TECHNOLOGY

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence venture, xAI, kicked off the non-woke artificial intelligence bot movement over the weekend with the launch of "Grok." The billionaire's move is to take on OpenAI's super-woke ChatGPT. 

Musk said over the weekend Grok is "designed to have a little humor in its response" and has "real-time access to info via the 𝕏 platform, which is a massive advantage over other models." He also said it's "based (more…)

Via SchiffGold.com,

The boom in AI could mean a boom in industrial demand for precious metals in 2024.

Metals Focus, an independent precious metals research consultancy, released a note recently that said it expects the increased demand for chips powering AI technology to drive “widespread support for a range of precious metals bearing components.”

Industrial and tech demand for precious metals has been muted this year due to sluggish global economic activity. For (more…)

Authored by Nick Corbishley via NakedCapitalism.com,

In one fell swoop, roughly 10% of the global population appears to have had some of their most valuable personal identifiable information (PII) compromised. Yet Aadhaar continues to receive plaudits from Silicon Valley. 

An anonymous hacker claims to have breached the digital ID numbers, as well as other sensitive personal data, of around 815 million Indian citizens.

To put that number in perspective, it is more (more…)