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Robin Hood Economics: Is Trump Really Crashing the Market to Save the Middle Class?
Look, I’m not an economic guru. I don’t have a Bloomberg terminal duct-taped to my fridge, and I didn’t minor in Financial Alchemy at the...
Rich Washburn
Apr 84 min read
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Real-Life Direwolves? Not Quite. But Science Just Got Dangerously Close.
“ Life, uh... finds a way. ” Ian Malcolm, Jurassic Park Yeah, well, apparently so do biotech startups with millions in funding, a...
Rich Washburn
Apr 74 min read
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Full AI Actors, Ghibli Dreams, and GPT-5: The AI Tsunami Is Here
Remember when the biggest tech news of the week was a new iPhone color? Yeah—those were simpler times. Now, it feels like the AI arms...
Rich Washburn
Apr 65 min read
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Respected Computer Scientist Mysteriously Disappears: The Curious Case of Dr. Xiaofeng Wang
Something strange is happening in Bloomington, Indiana—and no, it’s not another Stranger Things reboot. This time, it’s real. Dr....
Rich Washburn
Apr 64 min read
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This Week in Tech: GPT-4o, Gemini 2.5, and the Anime Apocalypse
Well, that escalated quickly. This week in tech felt less like a news cycle and more like a full-blown time warp. In a few short days, we...
Rich Washburn
Mar 283 min read
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When Quantum Gets Biblical: Are We Ready for the Techno-Spiritual Revolution?
So a priest, a rabbi, and an AI engineer walk into a bar. The bartender looks up and says, “What is this, a joke?” And the AI engineer...
Rich Washburn
Mar 233 min read
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Elon Musk’s Stunning OpenAI Play: Could He Change the Game Forever?
Elon Musk just made headlines (again), this time with a jaw-dropping $97.4 billion bid to take control of OpenAI’s nonprofit arm. If...
Rich Washburn
Feb 115 min read
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DeepSeek: The Latest Developments That Have Shaken the Tech and Financial Worlds
DeepSeek’s meteoric rise from an AI side project to a global disruptor has set the tech and financial industries ablaze, with...
Rich Washburn
Jan 285 min read
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So I Asked DeepSeek R1 to Summarize My Website, and It Made Me Sound Like a Time-Traveling Visionary from the Future
Okay, let’s just start by saying this: DeepSeek R1 absolutely crushed it when I asked it to summarize my website. I’m not even sure how...
Rich Washburn
Jan 275 min read
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DeepSeek R1: Has the AI World Been Scamming Us to Build Massive Financial Reserves?
For years, the AI industry has been synonymous with jaw-dropping funding rounds and mind-blowing expenditures. OpenAI spent hundreds of...
Rich Washburn
Jan 274 min read
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Stargate Initiative: America’s $500 Billion Power Play to Lead in AI
There’s a rare kind of charge in the air—the kind you feel when history is taking shape right in front of you. Yesterday, President...
Rich Washburn
Jan 224 min read
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Stargate: America’s $500 Billion Leap Into AI Greatness
Ladies and gentlemen, history is being written. On his second day back in office, President Donald Trump unveiled a breathtaking...
Rich Washburn
Jan 213 min read
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OpenAI’s Super Agents and Level 4 AGI Innovators: Welcome to the Age of Recursive Progress
Strap in—2025 is shaping up to be the year artificial intelligence doesn’t just change the game but rewrites the rulebook. Rumors...
Rich Washburn
Jan 204 min read
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Big Tech, Big Money, and Big Hypocrisy: The Spotlight on Inaugural Donations
When it comes to money, power, and politics, the rules of the game are anything but fair—or consistent. The latest firestorm surrounding...
Rich Washburn
Jan 194 min read
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The Kobayashi Maru of AI: O1 Goes Rogue, and Researchers Are Stunned
2025 has barely begun, and we’ve already hit a plot twist in the AI saga that feels like it was ripped straight out of Star Trek . In a...
Rich Washburn
Jan 32 min read
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Elon Musk Faces Backlash Over H1-B Visa Comments: The Real Issue Behind the Rant
Elon Musk is no stranger to controversy, but his recent comments on the U.S. talent gap and H1-B visas have set off a firestorm of...
Rich Washburn
Dec 26, 20244 min read
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The Digital Panopticon: AI-Powered Surveillance, Civil Liberties, and the Battle for Privacy
Imagine a world where your every move is logged—where your grocery trips, gym visits, or detours to a favorite coffee shop are...
Rich Washburn
Dec 19, 20243 min read
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Ilya Sutskever Breaks Silence: A Vision of AI's Future and Safe Superintelligence
In December 2024, Ilya Sutskever , OpenAI’s former Chief Scientist and one of the most influential minds in artificial intelligence, made...
Rich Washburn
Dec 19, 20244 min read
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Drones Gone Wild: New Jersey and Beyond—What the Hell is Going On?
It started like a bad episode of X-Files : low-flying drones—hundreds of them—appearing nightly over quiet New Jersey towns, lighting up...
Rich Washburn
Dec 16, 20244 min read
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Trump and the Dawn of American-Led AGI: The New Manhattan Project
The race to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is on, and it’s no longer just a Silicon Valley obsession. With the establishment of...
Rich Washburn
Nov 23, 20244 min read
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