DOJ’s probe into Powell sparks backlash over the Fed’s independence

The Trump administration’s criminal investigation of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell appeared on Monday to be emboldening defenders of the U.S. central bank against the efforts of President Donald Trump to control the Fed. The backlash reflected the bigger stakes of a contest about the fate of the Fed’s independence, the balance of power within the federal government,ContinueContinue reading “DOJ’s probe into Powell sparks backlash over the Fed’s independence”

Elon Musk’s NSFW Grok AI chatbot is forcing countries to take this extreme step

Indonesia and Malaysia are the first two countries to ban Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence tool Grok, after the generative AI essentially flooded the social media platform X with sexually explicit, lewd images of young girls and women, made without their consent. Musk folded the generative AI tool into X when he took over Twitter, promising “free speech.”ContinueContinue reading “Elon Musk’s NSFW Grok AI chatbot is forcing countries to take this extreme step”

How Chevron played the long game for Venezuela’s oil reserves

On Saturday, hours after U.S. forces in Caracas killed at least 80 people and kidnapped Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, Donald Trump sounded less like a wartime commander than a developer surveying a newly acquired property. The country’s future, he told reporters at his Mar-a-Lago resort, belonged to “very large United States oil companies,” which would soon beContinueContinue reading “How Chevron played the long game for Venezuela’s oil reserves”

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