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Amazon $AMZN is developing its own ChatGPT competitor, an AI model called Olympus. Olympus is reported to have 2 trillion parameters, GPT-4 only has 1 trillion parameters. Amazon’s AI model could reportedly be unveiled as soon as December.
Amazon is working on a new AI model that could challenge the likes of ChatGPT and Bard. The new model, which is codenamed “Olympus,” is reportedly twice the size of OpenAI’s GPT-4. Amazon is doubling down on AI, investing $4 billion in Anthropic and unveiling an AI-powered Alexa. Amazon is building a new AI model …
‘Very risky’: Israel faces months-long campaign against Hamas Gaza tunnels
“It would be a slow, grinding, months-long task to reduce them entirely, and probably the digging will go on as the [Israeli army] tries,” said Richard Outzen, non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council in Turkey and senior fellow at the Jamestown Foundation, a defence policy think tank. While few know the full extent of …
The next inflation wave will surpass the first.
The second inflation wave will come when CBs launch the next round of QE to save the system with record high public deficits and most of the people working employed by the public sector producing nothing, people will completely lose their trust in govt currencies. — Gerardo Moscatelli (@gemoscatelli) November 13, 2023 The forthcoming second …
EU led in 2008, but US surged after the financial crisis, bolstered by the tech boom.
In 2008, the European Union had a larger GDP ($16.3T) than the US ($14.8T). 15 years later, the US’s GDP is $25.4T, while Europe’s is basically unchanged at $16.6T. Both economies were on par until the GFC, but the US just rebounded stronger during the 2010s tech boom. https://t.co/C69jCMJIQQ pic.twitter.com/SBG532qnqi — Jack Raines (@Jack_Raines) November …
New Orleans Dem Mayor LaToya Cantrell is hit with ethics charges after blowing $29,000 on first class flights – then claiming economy is unsafe for black women
LaToya Cantrell faces charges for violating state ethics laws The New Orleans Democrat Mayor spent $29,000 of the city’s money on first class flight upgrades She previously came under fire for treating her guards like ‘servants’ and living rent-free in a government apartment just 3 miles away from her 500k home The 51-year-old politician claimed …
Targeting speech through legal measures…
We’re delving into a multifaceted issue that involves the intricate interplay between the regulations and laws set forth within a society and the fundamental right to freedom of expression. This women did the same thing and she was never prosecuted because there are 2 tiers of justice one for conservatives and on for democrats pic.twitter.com/2G4a99SJEg …
First report of US troop deaths Conoco Oilfield Syria
Seeing reports of 15 rocket or missile attack on Conoco oilfield, which, apparently has er had US soldiers on it. Protecting freedoms. There in that oilfield. Some saying just grads but hit ammo storage. Reports 3-6 dead 7 helicopters of injured. https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/resistance-targets-us-bases-in-syria-in-response-to-aggressi Al-Mayadeen: Shortly after the US attacked two sites in Al-Mayadeen and Al-Bukamal in …
Reversal of immigration fortune: France, Germany, Sweden 11 countries rebel against the EU & impose border restrictions
National borders are returning to Europe; now say f*** off to Belgium and the EU and abolish the Euro and go back to normalcy, it’s about time. The shattering of Schengen: The map that reveals how ELEVEN countries – from France to Slovakia, Sweden to Germany – are rebelling against EU free movement in the …
Blast from the Past: USN likes to blow shit up. This time it’s a Whale Carcass
#OTD in 1970, the Oregon Highway Division consulted with the U.S. Navy and decided the best way to dispose of a whale carcass was to blow it up with a 1/2 ton of dynamite. The explosion caused blubber to rain down on spectators for over a 1/4 of a mile. The TV segment is classic. …
Illegal immigrants in Chicago are disappointed that they are not getting all the freeies that they were promised
Don’t let the door hit you on the way out. Migrant family journeys back to Venezuela, more leaving Chicago as winter looms: ‘The American Dream doesn’t exist anymore’ Over the past five months since arriving in Chicago, Andrea Carolina Sevilla’s parents have been unable to enroll her in school even though the reason they left …
Iceland earthquakes – live: Volcano eruption could last weeks after 30,000 earthquakes recorded
Met Office experts have said a volcanic eruption could last ‘for weeks’ as 30,000 earthquakes have been recorded since seismic activity began three weeks ago. Authorities in Iceland have declared a state of emergency as the threat of an “imminent” volcanic eruption which “could obliterate the entire town of Grindavik” loomed. Speaking about the potential …
BREAKING: Israel and Hamas reach “preliminary agreement” to release 80 hostages in exchange for “a temporary ceasefire”!
Egypt and Qatar are mediating with Israel and the Islamist group Hamas for the release of some 80 hostages, all Israeli civilians, in exchange for a temporary ceasefire and the commitment of the Jewish State to stop attacking health centers, three sources informed EFE, knowledgeable about the status of the process. An anonymous Egyptian security source …
Disney KILLS Marvel! CEO WARNED them BUT they WOULD NOT listen.
Disney’s Marvel Cinematic Universe is NO LONGER a BULLETPROOF box office franchise. That much is clear after #TheMarvels misfired with $47 million in its opening weekend to land the worst debut in MCU history.
Sweeping Raids, Giant Camps and Mass Deportations: Inside Trump’s 2025 Immigration Plans
“If he regains power, Donald Trump wants not only to revive some of the immigration policies criticized as draconian during his presidency, but expand and toughen them.” https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/11/us/politics/trump-2025-immigration-agenda.html “Here are key elements of Trump’s plans: -Muslim immigration ban. Trump would reinstate a version of a ban he created via executive order, which barred travel to …
Bathhouse Barry Obama Says He’s Close to a “First Amendment Absolutist,” Then Adds a “but,” Criticizes “Certain Kinds of Speech”
President Barack Obama has reemerged in the media, as the election campaign in the US is picking up pace. And he got his two cents in on a range of issues, including free speech in the context of the First Amendment, “misinformation,” social networks vs. democracy – as his politically like-minded comrades like to position …
U.S. Government to Purchase Japanese Seafood for the Military Despite Fukushima Radiation Concerns
via naturalnews: The government of the United States recently announced that it has agreed to purchase Japanese seafood for its military to help ease the economic fallout from Japan’s decision to release radioactive wastewater from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the Pacific Ocean. In an interview, U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel said the …
Incredible Transformation using Medical Marijuana for Parkinson’s
2 minute 33 seconds video shows an incredible calming of a man with Parkinson’s h/t Miles2Go
Censorship discussion gets censored.
David Horowitz Freedom Center’s Censorship Talk Gets Censored Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon talked to us about being censored for a joke. You’ll never guess what happened next. Last year, the Babylon Bee was censored for naming Rachel Levine its ‘Man of the Year’. Now, the David Horowitz Freedom Center has been banned over a …
Federal Judge agrees to hold trial on Dominion Voting Machines. Lawsuit filed 6 years ago, unrelated to 2020.
The question of whether Georgia’s electronic voting system has major cybersecurity flaws that amount to a violation of voters’ constitutional rights to cast their votes and have those votes accurately counted is set to be decided at trial early next year. U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg issued a 135-page ruling late Friday in a long-running …
More minimum wage hikes are coming across U.S. states in 2024, from California to Nebraska, Delaware, Maryland and Hawaii.
Hawaii will raise minimum wages 16.7%, Nebraska 14.3%, Maryland 13% and Delaware 12.8%. The most notable wage increase of all may be California’s targeting fast-food companies, which beginning on April 1, 2024, requires big employers like McDonald’s and Chipotle to pay the state’s estimated 500,000 fast-food workers at least $20 per hour. But employers of …
Viktor Orban (PM Hungary) To EU: ‘We won’t accept your failed migrant policy. We don’t want terrorism, gang wars, and mini Gazas’
Orban is the best country leader in Europe. “We made a tolerance offer to Brussels: every country can deal with #migration the way they want to, but they cannot force #Hungary to copy the failed migration policies of Western Europe. We don’t want #terrorism, gang wars and mini Gazas in Budapest!” We made a tolerance …
China unveils bold plan to mass-produce humanoid robots by 2025
The blueprint claims that the humanoid robots would be as “disruptive” as smartphones and would “reshape the world.” China has announced a grand vision to create and mass-produce humanoid robots that can perform various tasks and interact with humans. The country’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) published a blueprint document last week, stating …
BREAKING: Large Fissure Emerges in Icelandic Town – Eruption Likely from this Location
A large and extensive fissure has emerged in various locations in and around #Grindavík in #Iceland due to magma intrusion. Photos taken at 16:30 on Friday at the southwest corner of Grindavík reveal a shadowy development within the town limits. The fissure, previously known as Stamphólsgjá, has significantly widened, leading to soil collapse. This widening …