Extra, Extra
Law Fighting: “A White House announcement about autism is expected Monday afternoon after President Donald Trump’s weekend comment that ‘I think we found an answer’ to the developmental disorder. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. promised earlier this year to determine the cause of autism by September. That baffled brain experts who say there is no single cause and that the rhetoric appears to ignore decades of science into the genetic and environmental factors that can play a role.” And from NPR: The Trump administration is expected to link autism to Tylenol use during pregnancy.
+ Wanna Screw? “Taiwan has long been the top provider of screws to the United States. But its factories are struggling to survive under tariffs on steel and aluminum.” Trump’s Tariffs Are Damaging America’s Biggest Foreign Source of Screws. (This article is interesting re tariffs but even more so re screws.)
+ It Computes: Nvidia to invest $100 billion in OpenAI, linking two artificial intelligence titans. The future is all about computing power. Might be time to update my Macbook Air.
+ In a State: France joined a host of countries recognizing a Palestinian state. These recognitions are in large part a reaction to Bibi’s increasingly aggressive war in Gaza. Will it make him less aggressive or more? How Israel could retaliate against the growing push for recognition of a Palestinian state.
+ H-1B Sting: Trump’s new $100K fee on H-1B visas will hurt the tech companies trying to woo him. “President Trump’s latest executive order on immigration will sharply curtail a visa program used by hundreds of thousands of people currently living in the United States. It also threatens some operations of the big tech companies that have tried hard to curry favor with Trump this year, raising the question of how much return those companies are getting on that ongoing investment.” (Well, those companies will be invited to kiss the ring in order to get price breaks on these visas. That’s the way it works now.)
+ Algorithm Method: “The exact mix of investors has been in flux. Mr. Trump hinted this weekend that the media mogul Rupert Murdoch and his son Lachlan were considering an investment, which could come through the media giant Fox Corporation, a person familiar with the talks said.” The new TikTok will deploy an algorithm out of the control of the Chinese government. That’s good. The people who will be controlling it? Not as good. U.S.-Run TikTok to License Algorithm.
