How to make sense of Donald Trump’s bizarre tariff rates

NEWS-FINANCE -QUOTE-EDUCATIONAL AND MOTIVATIONAL ON AUGUST 11TH an unpredictable president did a predictable thing: Donald Trump extended America’s tariff truce with China for at least another 90 days. The decision followed a frenetic spell of dealmaking and tariff-setting that has changed the terms of entry to the American market for dozens of other trade partners, Continue Reading

xAI Was About to Land a Major Government Contract. Then Grok Praised Hitler

NEWS-FINANCE -QUOTE-EDUCATIONAL AND MOTIVATIONAL The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment. One company that was supposed to be part of the GSA announcements was Musk’s xAI, according to sources with knowledge of the discussions. In early June, GSA leadership met with the xAI team for a two-hour brainstorming session “to Continue Reading

Seven Games Like ‘Stardew Valley’ You Should Play Next

NEWS-FINANCE -QUOTE-EDUCATIONAL AND MOTIVATIONAL In the pantheon of indie video games, 2016’s Stardew Valley holds a place of pride. Singlehandedly developed, designed, programmed, and even scored by one guy—he goes by the online handle ConcernedApe—it’s ostensibly a farming simulator, but it goes way beyond Farmville. Players can grow and harvest their crops, yes. But they Continue Reading

Apple’s blood oxygen monitoring returns to its latest Apple Watches

NEWS-FINANCE -QUOTE-EDUCATIONAL AND MOTIVATIONAL Apple announced on Thursday it’s introducing a redesigned Blood Oxygen feature for some Watch Series 8, Series 10, and Apple Watch Ultra. With this move, Apple is bringing back blood oxygen monitoring by tweaking the feature to get around the International Trade Commission’s (ITC) import ban. Blood oxygen data will be Continue Reading

Cohere hires long-time Meta research head Joelle Pineau as its chief AI officer

NEWS-FINANCE -QUOTE-EDUCATIONAL AND MOTIVATIONAL Investors once saw Canadian AI startup Cohere as a promising contender to challenge OpenAI and Anthropic in the race to build frontier AI models, with its backers pouring roughly $1 billion behind CEO Aidan Gomez, who co-authored a seminal paper on LLMs when he was a 20-year-old Google intern. But Cohere’s Continue Reading