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Propublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates power abuse. Sign up and receive the biggest story as soon as it’s published. This article is published in collaboration with the Texas Newsroom and the Texas Tribune as part of an initiative to report on how power is exercised in Texas. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott doesn’t want to reveal months of communication with Elon Musk or representatives of the tech giant’s company. Musk held an eventful legislative meeting in Texas this year. Abbott, who successfully defends several new laws in addition to his lobbyist, cited Tesla and SpaceX CEOs as state inspiration…

Jeremy Porter, professor of sociology at City University of New York. He is currently the director of quantitative methods for the social sciences program at Cuny Graduate Center and is the assistant executive officer of the Graduate Center’s PhD. Sociology program. It was originally published in conversation. Fatal and devastating flash floods in Texas and several other states in July 2025 raises questions about the country’s flood maps and the ability of communities and homeowners to reorganize what they can prepare for increased risk. The same area of Texas Hill Country, where the July 4 flash flood killed at least…

Yves here. This piece presents a fine and well-substantiated case as to why Elon Musk’s “new party” scheme either won’t work or won’t change things. However, its authors feel the necessity of offering a solution to an intractable problem and not surprisingly come up short. If anything, this article demonstrates that anything short of massive social upheaval will fail. It took a Great Depression and the threat of Communists and Communist-leaning demands from the likes of the CIO to get New Deal social safety nets. By Thomas Ferguson, Research Director and Professor Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Boston; Paul Jorgensen Associate…

AI sign for the MWC Shanghai Institute of Technology Show on June 19, 2025.Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesBeijing – The latest Chinese Generated Artificial Intelligence model undertakes Openai’s ChatGPT offers coding capabilities at a lower price.AlibabaBacked Startup Moonshot released the Kimi K2 model late on Friday night: a leading low-cost open source language model – two factors that helped disrupt the Chinese-based Deepseek industry in January. Open source technology offers free source code access, an approach rarely taken by US tech giants that take anywhere other than meta and Google.Coincidentally, Openai CEO Sam Altman announced earlier on Saturday that…

Have you rsv for these L&D webinars? Are you curious to see how your organization can leverage AI-powered tools to enhance the impact of training? Want to learn more about immersive L&D modalities to understand and promote real-world applications? Are you struggling to overcome the pitfalls of common virtual training due to traditional video tools? Below are some of the upcoming virtual summer e-learning events you can check out to dive into these topics and more. Summer e-learning event featuring industry experts Building a multilingual e-learning program with global impact: Real-world success stories with Ewyse In this exclusive behind the…

How AI matures employees In the digital age, thinking about workers is not just a good move, it is necessary. Small and medium-sized businesses are similarly discovering ways to boost your workforce, accelerate learning, and become smarter and more personalized than ever before. But how does this unfold in the real world? Simplify it into five simple steps to understand how AI is revolutionizing workforce development in a simple and efficient way. Step 1: Personalized Skill Assessment Step 1 on how to use AI to upskill employees is to understand the skills they already own and lack. AI tools scan…

I have set up a cottage in Canada and am relaxing. That’s why I haven’t posted this week. This week we’ll pick up this week’s pace. Joseph T. Salerno, Mises.org, July 3, 2025. excerpt: Rothbird took the course with all the prominent Togerez economists, but was particularly influenced by the institutions Arthur’s Burns and Burns. [Joseph] There was mutual admiration between Dorfman and Rothbird and both professors. Burns has made Rothbard an expert to create a “salient place for hymns” in the world. Rothbird recalled in his lecture that burns were “a great theorist,” and his “criticism of orthodox theory…

No Code Tools empower the L&D team In today’s business world, change is unforgiving. The constant demand for new technologies, customers’ expectations have been evolving, and innovation has created an environment in which elevation is no longer an option. That is essential. However, one major obstacle remains. It’s a gap in digital skills. Learning and Development (L&D) experts are at the forefront of this challenge. Not only must we design and deliver effective learning experiences, we must also address new tools and strategies themselves. Participating in L&D’s citizen development. This is a game-changing approach that strengthens non-technical experts to build,…

For Tesla Supplier Contemporary Amperex technology, selling battery packs to major electric companies is just the beginning of that ambition. “We believe the company is not just a hardware manufacturer, it is also a software ecosystem provider,” Morgan Stanley analyst led by Jack Lu said in a report Wednesday. They pointed to CATL’s artificial intelligence-powered tools to monitor batteries on the road and provide early safety warnings. “As AI develops, the ecosystem may evolve further and provide more value-added soft services to its customers,” said an analyst at Morgan Stanley, saying that improving safety will enhance CATL’s business partnerships and…

Make history for his country and prove that patience is important The Artur Davtyan 3 Olympics took to win an artistic medal in Armenia’s first Olympic medal @gymnestticsand in his fourth, #PARIS2024I moved from bronze to silver. Let’s meet again @la28artur? 😉 pic.twitter.com/b6eod78pgn – Olympics (@olympics) June 26, 2025 The largest vaver digital camera is this cosmologist’s Magnum Opus Quanta Magazine Caltech’s new smart pills can read your gut. Florida cat sniffing outmer’s new virus – and scientists hear scientists Are there any pain in Cavallo around the world? Nautilus How water-based clocks revolutionized the way time is measured Covid-19/Pandemics…