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Apocalypse Now? Why the media are suddenly freaking out about AI

“The A.I. Prompt That Could End the World,” the New York Times warns ominously. Actually, that’s way too weak a word. It’s… pretty frightening. Columnist Stephen Witt writes: “The A.I. pioneer Yoshua Bengio, a computer science professor at the Université de Montréal, is the most-cited researcher alive, in any discipline. …

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Selective outrage: Trump, Democrats mainly denounce the other side’s scandals

The group chat was racist as hell. Black folks were called “monkeys” and “the watermelon people.” The group chat was also utterly antisemitic. “I love Hitler.” “Kill them in gas chambers.” “I’m ready to watch people burn now.” JD VANCE TELLS DEMS OUTRAGED OVER YOUNG REPUBLICANS’ LEAKED GROUP CHAT TO …

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Why Trump, rightly praised for the Gaza ceasefire, acts so differently at home

President Trump continues to be hailed as a global peacemaker for freeing the Hamas hostages and brokering a ceasefire between Israel and the terrorist group. By assembling a coalition of countries to stop the two-year-old war, the president melded threats and diplomacy to end – at least for now – …

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