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Why is the USDA Involved in Housing?!

In yesterday’s post, The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, I wrote that Trump’s Executive Order “cuts off institutional home investors from FHA insurance, VA guarantees and USDA backing…”. The USDA is of course the United States Department of Agriculture. In the comments, Hazel Meade writes: USDA? Wait, what. Why is the USDA in any […] The post Why is the USDA Involved in Housing. appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. CommentsIn reply to Ira Gilligan. Today it is a lot more okay, almost . by...

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The Pentagon is planning for AI companies to train on classified data, defense official says

The Pentagon is discussing plans to set up secure environments for generative AI companies to train military-specific versions of their models on classified data, MIT Technology Review has learned. AI models like Anthropic’s Claude are already used to answer questions in classified settings; applications include analyzing targets in Iran. But allowing models to train on…

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