Trump and the Phantom Dead of Iran

Meta Restricts Engineers' Use of Claude Code And Codex Over Model 'Distillation' Concerns Meta Platforms has instructed engineers in its Applied AI division to limit or restrict their use of Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex coding and agent tools, according to internal documents reviewed by The Information. The policy, driven by concerns over inadvertent model distillation, aims to prevent outputs from rival AI systems from contaminating Meta's own training data and model development processes for its Llama family of models (which, quite frankly, could only help). The move reflects the...

"Cautious Optimism": US Pending Home Sales Rise For 3rd Straight Month In April Pending home sales were expected to rise for the third straight month in April (after crashing to record lows to end last year) as mortgage rates stabilized amid war worries, and they did, rising 1.4% MoM (better than the 1.0% expected) with March's gains revised higher too. Source: Bloomberg This left pending home sales up 3.35% YoY - the best annual gain since Nov 2024 - lifting the index off record lows... Source: Bloomberg The report suggests the housing market was...

According to the Wall Street Journal, the US is currently removing its forces from Syria. American forces occupied large parts of Syria for over a decade.  Three officials told the outlet that the 1,000 soldiers in Syria were in the process of withdrawing. The officials claimed that the decision to remove troops from Syria is […]