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IOC Bars Transgender Athletes From Women's Events For Olympic Games Authored by Savannah Hulsey Pointer via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Only females will be allowed in women’s events at the Olympics, according to the International Olympic Committee (IOC). People take part in a rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court as justices hear arguments in two cases in which states have banned males from participating in female-only sports, in Washington on Jan. 13, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times The March 26 decision by the committee excludes transgender-identifying individuals who were born male who...

Is America Winning The AI Race? Authored by Petr Svab via The Epoch Times, The question of where the U.S.-China artificial intelligence arms race is heading weighs heavily on the future of both countries, as mastery of AI may determine the world's economic and military leadership, experts say. To assess the state of the U.S.-China AI competition, The Epoch Times consulted 10 experts across the defense and cybersecurity sectors. Most agreed that the United States maintains a lead in frontier AI models as well as in the scale of computational power -...

When Wall Street Says Sell, Check Who's Waiting To Buy  Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance Today let me offer up one of my patented periodic reminders to do your own work. As many have already pointed out, there was something almost too neat about Citadel’s timing before the Situational Awareness blowup. In late June, Citadel Securities published a market-structure review warning that U.S. equities had become unusually concentrated, that investors were increasingly expressing bullishness through leverage, and that leveraged exposure was piling particularly aggressively into technology and semiconductors. They also warned of a...