DeepSeek's model is open source, like Alibaba's, meaning it can be downloaded and modified by others.
Open source differs from proprietary models such as those created by OpenAI and do not produce revenue for companies. Open sourcing a technology serves a number of purposes, including driving innovation and building a community around a product.
A debate is currently swirling about whether AI models will become commoditized.
Modi wants Tesla to build cars in India. Making the plan work may not be easy
Tesla is reportedly recruiting and scouting showroom locations in the country, following a meeting between Prime Minister Modi and Elon Musk earlier this month.
India has been striving to become a global manufacturing hub, having successfully invited major companies such as Apple to set up as well as expand production in the country.
To further bolster its manufacturing prowess, the South Asian nation has been eyeing Tesla to set up its base in the country. And the carmaker that has appeared reluctant for long is now signaling interest in the market as the Indian government attempts to welcome it by implementing a new EV tariff policy.
This relaxation only applies to premium EVs priced at over $35,000 and requires investments totaling nearly $500 million and long-term plans to set up local manufacturing.
The EV policy represents a targeted move to appeal to Tesla's business interests, signaling India's readiness to support EV manufacturing, Ammar Master, a South Asia director of Automotive at GlobalData, told CNBC.
"The Indian government has been proactive in its attempts to lure Tesla into establishing its manufacturing base in India," he said.
The automaker, however, faces several headwinds to breaking into the world's third-largest auto market.
Meanwhile, Tesla has yet to signal significant interest in setting up a manufacturing base in the country, with its recent job openings consisting of mostly consumer-facing positions.
Additionally, geopolitical barriers may influence Telsa's decision to produce cars in India under the new Donald Trump administration. In an interview alongside Tesla CEO Elon Musk last week, President Trump said that Tesla manufacturing in India would be "very unfair."
The company has also been working on completing the production of manufacturing plants in Germany and Texas.
Some local media sources in India have reported that government may further tweak the EV policy to attract Tesla considers the market.
"Even if they commit to the current proposal, it will be after six months or so," added Gupta.
However, while the Indian EV market remains small, getting a foothold there could be a valuable endeavor for Tesla as it looks for new markets amid intense competition with Chinese EV makers such as BYD.
"With the current momentum, we project that Passenger BEV sales in India will reach 1 million units by 2030, accounting for 20% of total sales," said GlobalData's Ammar Master.
Last year, after the company delayed its annual report, it lost its auditor, Ernst & Young, citing governance issues. Super Micro had until Tuesday to become current and file audited financials with the SEC.
Super Micro said in a note from management as part of the filing that it had identified material weaknesses in internal controls over financial reporting, including IT issues, a lack of documentation over manual journal entries and insufficient controls to address segregation of staff duties. Super Micro said that it is hiring additional accounting and audit employees, as well as upgrading its IT systems.
Last month, Perplexity AI also made a bid to merge with TikTok U.S. as the social media platform faces a potential U.S. shutdown.
The company sees a potential investing advantage when it comes to startups because roughly 80,000 developers are plugged into its network, so Perplexity gets visibility into who is using its application programming interface, or API, and who is most active in their consumption, the person said.
Perplexity's founders and investors are putting money into the fund, and some of the company's commitment is in the form of stock, the source said.
DeepSeek itself is accelerating the launch of the successor to the R1 model that put the startup on the map last month, three people familiar with the company told Reuters.
R2 is likely to worry the U.S. government which regards AI leadership as a national priority.
That country's technology war with China is set to intensify with the administration of President Donald Trump planning tougher restrictions on semiconductor exports to China.
Trump has already signed a memorandum restricting Chinese investment in the U.S. in strategic areas.
It was strongly opposed by hospital groups who unsuccessfully challenged it in court. They argue it forces them to disclose private negotiations with insurers, undermining competition and violating their First Amendment free speech rights, a claim rejected by the court.
American Airlines did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the go-around at Washington National.
The past few weeks have seen four major aviation disasters in North America. They include the Feb. 6 crash of a commuter plane in Alaska that killed all 10 people on board and the Jan. 26 midair collision between an Army helicopter and an American Airlines flight at National Airport that killed all 67 aboard the two aircraft.
A medical transport jet with a child patient, her mother and four others aboard crashed Jan. 31 into a Philadelphia neighborhood. That crash killed seven people, including all those aboard, and injured 19 others.
Strategists said they expect solid corporate earnings growth to continue to support gains in equities, and they see a possible boost to the economy if Trump, who took office on January 20, goes ahead with his pro-growth agenda for tax cuts and deregulation.
But they say tariffs threaten to add inflationary pressures at a time when the Federal Reserve has paused its rate-cutting cycle.
"The economy is growing, inflation has been sticky but it's much lower than it was just six months or a year ago, and corporate profits are growing," said Anthony Saglimbene, chief market strategist at Ameriprise Financial in Troy, Michigan, which has a 6,500 "base case" year-end forecast for the S&P 500.
The cuts are being carried out under the direction of Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency.
Moreover, Trump has verbally supported Russia as he has pushed for a deal to end Russia's conflict with Ukraine, and has denounced the Ukrainian president as a dictator, creating alarm among some investors about relations between the U.S. and the rest of the world.
When asked whether a stock market correction of at least 10% is likely in the coming three months, 13 of 19 poll participants who answered the question said it was likely or highly likely, while six said it was unlikely.
"Those with a short-term horizon, they could be a little rattled by volatility. We just have so many unknowns as we start 2025," said Kristina Hooper, chief global market strategist at Invesco in New York. She expects the S&P 500 to end this year at 6,360.
Government ethics laws require that people who could profit from government work either recuse themselves from specific projects or first sell their financial holdings or sever ties with the company that could benefit. Waivers can be granted by the heads of government departments or other officials, but only in limited circumstances.
Ted Malaska, a senior director of application software at SpaceX, got a waiver along with two software engineers, Brady Glantz and Thomas Kiernan, according to the waiver list and LinkedIn profiles. The AP could not determine if the three are still working for SpaceX or the precise nature of work for the federal government.
Malaska posted on social media on Thursday that he had been meeting at FAA headquarters with officials responsible for implementation of the telecommunications modernization.
The Carneia was an ancient Doric festival held to worship Apollo Carneios, the most highly revered god of the Peloponnese. It began on the seventh day of the month of Carneios (July/August) and lasted nine days. Few details about the festival survive, but it is known that nine tents were pitched near the city, inhabited by nine men who lived like soldiers. A priest conducted sacrifices with the help of five unmarried men from each Spartan tribe chosen as his ministers. Some of them were labeled staphylodromoi ("grape-cluster runners"). During the festival, they chased a man wearing a garland, and, if they caught him, it meant good luck for the coming harvest.
The Spartans actually had nine festivals each year and no wars could be fought during any of them. The Carneia was the most important of the nine.
The move is part of broad efforts by President Donald Trump to crack down on illegal immigration through mass deportations and border security. Previously, illegal immigrants were committing a civil offense and could be detained and deported but weren't considered to have committed a crime, according to the Journal. Those who qualify but fail to register could be fined up to $5,000 and sentenced to up to six months in prison.
The administration's plans rely on provisions of immigration law that have proved impractical to enforce, according to the Journal. Pursuing cases against alleged offenders could tie up prosecutorial resources and swell the prison population, and illegal immigrants rarely have the means to pay such hefty fines, experts told the Journal.
President George W. Bush created a similar immigration registry after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, when his administration required men and boys from predominantly Muslim countries to submit photographs and fingerprints to the federal government, the Journal reported. Tens of thousands of people who registered under that program were arrested and deported.
But any savings have been outweighed so far by higher spending on health and retirement programs and rising interest payments, Treasury Department spending records show.
Overall, the government spent about $710 billion between Jan. 21 and Feb. 20, Treasury daily spending data shows, up from the roughly $630 billion during a comparable period last year. Independent budget experts said the figures illustrate the relentless pressures incurred by an aging population and a ballooning debt load.
Musk and Trump have said they aim to reduce the $6.7 trillion federal budget by $1 trillion, but Trump has also promised not to reduce benefits for seniors who get Social Security retirement payments and participate in the Medicare health plan. Those two programs accounted for more than one third of federal dollars spent in the last fiscal year. While they are projected to eat up more of the budget as the population ages, trimming them would anger millions of Americans.
"There is no way to meet their goals without hitting the third rail," said Lauren Bauer, a researcher at the Brookings Institution who tracks the Treasury Department's daily spending statements.
Musk has said he will scrutinize both programs for fraud, but his attempts to scrutinize sensitive payment and personnel records have raised security and privacy fears. On Wednesday, 21 career workers in DOGE resigned in protest, saying the agency had mishandled Americans' private data.
Trump can do little to reduce debt service payments, which accounted for 13% of the budget last year, without risking a default that would rattle the global financial system.
The government paid about $94 billion in interest payments during Trump's first month, compared to around $80 billion in the comparable period last year, Treasury data shows.
A White House official, briefing reporters on condition of anonymity, said any potential tariff rate would be determined by the investigation, adding that Trump preferred tariffs over quotas.
White House trade adviser Peter Navarro said the investigation would be completed quickly, "in Trump time."
Navarro said China was using state subsidies and economic influence to gain control over global copper production, in much the same way it now dominates steel and aluminum production.
That said, the countries set to be most affected by any new U.S. copper tariffs would be Chile, Canada and Mexico, which were the top suppliers of refined copper and copper articles in 2024, according to U.S. Census Bureau data.
"The best thing for the region would be peace, and … we don't want to have appeasement, we certainly don't want that, and I'm not suggesting that's what the president is trying to do … [but] we need a solution that makes sense for Ukraine and it's probably going to have to also be a solution that makes sense for Russia," Crank said.
The IRS initially revealed that 70,000 returns from 2019 and 2020, including those of President Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Warren Buffett, were stolen. But in a letter to Jordan dated Feb. 14, acting IRS Commissioner Douglas O'Donnell said the IRS "mailed notifications to 405,427 taxpayers whose taxpayer information was inappropriately disclosed by Mr. Littlejohn. Approximately 89% of the taxpayers are business entities."
"This guy, that was his stated objective," Jordan told "The Record With Greta Van Susteren." "He went there as a contractor, his goal, his whole purpose was to release President Trump's tax return and others. And we find out now, it was much worse than we thought, 405,000. Many of them were business entities, but also a lot of individuals.
Now Helots were forced to till plots of land for their Spartan overseers. Half of the profit from the harvest went to the Helot and the other half was given to Sparta. Some 9,000 of these individual farms were put into operation. Over time, the Helot workload was expanded to include all manual labor required to run the Polis, releasing the Spartan men for full time military training.
Data from the working group showed that of the $182.8 billion appropriated as of Dec. 31, $83.4 billion was disbursed, and a total of $96.6 billion has either been obligated and not disbursed or appropriated but not yet obligated. Further, $2.7 billion has expired, meaning those funds are no longer available for obligation.
"I don't think the question is that all these billions disappeared in Ukraine due to corruption," Budanov told "American Agenda" through an interpreter from Kyiv in an interview with Newsmax correspondent Zach Anders. "The issue is deeper here. We need to figure out where this money went and where it settled. And it may turn out that it's not just about Ukraine."
"When they talk about corruption, well, listen, it exists everywhere. Every country fights against it. If every country fights against it, that, at the very least, means that it exists in every country."
Budanov added that a year ago, Ukraine was visited by Biden administration officials regarding an "inspection" about how the funds were being spent and that they came up "with acceptable conclusions."
"Let me repeat myself: It's more of a profound matter," he said. "We have to see where the money was channeled at what price. For example, they were procuring ammunition. Who was the real beneficiary? Through which countries was it going? I mean, it's clear everybody was covering themselves with Ukraine. That's going to be unanimous. But was it really Ukraine? That's an open question."
Meanwhile, Budanov was asked about President Donald Trump referring to Zelenskyy as a dictator because Ukraine's president canceled elections.
"It's a political matter, and how the president of America makes his conclusions, it's only known to him," he said. "I personally don't feel well when a president is called a dictator because that means then we all serve a dictatorship, and I don't see myself as an accessory in a dictator's regime."
The Athenian political system, before the reforms, had many elements of a democratic system, but was heavily influenced by the aristocratic class. The principle legislative body was the Assembly (Ecclesia) which consisted of all citizens who came to the assembly meetings. Because of the unwieldy character of so large a group, a council of 500 was created to debate and consider new legislation before it was brought before the assembly.
Governmental administration was handled by ten senior magistrates, called Archons, who were elected by the people. When an Archon’s term of office ended he could become a member of the Areopagas, an aristocratic council of elders who acted as a court of appeal. Lastly, there was a elected board of ten generals who were in charge of commanding the army and navy during time of war. Aristocratic influence was seen in the Council of 500 which was heavily tilted toward the upper class. Archons, themselves, were wealthy aristocrats, and the Areopagas was made up of former Archons.
FBI Probes Alleged Comey Honeypot Plot Against Trump
The FBI is starting an investigation into the agency's plan to infiltrate President Donald Trump's first campaign using two female undercover agents as a honeypot.
According to The Washington Times' initial reporting, the investigation was launched in 2015 by FBI Director James Comey and kept off the books. An FBI whistleblower broke the news of the inquiry to the House Judiciary Committee last year.
The plan was said to involve two undercover female agents who had infiltrated the Trump campaign at high-levels.
FBI Director Kash Patel and deputy Director Dan Bongino are now looking for those once-undercover agents.
Initially, the whistleblower noted that the honeypot was a separate operation from Crossfire Hurricane, and sought to uncover no specific crime but was merely a fishing expedition.
According to a City Journal source, the sex chats were legitimized as part of the NSA's commitment to "diversity, equity, and inclusion" (DEI), and the agents "used LGBTQ+ employee resource groups to turn their kinks and pathologies into official work duties," with the full support of their superiors at the NSA under then-President Joe Biden.
The source said these groups "spent all day" recruiting activists and holding meetings with titles such as "Privilege," "Ally Awareness," "Pride," and "Transgender Community Inclusion."
In addition, NSA leadership reportedly declared that DEI was "not only mission critical, but mission imperative."
Gabbard promised to clean house and confirmed the existence of the chats, which have been destroyed.
U.S. President Donald Trump Wednesday urged Apple to scrap its diversity, equity and inclusion policies, a day after the iPhone maker's shareholders voted to keep them in the face of growing pushback from conservative groups.
Major U.S. companies, including Meta and Alphabet , have dropped DEI initiatives ahead of and after Trump's return to the U.S. presidency.
Trump has criticized corporate DEI programs as discriminatory and suggested the U.S. Department of Justice could investigate if such efforts violate the law.
"So when the conclave does convene to elect a new Pope, the cardinals are going to be considering, What direction do we want the next Pope to take? A continuation of a more liberalizing path, which is, in fact, very fraught with danger for the Catholic faith because, you know, we believe that what is handed on must be defended," Murray added, "or will we return to … what Pope John Paul II and Benedict gave to the church, which was a vigorous defense of the traditional faith, answering modern concerns but not casting aside the hard teachings of Christianity but rather defending them?"
Panay says that the improved Alexa can understand tone and the environment around it, and adjust its responses on the fly. “She’s been trained in a couple of different ways, from EQ to humor to understanding,” he added. “She understands I’m a little bit nervous, she’s trying to calm me.”
Aside from tasks like creating quizzes from study guides and crafting basic travel itineraries, Alexa+ can respond to queries such as “What’s the best pizza nearby?” Answers are informed by what’s in Alexa’s “memory” and preferences that Alexa has noted over time.
There are both environmental and cultural reasons for this. Rome and the Italian peninsula had similar experiences to Europe in the middle ages with respect to development of their political systems. This similarity is based on two factors: personal leadership and a collective unity and equality of tribesmen. In other words, their political systems grew out of leadership based on personal charisma which encompassed regal, military, and political elements. The society was flat with a leader and his associates on top and everyone as equals below.
The early Greek experience was different because it was influenced by unique factors: tribal kings were weak financially, the Aegean was isolated geographically, and Greek life was simpler than Roman life.
Microsoft notes that, for specific Azure services, customers may have to obtain a professional services data storage commitment. This page outlines the requirements.
EU regulators have spent years flagging concerns about how Microsoft processes the data of users of its cloud services, including in relation to the legal basis Microsoft claims for processing data and a lack of clarity in the wording of its cloud services contracts. To be fair, Microsoft isn’t the only target. In May 2023, Meta was fined $1.3 billion by Ireland’s data privacy watchdog over data transfers to the U.S.
In any political system, stability depends on confidence. If the people believe their system will allow them to achieve their goals in life, they will not look for a change. In the period 140-80 B.C. the common people of Rome became economically disadvantaged and a weakened (or arrogant) Senate did nothing to help them. As a consequence, the people looked to popular leaders, such as Marius, to take control of the republic and make their lives better. During this period there was a enormous amount of violence. Whether or not it was purposeful or just a consequence of the battle for control, does not matter. Violence breaks down the institutions of government and drives the people toward any system that will produce stability. In the end, stability was the dictator, and the dictator held his power by controlling loyalty of the army.
Trump: 'Not Going to Touch' Entitlement Programs
President Donald Trump vowed Wednesday that his administration is "not going to touch" entitlement programs such as Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, but didn't rule out that spending cuts can come through rooting out fraud and waste in the programs.
"We are going to look for fraud," Trump said during the first cabinet meeting of his second administration, reports CNN. "I'm sure you're okay with that."
He also pointed to reports alleging that "illegal aliens and other criminals" are collecting Social Security payments and to "people that are 200 years old that are being sent checks."
FCC's Carr Prepares to Erode Big Tech Legal Protection
Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr is preparing to weaken the legal protection known as Section 230 that shields Big Tech companies from liability, according to a report from the New York Post.
Post columnist Charles Gasparino reported that Carr's plan to erode Section 230 could potentially cost some of the world's most profitable companies billions in market value.
Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 was written to protect tech companies from being held legally responsible for third-party postings on their platforms, as it was thought that defamation lawsuits over content posted by third parties could crush the fledgling industry.
Cuomo Backers Start Super PAC Ahead of NYC Mayor's Race
Former Democrat New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's close allies have registered a super PAC that will likely support a campaign for mayor of New York City, The New York Times reports.
Longtime Cuomo adviser Steven M. Cohen led the formation of the PAC, Fix the City, along with LGBT activist Brian Ellner, lobbyist John Cordo, and attorney Mitra Hormozi. Sources told the Times that the group's paid media will be overseen by Bill Knapp, the co-founder of the public affairs firm SKDK who formerly worked on ex-NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg's campaigns.
"There's a strong cadre of people who have made clear to me their interest in being supportive of the former governor's mayoral candidacy," James Whelan, president of the Real Estate Board of New York, told the Times when asked about potential contributors to the super PAC.
Zelenskyy said a news conference early Wednesday in Kyiv that a framework of an economic deal had been reached, but that it did not yet include U.S. security guarantees, which his country sees as vital. The full agreement could hinge on the upcoming talks in Washington.
The framework is a preliminary step toward a comprehensive package that will be subject to ratification by the Ukrainian parliament, Zelenskyy said.
Ukraine needs to know first where the U.S. stands on its continued military support, Zelenskyy said. He said he expected a wide-ranging conversation with Trump.
The economic agreement "may be part of future security guarantees, but I want to understand the broader vision. What awaits Ukraine?" Zelenskyy said.
Why the Roman Republic Failed and What It Means to Us - Part III
Our history of the fall of the Republic now takes us to the last player in the drama – Lucius Cornelius Sulla, a man who had no reservations about destroying the Republic. Sulla never understood that his attempts to fix the Republic could not overcome the things he did to destroy it, so by the time he left the scene, Rome was ready to fall to any power hungry candidate who would be bold enough and strong enough to take it.
Sen. Ernst Rails on Union Work Paid by Taxpayers
Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, is lashing out at the discovery of more than $400,000 spent by NASA on employees doing union work in the last fiscal year.
Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, is lashing out at the discovery of more than $400,000 spent by NASA on employees doing union work in the last fiscal year. Ernst chairs the Senate DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) Caucus and said allowing federal employees to handle union duties while on the clock amounts to "ripping off taxpayers by an astronomical amount," as reported by the New York Post.
As a third measure, the department is examining the use of vaccines and therapeutics for laying chickens.
Rollins stated that "while vaccines aren't a stand-alone solution, we will provide up to $100 million in research and development of vaccines and therapeutics to improve their efficacy and efficiency," which should help reduce the need to kill chickens on a farm where there is an outbreak.
In addition to combating avian flu, another part of the strategy is to take other actions to lower the price of eggs.
As an example, Rollins said that unnecessary regulatory burdens on egg producers will be removed where possible — including "examining the best way to protect farmers from overly prescriptive state laws, such as California's Proposition 12, which established minimum space requirements for egg-laying hens, increasing production costs and contributing to the Golden State's average price of $9.68 a dozen."
Rollins said that the final part of the plan is to consider temporary import options in order to lower egg costs in the short term.
She stated that this will take place only "if the eggs meet stringent U.S. safety standards and if we determine that doing so won't jeopardize American farmers' access to markets in the future."
Rollins said the Agriculture Department is confident that this overall plan "will restore stability to the egg market over the next three to six months," as well as ensure stability over the next four years and beyond.
Sulla resigned as dictator in 81 and was elected consul. Then in 80 B.C he retired to live in the country and died the following year.
The naïve attempts by Sulla to turn back the clock on the Republic failed completely because he had not taken into account the essential economic and social problems facing the Roman people. His legacy was to empower the leaders of the army to replace the authority of the Republican system whenever they felt inclined to do so. The Senate and the people were about to lose their power forever.
Gov. Walz Won't Run for Open Minn. Senate Seat
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, a Democrat, announced Wednesday he will not run for the state's open Senate seat in 2026.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, a Democrat, announced Wednesday he will not run for the state's open Senate seat in 2026.
Walz, who was Kamala Harris' running mate in the 2024 presidential election, will consider running for a third term as governor instead.
"He loves his job as Governor and he's exploring the possibility of another term to continue his work to make Minnesota the best state in the country for kids," Teddy Tschann, a spokesperson for Walz, said in a statement.
DeepSeek's model is open source, like Alibaba's, meaning it can be downloaded and modified by others.
Open source differs from proprietary models such as those created by OpenAI and do not produce revenue for companies. Open sourcing a technology serves a number of purposes, including driving innovation and building a community around a product.
A debate is currently swirling about whether AI models will become commoditized.
Modi wants Tesla to build cars in India. Making the plan work may not be easy
Tesla is reportedly recruiting and scouting showroom locations in the country, following a meeting between Prime Minister Modi and Elon Musk earlier this month.
India has been striving to become a global manufacturing hub, having successfully invited major companies such as Apple to set up as well as expand production in the country.
To further bolster its manufacturing prowess, the South Asian nation has been eyeing Tesla to set up its base in the country. And the carmaker that has appeared reluctant for long is now signaling interest in the market as the Indian government attempts to welcome it by implementing a new EV tariff policy.
This relaxation only applies to premium EVs priced at over $35,000 and requires investments totaling nearly $500 million and long-term plans to set up local manufacturing.
The EV policy represents a targeted move to appeal to Tesla's business interests, signaling India's readiness to support EV manufacturing, Ammar Master, a South Asia director of Automotive at GlobalData, told CNBC.
"The Indian government has been proactive in its attempts to lure Tesla into establishing its manufacturing base in India," he said.
The automaker, however, faces several headwinds to breaking into the world's third-largest auto market.
Meanwhile, Tesla has yet to signal significant interest in setting up a manufacturing base in the country, with its recent job openings consisting of mostly consumer-facing positions.
Additionally, geopolitical barriers may influence Telsa's decision to produce cars in India under the new Donald Trump administration. In an interview alongside Tesla CEO Elon Musk last week, President Trump said that Tesla manufacturing in India would be "very unfair."
The company has also been working on completing the production of manufacturing plants in Germany and Texas.
Some local media sources in India have reported that government may further tweak the EV policy to attract Tesla considers the market.
"Even if they commit to the current proposal, it will be after six months or so," added Gupta.
However, while the Indian EV market remains small, getting a foothold there could be a valuable endeavor for Tesla as it looks for new markets amid intense competition with Chinese EV makers such as BYD.
"With the current momentum, we project that Passenger BEV sales in India will reach 1 million units by 2030, accounting for 20% of total sales," said GlobalData's Ammar Master.
Last year, after the company delayed its annual report, it lost its auditor, Ernst & Young, citing governance issues. Super Micro had until Tuesday to become current and file audited financials with the SEC.
Super Micro said in a note from management as part of the filing that it had identified material weaknesses in internal controls over financial reporting, including IT issues, a lack of documentation over manual journal entries and insufficient controls to address segregation of staff duties. Super Micro said that it is hiring additional accounting and audit employees, as well as upgrading its IT systems.
Last month, Perplexity AI also made a bid to merge with TikTok U.S. as the social media platform faces a potential U.S. shutdown.
The company sees a potential investing advantage when it comes to startups because roughly 80,000 developers are plugged into its network, so Perplexity gets visibility into who is using its application programming interface, or API, and who is most active in their consumption, the person said.
Perplexity's founders and investors are putting money into the fund, and some of the company's commitment is in the form of stock, the source said.
DeepSeek itself is accelerating the launch of the successor to the R1 model that put the startup on the map last month, three people familiar with the company told Reuters.
R2 is likely to worry the U.S. government which regards AI leadership as a national priority.
That country's technology war with China is set to intensify with the administration of President Donald Trump planning tougher restrictions on semiconductor exports to China.
Trump has already signed a memorandum restricting Chinese investment in the U.S. in strategic areas.
It was strongly opposed by hospital groups who unsuccessfully challenged it in court. They argue it forces them to disclose private negotiations with insurers, undermining competition and violating their First Amendment free speech rights, a claim rejected by the court.
American Airlines did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the go-around at Washington National.
The past few weeks have seen four major aviation disasters in North America. They include the Feb. 6 crash of a commuter plane in Alaska that killed all 10 people on board and the Jan. 26 midair collision between an Army helicopter and an American Airlines flight at National Airport that killed all 67 aboard the two aircraft.
A medical transport jet with a child patient, her mother and four others aboard crashed Jan. 31 into a Philadelphia neighborhood. That crash killed seven people, including all those aboard, and injured 19 others.
Strategists said they expect solid corporate earnings growth to continue to support gains in equities, and they see a possible boost to the economy if Trump, who took office on January 20, goes ahead with his pro-growth agenda for tax cuts and deregulation.
But they say tariffs threaten to add inflationary pressures at a time when the Federal Reserve has paused its rate-cutting cycle.
"The economy is growing, inflation has been sticky but it's much lower than it was just six months or a year ago, and corporate profits are growing," said Anthony Saglimbene, chief market strategist at Ameriprise Financial in Troy, Michigan, which has a 6,500 "base case" year-end forecast for the S&P 500.
The cuts are being carried out under the direction of Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency.
Moreover, Trump has verbally supported Russia as he has pushed for a deal to end Russia's conflict with Ukraine, and has denounced the Ukrainian president as a dictator, creating alarm among some investors about relations between the U.S. and the rest of the world.
When asked whether a stock market correction of at least 10% is likely in the coming three months, 13 of 19 poll participants who answered the question said it was likely or highly likely, while six said it was unlikely.
"Those with a short-term horizon, they could be a little rattled by volatility. We just have so many unknowns as we start 2025," said Kristina Hooper, chief global market strategist at Invesco in New York. She expects the S&P 500 to end this year at 6,360.
Government ethics laws require that people who could profit from government work either recuse themselves from specific projects or first sell their financial holdings or sever ties with the company that could benefit. Waivers can be granted by the heads of government departments or other officials, but only in limited circumstances.
Ted Malaska, a senior director of application software at SpaceX, got a waiver along with two software engineers, Brady Glantz and Thomas Kiernan, according to the waiver list and LinkedIn profiles. The AP could not determine if the three are still working for SpaceX or the precise nature of work for the federal government.
Malaska posted on social media on Thursday that he had been meeting at FAA headquarters with officials responsible for implementation of the telecommunications modernization.
The Carneia was an ancient Doric festival held to worship Apollo Carneios, the most highly revered god of the Peloponnese. It began on the seventh day of the month of Carneios (July/August) and lasted nine days. Few details about the festival survive, but it is known that nine tents were pitched near the city, inhabited by nine men who lived like soldiers. A priest conducted sacrifices with the help of five unmarried men from each Spartan tribe chosen as his ministers. Some of them were labeled staphylodromoi ("grape-cluster runners"). During the festival, they chased a man wearing a garland, and, if they caught him, it meant good luck for the coming harvest.
The Spartans actually had nine festivals each year and no wars could be fought during any of them. The Carneia was the most important of the nine.
The move is part of broad efforts by President Donald Trump to crack down on illegal immigration through mass deportations and border security. Previously, illegal immigrants were committing a civil offense and could be detained and deported but weren't considered to have committed a crime, according to the Journal. Those who qualify but fail to register could be fined up to $5,000 and sentenced to up to six months in prison.
The administration's plans rely on provisions of immigration law that have proved impractical to enforce, according to the Journal. Pursuing cases against alleged offenders could tie up prosecutorial resources and swell the prison population, and illegal immigrants rarely have the means to pay such hefty fines, experts told the Journal.
President George W. Bush created a similar immigration registry after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, when his administration required men and boys from predominantly Muslim countries to submit photographs and fingerprints to the federal government, the Journal reported. Tens of thousands of people who registered under that program were arrested and deported.
But any savings have been outweighed so far by higher spending on health and retirement programs and rising interest payments, Treasury Department spending records show.
Overall, the government spent about $710 billion between Jan. 21 and Feb. 20, Treasury daily spending data shows, up from the roughly $630 billion during a comparable period last year. Independent budget experts said the figures illustrate the relentless pressures incurred by an aging population and a ballooning debt load.
Musk and Trump have said they aim to reduce the $6.7 trillion federal budget by $1 trillion, but Trump has also promised not to reduce benefits for seniors who get Social Security retirement payments and participate in the Medicare health plan. Those two programs accounted for more than one third of federal dollars spent in the last fiscal year. While they are projected to eat up more of the budget as the population ages, trimming them would anger millions of Americans.
"There is no way to meet their goals without hitting the third rail," said Lauren Bauer, a researcher at the Brookings Institution who tracks the Treasury Department's daily spending statements.
Musk has said he will scrutinize both programs for fraud, but his attempts to scrutinize sensitive payment and personnel records have raised security and privacy fears. On Wednesday, 21 career workers in DOGE resigned in protest, saying the agency had mishandled Americans' private data.
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Trump can do little to reduce debt service payments, which accounted for 13% of the budget last year, without risking a default that would rattle the global financial system.
The government paid about $94 billion in interest payments during Trump's first month, compared to around $80 billion in the comparable period last year, Treasury data shows.
A White House official, briefing reporters on condition of anonymity, said any potential tariff rate would be determined by the investigation, adding that Trump preferred tariffs over quotas.
White House trade adviser Peter Navarro said the investigation would be completed quickly, "in Trump time."
Navarro said China was using state subsidies and economic influence to gain control over global copper production, in much the same way it now dominates steel and aluminum production.
That said, the countries set to be most affected by any new U.S. copper tariffs would be Chile, Canada and Mexico, which were the top suppliers of refined copper and copper articles in 2024, according to U.S. Census Bureau data.
"The best thing for the region would be peace, and … we don't want to have appeasement, we certainly don't want that, and I'm not suggesting that's what the president is trying to do … [but] we need a solution that makes sense for Ukraine and it's probably going to have to also be a solution that makes sense for Russia," Crank said.
The IRS initially revealed that 70,000 returns from 2019 and 2020, including those of President Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Warren Buffett, were stolen. But in a letter to Jordan dated Feb. 14, acting IRS Commissioner Douglas O'Donnell said the IRS "mailed notifications to 405,427 taxpayers whose taxpayer information was inappropriately disclosed by Mr. Littlejohn. Approximately 89% of the taxpayers are business entities."
"This guy, that was his stated objective," Jordan told "The Record With Greta Van Susteren." "He went there as a contractor, his goal, his whole purpose was to release President Trump's tax return and others. And we find out now, it was much worse than we thought, 405,000. Many of them were business entities, but also a lot of individuals.
Now Helots were forced to till plots of land for their Spartan overseers. Half of the profit from the harvest went to the Helot and the other half was given to Sparta. Some 9,000 of these individual farms were put into operation. Over time, the Helot workload was expanded to include all manual labor required to run the Polis, releasing the Spartan men for full time military training.
Data from the working group showed that of the $182.8 billion appropriated as of Dec. 31, $83.4 billion was disbursed, and a total of $96.6 billion has either been obligated and not disbursed or appropriated but not yet obligated. Further, $2.7 billion has expired, meaning those funds are no longer available for obligation.
"I don't think the question is that all these billions disappeared in Ukraine due to corruption," Budanov told "American Agenda" through an interpreter from Kyiv in an interview with Newsmax correspondent Zach Anders. "The issue is deeper here. We need to figure out where this money went and where it settled. And it may turn out that it's not just about Ukraine."
"When they talk about corruption, well, listen, it exists everywhere. Every country fights against it. If every country fights against it, that, at the very least, means that it exists in every country."
Budanov added that a year ago, Ukraine was visited by Biden administration officials regarding an "inspection" about how the funds were being spent and that they came up "with acceptable conclusions."
"Let me repeat myself: It's more of a profound matter," he said. "We have to see where the money was channeled at what price. For example, they were procuring ammunition. Who was the real beneficiary? Through which countries was it going? I mean, it's clear everybody was covering themselves with Ukraine. That's going to be unanimous. But was it really Ukraine? That's an open question."
Meanwhile, Budanov was asked about President Donald Trump referring to Zelenskyy as a dictator because Ukraine's president canceled elections.
"It's a political matter, and how the president of America makes his conclusions, it's only known to him," he said. "I personally don't feel well when a president is called a dictator because that means then we all serve a dictatorship, and I don't see myself as an accessory in a dictator's regime."
The Athenian political system, before the reforms, had many elements of a democratic system, but was heavily influenced by the aristocratic class. The principle legislative body was the Assembly (Ecclesia) which consisted of all citizens who came to the assembly meetings. Because of the unwieldy character of so large a group, a council of 500 was created to debate and consider new legislation before it was brought before the assembly.
Governmental administration was handled by ten senior magistrates, called Archons, who were elected by the people. When an Archon’s term of office ended he could become a member of the Areopagas, an aristocratic council of elders who acted as a court of appeal. Lastly, there was a elected board of ten generals who were in charge of commanding the army and navy during time of war. Aristocratic influence was seen in the Council of 500 which was heavily tilted toward the upper class. Archons, themselves, were wealthy aristocrats, and the Areopagas was made up of former Archons.
FBI Probes Alleged Comey Honeypot Plot Against Trump
The FBI is starting an investigation into the agency's plan to infiltrate President Donald Trump's first campaign using two female undercover agents as a honeypot.
According to The Washington Times' initial reporting, the investigation was launched in 2015 by FBI Director James Comey and kept off the books. An FBI whistleblower broke the news of the inquiry to the House Judiciary Committee last year.
The plan was said to involve two undercover female agents who had infiltrated the Trump campaign at high-levels.
FBI Director Kash Patel and deputy Director Dan Bongino are now looking for those once-undercover agents.
Initially, the whistleblower noted that the honeypot was a separate operation from Crossfire Hurricane, and sought to uncover no specific crime but was merely a fishing expedition.
According to a City Journal source, the sex chats were legitimized as part of the NSA's commitment to "diversity, equity, and inclusion" (DEI), and the agents "used LGBTQ+ employee resource groups to turn their kinks and pathologies into official work duties," with the full support of their superiors at the NSA under then-President Joe Biden.
The source said these groups "spent all day" recruiting activists and holding meetings with titles such as "Privilege," "Ally Awareness," "Pride," and "Transgender Community Inclusion."
In addition, NSA leadership reportedly declared that DEI was "not only mission critical, but mission imperative."
Gabbard promised to clean house and confirmed the existence of the chats, which have been destroyed.
Trump: Apple 'Should Get Rid of DEI'
U.S. President Donald Trump Wednesday urged Apple to scrap its diversity, equity and inclusion policies, a day after the iPhone maker's shareholders voted to keep them in the face of growing pushback from conservative groups.
Major U.S. companies, including Meta and Alphabet , have dropped DEI initiatives ahead of and after Trump's return to the U.S. presidency.
Trump has criticized corporate DEI programs as discriminatory and suggested the U.S. Department of Justice could investigate if such efforts violate the law.
"So when the conclave does convene to elect a new Pope, the cardinals are going to be considering, What direction do we want the next Pope to take? A continuation of a more liberalizing path, which is, in fact, very fraught with danger for the Catholic faith because, you know, we believe that what is handed on must be defended," Murray added, "or will we return to … what Pope John Paul II and Benedict gave to the church, which was a vigorous defense of the traditional faith, answering modern concerns but not casting aside the hard teachings of Christianity but rather defending them?"
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Panay says that the improved Alexa can understand tone and the environment around it, and adjust its responses on the fly. “She’s been trained in a couple of different ways, from EQ to humor to understanding,” he added. “She understands I’m a little bit nervous, she’s trying to calm me.”
Aside from tasks like creating quizzes from study guides and crafting basic travel itineraries, Alexa+ can respond to queries such as “What’s the best pizza nearby?” Answers are informed by what’s in Alexa’s “memory” and preferences that Alexa has noted over time.
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So why the disparity between Athens and Rome?
There are both environmental and cultural reasons for this. Rome and the Italian peninsula had similar experiences to Europe in the middle ages with respect to development of their political systems. This similarity is based on two factors: personal leadership and a collective unity and equality of tribesmen. In other words, their political systems grew out of leadership based on personal charisma which encompassed regal, military, and political elements. The society was flat with a leader and his associates on top and everyone as equals below.
The early Greek experience was different because it was influenced by unique factors: tribal kings were weak financially, the Aegean was isolated geographically, and Greek life was simpler than Roman life.
Microsoft notes that, for specific Azure services, customers may have to obtain a professional services data storage commitment. This page outlines the requirements.
EU regulators have spent years flagging concerns about how Microsoft processes the data of users of its cloud services, including in relation to the legal basis Microsoft claims for processing data and a lack of clarity in the wording of its cloud services contracts. To be fair, Microsoft isn’t the only target. In May 2023, Meta was fined $1.3 billion by Ireland’s data privacy watchdog over data transfers to the U.S.
In any political system, stability depends on confidence. If the people believe their system will allow them to achieve their goals in life, they will not look for a change. In the period 140-80 B.C. the common people of Rome became economically disadvantaged and a weakened (or arrogant) Senate did nothing to help them. As a consequence, the people looked to popular leaders, such as Marius, to take control of the republic and make their lives better. During this period there was a enormous amount of violence. Whether or not it was purposeful or just a consequence of the battle for control, does not matter. Violence breaks down the institutions of government and drives the people toward any system that will produce stability. In the end, stability was the dictator, and the dictator held his power by controlling loyalty of the army.
Trump: 'Not Going to Touch' Entitlement Programs
President Donald Trump vowed Wednesday that his administration is "not going to touch" entitlement programs such as Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, but didn't rule out that spending cuts can come through rooting out fraud and waste in the programs.
"We are going to look for fraud," Trump said during the first cabinet meeting of his second administration, reports CNN. "I'm sure you're okay with that."
He also pointed to reports alleging that "illegal aliens and other criminals" are collecting Social Security payments and to "people that are 200 years old that are being sent checks."
FCC's Carr Prepares to Erode Big Tech Legal Protection
Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr is preparing to weaken the legal protection known as Section 230 that shields Big Tech companies from liability, according to a report from the New York Post.
Post columnist Charles Gasparino reported that Carr's plan to erode Section 230 could potentially cost some of the world's most profitable companies billions in market value.
Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 was written to protect tech companies from being held legally responsible for third-party postings on their platforms, as it was thought that defamation lawsuits over content posted by third parties could crush the fledgling industry.
Cuomo Backers Start Super PAC Ahead of NYC Mayor's Race
Former Democrat New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's close allies have registered a super PAC that will likely support a campaign for mayor of New York City, The New York Times reports.
Longtime Cuomo adviser Steven M. Cohen led the formation of the PAC, Fix the City, along with LGBT activist Brian Ellner, lobbyist John Cordo, and attorney Mitra Hormozi. Sources told the Times that the group's paid media will be overseen by Bill Knapp, the co-founder of the public affairs firm SKDK who formerly worked on ex-NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg's campaigns.
"There's a strong cadre of people who have made clear to me their interest in being supportive of the former governor's mayoral candidacy," James Whelan, president of the Real Estate Board of New York, told the Times when asked about potential contributors to the super PAC.
Zelenskyy said a news conference early Wednesday in Kyiv that a framework of an economic deal had been reached, but that it did not yet include U.S. security guarantees, which his country sees as vital. The full agreement could hinge on the upcoming talks in Washington.
The framework is a preliminary step toward a comprehensive package that will be subject to ratification by the Ukrainian parliament, Zelenskyy said.
Ukraine needs to know first where the U.S. stands on its continued military support, Zelenskyy said. He said he expected a wide-ranging conversation with Trump.
The economic agreement "may be part of future security guarantees, but I want to understand the broader vision. What awaits Ukraine?" Zelenskyy said.
Why the Roman Republic Failed and What It Means to Us - Part III
Our history of the fall of the Republic now takes us to the last player in the drama – Lucius Cornelius Sulla, a man who had no reservations about destroying the Republic. Sulla never understood that his attempts to fix the Republic could not overcome the things he did to destroy it, so by the time he left the scene, Rome was ready to fall to any power hungry candidate who would be bold enough and strong enough to take it.
Sen. Ernst Rails on Union Work Paid by Taxpayers
Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, is lashing out at the discovery of more than $400,000 spent by NASA on employees doing union work in the last fiscal year.
Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, is lashing out at the discovery of more than $400,000 spent by NASA on employees doing union work in the last fiscal year. Ernst chairs the Senate DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) Caucus and said allowing federal employees to handle union duties while on the clock amounts to "ripping off taxpayers by an astronomical amount," as reported by the New York Post.
As a third measure, the department is examining the use of vaccines and therapeutics for laying chickens.
Rollins stated that "while vaccines aren't a stand-alone solution, we will provide up to $100 million in research and development of vaccines and therapeutics to improve their efficacy and efficiency," which should help reduce the need to kill chickens on a farm where there is an outbreak.
In addition to combating avian flu, another part of the strategy is to take other actions to lower the price of eggs.
As an example, Rollins said that unnecessary regulatory burdens on egg producers will be removed where possible — including "examining the best way to protect farmers from overly prescriptive state laws, such as California's Proposition 12, which established minimum space requirements for egg-laying hens, increasing production costs and contributing to the Golden State's average price of $9.68 a dozen."
Rollins said that the final part of the plan is to consider temporary import options in order to lower egg costs in the short term.
She stated that this will take place only "if the eggs meet stringent U.S. safety standards and if we determine that doing so won't jeopardize American farmers' access to markets in the future."
Rollins said the Agriculture Department is confident that this overall plan "will restore stability to the egg market over the next three to six months," as well as ensure stability over the next four years and beyond.
Sulla resigned as dictator in 81 and was elected consul. Then in 80 B.C he retired to live in the country and died the following year.
The naïve attempts by Sulla to turn back the clock on the Republic failed completely because he had not taken into account the essential economic and social problems facing the Roman people. His legacy was to empower the leaders of the army to replace the authority of the Republican system whenever they felt inclined to do so. The Senate and the people were about to lose their power forever.
Gov. Walz Won't Run for Open Minn. Senate Seat
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, a Democrat, announced Wednesday he will not run for the state's open Senate seat in 2026.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, a Democrat, announced Wednesday he will not run for the state's open Senate seat in 2026.
Walz, who was Kamala Harris' running mate in the 2024 presidential election, will consider running for a third term as governor instead.
"He loves his job as Governor and he's exploring the possibility of another term to continue his work to make Minnesota the best state in the country for kids," Teddy Tschann, a spokesperson for Walz, said in a statement.