The Fight for Liberty and the Beltway Barbarians

China's New AI Agent Risks Trapping Western Tech In Rights Abuses: Analysts Authored by Jarvis Lim via The Epoch Times, China's new state-backed artificial intelligence (AI) platform threatens to stifle domestic tech innovation through forced ideological compliance, and in the West, it could also be used to cover up the regime's human rights abuses, analysts warn. A screen advertising Xinhua News Agency in Times Square in the Manhattan borough of New York City, on March 2, 2020. Andrew Kelly/Reuters Xinhua, the official mouthpiece of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), will spend more than...

Futures Rise Ahead Of Hot CPI As Houthis Torch Aramco HQ, ASML Beat Fails To Revive Chip Trade US futures are higher, with small caps leading and tech lagging, as traders brace for what is expected to be the hottest monthly CPI print since the spring, digest more escalation in the Gulf after Yemen's Houthis hit Saudi Aramco's Dhahran headquarters and vowed more strikes on Saudi airports and oil facilities, and count down to Anthropic's pre-IPO investor day which one strategist warns "will move the entire market"; as a result...