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Congress probes whether Kushner fundraising billions while negotiating "peace deals"
21 March 2026 @ 12:24 am
As both his father-in-law and father are convicted felons, it is sadly no surprise that Jared Kushner is facing a congressional probe. The claim is that Kusher leveraged his role as a peacebroker in high-stakes international negotiations for the U.S. government to court billions in investments for his private firm: a dual role that critics say looks less like diplomacy and more like dealmaking with a government ID. — Britannica sues OpenAI for scraping nearly 100,000 articles
20 March 2026 @ 10:11 pm
Encyclopedia Britannica — which also owns Merriam-Webster — is suing OpenAI for scraping nearly 100,000 copyrighted articles to train its AI models, TechCrunch reports. The lawsuit makes three claims: OpenAI trained on the content without permission, ChatGPT generates full or partial verbatim reproductions of the articles, and OpenAI uses the articles in ChatGPT's retrieval-augmented generation workflow. — "We don't want to be outside": neighbors can't stand noisy data center
20 March 2026 @ 10:05 pm
Lindsay Shaw didn't mind when a data center went up 100 meters from her front door in Loudoun County, Virginia — she figured it beat a shopping mall. Then Vantage Data Centers fired up eight natural gas turbines, and a high-pitched whine made her screened-in porch unusable. — Read the rest
The post Harvard: ChatGPT has a "foreign bias" on stock picks
20 March 2026 @ 9:57 pm
A Harvard Business School study by Charles C.Y. Wang pitted ChatGPT against DeepSeek on stock analysis, giving both models roughly 5,000 publicly traded Chinese companies to evaluate. ChatGPT projected stock prices 12.5% higher and issued "buy" recommendations more often — but its forecast errors were 13% larger than DeepSeek's, according to Harvard Business Review. — Zuckerberg predicted a billion users. Horizon Worlds never topped a few hundred thousand
20 March 2026 @ 9:41 pm
When Mark Zuckerberg renamed Facebook to Meta in late 2021, he called the metaverse "the next frontier" and predicted it would "reach a billion people." He envisioned "hundreds of billions of dollars of digital commerce." Horizon Worlds, Meta's VR social network, was supposed to be the foundation. — Wellness is in (and on) your hands with aaboRing
20 March 2026 @ 9:00 pm
TL;DR: Take control of your health with the aaboRing Health & Fitness Tracker Smart Ring for $199.99, 49% off the retail price of Slop Hurl: horror novel Shy Girl withdrawn after it turns out AI wrote it
20 March 2026 @ 8:15 pm
"Shy Girl," a horror novel by Mia Ballard, was withdrawn by publisher Hachette this week after extremely convincing allegations that it was written using AI. Already out in the U.K., with at least 1,800 print copies sold, the book won't be landing on store shelves in the U.S. — Governor who polices others' lives surprised when a restaurant sets its own rules
20 March 2026 @ 8:01 pm
Deplorable Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders found herself unwelcome at a local restaurant. She took to social media to shame the establishment, but things didn't go as she'd planned.
"Last week I was having lunch with two other moms at a restaurant when the owner approached a member of the State Police Executive Protection Detail and said my preseTrump associate allegedly tapped ICE to settle a personal score
20 March 2026 @ 6:37 pm
A longtime Trump associate reportedly reached out to immigration officials to help detain and deport his ex-girlfriend; not as part of some sweeping policy goal, but because they were locked in a custody battle over their child.
According to reporting, a senior ICE official quickly moved to ensure she was picked up and held, noting the case mattered to someone close4chan responded to a £520,000 UK fine with a hamster in a Godzilla suit
20 March 2026 @ 6:09 pm
Preston Byrne, the American lawyer representing 4chan, was asked by UK regulator Ofcom to pay £520,000 in fines under the Online Safety Act. He replied with an AI-generated cartoon of a hamster wearing a green Godzilla costume and holding a peanut, the BBC reports. —