Rebuilding public trust in AI requires meaningful citizen engagement, transparent governance, and robust legislation. Technology itself is not the problem. The issue is that few people trust institutions to deploy it wisely and for their benefit. This makes the first step to answer the following question: What’s it in for me?
I'm going to try the following experiment. I'm clearing ~half a day every week to plug a gap in my knowledge. To learn something I've been meaning to learn about for ages. Could be in my field (like energy based models) could be outside (like electronics).
I'll keep a running todo list of things to learn, and just pick one on the day that I feel like reading up on.
Filing: Chinese AI startup MiniMax seeks to raise up to ~$538.5M in a Hong Kong IPO, offering 25.4M shares at a price range of ~$19.40 to ~$21.20 per share (Shivangi Lahiri/Reuters)
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The Department of Homeland Security has ordered immigration officers to gather identifying information about anyone filming them and to “send that information to Intel who will do a ‘work-up’ on them,” a federal law enforcement official directly involved tells me.
“Meaning, trying to identify them via social media, running their license plates if available, and running a criminal history check,” the official explained.
The directive is part of a sweeping, nationwide effort by U.S…
President Trump signs an EO to continue the suspension of the de minimis exemption, despite the SCOTUS' ruling that overturned most of Trump's 2025 tariffs (Zeyi Yang/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/trump-imposes-new-tariffs-following-supreme-c…
H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-Adjunct: 21 December - 28 December
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H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-AmIndian: 21 December - 28 December
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Filings: Tether-owned Northern Data sold its bitcoin mining unit, Peak Mining, for up to $200M to a group including companies controlled by Tether executives (Nikou Asgari/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/352fc0e3-0f0d-4e72-abe6-dd992b040caa
H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-HOAC: 30 November - 7 December
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