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French economist

🇺🇸 Fitch Ratings’ U.S. Private Credit Default Rate Remains at Record High in July 2026 https://t.co/NLIuS4YYwy #PrivateCredit #DefaultRate #FitchRatings #US

German computer scientist and artificial intelligence researcher

The first modern backprop-trained CNN for vision was published in 1988 in Japan by Wei Zhang (a Chinese researcher), J. Tanida, K. Itoh, Y. Ichioka. Wei brought it to Silicon Valley, earning 1998 FDA PMA approval for radiology’s 1st AI, reading 10M+ mammograms/yr in the US. https://t.co/9PtQ86Wn7j #AI #MachineLearning #ComputerVision #JP #CN #US

French economist

🇺🇸 *US JULY PRODUCER PRICES UNCHANGED M/M; EST. +0.2% - BBG *US JULY PPI EX FOOD & ENERGY RISES 0.2% M/M; EST. +0.3% *US JOBLESS CLAIMS 209,000 IN AUG. 8 WEEK; EST. 202K *US CONTINUING CLAIMS 1.777M IN AUG. 1 WEEK; EST. 1.794M #Economy #USJobs #PPI #US

French economist

🇺🇸 #FormEnergy | Energy Startup Raises $750 Million for Rust-Powered Batteries - WSJ https://t.co/fPonzXFKXg #EnergyStartup #Batteries #Investment #US

Vaccine Policy by Vanity In the Trump administration’s latest attempt to turn public health into a culture-war dispute, childhood vaccination has become the latest prop. On 10 August, Donald Trump signed an executive order that recasts protection against 11 diseases as the #VaccinePolicy #PublicHealth #TrumpAdministration #US

German politician

The drone incident at Leipzig/Halle Airport was not a coincidence, but a targeted attack by a foreign power on our critical infrastructure. The demand to promptly invoke NATO Article 4 as a consequence is politically necessary in such a situation. (translated)

Czech journalist

Trump first pardoned and released from prison extremists from the Proud Boys convicted of the attack on the Capitol. Now his Department of Justice is prosecuting another person who testified against the Proud Boys in this case... (translated)

French economist

🇺🇸 The SEC has just made it easier to securitize certain US data centers and I think it is a pretty major development as the question is no longer just how far AI can progress technologically, but who will end up carrying the risk. ➡️ The SEC now considers that certain https://t.co/1hkvtkTcyM #SEC #DataCenters #AI #US

The successor of Warren Buffett has started shopping. Berkshire Hathaway has spent over 23 billion dollars. (translated)

A majority of the world's ships by tonnage are now built in Chinese shipyards. This industrial dominance is allowing China to drive forward maritime technology, create new categories of ships, and challenge U.S. naval dominance. Read the new @bismarckanlys Brief (link below): https://t.co/Z9m04KJxkA #ChinaShipping #MaritimeTechnology #NavalDominance #CN #US

"This is certainly a really embarrassing incident that the President of the United States did it in this way." (translated)

Another conversation about the violation of the airspace of Poland by a Russian missile and the necessity to send a strengthened contingent of US forces to Poland as soon as possible in accordance with President Trump's declaration. This time with Chris Curran at the National Security Council of the USA. (translated)

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Italian journalist and blogger

The news of the end of moderate Democratic candidates in the USA was greatly exaggerated. It is the mix that matters, it works, it wins, not the monoculture, the excesses. The round of tonight tells exactly this. Democrats win, not their caricature, both on the right and on the left. (translated)

Czech journalist

What can and cannot German intelligence services do? Here is an interesting case: December 2017. American intelligence services warn Germany: someone has infiltrated a highly secure government network. Target: the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 1/6 (translated)