Silver price (XAG/USD) halts its five-day winning streak, falling over 2.5% and trading around $73.80 per troy ounce during the Asian hours on Monday. The non-interest-bearing white metal loses appeal as the effective shutdown of the Strait of Hormuz drives energy prices higher, heightening inflation and reinforcing expectations that the…
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This interview is based on a conversation with Jim Lexa, 63, a letter carrier from West Seneca, New York. It has been edited for length and clarity. Loading audio narration… I never started out in journalism because of the money. I could have earned higher wages by staying in my job straight out of college, working in the kitchen of a diner chain.Instead, I was bitten by the writing bug as a high schooler, when…
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Anthropic is close to passing OpenAI when it comes to business spending on AI, according to new data. Loading audio narration… Ramp, a finance automation and corporate card issuer, said half of its customers now pay for AI products. Among those customers, 30.6% use Anthropic, up 6.3% from March. The…
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More than two thousand years ago, Greek philosopher Heraclitus of Ephesus coined the phrase, “Change is the only constant.” That observation has remained true since his death, but now change is happening even faster, largely due to generative artificial intelligence (Gen-AI) technology such as ChatGPT or Claude. And that is…
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I interviewed Peter Gostev, AI capability lead at Arena.ai, recently. He created what I call the defecation test, officially known as BullshitBench. Something else he mentioned caught my attention, though. Loading audio narration… It’s a striking example of AI agents in the wild. While editing photos in Adobe Lightroom, he…
