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ChatGPT Suspends Scarlet Johansson Voice Clone After She Lawyers Up
21.05.2024, 17:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - ChatGPT Suspends Scarlet Johansson Voice Clone After She Lawyers Up OpenAI, which is losing key execs at a rapid pace - has made the choice to "pause" its new ChatGPT voice after actress Scarlett Johansson lawyered up and threatened legal action, alleging that the AI start-up copied her voice after she refused to license it to the company. The actress...
Mainstream Finally Gets It... The AI Investment Play Isn't Tech, It's Energy
21.05.2024, 16:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Mainstream Finally Gets It... The AI Investment Play Isn't Tech, It's Energy Almost two months ago, we highlighted what we called at the time 'The Next AI Trade' - that in fact it is not the tech itself, but the electrical power required to run the tech that is the limiting factor on the growth of AI (and Data Center) expansion. These pages have been...
The Argument Against Michael Saylor
21.05.2024, 14:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Argument Against Michael Saylor Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance Today, with his permission, I’m happy to offer up the latest thoughts from my friend Anton Wahlman, whose takes I don’t always agree with — but are always worth considering. Anton is a brilliant analyst and has, many times in the past, help me see “blind spots” in analysis...
The Biden Administration's Scientific Integrity Policies
21.05.2024, 03:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Biden Administration's Scientific Integrity Policies Authored by Curtis Schube via RealClearPolitics, It is no secret that the Biden administration has prioritized insulating the administrative state from the will of the people. The goal is placing career officials on equal footing with agency leadership (i.e., political appointees). Undoing Schedule...
Trade Protectionism In Renewables Could "Haunt" The Industry, Chinese Solar Execs Claim
21.05.2024, 01:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Trade Protectionism In Renewables Could "Haunt" The Industry, Chinese Solar Execs Claim Solar executives in China are railing the U.S. and Europe over trade protectionism, claiming that the West should instead “let the best technology win” in their respective markets. The Financial Times conducted an interview with Zhou Shijun, who leads global...
Lockheed Running Out Of Parking Space For F-35s Pentagon Refuses To Accept
21.05.2024, 00:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Lockheed Running Out Of Parking Space For F-35s Pentagon Refuses To Accept Another day, another indication of what a spectacular, snakebit clusterf**k the F-35 program is. The latest blotter entry comes to us from the US Government Accounting Office (GAO), via a new report pointedly titled "F-25 Joint Strike Fighter: Program Continues to Encounter...
How Iran Used An Advanced Turkish Drone To Find Raisi's Helicopter
20.05.2024, 19:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - How Iran Used An Advanced Turkish Drone To Find Raisi's Helicopter Via Middle East Eye A Turkish high-altitude, long-endurance drone played a central role in finding the wreckage of the helicopter that was carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and his delegation on Sunday night. Iranian search and rescue officials reported late on Sunday evening...
Fearing AI 'Take Over', 'Godfather Of AI' Advises UK Govt To Start UBI
20.05.2024, 15:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Fearing AI 'Take Over', 'Godfather Of AI' Advises UK Govt To Start UBI Authored by Tristan Greene via CoinTelegraph.com, Geoffrey Hinton, a world-renowned artificial intelligence (AI) expert often referred to as the “Godfather of AI,” recently consulted with members of the United Kingdom’s government at Downing Street, where he advised lawmakers...
The EU Is Spending Billions On Hydrogen-Ready, But Where's The Hydrogen?
20.05.2024, 11:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The EU Is Spending Billions On Hydrogen-Ready, But Where's The Hydrogen? Authored by Mike Shedlock via mishtalk.com, I’m all in favor of hydrogen-powered plants to produce electricity if only we had cheap hydrogen. But we don’t and likely won’t. A Bad Bet on Hydrogen Hype Bloomberg cautions Europe’s Spending Billions on Green Hydrogen. It’s...
A Global Censorship Prison Built By The Women Of The CIA
20.05.2024, 02:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - A Global Censorship Prison Built By The Women Of The CIA Authored by Elizabeth Nickson via 'Welcome to Absurdistan' substack, The polite world was fascinated last month when long-time NPR editor Uri Berliner confessed to the Stalinist suicide pact the public broadcaster, like all public broadcasters, seems to be on. Formerly it was a place of differing...
America's Competitors Think That The Window Of Opportunity Is Now Open To Divide The World
20.05.2024, 01:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - America's Competitors Think That The Window Of Opportunity Is Now Open To Divide The World By Eric Peters, CIO of One River Asset Management “The United States still thinks in terms of the Cold War and is guided by the logic of bloc confrontation, putting the security of ‘narrow groups’ above regional security and stability, which creates a security...
Green Irony: Massive US Lithium Source Found - In Fracking Wastewater
19.05.2024, 17:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Green Irony: Massive US Lithium Source Found - In Fracking Wastewater The global, government-coerced transition into "green energy" has geologists scouring the Earth for new sources of lithium -- the element that's required for batteries, like those used in electric vehicles. Now, in a cosmic practical joke on environmentalists, researchers say they've...
After Sudden CEO Departure, Vanguard Taps Outsider From BlackRock
19.05.2024, 16:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - After Sudden CEO Departure, Vanguard Taps Outsider From BlackRock After a jarringly sudden announcement of its CEO's retirement, investment giant Vanguard has tapped its first outsider to serve as the firm's fifth CEO. On July 8, Blackrock veteran Salim Ramji will take over, facing customer service challenges, uneasiness about whether an outsider will...
Ukraine Launched Its Largest-Ever Drone Attack On Russia While Putin Was In China
18.05.2024, 21:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Ukraine Launched Its Largest-Ever Drone Attack On Russia While Putin Was In China In what appears an intentionally-timed message, Ukraine's military launched its largest-ever drone attack on Russian territory while President Putin was visiting China where he held two days of meetings with Xi Jinping. "Fifty-one UAVs were destroyed and intercepted over...
Hezbollah Launches First-Ever Airstrike On Israeli Territory
18.05.2024, 01:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Hezbollah Launches First-Ever Airstrike On Israeli Territory Via The Cradle Hezbollah launched the first-ever Lebanese airstrike on an Israeli target on Friday, using a never-before-seen drone for the operation. "In support of our steadfast Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and in support of their brave and honorable resistance, the Islamic Resistance...
Jetzt wie bei MasterCard: Wer mit VISA zahlt, dessen Einkaufsverhalten wird verhökert
17.05.2024, 22:00 Uhr. >b's weblog - https: - Visa, one of the world’s two largest payment card services, is launching new, proprietary technology that will allow it to give retailers even more data collected from its customers.The move is seen as Visa working hard to keep up competing with the other giant – Mastercard – but also, fintech firms like Plaid.Visa, einer der beiden größten...
Is Buffett's Cash Hoard A Market Warning?
17.05.2024, 16:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Is Buffett's Cash Hoard A Market Warning? Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Every year, investors anxiously await the release of Warren Buffett’s annual letter to see what the “Oracle of Omaha” says about the markets, the economy, and where he is placing his money. “One of the longest-running traditions in modern finance...
Former Greenlight Employee Offers To Debate David Einhorn Over Merits Of Tesla Short
17.05.2024, 12:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Former Greenlight Employee Offers To Debate David Einhorn Over Merits Of Tesla Short A former Greenlight Capital employee, who is embroiled in a lawsuit against his former employer for defamation, claims the firm "fundamentally misunderestimates" Tesla and is seeking to debate Greenlight President David Einhorn on the topic. On a post on X, the employee...
Futures Flat In Quiet End To Torrid Week
17.05.2024, 12:53 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Flat In Quiet End To Torrid Week US equity futures are flat to end a torrid week which saw all indexes hit a fresh all-time high while the terminally anachronistic Dow Jones briefly topped 40,000. Pre-market, MegaCap Tech are mixed: AMZN +20bp, MSFT +20bp, META -22bp, GOOGL -18bp. WMT is down 27bps pre-mkt, after its +7.0% rally post-earnings...
VW The Latest Automaker To Step Back From All-Electric Plans To Embrace Hybrids
17.05.2024, 11:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - VW The Latest Automaker To Step Back From All-Electric Plans To Embrace Hybrids Not to be left behind by the rest of the industry, Volkswagen is the latest auto manufacturer to walk back its plans to go all-electric. The move should come as no surprise to Zero Hedge readers, as we have been writing non-stop about the industry's shift from BEVs back...
The Trouble With World Government
17.05.2024, 11:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Trouble With World Government Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, Well, at least that’s one setback for world government. A court in Australia has told the government’s own eSafety Commission that Elon Musk is correct: One country cannot impose censorship on the world. The company X, formerly known as Twitter, must obey national...
"We've Had A Hell Of A Run": Stanley Druckenmiller Sells 441,000 Shares Of Nvidia
16.05.2024, 21:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "We've Had A Hell Of A Run": Stanley Druckenmiller Sells 441,000 Shares Of Nvidia Billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller, head of the Duquesne Family Office, sees the artificial intelligence bubble as overextended. He has slashed some of his holdings in "Magnificent Seven" technology stocks, including Nvidia. He's not alone. Other notable fund...
Escobar: De-Dollarization Bombshell - The Coming Of BRICS+ Decentralized Monetary Ecosystem
16.05.2024, 05:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Escobar: De-Dollarization Bombshell - The Coming Of BRICS+ Decentralized Monetary Ecosystem Authored by Pepe Escobar, Get ready for what may well be the geoeconomic bombshell of 2024: the coming of a decentralized monetary ecosystem. Welcome to The Unit – a concept that has already been discussed by the financial services and investments working...
OpenAI To Start Generating AI Porn
15.05.2024, 13:56 Uhr. GreatGameIndia - https: - According to Wired, in a commentary note of the Model Spec document, OpenAI discussed the prospect of initiating the generation of AI porn in age-appropriate contexts. The company that created ChatGPT, OpenAI, has revealed ambitions to transform the applications of its technology and hinted at a possible relaxation of its strict content standards. The...
US Futures Coiled Tightly Ahead Of Key CPI Print
15.05.2024, 13:31 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Futures Coiled Tightly Ahead Of Key CPI Print Equity futures were set to hold yesterday's gains ahead of today's CPI report, but will move violently either higher or lower after today's CPI number is released, which will either validate or reject Jerome Powell’s latest signals that interest rates will be higher for longer (our CPI preview is here)...
Russia Is About To Overrun Ukraine's Defenses – Why Are There No Peace Negotiations?
15.05.2024, 13:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Russia Is About To Overrun Ukraine's Defenses – Why Are There No Peace Negotiations? Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us, There are two classic propaganda narratives used by governments when it comes to keeping the public invested in any war campaign that does nothing to advance their national interests: First, there’s the “commitment”...
OpenAI 'Exploring' How To Responsibly Generate AI Porn
15.05.2024, 02:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - OpenAI 'Exploring' How To Responsibly Generate AI Porn OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT, has recently disclosed plans that could revolutionize its technology’s applications, signaling a potential shift in its traditionally stringent content policies. According to draft documentation released last week, the company is exploring how to 'responsibly' introduce...
Biden Administration Quadruples Tariffs On Chinese EVs
14.05.2024, 18:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden Administration Quadruples Tariffs On Chinese EVs Authored by Terri Wu via The Epoch Times, The Biden administration announced on Tuesday that it will impose a 100 percent tariff—quadrupling the current 25 percent—on electric vehicles imported from China in 2024. In addition to EVs, the White House has significantly increased tariffs on Chinese...
CIA liefert sich endloses Rennen mit China um KI und andere Technologien
14.05.2024, 16:55 Uhr. uncut-news.ch - https: - Die CIA befinde sich in einem “endlosen Wettlauf” mit China um künstliche Intelligenz und andere Spitzentechnologien, so der Chief Technology Officer der Behörde, Nand Mulchandani, der eine Strategie vorstellte, die technologische Fähigkeiten als entscheidend für die nationale Sicherheit ansieht. In seiner Rede auf dem Hill & Valley...
Wanted: The Most In-Demand Jobs Of The Next Decade
14.05.2024, 12:57 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Wanted: The Most In-Demand Jobs Of The Next Decade Ever since the release of ChatGPT in late 2022 and other AI tools that have followed in its wake, people have been pondering the potential of artificial intelligence to replace certain occupations, trying to figure out if and how the nascent technology will change the way people work. And while the...
"Markets Extremely Quiet" Ahead Of PPI, CPI, Powell Speech
14.05.2024, 12:37 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Markets Extremely Quiet" Ahead Of PPI, CPI, Powell Speech US equity futures are flat into tomorrow's CPI/Retail Sales print with PPI the major macro data point today, while Fed Chair Powell also speaks. Futures are flat after also closing unchanged yesterday when the return of the meme stonk mania sent GME and AMC soaring, and hammered L/S hedge funds...
Transitioning Fleet Trucks To Electric Raises Costs By Up To 114 Percent, Report Warns
14.05.2024, 11:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Transitioning Fleet Trucks To Electric Raises Costs By Up To 114 Percent, Report Warns Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Transitioning conventional truck fleets to electric vehicles (EVs) pushes up annual operational costs, which subsequently increases economic inflation, according to a recent report from transportation...
Futures Gain With All Time Highs In Sight As Key CPI Report Looms
13.05.2024, 14:03 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Gain With All Time Highs In Sight As Key CPI Report Looms US equity futures extended last week's solid gains when they traded just about 1% below all time highs, as investors awaited key CPI later this week that will shape the Fed's actions in coming months. As of 7:30am, contracts on the S&P 500 rose about 0.2% (but still below Friday's highs)...
Climate "Reparations" Numbers Are Rigged
12.05.2024, 22:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Climate "Reparations" Numbers Are Rigged Authored by Paul Mueller via the American Institute for Economic Research, Nobel Prize–winning economist Esther Duflo thinks rich countries should pay poor countries $500 billion in compensation each year for climate-change damages. It is our “moral debt.” She proposes an international 2-percent wealth...
The Latent Fascism Of Today’s Anti-Fascists
12.05.2024, 05:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Latent Fascism Of Today’s Anti-Fascists Authored by Aaron Kheriaty via the Brownstone Institute, "Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison." -Simone Weil The terms “fascist” and “fascism” are continuously bandied about today. But those who use these words most...
The Proof Of Censorship Is…Censored
12.05.2024, 03:11 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Proof Of Censorship Is…Censored Authored by Jeffrey A. Tucker via the Brownstone Institute, It’s not been a good week for the Censorship Industrial Complex. The machine has been built and put into action over nearly a decade but largely in secret. Its way of doing business has been via surreptitious contacts with media and tech companies,...
World's Oldest Central Bank Keeps Sounding Alarm On Fragility Of Cashless Economies
11.05.2024, 11:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - World's Oldest Central Bank Keeps Sounding Alarm On Fragility Of Cashless Economies Authored by Nick Corbishley via naked capitalism, At a time when the dominant narrative around cash is that its demise is all but inevitable, as well as broadly desirable, the 2024 payment report by Sweden’s Riksbank may offer a cautionary tale. In October last year...
Mapping Life Expectancy Around The World
11.05.2024, 11:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Mapping Life Expectancy Around The World Over the last two centuries there has been significant progress in human health and longevity. Initially, in the early 19th century, life expectancy did not surpass 40 years globally, reflecting harsh conditions like extreme poverty, limited medical care, and poor sanitation. By 1950, this figure had seen notable...
The Escalating Threat Of Avian Influenza H5N1 And The Ethical Quandary Of Gain-of-Function Research
11.05.2024, 09:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Escalating Threat Of Avian Influenza H5N1 And The Ethical Quandary Of Gain-of-Function Research Since the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) H5N1 virus was first identified in humans in 2003, approximately 600 cases have been reported worldwide, with a laboratory-confirmed case-fatality rate (CFR) of 60%. The recent death of a woman in southwest...
Is The End Near? Victor Davis Hanson Ponders Threat Of Annihilation
11.05.2024, 03:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Is The End Near? Victor Davis Hanson Ponders Threat Of Annihilation Authored by Rob Bluey via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Victor Davis Hanson tackles a topic related to military history in his new book, “The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation.” (Courtesy of The Heritage Foundation) Victor Davis Hanson is well known for his...
SEC Doesn't Want Ethereum To Transform Banking Landscape, Says Joseph Lubin
10.05.2024, 19:27 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - SEC Doesn't Want Ethereum To Transform Banking Landscape, Says Joseph Lubin By Gareth Jenkinson of CoinTelegraph Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin believes the United States Securities and Exchange Commission is intentionally hindering innovation, which threatens the country’s existing financial landscape. Speaking at FT Live’s Crypto and Digital...
US Futures, Global Markets Storm Higher, Eye All-Time Highs
10.05.2024, 14:19 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Futures, Global Markets Storm Higher, Eye All-Time Highs US equity futures pointed to even more gains on the last day of trading, leaving the S&P 500 set for a third weekly rise — the longest run since February. The rally was given fresh legs yesterday by more earnings optimism coupled with disappointing economic data - this time the highest initial...
As The Dollar Falters, Gold Becomes Insurance, Not Speculation
10.05.2024, 13:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - As The Dollar Falters, Gold Becomes Insurance, Not Speculation Authored by Douglas French via The Mises Institute, Economics trumps sentimentality, and gold’s elevated price has some people raiding the family jewelry box to pay bills. “Young people are not wearing grandma’s jewels. Most of the young people, they want an Apple watch. They don’t...
Thursday Humor: What Is The Optimal Temperature For Global GDP Growth?
10.05.2024, 05:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Thursday Humor: What Is The Optimal Temperature For Global GDP Growth? Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, A group of climate alarmists have concluded that global GDP will be 23 percent lower on the current path. I was aware of the ridiculous article when it came out. I stopped reading when I noted that all countries were all given equal weighting...
Virtual Home Invasions: We're Not Safe From Government Peeping Toms
10.05.2024, 03:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Virtual Home Invasions: We're Not Safe From Government Peeping Toms Authored by John & Nisha Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “The privacy and dignity of our citizens is being whittled away by sometimes imperceptible steps. Taken individually, each step may be of little consequence. But when viewed as a whole, there begins to emerge a society...
Visualizing The Copper Investment Opportunity In One Chart
10.05.2024, 02:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Visualizing The Copper Investment Opportunity In One Chart Copper is essential for clean energy applications such as solar panels, wind turbines, and electric vehicles (EVs), as well as for expanding electrical grids. The surge in demand for the metal, driven by the growing adoption of these technologies, presents a unique investment opportunity for...
The (Anti) Social Cost Of Carbon
10.05.2024, 01:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The (Anti) Social Cost Of Carbon Authored by Jonathan Lesser via RealClearEnergy, Forty-two was the mystical number that explained “life, the universe, and everything” in Douglas Adams’ comic novel, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Today, another mystical number, the so-called social cost of carbon (SSC), is providing the excuse for the...
TikTok To Automatically label AI-Generated Content
09.05.2024, 23:43 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - TikTok To Automatically label AI-Generated Content Authored by Savannah Fortis via CoinTelegraph.com, TikTok, the popular social media platform for creating and sharing short-form videos, said it will now start automatically labeling artificial intelligence (AI)-generated content (AIGC) when it is uploaded to the platform. On May 9, the social media...
Futures Drop As Treasury Yields Extend Gains
09.05.2024, 14:19 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Drop As Treasury Yields Extend Gains US equity futures are weaker as yields resume their rise and the USD strengthens after the BOE signaled it was ready to cut rates. As of 7:45am, S&P futures were down 0.2% and Nasdaq futures dipped 0.3% as all Mag7 names and most semis were red in the premarket. Most European markets are lower, tracking US...
The Chinese EV Wall In Europe Is Breaking
09.05.2024, 10:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Chinese EV Wall In Europe Is Breaking Despite EU investigations and jawboning from within the industry, it looks as though Europe has faced the inevitable: it needs to "face up" to the fact that Chinese EVs have arrived, and probably aren't going anywhere, anytime soon. Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Paris on Sunday to ease trade tensions...