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China’s EVs, LLMs and the stopping power of the real world

Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality Open your eyes, look up to the skies and see. – Queen Shortly after moving from Hong Kong to Beijing in 2022, yours truly saw a BYD Han with a deep crimson metallic paintjob and thought

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Fiji declares HIV a national crisis as diagnoses surge

WELLINGTON, Sept 17 - Fiji has declared HIV a national crisis after new diagnoses climbed 27% last year, intensifying concern that an epidemic once concentrated among people who inject drugs is spreading more widely through the Pacific island nation.

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Peter Navarro says Fed's rate raise is 'a bad decision'

White House adviser Peter Navarro on Wednesday blasted the Federal Reserve's move to raise interest rates in several years, calling it "a bad decision." The central bank’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), led by Fed Chair Kevin Warsh, voted unanimously to increase the