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‘Banana Republic’: Experts Horrified as Trump Demands BLS Director’s Firing Over Bad Jobs Report

‘Banana Republic’: Experts Horrified as Trump Demands BLS Director’s Firing Over Bad Jobs Report

U.S. President Donald Trump stunned economics experts on Friday when he demanded the firing of Erika McEntarfer, the current commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In justifying his call to fire McEntarfer, Trump baselessly accused her of manipulating economic data to hurt him politically by releasing a report showing that the economy only added 73,000 jobs last month. “McEntarfer …

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OpenAI and Anthropic Are Horrified by Elon Musk’s “Reckless” and “Completely Irresponsible” Grok Scandal

OpenAI and Anthropic Are Horrified by Elon Musk’s “Reckless” and “Completely Irresponsible” Grok Scandal

Experts at OpenAI and Anthropic are calling out Elon Musk and xAI for refusing to publish any safety research — and for potentially not having done any at all. In the wake of Grok, xAI’s chatbot, calling itself “MechaHitler” and publicly spewing a ton of racist and antisemitic vitriol, safety experts at those rival firms are, as flagged by TechCrunch, extremely …

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