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Ireland Shock: Secret NATO Integration Almost Complete NATO’s NEXT VICTIM … Be informed
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TED The brilliance of bridges and roads that repair themselves. Engage with this. Think of a company like CRH now on S&P 500. What vision do they have self repairing concrete. This is an excellent piece to inspire
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Axios: Job hunters are paying their recruiters now
2. Job hunters are paying recruiters now |
Illustration: Aïda Amer/AxiosIncreasingly desperate job hunters are paying recruiters to land their next gig, The Wall Street Journal reports. That’s a stunning reversal. Companies usually pay recruiters to headhunt talent, not the other way around — a sign of how tough the job market is right now. AI is playing a role here, too, with some reverse-recruiting firms using the tech to connect job seekers and hiring managers — or even to pose as candidates. Reverse Recruiting Agency founder Alex Shinkarovsky tells The Journal: “Some folks just don’t have time to [job search], some folks are scared, some folks are unemployed and on their last effort.”Gift link. |
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Futurism: Data from TikTok to ICE is the question

Last month, the popular social video app TikTok finalized a deal with investors, including Oracle, to appease a bipartisan bill that called on the app’s Chinese owner, ByteDance, to divest — or be banned in the United States.
The deal launched a frenzy among its US-based users over possible censorship, with some accusing it of taking down footage of ICE agents or restricting searches for words, such as “Epstein.” While TikTok denied these claims, pointing to a “data center power outage,” the app also changed its privacy policy at the time — now allowing it to collect more detailed data on its users, including their precise locations.
That sparked new fears. As The New Republic argues, TikTok’s deal means that agents at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), whose deportation efforts have been supercharged under the Trump administration, could skip tedious court-ordered data requests and monitor users by buying their data from private data brokers that obtain the info from TikTok directly — a “highly ironic” development, the magazine writes, considering the ByteDance deal was motivated in the first place by fears over Chinese state-sponsored surveillance.
Users’ “Mobile Advertising ID” broadcasts their exact GPS coordinates to data brokerages, information that could then land in the hands of the Department of Homeland Security, the New Republic suggested. Meanwhile, ICE could use the data to build a probabilistic “confidence score” for individuals and declare protesters and legal observers “domestic terrorists.”
It’s not an unreasonable fear. Oracle cofounder Larry Ellison, an extremely close ally to president Donald Trump, has even made remarks about AI ushering in an era where “citizens are on their best behavior” due to mass surveillance.
The controversial ICE is already making use of an app called ELITE, which was developed by intelligence contractor Palantir, to inform agents ahead of neighborhood raids, as 404 Media reported last month.
“One can easily imagine a scenario where TikTok provides the last missing piece of data — user location and citizenship status — that ICE needs to green-light one of its raids,” The New Republic‘s Logan McMillen wrote.
And when we asked directly, TikTok pointedly declined to provide a comment and would neither confirm nor deny that US immigration authorities were accessing data about its users. ICE didn’t respond to a request for comment by press time.
Meanwhile, many netizens have heard enough.
“Yeah, everyone just go ahead and delete TikTok now if you haven’t already,” one user wrote.
More on TikTok: TikTok Accounts Are Using AI Slop to Sell Seeds to Plants That Don’t Exist
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I’m a senior editor at Futurism, where I edit and write about NASA and the private space sector, as well as topics ranging from SETI and artificial intelligence to tech and medical policy.
Axios: Trump’s Iran buildup
| Axios interview: Trump’s Iran buildup |
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| Photo illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios. Photos: Getty Images |
| President Trump told Axios’ Barak Ravid yesterday he’s considering sending a second aircraft carrier strike group to the Middle East to prepare for military action if negotiations with Iran fail. Why it matters: The U.S. and Iran resumed negotiations last Friday in Oman for the first time since the 12-day war in June, but Trump has simultaneously launched a massive military buildup in the Gulf.“Either we will make a deal or we will have to do something very tough like last time,” Trump told Axios. Trump said he expects the second round of U.S.–Iran talks to take place next week. The president added that “we have an armada that is heading there and another one might be going” and said he’s “thinking” about sending another aircraft carrier strike group. The USS Abraham Lincoln and its strike group, which includes fighter jets, Tomahawk missiles and several ships, already deployed. The U.S. had two carriers there during much of the war in Gaza. Zoom out: Trump expressed optimism about the diplomatic path, claiming Iran “wants to make a deal very badly” and is engaging much more seriously than in previous talks because of the military threat.“Last time they didn’t believe I would do it,” Trump said, alluding to the June strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities. “They overplayed their hand.”This time the talks are “very different,” he said. What’s next: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will visit the Oval Office this morning and is far more skeptical of a great deal.More from Barak’s interview. |
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The Deep View: Google AI exec bets on getting AI to the masses
Google AI exec bets on getting AI to the masses |
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| After working on the launch of Claude 2 through Claude 4, Michael Gerstenhaber left Anthropic to join Google five months ago, where he’s now focused on bringing AI to more people and organizations. |
| In fact, that’s why Gerstenhaber left Anthropic. While he believed in the value of the technology and the importance of sharing it with the world, he felt Anthropic’s focus on reaching AGI was incongruent with that goal. |
| “So I left because I accidentally got AGI pilled along way. Dario [Amodei, Anthropic’s CEO] has a very specific effect on people, and I believe that the technology is one of the biggest of our time, probably the biggest,” said Gerstenhaber. “Distributing the technology has become, if not a moral endeavor, a very exciting endeavor for me because of its importance.” |
| Like OpenAI, Anthropic is racing toward AGI, but the two companies frame their missions differently. Amodei has spoken out about the risks of AGI, including the displacement of entry-level white-collar jobs. At the same time, OpenAI explicitly centers AGI as its goal. We reached out to Anthropic for comment on Gerstenhaber’s assessment, but the company did not have a response. |
| At Google, Gerstenhaber serves as Vice President of Product for Vertex AI and Agents, the company’s platform for building and deploying AI in the enterprise. The role puts him at the center of Google’s AI cloud infrastructure, everything from inference APIs to agentic capabilities, where he works directly with customers to find the right solutions. |
| “At Google, we do have that ability to distribute. We’re the only Cloud that’s vertically integrated among the power plants with the data centers, with the TPUs in the data centers, with access to the smartest models in the world, whether it’s ours or my former colleagues, and the platform itself with customers on the cloud,” said Gerstenhaber. |
| He has already seen AI drive meaningful workflow transformations across companies, including through agentic solutions. For instance, he cited a large pharmaceutical company that delegated statistical analysis and coding of clinical data to agents. Another example was Thomson Reuters’s development of agentic products, such as CoCounsel and Westlaw, for legal research. |
| He acknowledged AI agents haven’t reached their full expected value, not because the technology isn’t ready, but because of trust issues. Organizations lack clear ways to define scopes, struggle with accountability when AI fails, and can’t easily evaluate whether workflows are performing correctly. His advice for implementation? Take bite-sized steps. |
| “People should find the scope over which they don’t need a human at all, and that might be a very narrow scope, not a very ambitious scope,” said Gerstenhaberand, “then you’ll widen the aperture from there.” |
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The Deep View: AI leads people to work more, not less
| Study: AI leads people to work more, not less Though many workers worry that AI is going to take their jobs, evidence suggests that it’s actually giving AI adopters more work, not less. In an eight-month study of approximately 200 workers at a US-based tech company, Harvard University researchers discovered that AI tools consistently intensified work, rather than reducing the load. The researchers found that AI tools allowed workers to complete tasks faster, enabling them to take on a broader scope of tasks, thereby extending their work hours.Though the company being studied offered enterprise subscriptions to AI tools for their employees, the researchers noted that these employees were not mandated to use AI. Rather, the workers did so of their own accord. The problem, however, is that once the excitement over these shiny new AI tools wore off, workers found that their workload had increased without them noticing. The researchers identified three main ways that these workloads intensified: AI made tasks that were once out of reach feel achievable to new audiences. For example, coding and engineering tasks are now within reach for non-technical employees. Reduced friction in starting and completing tasks also blurred the boundaries between work and non-work. Finally, these tools allowed for easier multitasking, with the tech being seen as a “partner” that could handle more tasks in the background. The consequence of that, however, was also an increased taskload. Harvard’s study joins a litany of conflicting research detailing how AI will impact the way we work. While some say that AI can already automate thousands of hours of work and make certain jobs obsolete, others argue that AI will create new jobs entirely. This study lands somewhere in the middle: Creating new work in the jobs that we already have, while quietly piling on more right under our noses. ![]() Since this study is focused on an American company, it may demonstrate a symptom of US work culture more than the impact of AI alone. However, it highlights the downside of unlocking more productivity: When AI enables people to do more, people often feel as though they have to do more, too. This comes as AI-powered displacement is also creating a constant undercurrent of anxiety among workers. Though all new tech comes with a learning curve, AI’s learning curve could involve learning to do less. |
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Work take all options to upskill, educate and often be a leader. Kemi Badenoch worked at McDonald’s 30 years ago…
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Alexander Dugin, philosopher. “Epstein lists just blew the lid off: The West is a satanic elite Empire…” Recommend watching this video
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Rowan Atkinson, a legendary icon of comedy, television, and cinema, has left even the world’s richest and most powerful figures stunned—not just with his words, but with decisive action
BREAKING NEWS: Rowan Atkinson, a legendary icon of comedy, television, and cinema, has left even the world’s richest and most powerful figures stunned—not just with his words, but with decisive action.
At a glamorous red-carpet gala in Los Angeles on December 20, attended by film moguls, tech billionaires, and Hollywood’s most elite stars, Rowan Atkinson took the stage to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award. But instead of offering a conventional acceptance speech, he chose a moment of truth—direct, fearless, and deeply human. He did not thank the Academy. He did not reminisce about Mr. Bean, Blackadder, or decades of global laughter.
Instead, Atkinson looked straight into the audience of wealth and influence and declared: “We sit here surrounded by diamonds and artistic glory while the world outside is falling apart. If your voice can move millions and you choose not to use it for those who have no voice, then you are not creating change—you are creating noise.”
The room fell into complete silence. Film executives and invited guests sat motionless, struck by the weight of his words. He continued, unwavering: “If you have more than you need, it no longer belongs only to you. Your responsibility is to lift up those who are still beneath you.”
And he did not stop at words.
That very night, Atkinson announced that all profits from his archived works and future creative projects—estimated at 160 million USD—will be donated to fund children’s health initiatives, climate action programs, and arts education for underprivileged youth.
His message was unmistakable: “Legacy is not built on what you earn. It is built on what you give.” In an era when celebrities are often dismissed as hollow symbols, Rowan Atkinson delivered a powerful reminder to the world: true impact is not created by applause, but by easing the suffering of others.

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