AMERICANTHINKER - Undemocratic Overreach In Strasbourg
Photo Credit:Italian School, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Public Domain How European judges usurp sovereignty over Europe’s borders.
AMERICANTHINKER - Fukuyama’s Follies
ChatGPT The irrelevant, failed social scientist took to social media to do what irrelevant failed social scientists do when they are desperate to re-establish a modicum of renewed relevance: he bashed President Trump.
AMERICANTHINKER - The Calamitous Legacy of the GOP's Civility Caucus
Perchance AI While the Democrat Party was stealthily being taken over by the American Marxist movement, the Republican Party wing of the Washington Establishment was wallowing in political civility.
AMERICANTHINKER - Jefferson and the Declaration
John Trumball The Declaration of Independence never claimed to plow new ground, but it did an exceptional job of articulating the Enlightenment vision.
ABCNEWS - Graham Platner responds to reports that he sent sexually explicit text messages
Graham Platner’s wife alerted his campaign about sexually explicit messages he had with multiple women, according to The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.
NEWSNATIONNOW (MICHAEL R. BLOOD, Associated Press) - Contests for California governor and LA mayor head toward primary election with no clear leaders
“We can't give up on LA,” former reality TV star and mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt told applauding supporters at a block party Sunday. “We've got to fight.”
NPR (The Associated Press) - EU strikes migration deal for more deportations and detention centers abroad
The European Union has moved forward with an overhaul of its migration policy, aiming to ramp up deportations and build detention centers abroad. Critics compared the regulation to the immigration strategy of the Trump administration.
The European Union has moved forward with an overhaul of its migration policy, aiming to ramp up deportations and build detention centers abroad. Critics compared the regulation to the immigration strategy of the Trump administration.Open
AXIOS (Megan Morrone) - Exclusive: Office workers embrace OpenAI's Codex
Knowledge workers now make up roughly one-fifth of OpenAI's Codex users and are growing more than three times as fast as developers, according to a new OpenAI report shared first with Axios. Why it matters: AI has made it easier to crank out documents, emails, decks and dashboards, and OpenAI is now betting agents can help workers make sense of them. The big picture: Previous waves of workplace software encouraged workers to produce huge volumes of files and messages, but those "workplace artifacts" largely remain siloed inside different software programs. - The report argues that Codex can round up the important context from all of those artifacts no matter where they are. By the numbers: Codex now has more than 4 million weekly active…
Knowledge workers now make up roughly one-fifth of OpenAI's Codex users and are growing more than three times as fast as developers, according to a new OpenAI report shared first with Axios. Why it matters: AI has made it easier to crank out documents, emails, decks and dashboards, and OpenAI is now betting agents can help workers make sense of them. The big picture: Previous waves of workplace software encouraged workers to produce huge volumes of files and messages, but those "workplace artifacts" largely remain siloed inside different software programs. - The report argues that Codex can round up the important context from all of those artifacts no matter where they are. By the numbers: Codex now has more than 4 million weekly active…Open
AXIOS (Courtenay Brown) - America has a muddled recovery in manufacturing
Data: Institute for Supply Management via FactSet ; Chart: Courtenay Brown/Axios This is the chart that White House economic officials want you to see: A closely watched industry survey suggests a long U.S. manufacturing slump is giving way to a factory rebound. Why it matters: By this measure, the manufacturing recession is over. Activity across the sector expanded for a fifth straight month in May after spending much of the last two years in contraction territory. - But it is happening alongside miserable industry anecdotes about the Iran war's energy shock, tariffs and supply chain chaos. Driving the news: The Institute for Supply Management's manufacturing purchasing managers' index — one of the most closely watched gauges of U.S.…
Data: Institute for Supply Management via FactSet ; Chart: Courtenay Brown/Axios This is the chart that White House economic officials want you to see: A closely watched industry survey suggests a long U.S. manufacturing slump is giving way to a factory rebound. Why it matters: By this measure, the manufacturing recession is over. Activity across the sector expanded for a fifth straight month in May after spending much of the last two years in contraction territory. - But it is happening alongside miserable industry anecdotes about the Iran war's energy shock, tariffs and supply chain chaos. Driving the news: The Institute for Supply Management's manufacturing purchasing managers' index — one of the most closely watched gauges of U.S.…Open
AXIOS (Madison Mills) - Anthropic faces AI spending backlash before IPO
Anthropic filed paperwork to go public just as corporate America is entering its AI sticker shock phase. Why it matters: Companies are Anthropic's biggest customers. If they dial down their AI spend, that could weaken the AI lab's revenue just as the it prepares to IPO. Driving the news: Hours after Anthropic filed its pre-IPO paperwork, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told CNBC that corporate concern over AI costs is "the most fair criticism of AI so far." - Bain published a survey of nearly 1,000 companies showing that after investing in AI, "the value didn't arrive," with 40% of surveyed companies reporting AI cost savings below 10%. - An early Anthropic investor tells Axios that companies are waking up to how much they're spending on Claude,…
Anthropic filed paperwork to go public just as corporate America is entering its AI sticker shock phase. Why it matters: Companies are Anthropic's biggest customers. If they dial down their AI spend, that could weaken the AI lab's revenue just as the it prepares to IPO. Driving the news: Hours after Anthropic filed its pre-IPO paperwork, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told CNBC that corporate concern over AI costs is "the most fair criticism of AI so far." - Bain published a survey of nearly 1,000 companies showing that after investing in AI, "the value didn't arrive," with 40% of surveyed companies reporting AI cost savings below 10%. - An early Anthropic investor tells Axios that companies are waking up to how much they're spending on Claude,…Open