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View More NewsNot long after announcing the sweeping “Liberation Day” tariffs in April 2025, President Donald Trump claimed the taxes on imports would be good news for American small businesses. “I’m proud to be the president for the workers, not the outsourcers—the president who stands up for Main Street, not Wall Street,” Trump said in a speech to the National Republican Congressional Committee. A recent survey of small businesses by the Federal Reserve tells a very different story. Small businesses were “particularly challenged by higher tariffs in 2025,” reports the Federal Reserve of New York, drawing on last year’s annual Small Business…
In brief Anthropic researchers analyzed more than 309,000 Claude conversations to study how the AI expresses values. The company said it reduced more than 3,300 identified values into four behavioral dimensions, including deference vs caution and warmth vs rigor. Anthropic said Claude’s responses varied across both model versions and languages. Claude doesn’t behave the same way in every conversation. According to new research published Monday, AI giant Anthropic found its assistant consistently expresses different values depending on both the model users choose and the language they speak.In a report published on Monday, Anthropic researchers analyzed 309,815 anonymized user conversations with…
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Every four years the world gathers to remind Americans that soccer is boring. The World Cup arrives, a billion people weep with joy, and everyone who wasn’t indoctrinated before the age of six sits there waiting for something…anything to happen. Then suddenly it almost does. Then just as quickly it doesn’t. Then it almost does again. This is the rhythm of the world’s most boring game.It’s “the beautiful game,” and for most of my adult life I’ve been patiently informed, usually by someone who calls it fútbol, that I simply lack the sophistication to appreciate it. But they’re wrong. Soccer…
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In brief “The Odyssey” director Christopher Nolan has warned that younger film audiences are “utterly rejecting” generative AI. He argued that in filmmakers are…
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Crypto exchange Coinbase has invested in ProShares’ stablecoin-focused money market fund, betting that demand for stablecoin reserve-management products will grow as the recently enacted…
In brief Shares in Strategy (MSTR) closed down more than 9% on Tuesday, one day after selling Bitcoin for the first time since 2022.…
from the bricks-and-minifigs-and-influencers-and-lawsuits dept On Techdirt, we often complain about lawyers and bad lawyering and bad cases. But there are times when lawyers are…
President Donald Trump and some of his top advisers have routinely insisted that the administration’s new, higher tariffs would not burden American consumers because…
Galaxy Digital (GLXY) said Tuesday it had launched over-the-counter (OTC) prediction markets trading for institutional investors, becoming one of the first major digital asset…
New reporting from Bitwise suggests that Bitcoin’s (BTC) undervaluation could expand if investors’ concerns over sovereign debt deepen. The asset management firm said that…
In brief Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren urged the Labor Department to drop a proposal to make it easier to offer crypto and other…