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AI's Coming Reality Check: When The Physics Finally Hits The Hype Authored by Chris MacIntosh vis InternationalMan.com, In five years, we’ll all likely be chuckling and shaking our heads over AI. Because today, the tech feels free and limitless, doesn’t it? People are generating endless content: images, videos, memes, code snippets, social posts. Companies are bolting AI onto products by default, the way every Fortune 500 company suddenly discovered they were “sustainable” five years ago. There’s much deliberation on AI right now, and it splits into two main camps of thesis: The majority — those...

Texas Investigating Islamic Tribunal For Allegedly Operating Sharia Law Court Authored by Darlene McCormick Sanchez via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Monday an investigation into a Dallas-based group accused of operating as a sharia law court. Protester David Wright (L) speaks with counterprotester Vincent Simon, a Muslim, as Melissa Yassini holds a sign across the street from a mosque in Richardson, Texas, on Dec. 12, 2015. LM Otero/AP Photo ​In a press release, Paxton said he requested documents from the group, known as the Islamic Tribunal, regarding...

At Last Minute, SEC Suddenly Delays Plan To Allow Crypto Versions Of US Stocks Authored by Micah Zimmerman via Bitcoin Magazine, The Securities and Exchange Commission has pumped the brakes on its highly anticipated “innovation exemption” for tokenized stocks, pushing back the release of the framework as it weighs input from traditional stock exchanges and other market participants wary of the plan’s sweeping implications, according to Bloomberg reporting. The SEC, under Chair Paul Atkins, was preparing to release the so-called innovation exemption as soon as this week. The framework would create a new regulatory pathway allowing...