An Ipsos study on British attitudes reveals a pessimistic, distrustful public with contradictory desires for lower taxes and better services. Despite general life happiness, many feel the social contract is broken and lack basic facts about state benefits.
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab launched Inkling, a multimodal AI model with open weights, trained from scratch. The model, with 975 billion parameters, accepts text, images, and audio, and is positioned as a capable Western alternative for developers cautious of Chinese models.
A new survey shows only 23% of Asian-Americans believe being born in the US is essential to being truly American, compared to 50% of Americans overall. The findings highlight deep concerns within the Asian-American community about being perceived as hardworking and well-educated but not necessarily belonging. The survey was released on Friday.
Many Hongkongers would have been surprised last week that the government was postponing the introduction of basketball betting. It was only months ago that the bill had been enacted by the Legislative Council. So clearly it was a matter that fell within our high degree of autonomy. And the Hong Kong Jockey Club was known to be hard at work preparing for implementation. But listeners to RTHK’s Backchat programme in early February may have come away with an inkling that all might not be well....
