UN: 130,000 Displaced, 110 Civilian Casualties in Yemen as Conflict Rapidly Escalates

The 'Blame Game' In Private Credit Begins Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance This morning I warned (again) this wasn’t a normal market in private credit. It was a liquidity event. And today it’s becoming something else too. According to the Financial Times, the SEC is now questioning whether Egan-Jones, a small but deeply embedded credit rating agency in private credit, can “consistently produce credit ratings with integrity.” That’s not a routine inquiry. That’s the regulator openly wondering whether one of the key cogs in the machine was ever doing its job properly in the first place....

Macron: "Free speech is a pure bullshit if nobody knows how you are guided through this so-called free speech—especially when it is to be guided from one hated speech to another hated speech."

Scientists Warn Of Urgent AI Biosecurity Threat Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, For the first time, artificial intelligence has designed complete, functional viral genomes from scratch. Oh dear. Stanford University and Arc Institute researchers used generative AI models to produce 16 novel bacteriophages that successfully infect and kill bacteria in the lab. Breaking News: Scientists have used A.I. to create new viruses for the first time, raising hopes for medical advances while also raising the possibility that the technology could someday be used to invent dangerous pathogens. https://t.co/MJG4mp0TTb — The New York Times...