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WorkWorkGrok's MechaHitler disaster is a preview of AI disasters to come But on X over the last year, Musk's supporters have repeatedly complained of a problem: Grok is still left-leaning. Ask it if transgender women are women, and it will affirm that they are; ask if climate change is real, and it will affirm that, too. Do immigrants to the US commit a lot of crime? No, says Grok. Should we have universal health care? Yes. Should abortion be legal? Yes. Is Donald Trump a good president? No. (I ran all of these tests on Grok 3 with memory and personalization settings turned off.) WorkWork
WorkThe Annual Agony of Yearning for a Homegrown Wimbledon Champion - The New Yorker (No paywall) On the first Tuesday of Wimbledon, with hot evening sunshine lighting up the deuce court, Jack Draper, the fourth seed in the gentlemen's singles, was playing disconcertingly well. He was on serve in his opening match and, as he said later, I was getting my tennis together a little bit. Draper, who is twenty-three, was the No. 1-ranked British player in this year's competition, which is not an uncomplicated place to be. Britain is a nation that ignores professional tennis for fifty weeks of the year and then focusses, raptly, on the beauty and skill on display at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, as if the event were an extremely successful garden party to which not everyone has been invited. The great British public, in floral dresses and questionable hats, will peer through the hedge if necessary. And this year it was Draper they wanted to see. WorkWorkWork
WorkThese 5 countries have fighter jets, but no pilots to fly them In a world where military hardware is a symbol of power, some countries own state-of-the-art fighter jets but lack one crucial element: trained pilots. Here's a look at the bizarre reality where warplanes are grounded not by war, but by human shortage. WorkWorkTrump administration has floated deporting third-party nationals to Africa. Here's what we know South Sudan has accepted eight third-country deportees from the U.S. and Rwanda says it's in talk with the administration of President Donald Trump on a similar deal. Nigeria meanwhile says it's rejecting pressure to do the same. These initiatives in Africa mark an expansion in U.S. efforts to deport people to countries other than their own. It has sent hundreds of Venezuelans and others to Costa Rica, El Salvador and Panama but has yet to announce any major deals in Africa, Asia or Europe. While proponents see such programs as a way of deterring what they describe as unmanageable levels of migration, human rights advocates have raised concerns over sending migrants to countries where they have no ties. Work
WorkWorkWorkWorkA spacecraft carrying human remains and cannabis crashes into the ocean We've sent some pretty interesting payloads to space since the first satellite (Sputnik 1) launched on October 4, 1957. As access to space has increased, thanks largely to the commercial space industry, so too have the types of payloads we are sending. Consider the Nyx capsule created by German aerospace startup The Exploration Company, which launched on June 23 from the Vandenberg Space Force Base atop a Falcon-9 rocket as part of a rideshare mission (Transporter-14).
WorkEarth's Poet of Scale - The New Yorker (No paywall) Since Edward Burtynsky's birth in Ontario, Canada, in 1955, the Earth's population has roughly tripled, and its economy has grown tenfold. This great acceleration, to use the title of the (exquisitely curated and hung) retrospective newly installed at the International Center of Photography, on the Lower East Side, is the most anomalous stretch in human history, and during the past four decades Burtynsky has been almost certainly its greatest visual chroniclera poet of scale, making use of ever-better lenses and innovations such as drones to gain an ever more encompassing perspective. Perhaps the only photographer to have backed up farther from this subject was Bill Anders, the Apollo 8 astronaut who gave us Earthrise, in 1968. But that image was taken from too far away to even hint at the stress that the Earth was undergoing as the human footprint expanded. Burtynsky had the perfect depth of field for the task, and his images have become steadily more complicated over time. WorkWorkWork
WorkWorkWork5 Big EV Takeaways From Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill - WIRED (No paywall) If you're an electric vehicle enthusiast, President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) is anything but. The legislation, signed by the president last weekend, cuts all sorts of US government support for emission-light vehicles. The whole thing creates a measure of uncertainty for an American auto industry that's already struggling to stay afloat during a sea change. WorkTo understand America today, study the zero-sum mindset, writes Stefanie Stantcheva - The Economist (No paywall) LOOK at the news or social media these days, and you might see a pattern. Stories are about groups in conflict, competing for limited resources, with the gains for some framed as losses for others. If China benefits from trade with America, America must lose. If foreign students enroll at American universities, that must mean fewer spots for Americans. If immigrants find work, they must be taking jobs from citizens. If a diversity initiative helps women or a racial minority, someone else must be left out. More and more, debates are shaped by a mindset that sees the world as a fixed piewhere one persons or one groups gain is anothers loss. That mindset is known as zero-sum thinking. And it is crucial to understanding the politics and economics of America today.
WorkHow to Know When to Pursue Your Side Gig Full-Time - Harvard Business Review (No paywall) The number of full time independent workers in the United States grew from 13.6 million in 2020 to 27.7 million in 2024, according to research by MBO partners. Eighty four percent are happier working on their own, reporting better health and security. Once seen as a risky professional path, forging your own path is something even senior corporate leaders are now pursuing to gain control over their time, their income, and who they want to work with. WorkWorkWork
WorkWorkWorkWork WorkWorkProcessing our technological angst through humor In a new book, MIT literature professor Benjamin Mangrum explores how we deal with our doubts and fears about computing through humor, whether reconciling ourselves to machines or critiquing them. WorkWork 
WorkWorkWorkKash Patel denies rumors he's quitting the FBI over DoJ ruling on Epstein files The FBI-DoJ memo stated that it had uncovered "a significant amount of material", including more than 300GB of data and physical evidence that included "a large volume of images of Epstein, images and videos of victims who are either minors or appear to be minors, and over ten thousand downloaded videos and images of illegal child sex abuse material and other pornography". Work 
WorkWorkTrump threatens to revoke Rosie O'Donnell's U.S. citizenshipU.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday said he might revoke talk show host Rosie O'Donnell's U.S. citizenship after she criticized his administration's handling of weather forecasting agencies in the wake of the deadly Texas floods, the latest salvo in a years-long feud the two have waged over social media. WorkWorkSuperman Was Always an Immigrant - Vulture (No paywall) You're not going to believe this, but the superhero whose most famous slogan is Truth, justice, and the American way comes saddled with political baggage. James Gunn's new Superman film, the sixth live-action iteration of the character, hasn't altered the superheros famous origin story in any significant way. But in referring to Superman as an immigrant, as Gunn did in an interview last week, the director appears to have scandalized conservative media, who decried the film as a super-woke attempt to insinuate liberal ideology with viewers. WorkWorkWorkWorkWork TradeBriefs Publications are read by over 100,000 Industry Executives About Us | Advertise | Privacy PolicyUnsubscribe (one-click) You are receiving this mail because of your subscription with TradeBriefs.
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