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Friday, November 07, 2025

7: AI

The Banyan Revolt (novel)
Gen Z Kranti (novel)
Madhya York: The Merchant and the Mystic (novel)
The Drum Report: Markets, Tariffs, and the Man in the Basement (novel)
Trump’s Default: The Mist Of Empire (novel)
Deported (novel)
Empty Country (novel)
Poetry Thursdays (novel)

The Banyan Revolt (novel)
Gen Z Kranti (novel)
Madhya York: The Merchant and the Mystic (novel)
The Drum Report: Markets, Tariffs, and the Man in the Basement (novel)
Trump’s Default: The Mist Of Empire (novel)
Deported (novel)
Empty Country (novel)
Poetry Thursdays (novel)

The Pressure of Poverty in Appalachia

What a Rough Day in Court Means for Trump’s Tariffs Businesses and investors are bracing for uncertainty after Supreme Court justices questioned the legality of a core part of the president’s trade policy.

What a Rough Day in Court Means for Trump’s Tariffs Businesses and investors are bracing for uncertainty after Supreme Court justices questioned the legality of a core part of the president’s trade policy.

Democrats in Mississippi Break the G.O.P.’s State House Supermajority Tuesday’s special election was forced by a court-ordered redistricting to offer Black voters a chance for more representation in the State Capital. ....... Those so-called majority-minority districts, in state legislatures and in Congress, have practically been the only ones held by Democrats in the South.

How a Small Elite College in Maine Influenced Mamdani’s World View The mayoral candidate has said his education at Bowdoin College was formative. But critics say that his degree exemplifies how colleges steep students in leftist dogma. ......... Mr. Mamdani’s reference to freedom was a nod to Haiti’s status as the first republic founded by former slaves. ........ He came from a family of Indian intellectuals who had lived in Uganda and South Africa, so the colonial experience was familiar to him from an early age. ......... Mr. Mamdani has recalled his Africana studies education fondly. Bowdoin, he said, is where he first read Frantz Fanon, the anticolonial militant and psychiatrist who wrote about

the psychic injuries that racism causes

. .......... Citing Henry David Thoreau, Frederick Douglass and Martin Luther King Jr., Dr. Rael said, “I hear in Zohran’s words nothing that would surprise any of these figures, all of whom form part of Bowdoin’s curriculum.” ......... “I sit in class not knowing whether to correct everyone’s mispronunciation of an Indian woman’s name,” he wrote in a column. “I usually do, but today I’m tired. I’m tired of being one of a few nonwhite students in a classroom, if not the only one.” .......... In 2013, with President Barack Obama in the White House and racial tensions simmering, the conservative-leaning National Association of Scholars published a 376-page report on Bowdoin that was unsparing in its criticism, accusing the college of promoting “closed-minded orthodoxies” — including Africana studies — in the name of diversity and inclusivity. The report estimated that there were only four or five conservatives out of approximately 182 full-time faculty members. ............. In his speech criticizing “elites,” Vice President Vance objected to Mr. Mamdani’s Fourth of July social media post

declaring his pride in a country that is “beautiful, contradictory, unfinished.”

......... For his part, Mr. Mamdani told the Bowdoin Orient in a 2019 interview that his studies were “very formative” and informed his thinking about urban problems. “Why they exist — and who made them exist,” he said. ............ He also threw in some advice for student organizers, urging them to follow their passions and “not to feel like any position is too radical.”

How OpenAI Uses Complex and Circular Deals to Fuel Its Multibillion-Dollar Rise Many of the deals OpenAI has struck — with chipmakers, cloud computing companies and others — are strangely circular. OpenAI receives billions from tech companies before sending those billions back to the same companies to pay for computing power and other services. ........... From 2019 through 2023, Microsoft was OpenAI’s primary investor. The tech giant pumped more than $13 billion into the start-up. Then OpenAI funneled most of those billions back into Microsoft, buying cloud computing power needed to fuel the development of new A.I. technologies. ......... By the summer of last year, OpenAI could not get all the computing power it wanted from Microsoft. So it started signing cloud computing contracts with other companies, including Oracle and little-known start-ups with names like CoreWeave. ........... Earlier this year, the Japanese conglomerate SoftBank led a $40 billion investment in OpenAI. ............. SoftBank ..... The company is raising $100 billion to help OpenAI build data centers in Texas and Ohio. ............

Oracle, a software and cloud computing giant, has agreed to spend $300 billion building new data centers for OpenAI in Texas, New Mexico, Michigan and Wisconsin. OpenAI will then pay Oracle roughly the same amount to use these computing facilities over the next several years.

................ The United Arab Emirates was part of an OpenAI’s fund-raising round in October 2024. Now, G42, a firm with close ties to the Emirati government, is building a roughly $20 billion data center complex for OpenAI in the Emirates. .......... Last month, Nvidia announced that it intended to invest $100 billion in OpenAI over the next several years. This could help OpenAI pay for its new data centers. As OpenAI buys or leases specialized chips from Nvidia, Nvidia will pump billions back into OpenAI. .............. OpenAI pulls in billions of dollars in revenue each year from customers who pay for ChatGPT, computer programming tools and other technologies. But it still loses more money than it makes .......... If technology progress stalls, OpenAI – and its many partners – could lose enormous amounts of money. Smaller companies like CoreWeave, which are taking on enormous amounts of debt to build new data centers, could go bankrupt.

For Podcasters, a Voice Clone Is a Double-Edged Sword Are A.I. replicas a boon for productivity or a betrayal of the bond with listeners? ......... With dozens of hours of his voice in his archive, Boster found an audio sample of the desired length, fed it into an A.I. voice generation platform called Elevenlabs and waited to meet his double. ........... Using the same technology behind chatbots like ChatGPT and image generators like Midjourney, Elevenlabs and similar services allow users to create lifelike voices from scratch, choose from a library of prefabricated voices or replicate their own voice with near note-perfect accuracy. ............ Is a replica an aid — with the potential to help its owner work faster, with less overhead and in foreign languages — or a betrayal of loyal listeners? ......... For some advertisements, news articles and audiobooks, synthetic voice narration is becoming standard. ......... Last month, a start-up called Inception Point AI faced an uproar over its strategy of publishing more than 3,000 A.I.-hosted podcast episodes per week, with one representative LinkedIn post accusing the company of devaluing human labor with “half-arsed AI slop.” ............ Host replicas are already being used to augment, or even replace, in-studio performances, and to translate episodes into other languages. This spring, Steven Bartlett, host of the popular business podcast “Diary of a CEO,” started a spinoff show hosted by his voice clone. .............

Although Elevenlabs and competing programs — such as Speechify, Respeecher and Resemble.AI — offer the most advanced voice cloning, more basic versions are built in to modern podcast editing tools. Popular services like Descript and Riverside.fm allow users to add to or alter recorded speech by simulating the speaker’s voice with A.I.

............... Many hosts approved of and were even enthusiastic about using an A.I. clone to translate themselves into other languages, as the podcaster Lex Fridman did for a recent interview with Narendra Modi, the prime minister of India. Typically, the few podcasts that are available in multiple languages have employed human translators, who speak in their own voices. ........... “I think being able to reach people in different countries in their native language would be amazing,” said Sam Fragoso, the host of “Talk Easy.” “That’s a win-win for everyone.” ........... For years, it has been a common practice on special-effects-heavy film productions to have actors digitally scanned, allowing the filmmaker to use A.I. tools to augment or modify their performance. Curtailing the use of such replicas became a major point of contention in the 2023 Hollywood actors’ strike. .............. “I feel optimistic that it will open up more possibilities for a lot of creators,” said Maya Prohvonik, head of podcast product at Spotify. “It’s just a tool to scale yourself. It’s not replacing you.”

The Banyan Revolt (novel)
Gen Z Kranti (novel)
Madhya York: The Merchant and the Mystic (novel)
The Drum Report: Markets, Tariffs, and the Man in the Basement (novel)
Trump’s Default: The Mist Of Empire (novel)
Deported (novel)
Empty Country (novel)
Poetry Thursdays (novel)

The Banyan Revolt (novel)
Gen Z Kranti (novel)
Madhya York: The Merchant and the Mystic (novel)
The Drum Report: Markets, Tariffs, and the Man in the Basement (novel)
Trump’s Default: The Mist Of Empire (novel)
Deported (novel)
Empty Country (novel)
Poetry Thursdays (novel)

The Banyan Revolt (novel)
Gen Z Kranti (novel)
Madhya York: The Merchant and the Mystic (novel)
The Drum Report: Markets, Tariffs, and the Man in the Basement (novel)
Trump’s Default: The Mist Of Empire (novel)
Deported (novel)
Empty Country (novel)
Poetry Thursdays (novel)

The Banyan Revolt (novel)
Gen Z Kranti (novel)
Madhya York: The Merchant and the Mystic (novel)
The Drum Report: Markets, Tariffs, and the Man in the Basement (novel)
Trump’s Default: The Mist Of Empire (novel)
Deported (novel)
Empty Country (novel)
Poetry Thursdays (novel)

The Banyan Revolt (novel)
Gen Z Kranti (novel)
Madhya York: The Merchant and the Mystic (novel)
The Drum Report: Markets, Tariffs, and the Man in the Basement (novel)
Trump’s Default: The Mist Of Empire (novel)
Deported (novel)
Empty Country (novel)
Poetry Thursdays (novel)

The Banyan Revolt (novel)
Gen Z Kranti (novel)
Madhya York: The Merchant and the Mystic (novel)
The Drum Report: Markets, Tariffs, and the Man in the Basement (novel)
Trump’s Default: The Mist Of Empire (novel)
Deported (novel)
Empty Country (novel)
Poetry Thursdays (novel)

The Banyan Revolt (novel)
Gen Z Kranti (novel)
Madhya York: The Merchant and the Mystic (novel)
The Drum Report: Markets, Tariffs, and the Man in the Basement (novel)
Trump’s Default: The Mist Of Empire (novel)
Deported (novel)
Empty Country (novel)
Poetry Thursdays (novel)

The Banyan Revolt (novel)
Gen Z Kranti (novel)
Madhya York: The Merchant and the Mystic (novel)
The Drum Report: Markets, Tariffs, and the Man in the Basement (novel)
Trump’s Default: The Mist Of Empire (novel)
Deported (novel)
Empty Country (novel)
Poetry Thursdays (novel)

The Banyan Revolt (novel)
Gen Z Kranti (novel)
Madhya York: The Merchant and the Mystic (novel)
The Drum Report: Markets, Tariffs, and the Man in the Basement (novel)
Trump’s Default: The Mist Of Empire (novel)
Deported (novel)
Empty Country (novel)
Poetry Thursdays (novel)

The Banyan Revolt (novel)
Gen Z Kranti (novel)
Madhya York: The Merchant and the Mystic (novel)
The Drum Report: Markets, Tariffs, and the Man in the Basement (novel)
Trump’s Default: The Mist Of Empire (novel)
Deported (novel)
Empty Country (novel)
Poetry Thursdays (novel)

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