Superintelligent A.I. Is Arriving Faster Than Anticipated

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You heard it here second, after Thomas L. Friedman, Opinion Column, The New York Times (4/7/26):

"Holy cow! Superintelligent A.I. is arriving faster than anticipated, at least in this area. We knew it was getting amazingly good at enabling anyone, no matter how computer literate, to write software code. But even Anthropic reportedly did not anticipate that it would get this good, this fast, at finding ways to find and exploit flaws in existing code."

Read the entire Opinion Piece here.

The Iran War: Serious Harm to the Global Economy

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Opinion Columnist for The New York Times Thomas L. Friedman writes:  This [Iran war] is imposing serious harm on the global economy, including the U.S. stock market, and Trump has no clue how to get out of the mess that he has created by starting a war without thinking through the implications.

What to do?  Read Mr. Friedman's entire opinion here.

Feeling Assaulted by the Federal Government

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"Feeling assaulted by the federal government." That's how Thomas L. Friedman describes what is happening in his hometown, Minneapolis.

Read the interview here.  America is at a boiling point.

Today in Global Small Business: The Selfless MacKenzie Scott Does It Again With Her Philanthropy

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What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners:

• The selfless MacKenzie Scott does it again with her philanthropy.  Feeling inspired and want to donate to an impactful nonprofit before the year end?  Do it here (it's a nonprofit I founded in 2015).
• The columnist David Brooks sits down with Thomas L. Friedman to make sense of what the modern world’s cascading crises mean for the future.
• Quote of the week:  "Christmas is a season which almost all Christians observe in one way or another. Some keep it as a religious season. Some keep it as a holiday. But all over the world, wherever there are Christians, in one way or another Christmas is kept." – J. C. Ryle
• How does Costco keep nailing it?  It's one simple holiday staple.
• Melinda Gates says everyone should read this book.
• Key financial lessons from "It's a Wonderful Life."