internal controls, independent auditing and safeguards against AI systems accessing technical systems in unintended ways. The agreement is limited and its implementation will […]

“Their Own Country”: Quebec Elects Separatists Vowing To Break From Canada Quebec’s separatists are returning to government with a promise to take the province out of Canada, reopening a battle over the country’s future while Ottawa is already locked in a trade war with Washington. Paul St-Pierre Plamondon took a moment to speak to anglophones in the province, saying that all Quebecers face the same challenges, and that he looks […]

To Limit Immigration, Japan Hikes Residency App Fee 20-Fold, Requires Incomes Higher Than National Average Via Remix News, Japan has raised the fee for permanent residency applications twentyfold and imposed stricter income, pension and language requirements on foreigners seeking to settle long-term, as Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s government moves to curb growth in the foreign resident population. The move is being presented […]

Massive Smoke Plume As Tanker Erupts In Flames, Spills Oil Off Russia’s Sochi Coast The Black Sea tanker wars have continued Tuesday. In the latest tit-for-tat episode, a large so-called ‘shadow fleet’ tanker is ablaze close to the Russian Black Sea port of Sochi. The vessel, identified in reports as likely being the Aframax Rio, which was previously sanctioned by Ukraine for alleged involvement in Russian oil exports, is […]

Kremlin Says Russians Should Ignore “Rumors” On Possible Plague Outbreak In Siberia Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, The top Kremlin spokesman sought to tamp down “various rumors and speculation” about reports of a possible plague outbreak in Siberia and said that Russians should only monitor statements from government sources. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov in Moscow on Feb. 18, 2022. Sergey Guneev/Sputnik/Kremlin […]

Germany’s Former Spy Chief Arrested In Biggest Espionage Scandal Of The Century August Hanning, former head of the German BND foreign intelligence agency, which is Germany’s equivalent of the CIA, has been arrested on espionage charges in a shocking and unprecedented situation in which a country’s top intelligence officer and head of a national spy agency was caught spying for another state. The 80-year-old faces formal charges […]

Nickelodeon’s Parent Hub Is A Nightmare Woke Indoctrination Syllabus For Kids Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, The network that once sold slime and SpongeBob is running a parent portal that treats political activism as bedtime reading. The children’s channel has assembled a disturbing syllabus, and it wants the parents to administer it. Libs of TikTok flagged nickparents, the network’s own resource hub, on Monday. […]

Trump To Unveil Anduril Deal, Bringing Submarine Parts Factory To Baltimore Bethlehem Steel’s Sparrows Point complex near crime-ridden Baltimore City was once the largest steelmaking facility in the US and viewed by some as once the world’s largest steel mill. Decades of deindustrialization led to the mill’s closure in 2012. By 2014, the 3,300-acre site entered a redevelopment phase and was transformed into a giant logistics and […]

Office CMBS Delinquency Rate Re-Spikes To 12.2%, Far Worse Than Financial Crisis Peak As End Of Extend-And-Pretend Looms Authored by Wolf Richter via WolfStreet.com, The dictum morphs from “Survive till ’25” (when low interest rates were supposed to return) to “Sell at today’s price, or the lender will.” The delinquency rate of office mortgages that have been securitized into commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) re-spiked […]

The $1 Million Tanker Was Just The Start: Every Crude Freight Index Hits Record High As Hormuz “Works” Too Well Just when we thought crude tanker rates couldn’t go any higher, they did – again. A week ago, a record million dollars a day charter for a supertanker was the punchline. Now it’s the floor: the Baltic Exchange’s TD3C, the benchmark Saudi Arabia-to-China VLCC route, hit yet another all-time high of $1.33 million per day on […]

The Education Cartel And The Blue State School Scam Authored by Jonathan Turley via JonathanTurley.org, Below is my column in the Hill on the education cartel and how it is destroying our K-12 school system. After decades of bloated budgets and failing scores, our school system is now less popular than Cuba and communism. It is a particularly telling comparison in Chicago where union members went to Venezuela to praise the worker’s […]

Ugly 3Y Auction Stops Through At Highest Yield In 20 Years Despite Plunge In Foreign Demand, Record Directs With bond traders still bruised from the catastrophic, “mega-tailing” 5Y auction two weeks ago, some were looking toward this week’s restart of Treasury coupon auctions with trepidation, although after the brutal selloff in recent weeks, there probably was enough concession to avoid another disaster. And sure enough, after we […]

Asia’s Gold Producers Start Hoarding Their Own Metal As Faith In The Dollar Erodes For most of modern history, the gold trade worked one way: emerging-market mines dug it up, shipped it out (often as cheap ore, more often through the back door), and London and New York did the rest. But that arrangement is now quietly breaking down. According to a must-read report in Nikkei Asia, countries across Asia are moving to capture more of […]

OpenAI Shops $30 Billion Round To UAE Funds, BlackRock As Altman’s ‘Bad Things’ Remark Draws Bipartisan Fire With its planned IPO on ice for the moment, OpenAI is pitching a $30 billion funding round to a group of United Arab Emirates sovereign funds led by Abu Dhabi’s MGX, along with BlackRock, at a $1.4 trillion pre-money valuation, Bloomberg reported Monday. There is no lead investor, and the price was set by OpenAI rather than […]