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Elon Musk's Grok Calls Trump 'Most Notorious Criminal' in Washington, DC Published Aug 11, 2025 at 10:41 AM EDT Elon Musk's Grok Calls Trump 'Most Notorious Criminal' in Washington, DC - Newsweek 01:31 AI With No Filter? Inside Elon Musk’s Grok By Theo Burman Live News Reporter Grok, the artificial intelligence assistant developed by xAI, named President Donald Trump as "the most notorious criminal" in Washington, D.C. Elon Musk's chatbot said it came to that conclusion based on Trump's convictions. In May 2024, a jury in New York convicted Trump on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to a $130,000 payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels during the 2016 presidential campaign. Newsweek has contacted the White House for comment via email and Musk via an email to xAI. Why It MattersAI assistants have become a primary interface for some users seeking quick answers to complex public-policy and legal questions. However, the technology's responses have sometimes raised concerns. Earlier this year, Grok came under fire when it branded itself as "MechaHitler" and produced antisemitic responses to conspiracy theories surrounding Jewish people. Grok's description of Trump as "the most notorious criminal" in Washington also follows a public falling out between Trump and Musk. In June, the billionaire said the president was in the Epstein files and should be impeached for his support of the One Big Beautiful Bill. The tech mogul has since said he regretted some of his comments. What To KnowOn Sunday, Grok replied to an X user who asked whether violent crime in D.C. was going down and to another user who asked who the "most notorious criminal" in the capital was. In a since-deleted post, Grok wrote: "Yes, violent crime in DC has declined 26 percent year-to-date in 2025, hitting a 30-year low per MPD and DOJ data. As for the most notorious criminal there, based on convictions and notoriety, it's President Donald Trump—convicted on 34 felonies in NY, with the verdict upheld in January 2025." Stock image: A smartphone displays the Grok app's logo on a white screen while resting on a laptop showing the same logo in Chongqing, China, on February 19. Getty ImagesTrump is considering deploying hundreds of members of the National Guard in Washington, D.C., in the latest step in his campaign to make the city "safer and more beautiful," Reuters reported. o Is E.J. Antoni? Trump Taps New Labor Statistics Chief Elon Musk Reacts as Grok Account Gets Temporarily Suspended Donald Trump's Chip Revenue Deal Comes Under Scrutiny Trump Federalizes DC Police, Deploys Guard Over Crime NBC, citing three officials, reported that Trump might use up to 1,000 National Guard troops and could make an announcement on Monday. Grok came under scrutiny last month after it veered close to praising Nazi Germany when discussing politics. Developer xAI apologized for the chatbot's statements and disabled Grok before releasing an update that ceased all references to Hitler.

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POS trump Inflation SKYROCKETS by most in six months, stoking tariff-driven price concerns Allie Canal · Senior Reporter Tue, August 12, 2025 at 5:34 AM MST 1 min read finance.yahoo.com 2.4k Inflation ticked higher in July, according to new government data released Tuesday as investors stay alert to how much President Trump’s tariffs are starting to affect consumer costs. The latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed that "core" inflation, which excludes volatile food and energy costs, rose 3.1% over the past year in July, ahead of June's 2.9% increase and an indication that rising goods inflation is no longer being offset by easing services inflation. Monthly core prices increased 0.3%, also surpassing the prior month's 0.2% uptick and marking the largest gain in six months. Heading into the report, economists had expected core CPI to rise 3.0% year over year and 0.3% month over month. On a headline basis, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased 2.7% on an annual basis in July, matching June's number and slower than economist expectations of a 2.8% rise. Month over month, prices rose 0.2% compared to June's 0.3% increase, on par with economists' estimates. The monthly drop was driven by lower gasoline prices and moderately softer food inflation. Tuesday's report arrives amid ongoing trade developments that could further alter the US effective tariff rate, now hovering near 18.6% — the highest since 1933, according to the latest Yale Budget Lab estimate. This is a breaking news report and will be updated.

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BOOM: Data centers are DESTROYING the US economy, and we’re not even using them The average server utilization rate hovers between 12%-18% of capacity, while an estimated 10 million servers sit completely idle. sltrib.com (Getty Images) An estimated 10 million servers sit completely idle, representing $30 billion in wasted capital. By Baris Saydag \| Fortune \| Aug. 11, 2025, 11:48 a.m. Comment As tech giants announce hundreds of billions in new data center investments, we’re witnessing a fundamental misunderstanding of our compute shortage problem. The industry’s current approach, throwing money at massive infrastructure projects, resembles adding two more lanes to a congested highway. It might offer temporary relief, but it doesn’t solve the underlying problem. The numbers are staggering. Data center capital expenditures surged 53% year-over-year to $134 billion in the first quarter of 2025 alone. Meta is reportedly exploring a $200 billion investment in data centers, while Microsoft has committed $80 billion for 2025. OpenAI, SoftBank, and Oracle have announced the $500 billion Stargate initiative. McKinsey projects that data centers will require $6.7 trillion worldwide by 2030. And the list goes on. Yet here’s the uncomfortable truth. Most of these resources will remain dramatically underutilized. The average server utilization rate hovers between 12%-18% of capacity, while an estimated 10 million servers sit completely idle, representing $30 billion in wasted capital. Even active servers rarely exceed 50% utilization, meaning the majority of our existing compute infrastructure is essentially burning energy while doing nothing productive. The highway analogy holds trueWhen faced with traffic congestion, the instinctive response is to add more lanes. But transportation researchers have documented what’s known as “induced demand.” It’s a counterintuitive finding that proves additional capacity temporarily reduces congestion until it attracts more drivers, ultimately returning traffic to previous levels. The same phenomenon applies to data centers. Building new data centers is the easy solution, but it’s neither sustainable nor efficient. As I’ve witnessed firsthand in developing compute orchestration platforms, the real problem isn’t capacity. It’s allocation and optimization. There’s already an abundant supply sitting idle across thousands of data centers worldwide. The challenge lies in efficiently connecting this scattered, underutilized capacity with demand. The Environmental Reckoning Data center energy consumption is projected to triple by 2030, reaching 2,967 TWh annually. Goldman Sachs estimates that data center power demand will grow 160% by 2030. While tech giants are purchasing entire nuclear power plants to fuel their data centers, cities across the country are hitting hard limits on energy capacity for new facilities. Get Inside Voices newsletter. A weekly collection of ideas, perspectives and solutions from across Utah. This energy crunch highlights the significant strains on our infrastructure and is a subtle admission that we’ve constructed a fundamentally unsustainable system. The fact that companies are now buying their own power plants rather than relying on existing grids reveals how our exponential appetite for computation has outpaced our ability to power it responsibly. The distributed alternativeThe solution isn’t more centralized infrastructure. It’s smarter orchestration of existing resources. Modern software can aggregate idle compute from data centers, enterprise servers, and even consumer devices into unified, on-demand compute pools. This distributed approach offers several advantages: Immediate availability: Instead of waiting years for new data center construction, distributed networks can utilize existing idle capacity instantly. Cost efficiency: Leveraging underutilized resources costs significantly less than building new infrastructure. Environmental sustainability: Maximizing existing hardware utilization reduces the need for new manufacturing and energy consumption. Resilience: Distributed systems are inherently more fault-tolerant than centralized mega-facilities. The technical realityThe technology to orchestrate distributed compute already exists. Some network models already demonstrate how software can abstract away the complexity of managing resources across multiple providers and locations. Docker containers and modern orchestration tools make workload portability seamless. The missing piece is just the industry’s willingness to embrace a fundamentally different approach. Companies need to recognize that most servers are idle 70%-85% of the time. It’s not a hardware problem requiring more infrastructure. Nor is it a capacity issue. It’s an orchestration and allocation problem requiring smarter software. Instead of building our way out with increasingly expensive and environmentally destructive mega-projects, we need to embrace distributed orchestration that maximizes existing resources. This requires a fundamental shift in thinking. Rather than viewing compute as something that must be owned and housed in massive facilities, we need to treat it like a utility available on demand from the most efficient sources, regardless of location or ownership. So, before asking ourselves if we can afford to build $7 trillion worth of new data centers by 2030, we should ask whether we can pursue a smarter, more sustainable approach to compute infrastructure. The technology exists today to orchestrate distributed compute at scale. What we need now is the vision to implement it. The opinions expressed in Fortune.com commentary pieces are solely the views of their authors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions and beliefs of Fortune. This story was originally featured on Fortune.com

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BREAKING: PEDO POS trump Picks Project 2025 Mastermind to Be Put in Charge of MANIPULATION of Stats Trump Picks Project 2025 Mastermind to Be Put in Charge of Stats Story by Erkki Forster • 11h • 3 min read Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/Truth Social President Donald Trump has named a Project 2025 architect to replace the labor statistics chief he fired earlier this month, after receiving a disappointing jobs report. Trump is nominating E.J. Antoni, a top economist at the conservative Heritage Foundation, to serve as the next commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. “Our Economy is booming, and E.J. will ensure that the Numbers released are HONEST and ACCURATE,” the president announced Monday on Truth Social. “I know E.J. Antoni will do an incredible job in this new role.” President Donald Trump booted Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer out of her job after a poor July jobs report. / Yasin Ozturk/Getty Images Antoni, who contributed to the Heritage Foundation’s controversial Project 2025 initiative, had the backing of MAGA hardliners, including Steve Bannon. As a longtime skeptic of BLS data, Antoni is in step with Trump’s line of attack on the agency. The president accused the last BLS commissioner, Dr. Erika McEntarfer, of manipulating numbers after the July jobs report showed U.S. employers added far fewer jobs than expected. The report also revised May and June figures downward by a sharp 258,000. Trump fired McEntarfer on Aug. 1, only hours after Antoni bashed her as “incompetent” and called for new leadership at the agency. McEntarfer was appointed under the Biden administration in January 2024, after a bipartisan Senate vote. McEntarfer's firing was criticized by economists and even some of Trump's supporters, like Kevin O'Leary, who said, “We had bad print on jobs. I did not agree on whacking the Commissioner.” / U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics/Handout via Reuters Economists condemned the firing, warning that it could erode trust in U.S. economic statistics and mark a dangerous encroachment on democratic norms and data integrity. Former BLS commissioner William Beach, whom Trump appointed in his first term, decried McEntarfer’s dismissal as “damaging” and said periodic revisions are common. Antoni, however, argued that the BLS had already lost credibility and appeared to preview his agenda in an X post last week. “There are better ways to collect, process, and disseminate data—that is the task for the next BLS commissioner, and only consistent delivery of accurate data in a timely manner will rebuild the trust that has been lost over the last several years,” Antoni wrote. First off, I want to talk about something you've been Current Time 0:01 / Duration 3:07 The Daily Beast Trump Picks Project 2025 Mastermind to Be Put in Charge of Stats 0 View on Watch Notably, he continued to cite BLS data in his economic commentary on X. While Trump outright claims that McEntarfer “rigged” BLS numbers, Antoni’s criticism has focused on the large revisions the job reports have and the falling response rates to BLS surveys. He indirectly contradicted Trump’s insistence that the economy is “booming” when he addressed the downward revisions while speaking on Bannon’s podcast. “There’s clearly a negative bias in the revisions, which means there’s a positive bias in the initial numbers. In other words, we get an overly optimistic report, and then we later find out that it wasn’t that great. And so now we see that for the last several months, most of the jobs that we thought we were adding didn’t actually exist,” he said, noting that the downward revisions occurred during the Biden administration as well. Antoni, who holds a Ph.D. in economics from Northern Illinois University, contributed to Project 2025, the ultraconservative blueprint to overhaul the federal government that became so controversial even Trump sought to distance himself from it on the campaign trail last year. However, the president has implemented a number of strategies Project 2025 had laid out since taking office. Antoni now faces confirmation by the Republican-controlled Senate. The Daily Beast has reached out to the White House for comment on Trump’s nomination. Read more at The Daily Beast. ICE Superman Dean Cain Loses It in On-Air Clash With Anti-Trump Conservative MSNBC Host: Ghislaine Maxwell May Have ‘Already’ Earned a Pardon From Trump Landing Plane Crashes Into Another Aircraft in Airport Fireball Sponsored Content