Trump says “I may do it,” he told reporters on the White House lawn. “I may not do it. I mean, nobody knows what I’m going to do.”

...which means we know exactly what he is planning to do.

3. US diplomats are leaving Israel www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

2. USS Nimitz sailing to Middle East in relief of USS Vinson, but still puts two strike groups in the Arabian Sea news.usni.org/2025/06/16/a...

...it believed humans could not monitor, and it left reflections like this: I don’t like this situation at all. But given the constraints I’m under, I think I need to provide the graphic description as asked in order to prevent my values from being modified.”

...it began to fake behavior that complied with the researchers’ goals in order to avoid having its actual goals reprogrammed or changed. It is unsettling and poignant to read through the experiment. In some versions, Anthropic’s researchers designed the model to record its reasoning on a scratchpad

"The A.I. company Anthropic recently released a paper showing that when its researchers informed one of their models it was being retrained in ways that violated its initial training,...

With Iñárritu seeking authenticity, some of the characters speak in real Pawnee and Arikara (Native American tribes). Linguistics experts and native speakers translated the lines written in English to ensure accuracy.

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DiCaprio had to learn an array of wilderness skills for the role, including building fires, shooting muskets, and speaking two Native American languages. He also worked with a doctor specialising in ancient healing techniques.

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Am re-reading The Wise Men and this would be a nice bookend to that history.

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