An excellent short documentary on Edward Bernays, father of the science of propaganda. Includes footage from the United States Information Agency, from back in the day when they were trying to protect the public from propaganda instead of using it to control the public.

"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country."
Edward Bernays, 1928

— Retweeted by President Gustavo Petro

NEW: Photos released of the scene where Open AI whistleblower Suchir Balaji was found deceased, family doesn’t believe he took his own life.

Balaji’s parents say they believe their son was m*rdered.

Their son had worked for OpenAI and had blown the whistle on the company shortly before he passed.

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"One of the major concerns of historians and academics, as society moved into the electronic age, was that many of the written documents -- letters, diaries, messages and memos -- so important in reconstructing events later would be deleted over time and not left for archivists to pore over as in previous centuries.

"Well, historians need not worry about memo deletions as far as Vice President Dick Cheney’s files are concerned.

"He doesn’t write memos. He leaves no paper trail. On purpose.

"Speaking last week at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum in Grand Rapids, Mich., Ford’s one-time White House chief of staff said: “Researchers like to come and dig through my files to see if anything interesting turns up.”

“I want to wish them luck,” the vice president said to a laughing audience. “But the files are pretty thin. I learned early on that if you don’t want your memos to get you in trouble someday, just don’t write any.”

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-sep-23-na-ticket23-story.html

There are approximately 1.4 million kilometers of active submarine cables in the world today.

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"“DeepSeek shows that it is possible to develop powerful AI models that cost less,” said Vey-Sern Ling, managing director at Union Bancaire Privee. “It can potentially derail the investment case for the entire AI supply chain, which is driven by high spending from a small handful of hyperscalers.”

"The rout in Nasdaq futures comes at the start of a big week for earnings from major tech companies including Apple Inc. and Microsoft. Profit growth is expected to have slowed while valuations remain inflated, once again causing concern over the large AI-driven rally in the sector."

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nasdaq-futures-slump-china-deepseek-022904517.html#:~:text=%E2%80%9CDeepSeek%20shows%20that,in%20the%20sector.

"DeepSeek’s threat to American firms riding the AI boom operates at multiple levels. The first layer of the business model challenged by the Chinese company includes the firms working on AI models themselves. Goldman Sachs estimates that in 2024 there was around $68 billion of investment in the sector in the United States. But DeepSeek seems to have undercut the entire market on price by a factor of around 20. Early estimates show that DeepSeek input and output tokens — that is, the smallest unit of text processed — are around 96% cheaper than alternatives."
https://unherd.com/newsroom/deepseek-could-crash-the-us-ai-industry/#:~:text=DeepSeek%E2%80%99s%20threat%20to,cheaper%20than%20alternatives.

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Another blow is coming from the Chinese DeepSeek AI

They launched now a multimodal "Janus-Pro-7B" model with image input and output.

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