Trust is a Two-Way Street

The federal government has a chatbot. President Donald Trump launched america.gov on Tuesday, a new site that looks like ChatGPT or Claude with a prompt box to query the federal government. The underlying LLM draws its responses from official state sources. “With america.gov, the federal government no longer stands in your way, and it stands…

A customer views their transaction history in their mobile banking app and sees a payment made to a merchant whose name is a hodgepodge of numbers and abbreviations. While this may be a perfectly legitimate transaction, the lack of clarity can raise red flags for users. At the least, the customer must do additional legwork…

The dollar index (DXY00) fell by -0.04% on Wednesday.  The dollar posted modest losses on Wednesday amid a mild recovery in the euro and the yen.  The euro rose ahead of Thursday’s ECB meeting, and the yen recovered slightly from Tuesday’s 39-year low on the prospect of faster BOJ interest rate hikes.  Losses in the…

If there was one safe bet over the course of 2026, it was that treasury yields would rise alongside a move up in oil futures contracts. Over the past month, that ended, and according to Jeffrey Rosenberg, senior portfolio manager of the Systematic Alternatives ETF (IALT) at BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, the breakdown…

Key Takeaways Google is partnering with Hiring Our Heroes, Student Veterans of America and the Home Builders Institute to help 25,000 veterans enter skilled-trades careers. The effort targets a growing labor shortage in the trades, as AI-driven data-center construction and other infrastructure projects increase demand for workers. Google says hundreds of thousands of skilled-trades jobs…

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