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For Whom the Mel Tolls: “Ivermectin took on symbolic power during the pandemic, despite being ineffective against coronavirus. Now, Florida wants to study it for cancer.” A headline for the time capsule from WaPo (Gift Article): How a Joe Rogan-Mel Gibson podcast inspired Florida’s cancer research focus.
+ All In: No one knows for sure if we’re heading for an AI market bubble burst. But if it happens, it won’t be hard to piece together how we got there. WSJ (Gift Article): How Sam Altman Tied Tech’s Biggest Players to OpenAI. “To achieve his vision of securing seemingly endless computing power for OpenAI, Altman has gone on a dealmaking blitz, playing the egos of Silicon Valley’s giants off one another as they race to cash in on OpenAI’s future growth. The resulting game of financial one-upmanship has tied the fates of the world’s biggest semiconductor and cloud companies—and vast swaths of the U.S. economy—to OpenAI, essentially making it too big to fail. All of them are now betting on the success of a startup that is nowhere near turning a profit and facing a mounting list of business challenges. Investors aren’t bothered.”
+ Weaponization Nation: “A group of dozens of officials from across the federal government, including U.S. intelligence officers, has been helping to steer President Donald Trump’s drive for retribution against his perceived enemies, according to government records and a source familiar with the effort.” It’s called The Interagency Weaponization Working Group. Reuters: Wide-ranging group of US officials pursues Trump’s fight against ‘Deep State.’ While targeting the innocent, we’re freeing the criminals. Pardoned Capitol rioter charged with threatening to kill Hakeem Jeffries at NYC event this week.
+ Milei Your Cards on the Table: “After promising to end foreign entanglements, the President has proposed a financial-rescue plan for the right-wing government of Argentina.” The New Yorker: Donald Trump’s Forty-Billion-Dollar Exception to America First.
+ French Connection: “The former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has been jailed in Paris, after a court sentenced him to five years for criminal conspiracy over a scheme to obtain election campaign funds from the regime of the late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi.”
+ Itch, Please: “The country was until this month one of the few places in the world that did not have a mosquito population. The other is Antarctica.” Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time as climate crisis warms country.
