Nordstrom shares jump as founding family seeks to take retailer private: sources
Nordstrom’s founding family is looking to take the Nordstrom department store operator private six years after a similar attempt failed, people familiar with the matter said Tuesday. Deliberations on the deal come as Nordstrom and other U.S. retailers grapple with the effects of inflation and high interest rates to curb consumer discretionary spending. Another department […]
Yes, our rights come from God: A needed lesson on America’s faith-infused founding
A disturbing narrative has entered our national consciousness that Americans who hold religious beliefs are potentially dangerous extremists and that faith-inspired public engagement poses a threat to our democracy. It’s metastasizing. These false and terrible concepts are not new, but they are clearly widespread. It also ensures an informed response. In a now infamous MSNBC […]
OpenAI denies Elon Musk’s claim there was a ‘founding agreement’
OpenAI has denied a key claim in Elon Musk’s lawsuit against the artificial intelligence giant that it has “fundamentally” departed from its “founding agreement” signed in 2015, which placed humanity before profits. “As the Complaint itself makes clear, there is no founding agreement or agreement whatsoever with Mr. Musk,” OpenAI said in a filing in […]
Elon Musk says OpenAI and Sam Altman breached founding mission of company
ODP Corporation CEO Gerry Smith explains why the company expanded its collaboration with Microsoft to use its AI technology on The Claman Countdown. Elon Musk has accused ChatGPT developer OpenAI and its CEO Sam of abandoning the company’s original founding mission of developing open source artificial general intelligence technology for the benefit of humanity over […]
Google’s AI chatbot Gemini makes ‘diverse’ images of founding fathers, popes and vikings: ‘So woke it’s unusable’
Google’s much-touted AI chatbot Gemini has been accused of being “woke” after its image generator spewed out factually and historically inaccurate photos. They include an Asian woman as Pope, a Black Viking, a female NHL player and “diverse” versions of America’s Founding Fathers. Gemini’s strange response occurred after a simple prompt such as “Create an […]
On this day in history, January 17, 1706, Benjamin Franklin, Founding Father, born in Boston
Benjamin Franklin, a scientist, philosopher, author, and the most famous American on both sides of the Atlantic during the Revolutionary Era, was born on this day in history, January 17, 1706. Today, 17 Milk Street in downtown Boston features a bust of the founding father and the words “Franklin's Birthplace.” In his 2000 Pulitzer Prize-winning […]