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While Trump blathers about tariffs and Gaza, Musk is executing a coup d’état | John Naughton

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Elon Musk and a few of his goons gained access to the Department of Treasury payments system.

He and a 25-year-old engineer named Marko Elez were given the ability to make changes to the payments system, thereby enabling them to stop disbursements of taxpayers’ dollars to recipients that the Trump crowd decide are illegitimate.

An astute essay by Erik J Larsen on his Substack , Colligo , about the large language models that the tech industry calls AIs’ How to raise your artificial intelligence a fascinating conversation with psychologist Alison Gopnik and AI scientist Melanie Mitchell in the LA Review of Books .