Lebanese Speaker Threatens Legal Action as Israel Continues to Attack South

Jobless Claims Refuse To Show Any Signs Of AI Jobpocalypse The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits for the first time fell to 209k last week (below expectations), continuing to show absolutely on signs of any labor market stress... Source: Bloomberg That is basically unchanged since 2021. Continuing jobless claims ticked up modestly but remains below 1.8 million Americans (just off two year lows)... Source: Bloomberg So, despite the tsunami of headlines every day about the AI jobpocalypse, 'hard' data shows no signs of any pain yet (wait until the severance packages run dry)... ...

Top Israeli officials continue to say that Tel Aviv will not comply with the peace deal that President Donald Trump is negotiating with Iran. Tehran says a top priority is expanding the ceasefire to Lebanon.  “Because what happened in the past in security zones, where there was also a civilian population [present], was roadside bombs […]

Meta Releases Muse Glimmer, A 30B Model That Runs On A Single Consumer GPU Meta released Muse Glimmer on Monday, a 30-billion-parameter model built for agent work that fits on a laptop. The company published the model's weights - the trained numbers that make up the model itself, meaning anyone can download it and run it on their own machine - on the model repository Hugging Face, under an Apache 2.0 license that is genuinely permissive, without the usage restrictions Meta attached to its Llama releases. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg attends...