The AI Trade: Now With Less Circle And More Jerk

Musk Whips Out 'Macrohard' In Disruptive Tesla-xAI Bid To Shaft Software Companies Elon Musk on Wednesday announced a joint project between Tesla and his AI startup xAI, which he dubbed "Macrohard" or "Digital Optimus" that can 'basically automate entire companies' by observing and intelligently simulating their functions.  The way it works, per a Wednesday post on X:  "Grok is the master conductor/navigator with deep understanding of the world to direct digital Optimus, which is processing and actioning the past 5 secs of real-time computer screen video and keyboard/mouse actions. Grok is like a much...

Americans Will Foot The Bill For Germany's New Drug Price Controls Authored by Drew Johnson via PJMedia.com, Germany just found a new way to lower its own healthcare costs: make Americans pay more. In late April, German policymakers proposed changes that cap spending growth, restrict care, and force drugmakers to provide steep discounts. These changes are supposed to save Germany money. But drugmakers still need to recoup the high costs of research and development. When a country like Germany suppresses the prices it pays for innovative medicines, those costs don't disappear — they simply shift...

"We Don't Need Canada": Loonie Limps Lower As Trump Unleashes (More) Tariffs "Canada has been ripping off the United States of America for years," wrote President Trump in his latest social media outburst, laying out his tariff torrent against Canada. "Their ridiculously high tariffs on our Farmers and farm products has made life impossible for these great American Patriots, and has long created a 60 Billion Dollar Deficit between our two Countries. Not sustainable, and NOT ANYMORE!" The US implemented a new 50% tax on imports of hundreds of Canadian items including furniture,...