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DeepSeek AI Is the Competition America Needs

The success of DeepSeek, the Chinese rival to American goliaths with radically more cost-effective artificial intelligence, reveals the futility of U.S. sanctions policies. Under the Biden administration, the American government was captured by some of the world’s most ham-handed national-security socialists, while the Chinese private sector under Xi Jinping commands some of the world’s most nimble capitalists. Read More ›
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The Increasingly Pressing Matter of Preserving Our Knowledge

Larry Sanger argues for the urgent need to preserve knowledge in a decentralized, open-source manner to combat increasing censorship and control by big tech companies. Sanger criticizes the centralization of information and highlights how platforms like Wikipedia, Facebook, and Google have shifted towards promoting establishment narratives while suppressing alternative viewpoints. He advocates for the creation of many independent, digitally signed Read More ›

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COSM Technology Summit 2024

COSM 2024 will hail the New American Century: exploring a technological transformation and revival of our country and economy as redemptive and cosmic as its renewal of technology. Join us October 31 – November 1 in Bellevue, WA. Read More ›
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The Israel Test

In this timely and courageous book, George Gilder demonstrates that the widespread antagonism toward the state of Israel is based — as is anti-Semitism itself — on self-defeating envy and resentment of its superior accomplishments and moral leadership.      Israel’s stunning rise as a world capitalist and technological power, he argues, stems in part from the Jewish “culture of Read More ›

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What are the Implications of an AI Transportation Future?

Bryan Mistele, CEO of INRIX, leads a panel discussion with Rich Pople, Director of General Motors’ AI and ML Center, Dorothy Li, Founder of Luminent AI, and Mark Masongsong, Co-Founder and CEO of Urbanlogiq in which they explore the opportunities and challenges in applying AI to revolutionize automobile transportation. Learn more about COSM2024 at https://cosm.tech.

Reasonable Energy- Pragmatic Solutions to Our Energy Needs

Reasonable Energy: Pragmatic Solutions to Our Energy Needs

Mark Mills, Senior Fellow at Manhattan Institute, leads a discussion with Todd Myers, Director of the Washington Policy Center’s Center for the Environment, and Michael Shellenberger, Author of Apocalypse Never, about reasonable and pragmatic approaches to meeting future energy needs. Learn more about COSM2024 at https://cosm.tech.

Silicon Valley Decentralized- Following Capital Investment

Silicon Valley Decentralized: Following Capital Investment

Cole Smead, CEO of Smead Capital Management leads a panel discussion with Matt McIlwain, Managing Director of Madrona Venture Group, Jack Selby, Managing Partner of AZ-VC, and Matt Norby, Managing Partner of Flume Ventures about access to capital, what the post-pandemic world looks like for capital management firms, and how artificial intelligence impacts venture capital markets. Learn more about COSM2024 Read More ›