Trump Rejects AI "Pause" As Obama Urges Democrats To Regulate It

We've Been Here Before By Bas van Geffen, senior macro strategist at Rabobank Phil Connors has woken up to another instance of the same day. The US, Iran and Oman are said to be close to a new deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Axios reports that the US aims for an announcement today. So, Brent futures dropped to $79/barrel and equity markets rallied further, for the S&P 500 to set a fresh record high. The reported deal could just as well have been written a couple of weeks ago. Axios...

Cafe Bombing Kills 9, Wounds 22, In Busy Court Area Of Central Damascus On Thursday a bomb ripped through crowded cafe in central Damascus, killing at least nine people and wounding 22 others, in an attack very near the main entrance of the Palace of Justice - in an area frequented by lawyers, courthouse employees and visitors. Al Jazeera correspondent Obaida Hitto, who reported from the scene in the aftermath, stated that "The casualties are higher because it is such a busy area." The death toll could rise given that many bystanders...

Gen Z Has No Idea What 9/11 Is Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, Twenty-five years after Islamist hijackers murdered 2,977 people on American soil, a young man in Lower Manhattan looked at 2,977 memorial drones drawing the towers in the night sky and asked why anyone would build a "fake" building. He called the Tribute in Light the "Batman signal." This is what happens when media and universities treat the Islamist nature of the attack as a political embarrassment instead of a fact. ?? Young American outraged by a 9/11 memorial...