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A look at the Chile-led Latam-GPT project, which involves 30 Latin American and Caribbean institutions collaborating to release an open-source LLM in September (Cristišn Vera-Cruz/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/chatgpt-latin-america-alternative-latamgpt…

Fed up with ChatGPT, Latin America is building its own
Dozens of organizations in the region have partnered to develop a large language model that better understands Latin America’s cultural and linguistic nuances.

American who spied for Kremlin from inside Ukraine receives Russian citizenship: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/16/american-who-spied-for-kremlin.html

Gannett is launching a morning newscast, Connecting America, on its USA Today streaming channel and on YouTube, on August 18; it will air weekdays 7am-9am ET (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2025/08/usa-today-morning-show-connecting-america/

USA Today to launch morning newscast on streaming channel
A new morning show called "Connecting America" will launch on USA Today's FAST channel, the company announced on Thursday.

Column | De sterke man uit het Kremlin zoekt erkenning bij de Amerikaanse president - #NRC
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/08/15/de-st

Jeg vet ikke hva alle andre mener, men jeg synes Norsk Syndikalistisk Forbund – Internasjonale Arbeider-Assosiasjon (NSF-IAA) er en veldig viktig og bra organisasjon. De bygger videre på anarkosyndikalistiske tradisjoner i Norge som går helt tilbake til 1916. NSF-IAA står for en kampvillig, medlemsstyrt og frigjŸrende arbeiderbevegelse som utfordrer både byråkrati, partipolitikk og kapitalmakt.
De gir et ekte alternativ til de tradisjonelle fagforeningene som ofte er preget av kompromi…

Rich Americans are spending at a higher rate this year
— everyone else is basically slowing their roll.
New data makes clear that while the good times continue for higher-income earners
— strong wage growth, less debt
— lower-income Americans are under increasing financial stress.
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The economic party rolls on for the rich. For everyone else, not so much
Lower-income Americans are under increasing financial stress.

This Never Post episode on the question of whether "AI" is the esthetics of American Fascism is great. Mike Rugnetta takes you on an enlightening stroll through media theory and the fucked up reality we live in. It's challenging but worth it. https://www.neverpo.st/a-i-and-new-america

🆕 Never Post! A.I. and New American Fascism
Is a generated aesthetic the look of our times?

How Google's Jigsaw and longtime pollster Scott Rasmussen plan to use AI to survey Americans to find common ground ahead of the US' 250th anniversary (Richard Nieva/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardnieva/

Google And Pollster Scott Rasmussen Will Use AI To Survey Americans’ Political Views
A collaboration between the tech giant and a longtime pollster will gather five to 10 people each from every congressional district to answer questions about the nation’s most pressing issues. If it works, it could upend the fraught world of political polling.

Survey: 46% say the news makes them feel informed often or extremely often, while 42% feel angry, 38% feel sad, and 27% feel scared with same frequency (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/10/15/how-america…

How Americans say the news they get makes them feel
Nearly half of Americans (46%) say the news they get makes them feel informed extremely often or often.

A group of high-profile writers plan to launch a magazine called Equator to challenge the "assumption that global events should be narrated by and for the West" (Ben Smith/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/09/14/2025/new-post-american-g…

New ‘post-American’ global magazine to launch
Equator will “challenge the reigning assumption that global events should be narrated by and for the West.”