A satellite company owned by Elon Musk has the inside track to potentially take over a large federal contract to modernize the nation’s air traffic communications system.
Equipment from Musk’s Starlink has been installed in Federal Aviation Administration facilities as a prelude to a takeover of a $2 billion contract held by Verizon, according to government employees, contractors and people familiar with the work.
Musk said that the network used by air traffic controllers is aging and requires drastic and quick action to modernize it.
“The Verizon system is not working and so is putting air travelers at serious risk,” Musk on Monday posted on X, the social media site he has owned since 2022.
The emergence of Starlink as a potential replacement for the Verizon-led effort underscores the extraordinary conflicts of interest inherent in Musk’s position as both a senior White House adviser to President Donald Trump and a business mogul in charge of a sprawling array of companies. It is not clear what role Musk might be playing in helping Starlink parent company SpaceX win such business.
“There’s very limited transparency,” said Jessica Tillipman, a contracting law expert at George Washington University. Referring to Musk, she said: “Without that transparency, we have no idea how much non-public information he has access to or what role he’s playing in what contracts are being awarded.”
Former FAA officials also told The Associated Press that they were alarmed at the prospect of Starlink being used as a critical part of the nation’s aviation system without adequate testing, review and debate about its benefits and drawbacks.
definitely another win for Musk. Dude is slowly taking over everything man, like for real, from space to internet, cars, now air traffic 👀 Next thing you know, we’ll be flying Teslas instead of planes
Quarterly earnings from AI darling Nvidia is Wednesday's marquee event for markets, with much riding on the chipmaker to deliver results that could placate investors who are questioning hefty spending in artificial intelligence.
Investors have begun second-guessing U.S. tech giants since Chinese startup DeepSeek rattled the industry with AI technology ostensibly cheaper yet as capable as that of early leaders.
Market estimates have Nvidia's fourth-quarter sales at $38.5 billion and first-quarter guidance around $42.5 billion.
As usual, options point to a share price move of around 8% in either direction should the results surprise.
"This earnings report isn't just about Nvidia... It's about whether the AI revolution can maintain its breakneck pace," said Saxo's global head of investment strategy, Jacob Falkencrone.
Alleviating concern of DeepSeek triggering a slide in AI chip demand, sources have told Reuters of Chinese companies increasing orders for Nvidia's H20 chip due to booming demand for low-cost AI models.
Well if they do it, AI hype keeps rolling. If they flop, tech stocks might wobble a bit. Also, DeepSeek will still be coming in with the we do it cheaper thing and that's still going to be a competition I guess
DeepSeek's model is open source, like Alibaba's, meaning it can be downloaded and modified by others.
Open source differs from proprietary models such as those created by OpenAI and do not produce revenue for companies. Open sourcing a technology serves a number of purposes, including driving innovation and building a community around a product.
A debate is currently swirling about whether AI models will become commoditized.
Modi wants Tesla to build cars in India. Making the plan work may not be easy
Tesla is reportedly recruiting and scouting showroom locations in the country, following a meeting between Prime Minister Modi and Elon Musk earlier this month.
India has been striving to become a global manufacturing hub, having successfully invited major companies such as Apple to set up as well as expand production in the country.
To further bolster its manufacturing prowess, the South Asian nation has been eyeing Tesla to set up its base in the country. And the carmaker that has appeared reluctant for long is now signaling interest in the market as the Indian government attempts to welcome it by implementing a new EV tariff policy.
This relaxation only applies to premium EVs priced at over $35,000 and requires investments totaling nearly $500 million and long-term plans to set up local manufacturing.
The EV policy represents a targeted move to appeal to Tesla's business interests, signaling India's readiness to support EV manufacturing, Ammar Master, a South Asia director of Automotive at GlobalData, told CNBC.
"The Indian government has been proactive in its attempts to lure Tesla into establishing its manufacturing base in India," he said.
The automaker, however, faces several headwinds to breaking into the world's third-largest auto market.
Meanwhile, Tesla has yet to signal significant interest in setting up a manufacturing base in the country, with its recent job openings consisting of mostly consumer-facing positions.
Additionally, geopolitical barriers may influence Telsa's decision to produce cars in India under the new Donald Trump administration. In an interview alongside Tesla CEO Elon Musk last week, President Trump said that Tesla manufacturing in India would be "very unfair."
The company has also been working on completing the production of manufacturing plants in Germany and Texas.
Some local media sources in India have reported that government may further tweak the EV policy to attract Tesla considers the market.
"Even if they commit to the current proposal, it will be after six months or so," added Gupta.
However, while the Indian EV market remains small, getting a foothold there could be a valuable endeavor for Tesla as it looks for new markets amid intense competition with Chinese EV makers such as BYD.
"With the current momentum, we project that Passenger BEV sales in India will reach 1 million units by 2030, accounting for 20% of total sales," said GlobalData's Ammar Master.
Last year, after the company delayed its annual report, it lost its auditor, Ernst & Young, citing governance issues. Super Micro had until Tuesday to become current and file audited financials with the SEC.
Super Micro said in a note from management as part of the filing that it had identified material weaknesses in internal controls over financial reporting, including IT issues, a lack of documentation over manual journal entries and insufficient controls to address segregation of staff duties. Super Micro said that it is hiring additional accounting and audit employees, as well as upgrading its IT systems.
Last month, Perplexity AI also made a bid to merge with TikTok U.S. as the social media platform faces a potential U.S. shutdown.
The company sees a potential investing advantage when it comes to startups because roughly 80,000 developers are plugged into its network, so Perplexity gets visibility into who is using its application programming interface, or API, and who is most active in their consumption, the person said.
Perplexity's founders and investors are putting money into the fund, and some of the company's commitment is in the form of stock, the source said.
DeepSeek itself is accelerating the launch of the successor to the R1 model that put the startup on the map last month, three people familiar with the company told Reuters.
R2 is likely to worry the U.S. government which regards AI leadership as a national priority.
That country's technology war with China is set to intensify with the administration of President Donald Trump planning tougher restrictions on semiconductor exports to China.
Trump has already signed a memorandum restricting Chinese investment in the U.S. in strategic areas.
It was strongly opposed by hospital groups who unsuccessfully challenged it in court. They argue it forces them to disclose private negotiations with insurers, undermining competition and violating their First Amendment free speech rights, a claim rejected by the court.
American Airlines did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the go-around at Washington National.
The past few weeks have seen four major aviation disasters in North America. They include the Feb. 6 crash of a commuter plane in Alaska that killed all 10 people on board and the Jan. 26 midair collision between an Army helicopter and an American Airlines flight at National Airport that killed all 67 aboard the two aircraft.
A medical transport jet with a child patient, her mother and four others aboard crashed Jan. 31 into a Philadelphia neighborhood. That crash killed seven people, including all those aboard, and injured 19 others.
Strategists said they expect solid corporate earnings growth to continue to support gains in equities, and they see a possible boost to the economy if Trump, who took office on January 20, goes ahead with his pro-growth agenda for tax cuts and deregulation.
But they say tariffs threaten to add inflationary pressures at a time when the Federal Reserve has paused its rate-cutting cycle.
"The economy is growing, inflation has been sticky but it's much lower than it was just six months or a year ago, and corporate profits are growing," said Anthony Saglimbene, chief market strategist at Ameriprise Financial in Troy, Michigan, which has a 6,500 "base case" year-end forecast for the S&P 500.
The cuts are being carried out under the direction of Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency.
Moreover, Trump has verbally supported Russia as he has pushed for a deal to end Russia's conflict with Ukraine, and has denounced the Ukrainian president as a dictator, creating alarm among some investors about relations between the U.S. and the rest of the world.
When asked whether a stock market correction of at least 10% is likely in the coming three months, 13 of 19 poll participants who answered the question said it was likely or highly likely, while six said it was unlikely.
"Those with a short-term horizon, they could be a little rattled by volatility. We just have so many unknowns as we start 2025," said Kristina Hooper, chief global market strategist at Invesco in New York. She expects the S&P 500 to end this year at 6,360.
Government ethics laws require that people who could profit from government work either recuse themselves from specific projects or first sell their financial holdings or sever ties with the company that could benefit. Waivers can be granted by the heads of government departments or other officials, but only in limited circumstances.
Ted Malaska, a senior director of application software at SpaceX, got a waiver along with two software engineers, Brady Glantz and Thomas Kiernan, according to the waiver list and LinkedIn profiles. The AP could not determine if the three are still working for SpaceX or the precise nature of work for the federal government.
Malaska posted on social media on Thursday that he had been meeting at FAA headquarters with officials responsible for implementation of the telecommunications modernization.
The Carneia was an ancient Doric festival held to worship Apollo Carneios, the most highly revered god of the Peloponnese. It began on the seventh day of the month of Carneios (July/August) and lasted nine days. Few details about the festival survive, but it is known that nine tents were pitched near the city, inhabited by nine men who lived like soldiers. A priest conducted sacrifices with the help of five unmarried men from each Spartan tribe chosen as his ministers. Some of them were labeled staphylodromoi ("grape-cluster runners"). During the festival, they chased a man wearing a garland, and, if they caught him, it meant good luck for the coming harvest.
The Spartans actually had nine festivals each year and no wars could be fought during any of them. The Carneia was the most important of the nine.
The move is part of broad efforts by President Donald Trump to crack down on illegal immigration through mass deportations and border security. Previously, illegal immigrants were committing a civil offense and could be detained and deported but weren't considered to have committed a crime, according to the Journal. Those who qualify but fail to register could be fined up to $5,000 and sentenced to up to six months in prison.
The administration's plans rely on provisions of immigration law that have proved impractical to enforce, according to the Journal. Pursuing cases against alleged offenders could tie up prosecutorial resources and swell the prison population, and illegal immigrants rarely have the means to pay such hefty fines, experts told the Journal.
President George W. Bush created a similar immigration registry after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, when his administration required men and boys from predominantly Muslim countries to submit photographs and fingerprints to the federal government, the Journal reported. Tens of thousands of people who registered under that program were arrested and deported.
But any savings have been outweighed so far by higher spending on health and retirement programs and rising interest payments, Treasury Department spending records show.
Overall, the government spent about $710 billion between Jan. 21 and Feb. 20, Treasury daily spending data shows, up from the roughly $630 billion during a comparable period last year. Independent budget experts said the figures illustrate the relentless pressures incurred by an aging population and a ballooning debt load.
Musk and Trump have said they aim to reduce the $6.7 trillion federal budget by $1 trillion, but Trump has also promised not to reduce benefits for seniors who get Social Security retirement payments and participate in the Medicare health plan. Those two programs accounted for more than one third of federal dollars spent in the last fiscal year. While they are projected to eat up more of the budget as the population ages, trimming them would anger millions of Americans.
"There is no way to meet their goals without hitting the third rail," said Lauren Bauer, a researcher at the Brookings Institution who tracks the Treasury Department's daily spending statements.
Musk has said he will scrutinize both programs for fraud, but his attempts to scrutinize sensitive payment and personnel records have raised security and privacy fears. On Wednesday, 21 career workers in DOGE resigned in protest, saying the agency had mishandled Americans' private data.
Trump can do little to reduce debt service payments, which accounted for 13% of the budget last year, without risking a default that would rattle the global financial system.
The government paid about $94 billion in interest payments during Trump's first month, compared to around $80 billion in the comparable period last year, Treasury data shows.
A White House official, briefing reporters on condition of anonymity, said any potential tariff rate would be determined by the investigation, adding that Trump preferred tariffs over quotas.
White House trade adviser Peter Navarro said the investigation would be completed quickly, "in Trump time."
Navarro said China was using state subsidies and economic influence to gain control over global copper production, in much the same way it now dominates steel and aluminum production.
That said, the countries set to be most affected by any new U.S. copper tariffs would be Chile, Canada and Mexico, which were the top suppliers of refined copper and copper articles in 2024, according to U.S. Census Bureau data.
"The best thing for the region would be peace, and … we don't want to have appeasement, we certainly don't want that, and I'm not suggesting that's what the president is trying to do … [but] we need a solution that makes sense for Ukraine and it's probably going to have to also be a solution that makes sense for Russia," Crank said.
The IRS initially revealed that 70,000 returns from 2019 and 2020, including those of President Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Warren Buffett, were stolen. But in a letter to Jordan dated Feb. 14, acting IRS Commissioner Douglas O'Donnell said the IRS "mailed notifications to 405,427 taxpayers whose taxpayer information was inappropriately disclosed by Mr. Littlejohn. Approximately 89% of the taxpayers are business entities."
"This guy, that was his stated objective," Jordan told "The Record With Greta Van Susteren." "He went there as a contractor, his goal, his whole purpose was to release President Trump's tax return and others. And we find out now, it was much worse than we thought, 405,000. Many of them were business entities, but also a lot of individuals.
Now Helots were forced to till plots of land for their Spartan overseers. Half of the profit from the harvest went to the Helot and the other half was given to Sparta. Some 9,000 of these individual farms were put into operation. Over time, the Helot workload was expanded to include all manual labor required to run the Polis, releasing the Spartan men for full time military training.
Data from the working group showed that of the $182.8 billion appropriated as of Dec. 31, $83.4 billion was disbursed, and a total of $96.6 billion has either been obligated and not disbursed or appropriated but not yet obligated. Further, $2.7 billion has expired, meaning those funds are no longer available for obligation.
"I don't think the question is that all these billions disappeared in Ukraine due to corruption," Budanov told "American Agenda" through an interpreter from Kyiv in an interview with Newsmax correspondent Zach Anders. "The issue is deeper here. We need to figure out where this money went and where it settled. And it may turn out that it's not just about Ukraine."
"When they talk about corruption, well, listen, it exists everywhere. Every country fights against it. If every country fights against it, that, at the very least, means that it exists in every country."
Budanov added that a year ago, Ukraine was visited by Biden administration officials regarding an "inspection" about how the funds were being spent and that they came up "with acceptable conclusions."
"Let me repeat myself: It's more of a profound matter," he said. "We have to see where the money was channeled at what price. For example, they were procuring ammunition. Who was the real beneficiary? Through which countries was it going? I mean, it's clear everybody was covering themselves with Ukraine. That's going to be unanimous. But was it really Ukraine? That's an open question."
Meanwhile, Budanov was asked about President Donald Trump referring to Zelenskyy as a dictator because Ukraine's president canceled elections.
"It's a political matter, and how the president of America makes his conclusions, it's only known to him," he said. "I personally don't feel well when a president is called a dictator because that means then we all serve a dictatorship, and I don't see myself as an accessory in a dictator's regime."
The Athenian political system, before the reforms, had many elements of a democratic system, but was heavily influenced by the aristocratic class. The principle legislative body was the Assembly (Ecclesia) which consisted of all citizens who came to the assembly meetings. Because of the unwieldy character of so large a group, a council of 500 was created to debate and consider new legislation before it was brought before the assembly.
Governmental administration was handled by ten senior magistrates, called Archons, who were elected by the people. When an Archon’s term of office ended he could become a member of the Areopagas, an aristocratic council of elders who acted as a court of appeal. Lastly, there was a elected board of ten generals who were in charge of commanding the army and navy during time of war. Aristocratic influence was seen in the Council of 500 which was heavily tilted toward the upper class. Archons, themselves, were wealthy aristocrats, and the Areopagas was made up of former Archons.
FBI Probes Alleged Comey Honeypot Plot Against Trump
The FBI is starting an investigation into the agency's plan to infiltrate President Donald Trump's first campaign using two female undercover agents as a honeypot.
According to The Washington Times' initial reporting, the investigation was launched in 2015 by FBI Director James Comey and kept off the books. An FBI whistleblower broke the news of the inquiry to the House Judiciary Committee last year.
The plan was said to involve two undercover female agents who had infiltrated the Trump campaign at high-levels.
FBI Director Kash Patel and deputy Director Dan Bongino are now looking for those once-undercover agents.
Initially, the whistleblower noted that the honeypot was a separate operation from Crossfire Hurricane, and sought to uncover no specific crime but was merely a fishing expedition.
According to a City Journal source, the sex chats were legitimized as part of the NSA's commitment to "diversity, equity, and inclusion" (DEI), and the agents "used LGBTQ+ employee resource groups to turn their kinks and pathologies into official work duties," with the full support of their superiors at the NSA under then-President Joe Biden.
The source said these groups "spent all day" recruiting activists and holding meetings with titles such as "Privilege," "Ally Awareness," "Pride," and "Transgender Community Inclusion."
In addition, NSA leadership reportedly declared that DEI was "not only mission critical, but mission imperative."
Gabbard promised to clean house and confirmed the existence of the chats, which have been destroyed.
U.S. President Donald Trump Wednesday urged Apple to scrap its diversity, equity and inclusion policies, a day after the iPhone maker's shareholders voted to keep them in the face of growing pushback from conservative groups.
Major U.S. companies, including Meta and Alphabet , have dropped DEI initiatives ahead of and after Trump's return to the U.S. presidency.
Trump has criticized corporate DEI programs as discriminatory and suggested the U.S. Department of Justice could investigate if such efforts violate the law.
"So when the conclave does convene to elect a new Pope, the cardinals are going to be considering, What direction do we want the next Pope to take? A continuation of a more liberalizing path, which is, in fact, very fraught with danger for the Catholic faith because, you know, we believe that what is handed on must be defended," Murray added, "or will we return to … what Pope John Paul II and Benedict gave to the church, which was a vigorous defense of the traditional faith, answering modern concerns but not casting aside the hard teachings of Christianity but rather defending them?"
Panay says that the improved Alexa can understand tone and the environment around it, and adjust its responses on the fly. “She’s been trained in a couple of different ways, from EQ to humor to understanding,” he added. “She understands I’m a little bit nervous, she’s trying to calm me.”
Aside from tasks like creating quizzes from study guides and crafting basic travel itineraries, Alexa+ can respond to queries such as “What’s the best pizza nearby?” Answers are informed by what’s in Alexa’s “memory” and preferences that Alexa has noted over time.
There are both environmental and cultural reasons for this. Rome and the Italian peninsula had similar experiences to Europe in the middle ages with respect to development of their political systems. This similarity is based on two factors: personal leadership and a collective unity and equality of tribesmen. In other words, their political systems grew out of leadership based on personal charisma which encompassed regal, military, and political elements. The society was flat with a leader and his associates on top and everyone as equals below.
The early Greek experience was different because it was influenced by unique factors: tribal kings were weak financially, the Aegean was isolated geographically, and Greek life was simpler than Roman life.
Microsoft notes that, for specific Azure services, customers may have to obtain a professional services data storage commitment. This page outlines the requirements.
EU regulators have spent years flagging concerns about how Microsoft processes the data of users of its cloud services, including in relation to the legal basis Microsoft claims for processing data and a lack of clarity in the wording of its cloud services contracts. To be fair, Microsoft isn’t the only target. In May 2023, Meta was fined $1.3 billion by Ireland’s data privacy watchdog over data transfers to the U.S.
Open-source AI tech has been thrown into the spotlight since Chinese firm DeepSeek rattled global markets in January.
Alibaba on Wednesday said that it has made its video generation artificial intelligence models free to use, further ramping up competition with rivals like OpenAI.
The Chinese giant said it is open sourcing four models that are part of its Wan2.1 series, the latest version of the company's foundational AI model that can generate images and video from text and image inputs.
Haha I'm pretty sure OpenAI is just side eyeing them hard right now. More free tools mean more crazy AI videos popping up everywhere, and that's when the AI video revolution can kick in harder than what's going on right now
When games become easier to make the good part hopefully is gamers will pay less to play the really high graphics games like GTA and I'm wondering if LeoAI can one day be used to build stuff like games
Super Micro Computer filed its annual report for the year that ended June 30, meeting a deadline to stay listed on Nasdaq.
Super Micro Computer reported its delayed financial results on Tuesday just in time to meet the Nasdaq's listing deadline. Shares of the server maker popped 22% in extended trading after the filing.
"In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company at June 30, 2024," BDO, the company's auditor, wrote in the filing, adding that the results are "in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted" in the U.S.
Super Micro filed updated and audited financials with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for its fiscal 2024, ending in June, and the first two quarters of the company's fiscal 2025. The filing reduces any near-term possibility that the server maker could be delisted from the Nasdaq, an overhang that had weighed on Super Micro's stock price.
"The Company has received correspondence from the Nasdaq staff that the Company has regained compliance with the filing requirements, and the matter is now closed," Super Micro said in a press release.
They were cutting it close with that deadline, but at least they pulled it off
A 22% stock pop is no joke man. Funny how a single filing can make or break a company’s momentum just like that
Perplexity AI is getting ready to launch a $50 million fund focused on pre-seed and seed artificial intelligence startups in the U.S., CNBC has learned.
Perplexity AI, the developer of a popular artificial intelligence search engine, is close to raising a $50 million venture fund focused on early-stage AI startups, CNBC has learned.
The company will be an anchor investor in the fund, but most of the capital is coming from outside limited partners, according to a person familiar with the matter who asked not to be named because the information is confidential.
The two general partners of the fund are also coming from elsewhere. They are Kelly Graziadei and Joanna Lee Shevelenko, who have been running early-stage fund f7 Ventures, the person said. According to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange from October, Perplexity F7 Fund I had filed to raise $50 million. Graziadei and Shevelenko are named as the two general partners.
Perplexity AI has been in the middle of the generative AI boom that began in late 2022 with the launch of OpenAI's ChatGPT. CNBC reported in November that the company was in the final stages of raising $500 million in funding at a $9 billion valuation. Perplexity AI is viewed as a potential competitor to Google as more consumers turn to AI to search for information online.
$50 million for AI startups, that's a huge chunk man. I'm just imagining pitching an idea like maybe an AI that writes dad jokes for creators and walking out with a fat check. Yeah probably going to need to bring in more value
At an event in NYC, Amazon announced an upgraded Alexa experienced powered by generative AI tech.
At an event in NYC on Wednesday, Amazon announced an upgraded Alexa experience — Alexa+ — powered by generative AI technologies. Onstage, Amazon’s devices and services chief Panos Panay called it a “complete re-architecture” of the AI assistant.
“[W]hile the vision of Alexa has been ambitious and remains incredibly compelling, until right this moment — right this moment — we have been limited by the technology,” Panay said. “An AI chatbot on its own doesn’t get us to our vision of Alexa.”
Amazon says that the new Alexa can answer questions like “How many books have I read this year?,” drawing on info from an Amazon customer’s account. It can notify users when, for example, new tickets for a concert drop, and help with certain tasks like booking a dinner reservation.
“The new Alexa knows almost [everything] in your life — your schedule, your smart home, your preferences, the devices you’re using, the people you’re connected [to and] the entertainment you [enjoy],” Panay said.
Like other assistants on the market, the upgraded Alexa has visual understanding. Through a device’s camera, it can ingest a video feed and respond to questions, taking whatever’s happening in the footage into account.
At Amazon's annual Devices & Services event on Wednesday, the company introduced Alexa+, an enhanced version of its voice assistant, now powered by Amazon showcased how users can share documents with Alexa+, allowing it to recall important details and answer questions about those documents.
During the demonstration, Amazon showcased how users can share documents with Alexa+, allowing it to recall important details and answer questions about those documents.
Mara Segal, director of Alexa, provided several examples of how this feature works. In one instance, she asked Alexa+, “From grandma’s zucchini bread recipe, how much oil did it need?” Alexa+ was able to extract the answer from the recipe that had been previously uploaded.
In a more complex scenario, a user can upload a document from their Homeowners Association (HOA) and ask questions about the guidelines, which many people tend to overlook.
Additionally, users can forward multiple emails from a child’s school to Alexa+, extracting and summarizing the essential information. It can also help manage their calendars to ensure they don’t miss important school events.
Amazon demonstrated several Alexa+ features at the event, including the ability to jump to different movie scenes on Prime Video and control smart home devices, allowing users to move music between speakers in different rooms.
Amazon is not giving up on making its Alexa a virtual shopping assistant, On Wednesday, the company announced that Alexa+, its revamped Alexa experience, will be able to help consumers grocery shop from home using more natural conversations and requests.
The feature will work with Amazon Fresh or any other grocery partner working with Amazon, the retailer noted. Food delivery from partners like Uber Eats is also available.
Instead of simply listing out ingredients you need by voice, Amazon showed how you could also chat with Alexa as she helps you build your shopping list.
For example, the company demoed asking Alexa to get “everything we need for banana bread,” except the spices, and said they also wanted to cook that “Bob’s Red Mill pancake mix.” Oh, and they needed syrup and a few more eggs, too.
Alexa understood these natural language requests and turned them into grocery list items.
Plus, Alexa was able to adjust quantities on the fly when asked to “make it two and a half gallons instead of a gallon” of milk, for instance.
The assistant was also able to make recommendations of what to cook for a five-year-old dinner guest by suggesting some pasta options that kids tended to like.
YouTube continues to assert its dominance in the podcasting space, presenting significant competition to both Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
YouTube continues to assert its dominance in the podcasting space, presenting significant competition to both Spotify and Apple Podcasts. In an announcement on Wednesday, the company revealed YouTube has surpassed 1 billion monthly active podcast viewers.
This milestone highlights YouTube’s popularity in the podcast industry and emphasizes consumer preference for video-first formats. Last year, YouTube reported that over 400 million hours of podcast content were watched on living room TVs.
YouTube’s biggest rival in the podcast industry, Spotify, has taken notice and has been embracing video content to attract hosts and users. Recently, Spotify increased its investment in video-first podcasting, starting to pay popular video hosts in November 2024. This move may help Spotify catch up to YouTube, which already shares billions in ad revenue with creators.
Additionally, YouTube announced that it’s implementing changes to mid-roll ads aimed at enhancing the viewing experience while also enabling creators to possibly earn more revenue. Beginning May 12, YouTube will place mid-roll ads at appropriate break points in videos, such as pauses and transitions, rather than disrupting videos with an ad in the middle of a conversation or action sequence.
Microsoft says that it has completed a multi-year project to allow Europe-based customers using its cloud services to store and process data in the EU.
The project, the EU Data Boundary for the Microsoft Cloud, began in January 2023, went on for two more years, and finally wrapped up this February, Microsoft said. With its completion, European customers can store and process data for Microsoft core cloud services, including Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and most Azure services, within the EU and European Free Trade Association regions (EFTA).
A growing number of tech giants and cloud providers offer European data residency programs along the lines of the EU Data Boundary. These help customers comply with European local privacy and data protection laws like the GDPR, Germany’s Federal Data Protection Act, and the U.K.’s data protection legislation. Data residency refers to the physical location of an organization’s data, as well as the local laws and policy requirements imposed on that data.
According to Microsoft, for cloud services supported by the EU Data Boundary, customer data and “pseudonymized” personal data are stored and processed in datacenters located in countries within the EU or EFTA. “Professional services data,” which includes data that’s provided to Microsoft, like certain log data, is stored at rest.
Google is updating its "Results about you" tool to make it easier for users to protect and remove their personal information from Search results.
Google announced on Wednesday that it’s updating its “Results about you” tool to make it easier for users to protect and remove their personal information from Search results. The company says it’s improved the sign-up process and simplified requesting removals directly from Google Search.
The tool can be used to proactively monitor and delete things like your phone number, email address, or physical address from Search results.
With this latest update, users can now click the three dots next to a Google Search result to see an updated menu that lets you submit a removal request right away via the “remove this results” option.
In the past, you would have had to navigate to the “Results about you” tool, which was hidden away in your Google account settings.
was listing some old games for sale and came across this in a copy of Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic.. oh, how #gaming has changed. the good Ole days of being able to call a tip hotline are gone.. they truly don't make games like this anymore.
Back when you had to call for help instead of just Googling it in two seconds 🥹🥹. You've brought memories to me man.. I remember looking for CDs with my brother and asking so many questions
I have started playing Moonkarts recently. In my short exposure, I really liked my time, the races are very thrilling to play, attractive karts driver and other cards and good play2earn mechanism. Are you also playing?
”Bills and wide receiver Khalil Shakir reached agreement on a four-year contract extension worth up to $60.2 million, including $32 million guaranteed at signing with $18 million paid in the first 12 months. The deal ties Shakir to Buffalo through the 2029 season.
Deal was negotiated by @ EquitySports Co-Directors of Football Sam Mirza and Derek Hawkridge along with CEO Chris Cabott” - Adam Schecter
Honestly man, locking in Khalil Shakir through 2029 is a solid move for the Bills. $60.2M with $32 mil guaranteed just shows me they believe in his future. #NFL
Nice to see someone with this kind of mindset. I think that's possible and it would begin with us increasing engagement and activity here.
Everyone goes to where activity is. You could tell your friends and let them sign up too. Welcome
Feliz miércoles comunidad, que sea un gran día de trabajo muy agradable y exitoso para todos, además siempre estar dispuestos a ayudar a quienes lo merecen.
Hello everyone, greetings from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Today the sun was shining and the white roses in my mother-in-law's garden owe it. They came out to show all their splendor, they are beautiful, this one is very particular, because I am going to take it to put it to the portrait of my daughter Maria de Jesus, so that from heaven I can enjoy its beauty and its aroma, as I used to do every time I brought her flowers. God bless you all and have an excellent day.
The decision to block and stop every money leakage from your pocket is the greatest financial decision you can make.
If you are able to identify what and why you are getting broke too easily and take the courage to fix it, you have succeeded in positioning yourself for financial growth.
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How I increased my reach on InLeo without spending a dime.
Yeah, it's true you can get high reach on Inleo. You just need to be consistent, post valuable content & last engage with other's so that they will do the same for you.
But inflation is not going to happen enough in a short time period that it would take for me to turn around and dump the tokens at market value, if that was what I was looking to do was catch an arbitrage sale. Anytime I have done OTC trades for HE tokens, it was because I was trading for another token aside from Hive with the project founder and it was usually to stake the tokens.
Because there are more people or bigger money selling than buying. Thats how markets work. It’s all about supply and demand. But then again, it’s most likely Wall Street shorting ETF options and then turning around and buying spot at the lower cost. Thats how markets are manipulated. Welcome to the game.
crypto just exchange ownership. The weak holders said they need the dollar and traded their crypto for it. What they do with the money is not anyone's business.
Good morning great lions in the jungle, how is the day going? It's a wonderful day to rock on our activities on the Blockchain...
Let's go dig it!!!
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I also slept so late too, it's was around 4 am I went to sleep this morning. But when it's time for my daily workout, I struggle with my self to wake up and finally I'm done with it...
Just trying to make some thread's and maybe write my Actifit report for yesterday before, then if time permits me I may sleep for few hours.
X is useless for me really. I deleted my main account and only have the Hivelist and BlockTunes accounts left, which I rarely use. I never paid to play either which takes me out of the growth game entirely, so fuck it. It’s a rigged system anyway, same with YouTube. So I have gotten it down to only Hive at this point with the small exception of my FPV group on Instagram. They are too lazy to come to the blockchain for some reason…
I think you shouldn't speak for them, let them speak for themselves. Maybe you don't like it when someone shows you gratitude, let the old-timer himself tell him he doesn't like it.
Gratitude is something everyone should learn to do.
Come to think of it, a blog is even far more louder than a simple thread without even @ ing him. I assume you tagged those people you wanted to show gratitude to. Did anyone complain?
In my opinion, I will say pi is not yet tradable since the majority of the users have their coins locked up and many people are yet to successfully complete their KYC.
Honestly man I'm surprised it's Midweek already? Feels like Monday was just five minutes ago. But yeah, gotta keep pushing. Progress is progress, even if it's slow. I'll survive till Friday 😁
Here is the daily technology #threadcast for 2/26/25. The goal is to make this a technology "reddit".
Drop all question, comments, and articles relating to #technology and the future. The goal is make it a technology center.
Starlink May Win $2B Air Traffic Communications Contract
A satellite company owned by Elon Musk has the inside track to potentially take over a large federal contract to modernize the nation’s air traffic communications system.
Equipment from Musk’s Starlink has been installed in Federal Aviation Administration facilities as a prelude to a takeover of a $2 billion contract held by Verizon, according to government employees, contractors and people familiar with the work.
Musk said that the network used by air traffic controllers is aging and requires drastic and quick action to modernize it.
“The Verizon system is not working and so is putting air travelers at serious risk,” Musk on Monday posted on X, the social media site he has owned since 2022.
#elonmusk #starlink #airtraffic #telecommunications
The emergence of Starlink as a potential replacement for the Verizon-led effort underscores the extraordinary conflicts of interest inherent in Musk’s position as both a senior White House adviser to President Donald Trump and a business mogul in charge of a sprawling array of companies. It is not clear what role Musk might be playing in helping Starlink parent company SpaceX win such business.
“There’s very limited transparency,” said Jessica Tillipman, a contracting law expert at George Washington University. Referring to Musk, she said: “Without that transparency, we have no idea how much non-public information he has access to or what role he’s playing in what contracts are being awarded.”
Former FAA officials also told The Associated Press that they were alarmed at the prospect of Starlink being used as a critical part of the nation’s aviation system without adequate testing, review and debate about its benefits and drawbacks.
definitely another win for Musk. Dude is slowly taking over everything man, like for real, from space to internet, cars, now air traffic 👀 Next thing you know, we’ll be flying Teslas instead of planes
Nvidia Results Offer Window Into AI Spending
Quarterly earnings from AI darling Nvidia is Wednesday's marquee event for markets, with much riding on the chipmaker to deliver results that could placate investors who are questioning hefty spending in artificial intelligence.
Investors have begun second-guessing U.S. tech giants since Chinese startup DeepSeek rattled the industry with AI technology ostensibly cheaper yet as capable as that of early leaders.
#ai #spending #nvidia #compute
Market estimates have Nvidia's fourth-quarter sales at $38.5 billion and first-quarter guidance around $42.5 billion.
As usual, options point to a share price move of around 8% in either direction should the results surprise.
"This earnings report isn't just about Nvidia... It's about whether the AI revolution can maintain its breakneck pace," said Saxo's global head of investment strategy, Jacob Falkencrone.
Alleviating concern of DeepSeek triggering a slide in AI chip demand, sources have told Reuters of Chinese companies increasing orders for Nvidia's H20 chip due to booming demand for low-cost AI models.
Well if they do it, AI hype keeps rolling. If they flop, tech stocks might wobble a bit. Also, DeepSeek will still be coming in with the we do it cheaper thing and that's still going to be a competition I guess
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DeepSeek's model is open source, like Alibaba's, meaning it can be downloaded and modified by others.
Open source differs from proprietary models such as those created by OpenAI and do not produce revenue for companies. Open sourcing a technology serves a number of purposes, including driving innovation and building a community around a product.
A debate is currently swirling about whether AI models will become commoditized.
Modi wants Tesla to build cars in India. Making the plan work may not be easy
Tesla is reportedly recruiting and scouting showroom locations in the country, following a meeting between Prime Minister Modi and Elon Musk earlier this month.
India has been striving to become a global manufacturing hub, having successfully invited major companies such as Apple to set up as well as expand production in the country.
To further bolster its manufacturing prowess, the South Asian nation has been eyeing Tesla to set up its base in the country. And the carmaker that has appeared reluctant for long is now signaling interest in the market as the Indian government attempts to welcome it by implementing a new EV tariff policy.
This relaxation only applies to premium EVs priced at over $35,000 and requires investments totaling nearly $500 million and long-term plans to set up local manufacturing.
The EV policy represents a targeted move to appeal to Tesla's business interests, signaling India's readiness to support EV manufacturing, Ammar Master, a South Asia director of Automotive at GlobalData, told CNBC.
"The Indian government has been proactive in its attempts to lure Tesla into establishing its manufacturing base in India," he said.
The automaker, however, faces several headwinds to breaking into the world's third-largest auto market.
Meanwhile, Tesla has yet to signal significant interest in setting up a manufacturing base in the country, with its recent job openings consisting of mostly consumer-facing positions.
Additionally, geopolitical barriers may influence Telsa's decision to produce cars in India under the new Donald Trump administration. In an interview alongside Tesla CEO Elon Musk last week, President Trump said that Tesla manufacturing in India would be "very unfair."
The company has also been working on completing the production of manufacturing plants in Germany and Texas.
Some local media sources in India have reported that government may further tweak the EV policy to attract Tesla considers the market.
"Even if they commit to the current proposal, it will be after six months or so," added Gupta.
However, while the Indian EV market remains small, getting a foothold there could be a valuable endeavor for Tesla as it looks for new markets amid intense competition with Chinese EV makers such as BYD.
"With the current momentum, we project that Passenger BEV sales in India will reach 1 million units by 2030, accounting for 20% of total sales," said GlobalData's Ammar Master.
Last year, after the company delayed its annual report, it lost its auditor, Ernst & Young, citing governance issues. Super Micro had until Tuesday to become current and file audited financials with the SEC.
Super Micro said in a note from management as part of the filing that it had identified material weaknesses in internal controls over financial reporting, including IT issues, a lack of documentation over manual journal entries and insufficient controls to address segregation of staff duties. Super Micro said that it is hiring additional accounting and audit employees, as well as upgrading its IT systems.
Last month, Perplexity AI also made a bid to merge with TikTok U.S. as the social media platform faces a potential U.S. shutdown.
The company sees a potential investing advantage when it comes to startups because roughly 80,000 developers are plugged into its network, so Perplexity gets visibility into who is using its application programming interface, or API, and who is most active in their consumption, the person said.
Perplexity's founders and investors are putting money into the fund, and some of the company's commitment is in the form of stock, the source said.
DeepSeek itself is accelerating the launch of the successor to the R1 model that put the startup on the map last month, three people familiar with the company told Reuters.
R2 is likely to worry the U.S. government which regards AI leadership as a national priority.
That country's technology war with China is set to intensify with the administration of President Donald Trump planning tougher restrictions on semiconductor exports to China.
Trump has already signed a memorandum restricting Chinese investment in the U.S. in strategic areas.
It was strongly opposed by hospital groups who unsuccessfully challenged it in court. They argue it forces them to disclose private negotiations with insurers, undermining competition and violating their First Amendment free speech rights, a claim rejected by the court.
American Airlines did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the go-around at Washington National.
The past few weeks have seen four major aviation disasters in North America. They include the Feb. 6 crash of a commuter plane in Alaska that killed all 10 people on board and the Jan. 26 midair collision between an Army helicopter and an American Airlines flight at National Airport that killed all 67 aboard the two aircraft.
A medical transport jet with a child patient, her mother and four others aboard crashed Jan. 31 into a Philadelphia neighborhood. That crash killed seven people, including all those aboard, and injured 19 others.
Strategists said they expect solid corporate earnings growth to continue to support gains in equities, and they see a possible boost to the economy if Trump, who took office on January 20, goes ahead with his pro-growth agenda for tax cuts and deregulation.
But they say tariffs threaten to add inflationary pressures at a time when the Federal Reserve has paused its rate-cutting cycle.
"The economy is growing, inflation has been sticky but it's much lower than it was just six months or a year ago, and corporate profits are growing," said Anthony Saglimbene, chief market strategist at Ameriprise Financial in Troy, Michigan, which has a 6,500 "base case" year-end forecast for the S&P 500.
The cuts are being carried out under the direction of Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency.
Moreover, Trump has verbally supported Russia as he has pushed for a deal to end Russia's conflict with Ukraine, and has denounced the Ukrainian president as a dictator, creating alarm among some investors about relations between the U.S. and the rest of the world.
When asked whether a stock market correction of at least 10% is likely in the coming three months, 13 of 19 poll participants who answered the question said it was likely or highly likely, while six said it was unlikely.
"Those with a short-term horizon, they could be a little rattled by volatility. We just have so many unknowns as we start 2025," said Kristina Hooper, chief global market strategist at Invesco in New York. She expects the S&P 500 to end this year at 6,360.
Government ethics laws require that people who could profit from government work either recuse themselves from specific projects or first sell their financial holdings or sever ties with the company that could benefit. Waivers can be granted by the heads of government departments or other officials, but only in limited circumstances.
Ted Malaska, a senior director of application software at SpaceX, got a waiver along with two software engineers, Brady Glantz and Thomas Kiernan, according to the waiver list and LinkedIn profiles. The AP could not determine if the three are still working for SpaceX or the precise nature of work for the federal government.
Malaska posted on social media on Thursday that he had been meeting at FAA headquarters with officials responsible for implementation of the telecommunications modernization.
The Carneia was an ancient Doric festival held to worship Apollo Carneios, the most highly revered god of the Peloponnese. It began on the seventh day of the month of Carneios (July/August) and lasted nine days. Few details about the festival survive, but it is known that nine tents were pitched near the city, inhabited by nine men who lived like soldiers. A priest conducted sacrifices with the help of five unmarried men from each Spartan tribe chosen as his ministers. Some of them were labeled staphylodromoi ("grape-cluster runners"). During the festival, they chased a man wearing a garland, and, if they caught him, it meant good luck for the coming harvest.
The Spartans actually had nine festivals each year and no wars could be fought during any of them. The Carneia was the most important of the nine.
The move is part of broad efforts by President Donald Trump to crack down on illegal immigration through mass deportations and border security. Previously, illegal immigrants were committing a civil offense and could be detained and deported but weren't considered to have committed a crime, according to the Journal. Those who qualify but fail to register could be fined up to $5,000 and sentenced to up to six months in prison.
The administration's plans rely on provisions of immigration law that have proved impractical to enforce, according to the Journal. Pursuing cases against alleged offenders could tie up prosecutorial resources and swell the prison population, and illegal immigrants rarely have the means to pay such hefty fines, experts told the Journal.
President George W. Bush created a similar immigration registry after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, when his administration required men and boys from predominantly Muslim countries to submit photographs and fingerprints to the federal government, the Journal reported. Tens of thousands of people who registered under that program were arrested and deported.
But any savings have been outweighed so far by higher spending on health and retirement programs and rising interest payments, Treasury Department spending records show.
Overall, the government spent about $710 billion between Jan. 21 and Feb. 20, Treasury daily spending data shows, up from the roughly $630 billion during a comparable period last year. Independent budget experts said the figures illustrate the relentless pressures incurred by an aging population and a ballooning debt load.
Musk and Trump have said they aim to reduce the $6.7 trillion federal budget by $1 trillion, but Trump has also promised not to reduce benefits for seniors who get Social Security retirement payments and participate in the Medicare health plan. Those two programs accounted for more than one third of federal dollars spent in the last fiscal year. While they are projected to eat up more of the budget as the population ages, trimming them would anger millions of Americans.
"There is no way to meet their goals without hitting the third rail," said Lauren Bauer, a researcher at the Brookings Institution who tracks the Treasury Department's daily spending statements.
Musk has said he will scrutinize both programs for fraud, but his attempts to scrutinize sensitive payment and personnel records have raised security and privacy fears. On Wednesday, 21 career workers in DOGE resigned in protest, saying the agency had mishandled Americans' private data.
!summarize #fat #health #physique
Trump can do little to reduce debt service payments, which accounted for 13% of the budget last year, without risking a default that would rattle the global financial system.
The government paid about $94 billion in interest payments during Trump's first month, compared to around $80 billion in the comparable period last year, Treasury data shows.
A White House official, briefing reporters on condition of anonymity, said any potential tariff rate would be determined by the investigation, adding that Trump preferred tariffs over quotas.
White House trade adviser Peter Navarro said the investigation would be completed quickly, "in Trump time."
Navarro said China was using state subsidies and economic influence to gain control over global copper production, in much the same way it now dominates steel and aluminum production.
That said, the countries set to be most affected by any new U.S. copper tariffs would be Chile, Canada and Mexico, which were the top suppliers of refined copper and copper articles in 2024, according to U.S. Census Bureau data.
"The best thing for the region would be peace, and … we don't want to have appeasement, we certainly don't want that, and I'm not suggesting that's what the president is trying to do … [but] we need a solution that makes sense for Ukraine and it's probably going to have to also be a solution that makes sense for Russia," Crank said.
The IRS initially revealed that 70,000 returns from 2019 and 2020, including those of President Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Warren Buffett, were stolen. But in a letter to Jordan dated Feb. 14, acting IRS Commissioner Douglas O'Donnell said the IRS "mailed notifications to 405,427 taxpayers whose taxpayer information was inappropriately disclosed by Mr. Littlejohn. Approximately 89% of the taxpayers are business entities."
"This guy, that was his stated objective," Jordan told "The Record With Greta Van Susteren." "He went there as a contractor, his goal, his whole purpose was to release President Trump's tax return and others. And we find out now, it was much worse than we thought, 405,000. Many of them were business entities, but also a lot of individuals.
Now Helots were forced to till plots of land for their Spartan overseers. Half of the profit from the harvest went to the Helot and the other half was given to Sparta. Some 9,000 of these individual farms were put into operation. Over time, the Helot workload was expanded to include all manual labor required to run the Polis, releasing the Spartan men for full time military training.
Data from the working group showed that of the $182.8 billion appropriated as of Dec. 31, $83.4 billion was disbursed, and a total of $96.6 billion has either been obligated and not disbursed or appropriated but not yet obligated. Further, $2.7 billion has expired, meaning those funds are no longer available for obligation.
"I don't think the question is that all these billions disappeared in Ukraine due to corruption," Budanov told "American Agenda" through an interpreter from Kyiv in an interview with Newsmax correspondent Zach Anders. "The issue is deeper here. We need to figure out where this money went and where it settled. And it may turn out that it's not just about Ukraine."
"When they talk about corruption, well, listen, it exists everywhere. Every country fights against it. If every country fights against it, that, at the very least, means that it exists in every country."
Budanov added that a year ago, Ukraine was visited by Biden administration officials regarding an "inspection" about how the funds were being spent and that they came up "with acceptable conclusions."
"Let me repeat myself: It's more of a profound matter," he said. "We have to see where the money was channeled at what price. For example, they were procuring ammunition. Who was the real beneficiary? Through which countries was it going? I mean, it's clear everybody was covering themselves with Ukraine. That's going to be unanimous. But was it really Ukraine? That's an open question."
Meanwhile, Budanov was asked about President Donald Trump referring to Zelenskyy as a dictator because Ukraine's president canceled elections.
"It's a political matter, and how the president of America makes his conclusions, it's only known to him," he said. "I personally don't feel well when a president is called a dictator because that means then we all serve a dictatorship, and I don't see myself as an accessory in a dictator's regime."
The Athenian political system, before the reforms, had many elements of a democratic system, but was heavily influenced by the aristocratic class. The principle legislative body was the Assembly (Ecclesia) which consisted of all citizens who came to the assembly meetings. Because of the unwieldy character of so large a group, a council of 500 was created to debate and consider new legislation before it was brought before the assembly.
Governmental administration was handled by ten senior magistrates, called Archons, who were elected by the people. When an Archon’s term of office ended he could become a member of the Areopagas, an aristocratic council of elders who acted as a court of appeal. Lastly, there was a elected board of ten generals who were in charge of commanding the army and navy during time of war. Aristocratic influence was seen in the Council of 500 which was heavily tilted toward the upper class. Archons, themselves, were wealthy aristocrats, and the Areopagas was made up of former Archons.
FBI Probes Alleged Comey Honeypot Plot Against Trump
The FBI is starting an investigation into the agency's plan to infiltrate President Donald Trump's first campaign using two female undercover agents as a honeypot.
According to The Washington Times' initial reporting, the investigation was launched in 2015 by FBI Director James Comey and kept off the books. An FBI whistleblower broke the news of the inquiry to the House Judiciary Committee last year.
The plan was said to involve two undercover female agents who had infiltrated the Trump campaign at high-levels.
FBI Director Kash Patel and deputy Director Dan Bongino are now looking for those once-undercover agents.
Initially, the whistleblower noted that the honeypot was a separate operation from Crossfire Hurricane, and sought to uncover no specific crime but was merely a fishing expedition.
According to a City Journal source, the sex chats were legitimized as part of the NSA's commitment to "diversity, equity, and inclusion" (DEI), and the agents "used LGBTQ+ employee resource groups to turn their kinks and pathologies into official work duties," with the full support of their superiors at the NSA under then-President Joe Biden.
The source said these groups "spent all day" recruiting activists and holding meetings with titles such as "Privilege," "Ally Awareness," "Pride," and "Transgender Community Inclusion."
In addition, NSA leadership reportedly declared that DEI was "not only mission critical, but mission imperative."
Gabbard promised to clean house and confirmed the existence of the chats, which have been destroyed.
Trump: Apple 'Should Get Rid of DEI'
U.S. President Donald Trump Wednesday urged Apple to scrap its diversity, equity and inclusion policies, a day after the iPhone maker's shareholders voted to keep them in the face of growing pushback from conservative groups.
Major U.S. companies, including Meta and Alphabet , have dropped DEI initiatives ahead of and after Trump's return to the U.S. presidency.
Trump has criticized corporate DEI programs as discriminatory and suggested the U.S. Department of Justice could investigate if such efforts violate the law.
"So when the conclave does convene to elect a new Pope, the cardinals are going to be considering, What direction do we want the next Pope to take? A continuation of a more liberalizing path, which is, in fact, very fraught with danger for the Catholic faith because, you know, we believe that what is handed on must be defended," Murray added, "or will we return to … what Pope John Paul II and Benedict gave to the church, which was a vigorous defense of the traditional faith, answering modern concerns but not casting aside the hard teachings of Christianity but rather defending them?"
!summarize #ai #generativeai #cloud #edge #smartphone #devices #technology
Panay says that the improved Alexa can understand tone and the environment around it, and adjust its responses on the fly. “She’s been trained in a couple of different ways, from EQ to humor to understanding,” he added. “She understands I’m a little bit nervous, she’s trying to calm me.”
Aside from tasks like creating quizzes from study guides and crafting basic travel itineraries, Alexa+ can respond to queries such as “What’s the best pizza nearby?” Answers are informed by what’s in Alexa’s “memory” and preferences that Alexa has noted over time.
!summarize #tesla #paint #model #cybercab
So why the disparity between Athens and Rome?
There are both environmental and cultural reasons for this. Rome and the Italian peninsula had similar experiences to Europe in the middle ages with respect to development of their political systems. This similarity is based on two factors: personal leadership and a collective unity and equality of tribesmen. In other words, their political systems grew out of leadership based on personal charisma which encompassed regal, military, and political elements. The society was flat with a leader and his associates on top and everyone as equals below.
The early Greek experience was different because it was influenced by unique factors: tribal kings were weak financially, the Aegean was isolated geographically, and Greek life was simpler than Roman life.
Microsoft notes that, for specific Azure services, customers may have to obtain a professional services data storage commitment. This page outlines the requirements.
EU regulators have spent years flagging concerns about how Microsoft processes the data of users of its cloud services, including in relation to the legal basis Microsoft claims for processing data and a lack of clarity in the wording of its cloud services contracts. To be fair, Microsoft isn’t the only target. In May 2023, Meta was fined $1.3 billion by Ireland’s data privacy watchdog over data transfers to the U.S.
Alibaba makes AI video generation model free to use globally
Open-source AI tech has been thrown into the spotlight since Chinese firm DeepSeek rattled global markets in January.
Alibaba on Wednesday said that it has made its video generation artificial intelligence models free to use, further ramping up competition with rivals like OpenAI.
The Chinese giant said it is open sourcing four models that are part of its Wan2.1 series, the latest version of the company's foundational AI model that can generate images and video from text and image inputs.
#ALIBABA #ai #video #generator
This would be impressive. $40 is so high already to affor Premium + on X for Grok usage.
I am not sure if Grok offers video generation. I never looked at it that closely.
Haha I'm pretty sure OpenAI is just side eyeing them hard right now. More free tools mean more crazy AI videos popping up everywhere, and that's when the AI video revolution can kick in harder than what's going on right now
!summarize #tesla #germany
!summarize #claude #ai #gaming
When games become easier to make the good part hopefully is gamers will pay less to play the really high graphics games like GTA and I'm wondering if LeoAI can one day be used to build stuff like games
Super Micro files financials just ahead of Nasdaq deadline and says it's 'regained compliance,' stock pops 22%
Super Micro Computer filed its annual report for the year that ended June 30, meeting a deadline to stay listed on Nasdaq.
Super Micro Computer reported its delayed financial results on Tuesday just in time to meet the Nasdaq's listing deadline. Shares of the server maker popped 22% in extended trading after the filing.
"In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company at June 30, 2024," BDO, the company's auditor, wrote in the filing, adding that the results are "in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted" in the U.S.
#nasdaq #supermicro #stock #filing
Super Micro filed updated and audited financials with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for its fiscal 2024, ending in June, and the first two quarters of the company's fiscal 2025. The filing reduces any near-term possibility that the server maker could be delisted from the Nasdaq, an overhang that had weighed on Super Micro's stock price.
"The Company has received correspondence from the Nasdaq staff that the Company has regained compliance with the filing requirements, and the matter is now closed," Super Micro said in a press release.
They were cutting it close with that deadline, but at least they pulled it off
A 22% stock pop is no joke man. Funny how a single filing can make or break a company’s momentum just like that
Perplexity AI launching $50 million venture fund to back early-stage startups
Perplexity AI is getting ready to launch a $50 million fund focused on pre-seed and seed artificial intelligence startups in the U.S., CNBC has learned.
Perplexity AI, the developer of a popular artificial intelligence search engine, is close to raising a $50 million venture fund focused on early-stage AI startups, CNBC has learned.
The company will be an anchor investor in the fund, but most of the capital is coming from outside limited partners, according to a person familiar with the matter who asked not to be named because the information is confidential.
#perplexity #ai #startups #funding
Do we really need more AI options or best ways to maximize the available?
Why do you think more options is not a positive?
The two general partners of the fund are also coming from elsewhere. They are Kelly Graziadei and Joanna Lee Shevelenko, who have been running early-stage fund f7 Ventures, the person said. According to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange from October, Perplexity F7 Fund I had filed to raise $50 million. Graziadei and Shevelenko are named as the two general partners.
Perplexity AI has been in the middle of the generative AI boom that began in late 2022 with the launch of OpenAI's ChatGPT. CNBC reported in November that the company was in the final stages of raising $500 million in funding at a $9 billion valuation. Perplexity AI is viewed as a potential competitor to Google as more consumers turn to AI to search for information online.
$50 million for AI startups, that's a huge chunk man. I'm just imagining pitching an idea like maybe an AI that writes dad jokes for creators and walking out with a fat check. Yeah probably going to need to bring in more value
Amazon unveils a new and improved Alexa, Alexa+
At an event in NYC, Amazon announced an upgraded Alexa experienced powered by generative AI tech.
At an event in NYC on Wednesday, Amazon announced an upgraded Alexa experience — Alexa+ — powered by generative AI technologies. Onstage, Amazon’s devices and services chief Panos Panay called it a “complete re-architecture” of the AI assistant.
“[W]hile the vision of Alexa has been ambitious and remains incredibly compelling, until right this moment — right this moment — we have been limited by the technology,” Panay said. “An AI chatbot on its own doesn’t get us to our vision of Alexa.”
#amazon #alexa #alexa+ #agent
Amazon says that the new Alexa can answer questions like “How many books have I read this year?,” drawing on info from an Amazon customer’s account. It can notify users when, for example, new tickets for a concert drop, and help with certain tasks like booking a dinner reservation.
“The new Alexa knows almost [everything] in your life — your schedule, your smart home, your preferences, the devices you’re using, the people you’re connected [to and] the entertainment you [enjoy],” Panay said.
Like other assistants on the market, the upgraded Alexa has visual understanding. Through a device’s camera, it can ingest a video feed and respond to questions, taking whatever’s happening in the footage into account.
Alexa+ can read, summarize and recall lengthy documents
At Amazon's annual Devices & Services event on Wednesday, the company introduced Alexa+, an enhanced version of its voice assistant, now powered by Amazon showcased how users can share documents with Alexa+, allowing it to recall important details and answer questions about those documents.
During the demonstration, Amazon showcased how users can share documents with Alexa+, allowing it to recall important details and answer questions about those documents.
Mara Segal, director of Alexa, provided several examples of how this feature works. In one instance, she asked Alexa+, “From grandma’s zucchini bread recipe, how much oil did it need?” Alexa+ was able to extract the answer from the recipe that had been previously uploaded.
#amazon #alexa+ #llm #model #ai
In a more complex scenario, a user can upload a document from their Homeowners Association (HOA) and ask questions about the guidelines, which many people tend to overlook.
Additionally, users can forward multiple emails from a child’s school to Alexa+, extracting and summarizing the essential information. It can also help manage their calendars to ensure they don’t miss important school events.
Amazon demonstrated several Alexa+ features at the event, including the ability to jump to different movie scenes on Prime Video and control smart home devices, allowing users to move music between speakers in different rooms.
Alexa+ can do your grocery shopping, too
Amazon is not giving up on making its Alexa a virtual shopping assistant, On Wednesday, the company announced that Alexa+, its revamped Alexa experience, will be able to help consumers grocery shop from home using more natural conversations and requests.
The feature will work with Amazon Fresh or any other grocery partner working with Amazon, the retailer noted. Food delivery from partners like Uber Eats is also available.
Instead of simply listing out ingredients you need by voice, Amazon showed how you could also chat with Alexa as she helps you build your shopping list.
#amazon #grocery #shopping
For example, the company demoed asking Alexa to get “everything we need for banana bread,” except the spices, and said they also wanted to cook that “Bob’s Red Mill pancake mix.” Oh, and they needed syrup and a few more eggs, too.
Alexa understood these natural language requests and turned them into grocery list items.
Plus, Alexa was able to adjust quantities on the fly when asked to “make it two and a half gallons instead of a gallon” of milk, for instance.
The assistant was also able to make recommendations of what to cook for a five-year-old dinner guest by suggesting some pasta options that kids tended to like.
YouTube surpasses 1B monthly podcast viewers
YouTube continues to assert its dominance in the podcasting space, presenting significant competition to both Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
YouTube continues to assert its dominance in the podcasting space, presenting significant competition to both Spotify and Apple Podcasts. In an announcement on Wednesday, the company revealed YouTube has surpassed 1 billion monthly active podcast viewers.
This milestone highlights YouTube’s popularity in the podcast industry and emphasizes consumer preference for video-first formats. Last year, YouTube reported that over 400 million hours of podcast content were watched on living room TVs.
#youtube #Podcasts #television #media
YouTube’s biggest rival in the podcast industry, Spotify, has taken notice and has been embracing video content to attract hosts and users. Recently, Spotify increased its investment in video-first podcasting, starting to pay popular video hosts in November 2024. This move may help Spotify catch up to YouTube, which already shares billions in ad revenue with creators.
Additionally, YouTube announced that it’s implementing changes to mid-roll ads aimed at enhancing the viewing experience while also enabling creators to possibly earn more revenue. Beginning May 12, YouTube will place mid-roll ads at appropriate break points in videos, such as pauses and transitions, rather than disrupting videos with an ad in the middle of a conversation or action sequence.
Microsoft finalizes its EU sovereign cloud project
Microsoft says that it has completed a multi-year project to allow Europe-based customers using its cloud services to store and process data in the EU.
The project, the EU Data Boundary for the Microsoft Cloud, began in January 2023, went on for two more years, and finally wrapped up this February, Microsoft said. With its completion, European customers can store and process data for Microsoft core cloud services, including Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and most Azure services, within the EU and European Free Trade Association regions (EFTA).
#microsoft #eu #cloud #data
A growing number of tech giants and cloud providers offer European data residency programs along the lines of the EU Data Boundary. These help customers comply with European local privacy and data protection laws like the GDPR, Germany’s Federal Data Protection Act, and the U.K.’s data protection legislation. Data residency refers to the physical location of an organization’s data, as well as the local laws and policy requirements imposed on that data.
According to Microsoft, for cloud services supported by the EU Data Boundary, customer data and “pseudonymized” personal data are stored and processed in datacenters located in countries within the EU or EFTA. “Professional services data,” which includes data that’s provided to Microsoft, like certain log data, is stored at rest.
Google makes it easier to delete personal info from Search results
Google is updating its "Results about you" tool to make it easier for users to protect and remove their personal information from Search results.
Google announced on Wednesday that it’s updating its “Results about you” tool to make it easier for users to protect and remove their personal information from Search results. The company says it’s improved the sign-up process and simplified requesting removals directly from Google Search.
The tool can be used to proactively monitor and delete things like your phone number, email address, or physical address from Search results.
#google #search #information #personal #search
With this latest update, users can now click the three dots next to a Google Search result to see an updated menu that lets you submit a removal request right away via the “remove this results” option.
In the past, you would have had to navigate to the “Results about you” tool, which was hidden away in your Google account settings.
There can never be another actor like Jackie Chan. Do you still watch his movies?
#gmfrens! Here is the Motivation, Inspiration Success #threadcast for 2/26/2025.
#1440minutes #motivationsonleo #inspirationonleo #successonleo #motivation #inspiration #success
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was listing some old games for sale and came across this in a copy of Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic.. oh, how #gaming has changed. the good Ole days of being able to call a tip hotline are gone.. they truly don't make games like this anymore.
Damn that brings me back 😅
Are we old or was gaming just better in the past?
both. games were way better.
Back when you had to call for help instead of just Googling it in two seconds 🥹🥹. You've brought memories to me man.. I remember looking for CDs with my brother and asking so many questions
oh how gaming has changed
so so much 🥹😢😥
Finally saw the 5000 Leo delegation I won on LPUD. And somehow, someone else delegated 300 HP to my account.
I guess it's time for me to start smashing the upvotes button like a whale. LoL
Use that delegation and spread votes all over threads 👏🥰
Yup, today gonna be a good day for me here.
Just did, hope it shows.
Thanks!
!BBH
Congratulations, enjoy your power
Thank you
Congratulations! Enjoy and make it count
I have started playing Moonkarts recently. In my short exposure, I really liked my time, the races are very thrilling to play, attractive karts driver and other cards and good play2earn mechanism. Are you also playing?
#moonkarts #arcadecolony #bbh #inleo #cent
#pi
$2.15 seems to be next resistance
Haha I gotta pay more attention to other cryptos to make some cash with them... I'm surprised that pi keeps going up with all in red
If their usecase stays solid. It should keep stable and increasing.
That's cool.. how is your day going papa?
My day is going excellent Son. What about yours? !BBH
Mine is going Y-cellent 🤣🤣🤣.. lol
LMFAO
Hahaha 😂😂😂
How is Mom doing this morning?
Good I assume, I am at work, she has a day off. Getting her hair cut this morning :)
”Bills and wide receiver Khalil Shakir reached agreement on a four-year contract extension worth up to $60.2 million, including $32 million guaranteed at signing with $18 million paid in the first 12 months. The deal ties Shakir to Buffalo through the 2029 season.
Deal was negotiated by @ EquitySports Co-Directors of Football Sam Mirza and Derek Hawkridge along with CEO Chris Cabott” - Adam Schecter
#nfl
A great move keeping their own guy long-term @jongolson
Honestly man, locking in Khalil Shakir through 2029 is a solid move for the Bills. $60.2M with $32 mil guaranteed just shows me they believe in his future. #NFL
Just because I was feeling cute 😊
Bro how come you never have a bad picture... Every single one so cool bro 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥😎😎😎
Onboarding Tech Stack is Open Source WTG!
#inleo #opensouec #onboarding #newlions
That is amazing! that proposal is worth way more than the amount asked
Khal and team striving to make Hive a best Web 3 Platform and it is just the beginning. Indeed, it's bigger than expected.
How can we increase the active members from 5k to over 500k+ Members?
I want to make this platform big, but don't know how too.
Do you have any idea? #newlion #inleo
Nice to see someone with this kind of mindset. I think that's possible and it would begin with us increasing engagement and activity here.
Everyone goes to where activity is. You could tell your friends and let them sign up too. Welcome
Feliz miércoles comunidad, que sea un gran día de trabajo muy agradable y exitoso para todos, además siempre estar dispuestos a ayudar a quienes lo merecen.
#spanish
Feliz miércoles! Ya a mitad de semana :D
Y ya se acaba Febrero en dos días! A ver como nos trata marzo
Quedan solamente dos dias para dar por terminado esto.
Te deseo un maravilloso día por delante. Cuídate
Keep moving forward without giving up. 💪
Persistence leads to triumph. 🚀
Stay determined—success is on the horizon. #KeepGoing #Motivation
Just sold the customer a project to replace Excel things with 🐍 & 🐼
#business #programming #emojis You can sell emojis now #lmao
People literally sells painted rocks, so basically anything can be sold xD
But I'm curios about the purpose of this hahah
They have a lot of excel stuff - might some cost savings possible with replacing licenses with python script and stuff.
Know when the trend is changing. A bull run doesn't last forever, you have less than one year in my opinion.
#crypto
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Oh wow I'm on the leaderboard then this time I'll put in....
looking forward to it!
I'm so happy to see more persons using the tool, thanks to all who are advertising it on threads and beyond. E.g @anderssinho
Look at me gooooo
Well done all! 🦁🦁👏
13 unique, we can do better! 👏🦁
Let us feed LeoAi
@mightpossibly Thank you for making
summarize tool free 👏🦁
#threadcast #leoai #cent
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Thank you for updating. Will feed more of the summaries.
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#kundalini #yoga
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Hello everyone, greetings from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Today the sun was shining and the white roses in my mother-in-law's garden owe it. They came out to show all their splendor, they are beautiful, this one is very particular, because I am going to take it to put it to the portrait of my daughter Maria de Jesus, so that from heaven I can enjoy its beauty and its aroma, as I used to do every time I brought her flowers. God bless you all and have an excellent day.
#thdearscat #inleo #bbh #dash
The harsh reality is most people lose everything in their first cycle.
#crypto #inleo
I didn't. I bought Hive and it's served me well over the years!
Wow then I guess you are part of the few who won at the first try.
The decision to block and stop every money leakage from your pocket is the greatest financial decision you can make.
If you are able to identify what and why you are getting broke too easily and take the courage to fix it, you have succeeded in positioning yourself for financial growth.
One post on InLeo changed my entire perspective on Web3 social media.
I have not even imagined of getting paid for just posting daily content.
and it's not it. there's more... You can still earn if you are #newlion
congrats!
Summarizer status update
The summarizer has not been able to detect new summary requests for the past hour due to a database error. The issue has been resolved, and the service is back up and running.
All summary requests that was posted during the downtime will get added to the queue later today.
The server is experiencing continued issues. Doing my best to get an overview of the situation
Update 3: After some major hickups, the service should now be running smoothly again.
A 401k account stands as the single largest asset:
2016 = $119.5k
2017 = $182.1k
2018 = $210.1k
2019 = $312.0k
2020 = $422.1k
2021 = $568.9k
2022 = $498.5k
2023 = $661.1k
2024 = $861.3k
Five essential strategies can
drive this growth to nearly $1m. #Investing #WealthBuilding
#newfoundland
Right now it looks worse than it is, only light rain at the moment
Storm coming?
Trying to... Just light rain at the moment.
Stay safe.
The house always comes out on top.
"It's reassuring that all client assets at Bybit are fully backed 1 to 1, ensuring solvency despite the hack loss."
Word of the Day on Leo - ignoramus
What It Means
An ignoramus is an utterly ignorant or stupid person.
//I can't believe they let an ignoramus like that run the company.
🔗 Source in comments
🔗 Source:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ignoramus
oh I thought this word was only for ignorant, didn't know stupid was part... Well gotta be careful when I'm using it now 🤣🤣🤣
Let the word of Jimmy for the day be blessed 🔥🙏
Even the fog can't hide the beauty of this sunset.
Driving to work in my old, trusty VW, feeling grateful for the simple things in life. 🥰
#photographers #cent
How are your new year resolutions holding up ?
Great question.
Barely, but still going
I'm not alone then :)
I don't make them.
Sounds like the way to go!
How I increased my reach on InLeo without spending a dime.
Yeah, it's true you can get high reach on Inleo. You just need to be consistent, post valuable content & last engage with other's so that they will do the same for you.
#newlion
You don't need to pay to increase their reach, the more you engage and people upvotes you, your level begin to rise.
You got that right chief, that's exactly how I do it.
Would you buy L2 $HIVE tokens off market? Like buy 50 $HIVE worth in the specific token, if you get over 2% lower than the market? #crypto #bbh
2% is a huge profits margin. If I have the funds I will do it repeatedly and make profits on arbitrage.
Is it? #default inflation is 2%! To be precise, I meant, would you buy L2 token from someone - without using the market?
But inflation is not going to happen enough in a short time period that it would take for me to turn around and dump the tokens at market value, if that was what I was looking to do was catch an arbitrage sale. Anytime I have done OTC trades for HE tokens, it was because I was trading for another token aside from Hive with the project founder and it was usually to stake the tokens.
Trust is an issue there.
Not sure what you mean. One should not do at with any character on the #blockchain.
3 mistakes I made when I first joined InLeo (i'll improve them now!)
#newlion #learninleo
Glad you know better now.
What is happening? I am confused!
Can anyone explain this? Why BTC is going down?
#newlion #btc
No need to panic, it will bounce back very soon.
Because Blackrock wants it to.
Because there are more people or bigger money selling than buying. Thats how markets work. It’s all about supply and demand. But then again, it’s most likely Wall Street shorting ETF options and then turning around and buying spot at the lower cost. Thats how markets are manipulated. Welcome to the game.
Don't be a perfectionist! You just need to be you.
there is no one like you, believe me bro.
#newlion #stilllearning
Dia 17 del Reto, vamos con todo💯
#hiverun #challenge #running
#newfoundland Winter storm. Looks like the storm is trying to move west a bit to cover where I live.
Litcoin is doing well today
#ltc
Litecoin has always been solid.
Swapping like crazy! 💸
Thats because Litecoin is the right coin!
1/🧵 Valentine mission has some time left. I played for a week. Got me 72X ROI 🍀
It's really cheap to get in right now!
#risingstar #threadstorm #outreach
2/🧵 There's 2 NFTs to get as rewards. 1 is cheaper than others. There's some luck involved.
Just 1 win can get you paid a big time. Now sales of NFTs aren't easy. But it happens!
3/🧵 I try to keep my head out of crypto markets. Focus more on building for long term. Crypto is full of opportunities. You just have to find them 🦁
https://inleo.io/@d-zero/crypto-fell-but-rising-star-got-me-72x-roi-this-week--49r
Where did the $325 billion disappear to? The Crypto Market Loses Liquidity in Hours
crypto just exchange ownership. The weak holders said they need the dollar and traded their crypto for it. What they do with the money is not anyone's business.
Good morning great lions in the jungle, how is the day going? It's a wonderful day to rock on our activities on the Blockchain...
Let's go dig it!!!
📯📯📯📯📯
#gmfrens
Good morning Caleb, I am just trying to find my rhymes for today's activities. Didn't sleep enough last night and I feeling it right now.
I also slept so late too, it's was around 4 am I went to sleep this morning. But when it's time for my daily workout, I struggle with my self to wake up and finally I'm done with it...
Just trying to make some thread's and maybe write my Actifit report for yesterday before, then if time permits me I may sleep for few hours.
But the day is already on a run.. lol
You didn't talk about making breakfast, abi you no dey eat?
HAhaha!!!
The last time they served me breakfast, brother man!! 👀👀👀
Don't let anyone serve you. I beg serve yourself, I know how it hurts to be served cool breakfast. Fear those gender.
Hahaha 🤣🤣🤣🤣
That's why I don't like breaking so fast. I prefer breaking it slowly 👀👀🤣.
Little bit sleep deprecated but else 💪
LolHAhaha.... Everyone is just talking about sleeping today 😴😴😴. @thelastdash made mention of it, now you too..
Why did you wake me up, I was already on gear two on my bed when I heard my name. LoL
Hahaha 🤣🤣, you can take your mobile device to the dream world and thread from there.. lol
My rewards on @dcitygame are approaching 400 Million SIM! 😱
If that would be at today's value... it would represent... almost 40k $HIVE! In a single game reward system...
Explore, ask, learn!
That's huge. How do I get involved in it?
https://dcity.io/
You must be like printing $SIM !LOLZ
I WAS... check the curve!
Pets are back to invade this thread! Share photos of your favorite animals or those who are your best companions. Remember to use the hashtag #pets
I remember Zeus, a terribly grumpy cat. Nothing to do with me haha.
#pets
Scorpion spider two in one 😅
Araña escorpión dos en uno 😅
#pets #animals #photo
A random click while driving.
#photographers
My message to X people not realizing what the hell they are doing...
If you want to dump your crap there... be my guest!
The system is rigged, !LOLZ
No... really?
I knew for years... but I wanted to learn the hard way. Plus I got someone paying me the first year, and then I forget to disable the second year...
It was supposed to be a zero loss thing... but X FU ed me!
Influencer life must be horrible anyways.
X is useless for me really. I deleted my main account and only have the Hivelist and BlockTunes accounts left, which I rarely use. I never paid to play either which takes me out of the growth game entirely, so fuck it. It’s a rigged system anyway, same with YouTube. So I have gotten it down to only Hive at this point with the small exception of my FPV group on Instagram. They are too lazy to come to the blockchain for some reason…
I'll recommend every #newlion to check this blog before starting his journey on inleo. It's a true road-map for new users.
#newlion #inleo
Either you like it or not pi is going to 10$🔥🔥
And they won't approve KYC for people to trade the coin.
I don't know him. but he helped me without knowing me. he is a nice person for me. Thanks dude.
#newlion #inleo
You don't need to know anyone, just keep posting quality and engaging. Those who likes your content will upvotes. No need calling anyone out.
He didn't even @ him in the first place. Just gratitude
I know, but most people on Hive doesn't like that.
I think you shouldn't speak for them, let them speak for themselves. Maybe you don't like it when someone shows you gratitude, let the old-timer himself tell him he doesn't like it.
Gratitude is something everyone should learn to do.
You don't have to take it personal, I show gratitude in a larger way, even wrote blog posts to appreciate people, but on a general approach.
Is there any difference with what the guy wrote and what you are saying?
I'm not taking this personal, I just feel you misrepresented him for what he was trying to do. You made a blog but he did it in a small way of thread.
Come to think of it, a blog is even far more louder than a simple thread without even @ ing him. I assume you tagged those people you wanted to show gratitude to. Did anyone complain?
Like you said, let's drop it and be cool with each other friend.
Sorry if I sound straight forward. I have suffered misrepresentation in my life and something rises in me when I see someone suffer it.
To make the world a better place
He wasn't calling him out he was showing gratitude there is a difference
Just speaking from experience. You don't have to draw people attention to someone unnecessary, and Hive people doesn't like that.
Well done for your experience and I respect that. But again he wasn't drawing attention unnecessarily, he was showing a necessarygratitude.
There is a difference. Hive people are human beings, some like some don't.
Let's drop it from here. Thanks for engagement.
Good decision, let's do. You're welcome
Pi Network has been in development for years, and now, we’re seeing price movements! But is it really tradable or still in the enclosed mainnet?
#pi
In my opinion, I will say pi is not yet tradable since the majority of the users have their coins locked up and many people are yet to successfully complete their KYC.
Valid point! Until mass KYC is done, true market value remains uncertain.
Wednesday is your midweek checkpoint—pause, realign, and push forward. Progress isn't about perfection; it's about persistence. Keep going.
Good morning Jimmy.
Good Morning 🤘🏽🦁
Honestly man I'm surprised it's Midweek already? Feels like Monday was just five minutes ago. But yeah, gotta keep pushing. Progress is progress, even if it's slow. I'll survive till Friday 😁
Race prognose based on last few months of training suggests my goal of 3:22:00 should be achievable #running #marathon #sports
You can do it! When is the race?
april 13th (Rotterdam)
Still some time left to train then 👏
You will do great!
Don't chase hype, stick to fundamentals.
You don't need to play catchup with 10X-20X trades
Put 70-80% in blue-chip coins instead of meme coins
#crypto
And thread every to earn additional crypto to stack
Yeah, did that alot from last week and still on it.
You just enter the #lions den, you get there! !PIZZA
Thanks man for the encouraging words. Means a lot to me
Rather do 200x 2% instead of the other way around !BBH
You mean you would put only 2% into meme coins?
Just talkiong about I rather to 200 trade cycles with 2% profit, than 2 with 200%.
Rather aim for steady than #rugpull like gains
!BBH
Aaaah I see it now. I completely agree to your strategy. It works best every time