Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Sensitive to political change…

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/28/google-reclassifies-us-as-sensitive-country-like-china-russia-.html

Google reclassifies U.S. as ‘sensitive country’ alongside China, Russia after Trump’s ‘Gulf of America’ comments

The decision to elevate the U.S. to its list of sensitive countries illustrates the challenges that tech companies face as they try to navigate the early days of a second Trump presidency. Since the start of the year, Meta, TikTok, Amazon and others have adjusted their products and policies to reflect Trump’s political views, policies and executive orders.





Praise is not universal…

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/28/us-navy-restricts-use-of-deepseek-ai-imperative-to-avoid-using.html

U.S. Navy bans use of DeepSeek due to ‘security and ethical concerns’

The U.S. Navy has instructed its members to avoid using artificial intelligence technology from China’s DeepSeek, CNBC has learned.

In a warning issued by email to “shipmates” on Friday, the Navy said DeepSeek’s AI was not to be used “in any capacity” due to “potential security and ethical concerns associated with the model’s origin and usage.”





Perspective. A couple obvious and a couple not so obvious.

https://www.npr.org/2025/01/28/g-s1-45056/economy-money-papers-explained

5 economic papers that lit up our brains — and what they say about our confusing world

We at Planet Money are constantly reading the work of economists and other social scientists to glean ideas, evidence and insights about the economy, and, more generally, the confusing world around us. Often this work provides the seeds for episodes or newsletters. But sometimes they're just interesting things we learned privately, and we don't do much with them.

Well, today, we're gonna try and change that. Welcome to the inaugural installment of the Planet Money Econ Roundup! Here are five recent papers that lit up our brains and are maybe worth taking a look at.



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