Comments on Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy as leads of a Department of Government Efficiency project to “dismantle government bureaucracy”, cutting $2 trillion from the U.S. Federal government budget and more.

Comments from U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and the U.S. Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report ”An Update to the Budget and Economic Outlook: 2024 to 2034” (June 2024).

As the 2024 U.S. Presidential election approaches, financial markets may encounter turbulence.

Comments from U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, the White House, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo and U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken.

Last week, Amazon signed three new agreements to support the development of nuclear energy projects including enabling the construction of several new Small Modular Reactors (SMRs). and Google signed and agreement to purchase nuclear energy from multiple SMRs developed by Kairos Power.

Comments on using Google's "experimental" NotebookLM tool to create audio content from the  "Lifting the Fog: On Budgets, Civic Innovation, Silos and more" report.

Comments on the Constellation Energy, Microsoft deal at Three Mile Island; research from Goldman Saks and more.

Comments on AI from CEO James Dimon, their efforts in wealth and asset management, along with the University of Chicago study “Financial Statement Analysis with Large Language Models.”

Comments from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Center for Disease Control and others.

Comments by Max Tegmar (physicist and AI researcher at MiT),AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li (Stanford professor and Co-Director of the Human-Centered AI Institute), Dr. Tina Eliassi-Rad (computer scientist and professor at Northeastern University), Marina Danilevsky (senior research scientist at IBM.)

Last week, the San Francisco Civil Grand Jury released "Lifting the Fog" On Budgets, Innovation, Silos, and More", that identifies the need to improve budget oversight, increase interdepartmental cooperation and provide clarity on the government’s function and structure.

Comments from the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Vincent Strubel, director general of ANSSI (France’s cybersecurity agency), and efforts about surveillance systems from Videtics, Orange Business, ChapsVision, Wintics

Comments from NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang and The Economist article “Robots are suddenly getting cleverer. What’s changed?

Comments from Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos (NY Times interview) and Dawn Ostroff, board member of Paramount Global and Mattel, in her article “Memo to Hollywood: AI Is a Threat — And an Opportunity”

Comments on Wayve, a UK based startup, and its $1 billion series C funding from Softbank, Microsoft, Nvidia and others to develop artificial intelligence technologies that help autonomous vehicles

Last week, Pew Research Center released “Americans’ Views of Technology Companies” with comments on Social Media.

Last week, Profluent, a start-up based in Berkeley, CA, announced the release of an AI-created gene editor and its uses its OpenCRISPR uses “AI that learned from massive scale sequence and biological context to generate millions of diverse CRISPR-like proteins

Last week, Rand Corp. released the report “Artificial Intelligence and Critical Infrastructure”

Last week, the U.S. Office of Management and Budget issued guidance onArtificial Intelligence use

Comments by Yann LeCun (Chief AI Scientist for Facebook AI Research, Professor at New York University focusing on Data Science and Mathematical Sciences) from an interview with Lex Fridman.
 

Comments from ESPN, FOX and Warner Bros. Discovery about a joint venture to stream sports content in the U.S. including NFL, NBA, WNBA, MLB, NHL, NASCAR, College Sports, UFC, PGA TOUR Golf, Grand Slam Tennis, the FIFA World Cup, Cycling and more

Comments from Pew Research’s “Americans’ Social Media Use” report, U.S. Congress and United Music Group.

Comments from U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, Bill Gates, Pope Francis, EPA Administrator Michael Regan, U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and U.S. Chamber of Commerce President/CEO Suzanne P. Clark

Comments from OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and members of the U.S. Senate’s Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

Comments from  Mark Cohen, Sam Bankman-Fried's lead defense attorney, Damian Williams, U.S. Attorney’s Office - Southern District Court, and Danielle Sassoon, U.S. Assistant Attorney

Comments from the Rand Corp.’s ” Machine Learning and gene editing at the helm of a societal evolution."