Poland continues to be one of the top countries to promote war with Russia over Ukraine, with the country’s top leader stating last week that the “times of peace are over.”
ECONOMIC UPDATE – MARKET OVERVIEW
As we note just about every week, the “Bigs” keep getting bigger and the rich keep getting richer, while the average person—the plantation workers of Slavelandia—keeps getting poorer.
TOP TREND 2024: BANKS GO BUST
Four private equity firms have together spent a reported $1.05 billion to buy stock in the ailing New York Community Bancorp (NYCB).
And the number of U.S. banks showing problems soared from eight to 52 in last year’s final three months, the sharpest spike since…
TOP ISRAELI RABBI CALLS ON THE SLAUGHTER OF EVERY PALESTINIAN
Eliyahu Mali, Israel’s top rabbi in Jaffa, said last week that the Torah calls for the killing of all Palestinian men, women, children, and babies in Gaza, stating that there should not be a soul still alive after the conflict.
WILL AI BE JARVIS, OR SYNTHETIC TONY STARK?
To hear uber techno-optimists Peter Diamandis and Cathie Wood of Ark Invest preach it, whirlwind ascendant and fast converging AI, robotic and genetic technological advances are creating an “automagical” age for humankind.
BULLSHIT BIDEN USES STATE OF THE UNION SPEECH TO URGE MORE WAR IN UKRAINE
President Joe Biden was praised for his State of the Union speech on Thursday by the pro-war Presstitute media for staying committed to stealing hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars to keep bloodying the killing fields of Ukraine.
BIDEN TO PALESTINIANS: TAKE A LONG WALK OFF A SHORT PIER
U.S. President Joe Biden announced last week that he plans on building a temporary pier off of Gaza's coast on the Mediterranean to help speed up the transfer of humanitarian aid to the starving people in the enclave.
Global Economy
SPOTLIGHT: CHINA’S ECONOMIC STRUGGLE
The value of exports from China in dollar terms January and February rose 7.1 percent from the same period last year, the government reported.
TOP TREND 2024, EV GO FU: BYD CUTS EV PRICES IN CHINA
BYD, one of China’s largest makers of electric vehicles (EVs), has again cut the sticker price of the basic version of its Seagull model amid an EV price war in the country.
RETAILERS’ SHARE PRICES FALL ON WEAKER SALES AND FORECASTS
Major retailers Foot Locker, Hugo Boss, Nordstrom, and Victoria’s Secret all saw their share prices sag after they disappointed analysts’ sales estimates.
The Israel War
TOP ISRAELI RABBI CALLS ON THE SLAUGHTER OF EVERY PALESTINIAN
Eliyahu Mali, Israel’s top rabbi in Jaffa, said last week that the Torah calls for the killing of all Palestinian men, women, children, and babies in Gaza, stating that there should not be a soul still alive after the conflict.
BIDEN TO PALESTINIANS: TAKE A LONG WALK OFF A SHORT PIER
U.S. President Joe Biden announced last week that he plans on building a temporary pier off of Gaza's coast on the Mediterranean to help speed up the transfer of humanitarian aid to the starving people in the enclave.
ISRAEL BOMBS TO RUIN RESIDENTIAL BUILDING AND UNIVERSITY IN RAFAH
Israel struck Rafah’s largest residential tower last week, claiming that Hamas has been using the 14-story building to conduct military activities.
AI
CHINA’S NEW AI OUTPERFORMS GPT-4, DEVELOPERS CLAIM
Spark v3.5, an AI unveiled by the Chinese company iFlytek, is better than OpenAI's GPT-4 Turbo in processing language, doing math, coding, and can mimic human speech in ways that reveal emotions, the company announced.
AI HEAVYWEIGHTS INVEST IN ROBOT START-UP
Figure AI, a Silicon Valley start-up building AI-driven robots, announced it has raised $675 million from investors including Intel, Microsoft, Nvidia, OpenAI, and the family fund of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
AI WILL BE AS CAPABLE AS HUMANS IN NEAR FUTURE, ZUCKERBERG SAYS
AI developer Meta is pouring another $10 billion into creating "an absolutely massive amount of infrastructure" to develop artificial general intelligence (AGI)—the kind that bests humans in a variety of mentally demanding challenges, Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg said last week.
Hi-Tech Science
NEW MATERIAL DOUBLES HYDROGEN STORAGE CAPACITY
Hydrogen is making headlines as a potentially limitless clean fuel that holds more energy in a given space than lithium-ion batteries. (See “A Gold Rush for Gold Hydrogen” 5 Mar 2024.) However, as hydrogen’s benefits draw more interest, so does a key problem: the gas is hard to store.
BIOENGINEERS 3D-PRINT LIVING SKIN DIRECTLY ONTO WOUNDS
For the first time, researchers have 3D-printed layered, living skin onto wounded areas of a living creature, preventing scarring, possible infection, and other dangers that can accompany skin grafts.
ELECTRONICS RECYCLERS STRIKE GOLD
Electronic trash is laced with rare minerals and even gold—but recovering that gold from discarded computers’ circuitry has been too complex and expensive to make it worthwhile.