Training language models to be warm and empathetic makes them less reliable and more sycophantic.

So You Bought a Fancy Vintage Car. Now Who’s Going to Restore it?

Fed’s Nightmare: CPI Inflation in Core Services Worst in 6 Months, Pushing Core CPI to Worst in 6 Months. Some Goods Prices Fell, Others Rose. It will only get worse from here.

Trump has turned FEMA itself into a disaster.

These West Virginians love Trump and food stamps—but they can’t have both.

BLS Commissioner Nominee’s Suggestion to Suspend Monthly Jobs Report Is ‘Like Gouging Our Eyes Out.’

Nonpartisan budget office: Republicans’ megabill will make the rich richer, poor poorer. Well, yeah, because that’s the point of it?

133-year old Kodak says it might have to cease operations.

Scientists exploring the hadal zone between Russia and Alaska say they discovered the deepest known ecosystem, capable of sustaining life without sunlight.

Vladimir Putin Could Be Laying a Trap. Of course it’s a trap. Anyway, Russia thinks Alaska is Russian soil.

We live in a fascist nation. What now? Once they win elections, it’s already too late. Agreed. Probably no more meaningful elections at the national level in our lifetimes.

Softbank: 1,000 AI agents replace 1 job.

Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed. Agreed. Just should be eliminated.

AI is the most rapidly adopted technology in history. I’m no AI cheerleader, but liberals (as usual) are wrong about AI.

Trump’s awful turn against mRNA vaccine research.