A French Castle Filled With a Collector’s Treasures
When the French gallerist Yves Gastou bought the Ermitage de Douce-amie — or refuge of a sweet friend — a follylike crenelated castle on the outskirts of Biarritz in southwest…
The Department of Homeland Security Is Embracing A.I.
The Department of Homeland Security has seen the opportunities and risks of artificial intelligence firsthand. It found a trafficking victim years later using an A.I. tool that conjured an image…
What Meltdown? Crypto Comes Roaring Back in the Philippines.
On a recent Tuesday night, around 20 people crowded into the second floor of Joniel Bon’s newly opened internet cafe in Quezon City, 10 miles from Manila. Seated at computers…
Kushner Deal in Serbia Follows Earlier Interest by Trump
The plan by Jared Kushner and his business partners to redevelop a prized location in Serbia’s capital, Belgrade, echoes interest from Donald J. Trump a decade ago in pursuing a…
In Latest A.I. War Escalation, Elon Musk Releases Chatbot Code
Elon Musk released the raw computer code behind his version of an artificial intelligence chatbot on Sunday, an escalation by one of the world’s richest men in a battle to…
‘I sat inches away from US plane’s mid-air blowout’
Cuong Tran says the seatbelt saved his life as a gaping hole suddenly appeared after take-off.
How a near-death experience helped this addict recover
Bryan Emery was a fentanyl addict and lived on the streets of San Francisco for nearly three years. He spoke to the BBC’s James Clayton about his experience in one…
The Realtors’ Big Defeat
Free-market economic theory suggests that the American real estate market should not have been able to exist as it has for decades. Americans have long paid unusually high commissions to…
Blinken Warns of Disinformation Threat to Democracies
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken warned on Monday that a malicious “flood” of disinformation was threatening the world’s democracies, fueled in part by the swift rise of artificial intelligence,…
Experts: Negotiating Big Pharma’s Prices Won’t Stifle Innovation—They Don’t Use the Money to Innovate! | naked capitalism
Yves here. For many many years, we have written about the canards the drug makers use to defend their egregious prices in the US, particularly the intelligence-insulting one that they…