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DeepSeek’s open source, efficient AI model puts the billions spent to build similar technology in question. DeepSeek r1’s ranking in Chatbot Arena Two headlines this week almost perfectly captured the weird moment the AI field is barreling toward. First, news broke that OpenAI, Oracle,...
Our reaction upon hearing the news of the shooting of former prime minister Shinzo Abe was one of shock and incredulity in equal measure. What followed was a frenzy of trying to...
Last week (June 21), in its biannual circus, New York City housing regulators once again decided how much landlords will be able to raise rents. Despite inflation raging at...
Europe is highly vulnerable to Putin's gas blackmail. European leaders believe they are part of the rich world, with the power to determine their future. After they return from...
Time and again during the Congressional hearings on the January 6 attack on the Capitol, the legislators and witnesses struggled to understand how Donald Trump could just...
Western sanctions are partly to blame. In the days after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022 and the west imposed sanctions, the rouble collapsed. The number of roubles to...
Lessons learnt by a new boy. In 2021 some distinguished real estate figures, and me, started an entity to help the UK’s most disadvantaged students and, specifically, to...
It won’t control interest rates and inequality will widen. The UK local elections in May saw gains for nationalists in Scotland and Northern Ireland, raising the prospect of...
Since first espousing it, I have not wavered in my view of the crypto marché. To wit, it is a fiction that ill inevitably be exposed. Now, while the crashing down of the crypto...
President Putin and his security institutions are no longer a united front. Russia’s army is deeply unhappy at the new and curtailed strategy Putin has ordered them to adopt...