Nvidia Slides As Google Emerges As New Threat In AI-Chip Market Alphabet shares jumped 4% in premarket trading after The Information reported that Meta is in talks to spend billions on Google’s tensor processing units (TPUs) for its data centers beginning in 2027, with plans to potentially rent TPU capacity from Google Cloud in the near term. The report sent Nvidia shares down roughly 3.5% as investors weighed the possibility that […]

UK Government “Resist” Program Monitors Citizens’ Online Posts Authored by Cam Wakefield via Reclaim The Net, Let’s begin with a simple question. What do you get when you cross a bloated PR department with a clipboard-wielding surveillance unit? The answer, apparently, is the British Government Communications Service (GCS). Once a benign squad of slogan-crafting, policy-promoting clipboard enthusiasts, they’ve now evolved […]

These Are The Most Religious States In America Religion plays a defining role in American culture and politics, but the degree of religiosity varies dramatically by state. This visualization, via Visual Capitalist’s Niccolo Conte, maps out the share of adults who are highly religious based on survey data from the Pew Research Center. The survey was of 36,908 adults, conducted July 2023 to March 2024, with religiousness based on […]

They’ve Learned Nothing… Because That Would Expose Too Much Authored by Roger Bate via The Brownstone Institute, The UK Covid-19 Inquiry has finally released the core political chapters of its long-awaited report. After nearly three years of hearings, millions of documents, and tens of millions of pounds spent on legal fees, the conclusion is now unmistakably clear. They’ve learned nothing, as I detail in my […]

Ethiopian Volcano Erupts For First Time In 10,000 Years  A dormant volcano in Ethiopia’s Afar region, Hayli Gubbi, erupted on Sunday for the first time in thousands of years, blasting ash and smoke up to 9 miles into the atmosphere, disrupting air travel across the Red Sea toward Yemen and Oman. Here we observe the ash plume from the first recorded volcanic eruption from Hayli Gubbi Volcano in Ethiopia in 10,000+ years! This is […]

The AfD’s Co-Leader Declared That Poland Could Become A Threat To Germany Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, AfD co-leader Tino Chrupalla said during a recent appearance on public media that “Poland could also become a threat to us…We see that Poland’s interests differ from Germany’s…We are seeing double standards on the Nord Stream issue. Poland did not extradite a wanted criminal, a terrorist, to […]

UK Navy Intercepts, Shadows Russian Warships In English Channel The UK military continues monitoring and shadowing Russian ‘research vessels’ as well as naval ships off Britain’s waters which are widely understood to be Russian Navy intelligence collection ships. In the latest development, British media reported Sunday that the Royal Navy recently intercepted two Russian naval vessels as they passed through the English Channel, […]

“Absolutely Breathtaking” – Exposing The Censorship Industrial Complex’s Power Grip In Germany Authored by Greg Collard via Racket.news, New liber-net report maps an expansive network of government and private censors across Germany… Many organizations and federal agencies involved in censoring Americans under the guise of mis/disinformation have shut down in the last couple years. Racket’s Twitter Files exposed the level […]

Trump Has Called Europe’s Bluff Authored by Wolfgang Munchau via UnHerd.com, The 28-point plan the White House negotiated with the Kremlin is not a done deal. It’s not even close. It is a blueprint, no more, no less. In any case, Trump is an unpredictable player — he could back out at any moment. But this time, I don’t think he will. The plan, first circulated on a Telegram channel, is clearly not a great one for Ukraine. […]

The Google TPU: The Chip Made For The AI Inference Era By UncoverAlpha As I find the topic of Google TPUs extremely important, I am publishing a comprehensive deep dive, not just a technical overview, but also strategic and financial coverage of the Google TPU. Topics covered: The history of the TPU and why it all even started? The difference between a TPU and a GPU? Performance numbers TPU vs GPU? Where are the problems for […]

The UK And Canada Lead The West’s Descent Into Digital Authoritarianism Authored by Sonia Elijah via The Brownstone Institute, “Big Brother is watching you.” These chilling words from George Orwell’s dystopian masterpiece, 1984, no longer read as fiction but are becoming a bleak reality in the UK and Canada—where digital dystopian measures are unravelling the fabric of freedom in two of the West’s oldest democracies. […]

JP Morgan, Who Had No Issues Banking Epstein, Abruptly Closes Strike CEO Jack Mallers’ Account JPMorgan Chase abruptly closed Strike CEO Jack Mallers’ personal accounts last month, giving him no warning and offering only a cryptic explanation, according to Yahoo Finance. Mallers posted on X that “Last month, J.P. Morgan Chase threw me out of the bank,” noting how odd it was given that “My dad has been a private client there […]

Google Denies Claims That It’s Reading Gmails To Train Its AI Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Google is denying viral claims that private Gmail emails are being used to train its AI models. An illustration of a mobile phone and laptop with the Google website, on Dec. 14, 2020. Laurie Dieffembacq/BELGA MAG/AFP via Getty Images The announcement follows multiple reports this past week that the company […]

The Mystery Of Intuition: Where Gut Feelings Really Come From Authored by Makai Allbert via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), We’ve all experienced intuition in some form or another. The hunch of knowing without understanding why; the sense that something is right—or terribly wrong—before conscious thought catches up. Or a simple instinct that something is off about a stranger. Illustration by The Epoch Times, Shutterstock […]

Ukraine Rejects Key Aspects Of Trump’s Peace Plan, Won’t Cede Territory  On Monday the Zelensky government laid out its red lines concerning the US-proposed peace plan with Russia, which demands that Kiev agree to territorial concessions in the eastern Donbas region.  Ukraine’s senior political leaders and lawmakers, including President Volodymyr Zelensky, set firm non-negotiable conditions for any future peace agreement with […]

Trump Signs Executive Order To Designate Muslim Brotherhood Chapters As Foreign Terrorist Update (2010ET): A little more than one day after Just The News published John Solomon’s exclusive interview in which President Trump confirmed plans to designate the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) as a foreign terrorist organization (FTO), the White House formally announced on Monday evening that the president has initiated the process to classify […]

“It’s A Tinder Box”: GOP Members Consider Following MTG Into Retirement, Say White House Treats Them ‘Like Garbage’ Following the surprise announcement by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) that she’s retiring from Congress in 42 days – claiming that President Trump and House Republicans have abandoned America First priorities, it appears that others within the GOP are looking for the exit as well.  According to Punchbowl […]

Bolsonaro & Those Damn Indestructible Ankle Monitors The plot has again thickened, and got a bit weirder, in the arrest and trial saga of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who was sentenced to 27 years in prison in September for an alleged coup attempt related to not accepting the results of the last presidential election. We detailed Saturday that federal police rushed to his residence Saturday to take him out of […]

DOGE Slams Reuters For Pushing “Fake News” On Shutdown Story Update (1935ET): Our earlier report exposing Reuters’ false claim that DOGE had “disbanded” has now been confirmed. DOGE’s official X account blasted the outlet operating under an Ireland-based X account as “fake news.” “As usual, this is fake news from @Reuters. President Trump was given a mandate by the American people to modernize the federal government and reduce […]

Insurrection Chic Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, Is Jeff Davis the Model? Who is the real, or fictional, inspiration for the new insurrectionary wing of the Democrat Party? The fictitious Hollywood insurrectionist, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, “James Mattoon Scott” (Burt Lancaster), who in the 1964 film Seven Days in May attempted to overthrow the presidency? Or perhaps Jefferson Davis? […]

US Export-Import Bank To Spend $100 Billion To Secure Critical Minerals, Nuclear & LNG Supply Chains The US Export-Import Bank, an independent federal agency tasked with helping to facilitate US trade, will invest $100 billion to achieve President Trump’s plan to secure US and allied supply chains for critical minerals, nuclear energy, and liquefied natural gas (LNG).  Its new chair, John Jovanovic (appointed in September) […]

Modular Reactor Tide Rising: Nano Nuclear To Study Siting Multiple MMRs To Generate 1GW Energy In Texas One day after we observed that only a boom in onsite, “behind the meter” power supply energizing America’s hundreds (soon thousands) of data centers – i.e., small/micro modular reactors or gas tubines not connected to the broader power grid – would allow the US to dominate the AI “arms race” between Washington and Beijing […]

Syria’s Homs In Lockdown, Alawite Houses Set On Fire, Amid New ‘Revenge’ Killings Authored by Jason Ditz via AntiWar.com, A Bedouin couple was killed Saturday in their home in the town of Zaidal, on the outskirts of Homs, Syria. The two were members of the Bani Khaled tribe, and state media reported that “sectarian slogans” were found at the scene. The tribe responded by attacking the Alawite-heavy al-Muhajireen neighborhood in […]

FAFO: Pentagon Probes Unhinged Democratic Senator After Video Urging Troops To “Refuse Illegal Orders”  The Pentagon has opened a misconduct investigation into Sen. Mark Kelly following his participation in a video, alongside several other crazed Democratic lawmakers, urging military and intelligence personnel to “refuse illegal orders.” The video message, delivered as “You must refuse illegal orders,” has been assessed as a […]

Waste Of The Day: California’s Clean Energy Investment Doesn’t Pay Authored by Jeremy Portnoy via RealClearInvestigations, Topline: In 2007, California invested $468.4 million of its pension funds into private companies through its Clean Energy and Technology Fund. Today, the money is worth just $138 million, and the state won’t explain why its investment performed so poorly. Several open records requests filed by The Center […]