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META Delays AI Rollout Because It Sucks, May License Gemini; Musk Reboots xAI 'From The Foundations Up' Mark Zuckerberg bet the farm on AI supremacy, and this year's crop is infested with bugs. According to a new report, Meta has quietly pushed back the launch of its next-generation foundational AI model, internally code-named Avocado, from this month until at least May. The reason? Internal tests showed it underperforming on key benchmarks for reasoning, coding, and writing - trailing rivals like Google's Gemini 3.0, even as it beat Meta's own prior efforts and...

Trump Urges Iranian Diplomats To Seek Asylum, Describes What He Wants In A New Ruler "Iran is not the same country it was a week ago. A week ago they were powerful, and now they've been indeed neutered" - that's what President Trump told CNN in a brief phone interview Friday.  He also expressed that he doesn't care if Iran becomes a democracy or not, and his words even left open the possibility of the continuation of a Shia theocratic government, after the first big Saturday wave of US-Israeli attacks killed...

Trump To Put His Signature On US Dollar Bills, Breaking Tradition Since 1861 Authored by Brian Quarmby via CoinTelegraph.com, US President Donald Trump is set to become the first sitting president in history to have his signature put on US paper currency. In an announcement on Thursday, the US Department of the Treasury said the move would mark the 250th anniversary of the US. It will put both Trump and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s signatures on future US notes. “There is no more powerful way to recognize the historic achievements of our great country and President Donald J. Trump...