Mar. 31st, 2026

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SAN FRANCISCO — Governor Gavin Newsom issued an executive order today to strengthen California’s procurement processes and raise the bar for artificial intelligence companies seeking to do business with the state. The order aims to ensure that companies meet strong standards and demonstrate responsible policies that prevent misuse of their technology, while protecting users’ safety and privacy. Unlike the Trump administration, California remains committed to ensuring that AI solutions adopted and deployed by the largest state in the nation and 4th largest economy in the world cannot be misused by bad actors seeking to exploit their users’ data, subvert their security, and violate their civil rights.

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Mar. 31st, 2026 07:13 am
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Gideon Rachman@FT (https://archive.is/ut0uQ) -- Iran could emerge from the war stronger and more dangerous.
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Michael B. Weissman@econjwatch.org -- An influential paper by Pekar et al. published in Science in 2022 claimed that Bayesian analysis of the molecular phylogeny of early SARS-CoV-2 cases indicated that the likelihood that two successful introductions to humans had occurred was greater than the likelihood that just one had occurred. After correcting a fundamental error in Bayesian reasoning, the results presented in that paper imply larger likelihood for a single introduction. That correction reduces the compatibility of the results with the wet-market zoonosis account.

Michael B. Weissman is a Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He has worked mostly on condensed matter experiments, especially on low-frequency noise in disordered materials. He thinks that libertarian philosophy is factually detached from the realities of our species, implicitly cruel, and will lead to environmental catastrophe.