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“We’ve now exhausted basically the cumulative sum of human knowledge …. in AI training,” Musk said during a livestreamed conversation with Stagwell chairman Mark Penn streamed on X late Wednesday. “That happened basically last year.” Musk, who owns AI company xAI, echoed themes former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever touched on at NeurIPS, the machine learning conference, during an address in December. Sutskever, who said the AI industry had reached what he called “peak data,” predicted a lack of training data will force a shift away from the way models are developed today. Indeed, Musk suggested that synthetic data —...

What has happened over the last few days has been nothing short of extraordinary. Tech mogul Elon Musk has engaged in a vocal critique of British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Britain's Labour Government ... over its incredibly ham-handed handling of substantiated reports that rape gangs victimized tens of thousands of British girls for years and the gangs were protected by police and local authorities because of fear of ethnic turmoil; ... A series of utter horrific revelations we learned of young girls being returned to their rapists by police and of fathers being arrested for trying to rescue their...

Former St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kimberly Gardner failed "to make her job as circuit attorney her top priority," according to a report. Republican Missouri State Auditor Scott Fitzpatrick released a 71-page report on Tuesday... The former Democratic prosecutor spent 34.5 working days, or about seven weeks, in the office during business hours working on her studies at Saint Louis University.. Gardner told auditors that she was pursuing a family nurse practitioner post-master’s certificate "to improve the office and bring mental health awareness" to the office....

Environmental rules designed to protect imperiled fish in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta have ignited anger among a group of bipartisan lawmakers, who say too much of California’s stormwater is being washed out to sea instead of being pumped to reservoirs and aqueducts. In a series of strongly worded letters, nearly a dozen legislators — many from drought-starved agriculture regions of the Central Valley —have implored state and federal officials to relax environmental pumping restrictions that are limiting the amount of water captured from the delta. “When Mother Nature blesses us with rain, we need to save the water, instead...

Boston authorities confirmed they rejected all 15 immigration detainer requests made by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for the city last year, according to a new report. Boston Police Commissioner Michael Cox filed a letter to the city council, revealing that the city’s police department did nothing with all of ICE’s detainer requests for the last year... ICE maintains it files detainer requests once probable cause is established that a migrant can be removed from the country. This happens "typically after a court has convicted them of one or more crimes... Incoming Border Czar Tom Homan blasted Wu’s rejection of...

California has suffered from extreme droughts for years now – but the state didn’t capitalize on a series of heavy storms in late 2022 and early 2023 that brought trillions of gallons of rainwater to the state. Governor Gavin Newsom has received criticism for this from both sides of the aisle, and it remains to be seen how the state will prioritize water infrastructure moving forward. What Happened? According to the FOX Forecast Center, the heavy storms plaguing California since late December of 2022 brought an estimated 32 trillion gallons of rainwater to the state. Information from the U.S. Geological...

PACIFIC PALISADES —The devastating Palisades Fire destroyed historic buildings and multiple structures at two California State Parks last night, including Will Rogers’ historic ranch house and buildings at Will Rogers State Historic Park (SHP). The fire fueled by wind gusts up to 80 mph also destroyed parts of Topanga State Park (SP), including the historic Topanga Ranch Motel once owned by William Randolph Hearst. “California State Parks mourns the loss of these treasured natural and cultural resources, and our hearts go out to everyone impacted by the devastating fires in the Los Angeles area,” said State Parks Director Armando Quintero....

The National Guard have been called in to help exhausted firefighters battling six separate fires as the apocalyptic skies of Los Angeles continue to fill with smoke. Two new catastrophic blazes broke out late on Wednesday night in the Hollywood Hills and Studio City - forcing first responders to redeploy their already-scarce resources to the hellish, burnt landscape. The latest fires mean huge swathes of iconic southern California real estate from Malibu to Santa Monica, and from Pacific Palisades to Runyon Canyon, are ablaze, impacting millions who were caught off guard by the unprecedented spread and carnage.

A little-known network funded by the Rockefellers, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, and top foundations is behind a disruptive climate activist group that is drawing the attention of law enforcement, according to tax records. Over the last year, an organization known as Climate Defiance has propelled itself into the national spotlight by deploying activists... Now, newly filed financial disclosures reveal how Climate Defiance, which aims to “make support for any fossil fuels as unacceptable on the Left as opposing abortion or gay marriage,” keeps its lights on...

That’s fowl. A Queens food truck worker captured a pigeon using a plastic bag and ominously brought it back to his cart, according to shocking viral footage of the incident. A commuter waiting for a bus spotted the worker feeding the birds next to the MS Halal truck near the Rego Center Mall on Queens Boulevard on Dec. 29. Oriana Biersack said she saw the man look around to see if anyone was watching and then tried unsuccessfully to grab one of the birds from a flock, at which point she started filming with her phone. The man tried again...

Good illustration of the complete disconnect from reality of Newsome and Biden and LA mayor Karen Bass.

WATCH: Fire Captain asked how many fire hydrants in LA are full of water. ‘Little to NONE.’

Why Los Angeles is Burning. Incompetent MayorLesbian DIE Hires at Fire Department. See picture.Fire Equipment went to Ukraine.No water suppliesFirefighters were fired for refusing vax.Not enough traffic cones.White males are to blame.Bass cut budget by almost 20 million dollars.

A new study revealed key insights about Mediterranean language families' origins, including Italo-Celtic and Graeco-Armenian branches of Indo-European. An international team of geneticists and archaeologists conducted this research. They examined how ancient migrations influenced the emergence of linguistic groups that shaped Mediterranean civilizations...They analyzed genetic data from 314 ancient individuals who lived in the Mediterranean 5,200 to 2,100 years ago. The researchers used advanced genome sequencing and strontium isotope analysis. This revealed significant genetic and cultural differences between eastern and western Mediterranean populations.The study pinpoints two key migration patterns that had an impact on the genetic and linguistic roots of...

Gavin Newsom became emotional when asked about Donald Trump placing the blame on the California governor for the disastrous, killer wildfires that have ravaged the state. Trump said that the governor, who he referred to as 'Gavin Newscum,' a favorite of the Republican's pet names, was at fault for the disaster. The president-elect lambasted Newsom in a Truth Social post Wednesday for focusing on environmental priorities like 'worthless fish' over those of Golden State residents. Speaking to Anderson Cooper amid the fires in Los Angeles Wednesday, Newsom was visibly hurt by the criticism. 'People are literally fleeing. People have lost...

Megyn Kelly has accused Los Angeles' female fire chief of 'focusing on diversity' instead of planning for disaster. The former Fox journalist slammed Kristin Crowley for prioritizing DEI training over preparing for wildfires. Her comments come as the City of Angels has been engulfed a series of deadly blazes, which have so far killed two people and blitzed through more than 11,800 acres. The wildfires are being fueled by Santa Ana winds of up to 60mph, which Kelly described as 'predictable'. 'In recent years LA's fire chief has made not filling the fire hydrants top priority. but diversity,' she fumed...

LONDON — Elon Musk “may have saved humanity” by purchasing X, a senior Conservative spokesperson declared — as the U.K.’s main opposition party continued to try and catch the tech billionaire’s eye. “The Elon Musk purchase of X may have saved humanity,” Shadow Business Secretary Andrew Griffith posted on the platform Musk owns Tuesday evening. “With X becoming a true freedom of speech platform, the common ground of public opinion is no longer determined by a left-leaning elite,” he went on. “Recent political earthquakes in the U.S., the U.K. and now Canada are a release of pent up democratic will...

Is there a reason they're not using airborne water tanker planes to fight the LA fires?

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass stood stone-faced and refused to answer a reporter's question for two full minutes after being out of the country while killer wildfires raged through her city. Furious Los Angelinos have blasted their mayor for traveling to Ghana while the city burns, despite having ample warning about 'critical' weather conditions in the days before. Bass flew out to attend the West African country's presidential inauguration on Tuesday, after meteorologists warned that a 'recipe for fire' was on track to strike LA. The mayor was there to attend the inauguration of the new president and meet with...

A ferocious new wildfire has erupted in the Hollywood Hills - sparking a mass evacuation of the iconic Hollywood Boulevard amid warnings that another 100,000 residents should be prepared to evacuate their homes. The hellish, fast-moving inferno sweeping through the Hills triggered the urgent evacuation order at 6pm local time on Wednesday - impacting at least 50 acres already near Runyon Canyon. At least five people have lost their lives in the devastating natural disaster so far - with 1,000 structures completely obliterated and thousands of people left with nothing but ash across the City of Angels. Now, the Sunset...