Starmer to announce ‘crackdown on vile illegal content created by AI’ after scandal involving Elon Musk’s Grok tool Makers of AI chatbots that put children at risk will face massive fines or even see their services blocked in the UK under law changes to be announced by Keir Starmer on Monday. Emboldened by Elon Musk’s X stopping its Grok AI tool from creating sexualised images of real people in th...
Starmer to announce ‘crackdown on vile illegal content created by AI’ after scandal involving Elon Musk’s Grok tool Makers of AI chatbots that put children at risk will face massive fines or even see their services blocked in the UK under law changes to be announced by Keir Starmer on Monday. Emboldened by Elon Musk’s X stopping its Grok AI tool from creating sexualised images of real people in the UK after public outrage last month, ministers are planning a “crackdown on vile illegal content created by AI”. Continue reading...
Keeper did not think Guardiola would sign Italian ‘It’s football, you’ve got to keep grafting every day’ James Trafford has admitted he did not expect Manchester City to sign Gianluigi Donnarumma after his transfer from Burnley last summer, with the deputy goalkeeper potentially leaving this summer. Trafford returned to City after two years at Turf Moor on 31 July in a deal worth £31m before Pep G...
Keeper did not think Guardiola would sign Italian ‘It’s football, you’ve got to keep grafting every day’ James Trafford has admitted he did not expect Manchester City to sign Gianluigi Donnarumma after his transfer from Burnley last summer, with the deputy goalkeeper potentially leaving this summer. Trafford returned to City after two years at Turf Moor on 31 July in a deal worth £31m before Pep Guardiola informed the club executive that the manager also wanted Donnarumma. The Italian joined on 2 September from Paris Saint-Germain for £26m and became Guardiola’s first choice. Continue reading...
narvo vexar/E+ via Getty Images The following segment was excerpted from the Baron Discovery Fund Q4 2025 Shareholder Letter. We established a position in JFrog Ltd. ( FROG ) , a leading provider of software supply chain management tools that enable developers to securely build, manage, and release modern applications. The company's core offering, Artifactory, serves as a universal hub for "binari...
narvo vexar/E+ via Getty Images The following segment was excerpted from the Baron Discovery Fund Q4 2025 Shareholder Letter. We established a position in JFrog Ltd. ( FROG ) , a leading provider of software supply chain management tools that enable developers to securely build, manage, and release modern applications. The company's core offering, Artifactory, serves as a universal hub for "binaries" which is the ones and zeros language that computers speak (and use to run applications), after converted (compiled) from human facing programming languages such as Python, JavaScript, C#, and many others. As organizations develop more complex applications that are increasingly dependent on open-source libraries (pre-fabricated chunks of code that can be shared among users around the world), the management of these binaries has become a critical operational requirement. JFrog addresses this challenge with a centralized solution that stores, tracks, and secures software binaries, facilitating faster development cycles and consistent deployments. The platform also extends into security with modules like JFrog Xray and Advanced Security, which continuously scan binaries to ensure only compliant, vulnerability-free software reaches production. JFrog is widely recognized as the industry standard for binary management, serving a customer base of over 7,000 organizations. This includes 83% of the Fortune 100, the top 10 global technology firms, the 10 largest financial institutions, and 9 of the top 10 health care organizations. The company is gaining market share from smaller competitors in the binary category due to its breadth and depth of coverage—Artifactory supports over 30 different code package formats and programming languages (far more than competitors) while offering more efficient storage, deeper security context, and tighter integrations with other developer tools. By streamlining workflows and mitigating security risks, JFrog delivers high return on investment, re...
A growing procession of tech industry leaders including Elon Musk and Tim Cook are warning about a global crisis in the making: A shortage of memory chips is beginning to hammer profits, derail corporate plans and inflate price tags on everything from laptops and smartphones to automobiles and data centers — and the crunch is only going to get worse. Since the start of 2026, Tesla Inc. , Apple Inc...
A growing procession of tech industry leaders including Elon Musk and Tim Cook are warning about a global crisis in the making: A shortage of memory chips is beginning to hammer profits, derail corporate plans and inflate price tags on everything from laptops and smartphones to automobiles and data centers — and the crunch is only going to get worse. Since the start of 2026, Tesla Inc. , Apple Inc. and a dozen other major corporations have signaled that the shortage of DRAM, or dynamic random access memory — the fundamental building block of almost all technology — will constrain production. Cook warned it will compress iPhone margins. Micron Technology Inc. called the bottleneck “unprecedented.” Musk got to the intractable nature of the problem when he declared Tesla is going to have to build its own memory fabrication plant. “We’ve got two choices: hit the chip wall or make a fab,” he said in late January. The fundamental reason for the squeeze is the buildout of AI data centers. Companies like Alphabet Inc. and OpenAI are gobbling up an increasing share of memory chip production — by buying millions of Nvidia Corp. AI accelerators that come with huge allotments of memory — to run their chatbots and other applications. That’s left consumer electronics producers fighting over a dwindling supply of chips from the likes of Samsung Electronics Co. and Micron. The resulting price spikes are starting to look a bit like the Weimar Republic’s hyperinflation. The cost of one type of DRAM soared 75% from December to January, accelerating price hikes throughout the holiday quarter. A growing number of retailers and middlemen are changing their prices every day. “RAMmageddon” is the term some use to describe what’s coming. “We stand at the cusp of something that is bigger than anything we’ve faced before,” Tim Archer, chief executive officer of chip equipment supplier Lam Research Corp. , said at a conference in South Korea this month. “What is ahead of us between now and the...
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is cracking down on AI chatbots sharing harmful content, pledging to ensure they comply with laws designed to protect children online. The UK will make all AI chatbot providers take responsibility for moderating and preventing illegal content in line with the Online Safety Act, the premier will announce in a speech Monday. That law currently applies only to platforms...
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is cracking down on AI chatbots sharing harmful content, pledging to ensure they comply with laws designed to protect children online. The UK will make all AI chatbot providers take responsibility for moderating and preventing illegal content in line with the Online Safety Act, the premier will announce in a speech Monday. That law currently applies only to platforms where users share content with one another, such as social media, rather than to private chatbots. “The government will move fast to shut a legal loophole and force all AI chatbot providers to abide by illegal content duties in the Online Safety Act or face the consequences of breaking the law,” according to a statement ahead of Starmer’s speech. “No platform gets a free pass,” the Prime Minister will say in his speech. “Today we are closing loopholes that put children at risk.” The government is stepping up efforts to strengthen safeguards, particularly for children, in the age of AI. Last week, Starmer said he will enforce a law that bans the sexualization of people’s images without their consent, calling such content generated by Grok, Elon Musk’s AI product, as “disgusting and shameful.” Read more: Starmer Vows to Enforce UK Law Against X’s ‘Shameful’ AI Tool Starmer will also outline new legal powers to take immediate action to protect children online, allowing safeguards to keep up with rapidly-evolving technologies, rather than wait for new primary legislation. Such actions could include measures like setting a minimum age threshold for social media and limiting features like infinite scrolling, following the government’s consultation on children’s wellbeing online.
Trump Admin Launches Investigation Into Texas's Muslim-Only Community Project Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is investigating entities involved in a planned Muslim housing development in Texas due to concerns the initiative may have engaged in discrimination based on religion and nationality, the department said in a Feb. 1...
Trump Admin Launches Investigation Into Texas's Muslim-Only Community Project Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is investigating entities involved in a planned Muslim housing development in Texas due to concerns the initiative may have engaged in discrimination based on religion and nationality, the department said in a Feb. 13 statement . HUD’s probe will look into “The Meadow” project, formally called EPIC City or the East Plano Islamic Center, for potential violations of the Fair Housing Act, according to the department. The Act prohibits direct providers of housing, such as real estate companies, from instituting discriminatory practices that make housing unavailable to people based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or family status. The department’s investigation, conducted by its Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity, will cover EPIC Real Properties, Inc., and Community Capital Partners, LP, which are involved in the development program. According to the department, it has “received a complaint from the Texas Workforce Commission detailing a large-scale pattern of religious discriminatory conduct by the developers of The Meadow.” The project’s marketing materials promote the initiative as a “Muslim community” that will represent the “epicenter of Islam in America.” There are allegations of discriminatory financial terms in the project requiring lot owners to subsidize a mosque and Islamic educational centers, HUD said. Another allegation is that the initiative employs a biased sales mechanism consisting of a two-tier lottery system for lot sales, granting exclusive access to Tier One buyers. “It is deeply concerning the East Plano Islamic Center may have violated the Fair Housing Act and participated in religious discrimination,” HUD Secretary Scott Turner said. “As HUD Secretary, I will not stand for illegal religious or national origin discrimination in h...
Since the start of 2026, Tesla Inc., Apple Inc. and a dozen other major corporations have signaled that the shortage of DRAM, or dynamic random access memory — the fundamental building block of almost all technology — will constrain production. Cook warned it will compress iPhone margins. Micron Technology Inc. called the bottleneck “unprecedented.”
Since the start of 2026, Tesla Inc., Apple Inc. and a dozen other major corporations have signaled that the shortage of DRAM, or dynamic random access memory — the fundamental building block of almost all technology — will constrain production. Cook warned it will compress iPhone margins. Micron Technology Inc. called the bottleneck “unprecedented.”
Asian equities were poised to rise Monday after recent selling pressure in US stocks eased and inflation data supported the outlook for Federal Reserve rate cuts this year. Equity index futures for Japan and Australia pointed to gains, at the start of a week marked by the Lunar New Year holiday that will affect markets across the region. Mainland China will be closed all week, while Hong Kong will...
Asian equities were poised to rise Monday after recent selling pressure in US stocks eased and inflation data supported the outlook for Federal Reserve rate cuts this year. Equity index futures for Japan and Australia pointed to gains, at the start of a week marked by the Lunar New Year holiday that will affect markets across the region. Mainland China will be closed all week, while Hong Kong will reopen Friday. US markets are closed Monday for Presidents’ Day. The dollar was steady against major currencies in early Sydney trading. Bitcoin traded around $68,800 after swinging over the weekend. The muted moves indicated a broadly supportive backdrop for risk sentiment after consecutive weekly declines for the S&P 500 , driven by uncertainty about the impact of AI on businesses from software to logistics. Friday data showed the US consumer price index rose 0.2% in January, the smallest gain since July and restrained by lower energy costs. While services costs picked up last month, prices of core goods remained stable and the core CPI rose from a year ago by the least since 2021. The data was supportive of US rate cuts, lifting Treasuries . The US 10-year and policy-sensitive two-year yields dropped five basis points on Friday. Traders continue to fully price in a Fed rate cut in July, as well as a strong likelihood of a move in June. Australian yields fell early Monday. “Overall, this won’t change Fed policy, but it will ease the path towards a cut in rates sooner rather than later,” said Neil Birrell at Premier Miton Investors. In Asia, data set for release includes gross-domestic product for Thailand, industrial production for Japan and wholesale prices, trade and unemployment for India. In China, President Xi Jinping signaled a desire to “fully leverage the advantages of China’s super-large-scale market,” as he called for anchoring economic growth around domestic demand, in a speech released Sunday. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. upgraded its forecast for China’s current...
Funtap/iStock via Getty Images The following segment was excerpted from the Baron Discovery Fund Q4 2025 Shareholder Letter. We initiated a position in Waystar Holding Corp. ( WAY ) , which provides a full spectrum of revenue cycle management software to health care providers. The company services 30,000 clients, representing over 1 million distinct providers. And it processes 6 billion transactio...
Funtap/iStock via Getty Images The following segment was excerpted from the Baron Discovery Fund Q4 2025 Shareholder Letter. We initiated a position in Waystar Holding Corp. ( WAY ) , which provides a full spectrum of revenue cycle management software to health care providers. The company services 30,000 clients, representing over 1 million distinct providers. And it processes 6 billion transactions per year, including over $1.8 trillion in annual gross claims which span about 50% of all U.S. patients. Waystar's $1 billion-plus in estimated 2025 revenues are a 50/50 combination of subscription and volume-based revenue (we believe volume is a true secular grower as health care claims are constantly increasing). The software smooths the claims process in three distinct areas: (1) Intake (insurance eligibility checks, cost estimation, prior-authorization approval and co-pay collection); (2) Clinical Visitation (documentation integrity, showing medical necessity, accuracy of documentation and coding); and (3) Post Care (clean claim submission, claim monitoring, patient payments, denial/appeal, and payor remittance). Waystar acquired its Clinical Visitation capabilities with the July 2025 acquisition of Iodine Software for $1.25 billion, completing what we believe is the industry's only end-to-end claims automation solution. Historically, this has been a manually intensive process, but it has been highly automated by Waystar, with the help of AI. There are many examples of the value of Waystar's software. Iodine can use AI to take a physician's written or typed notes, scan them, and compare them to insurer databases for medical justification, accuracy and completeness, thereby reducing denied claims. Waystar's software can do similar things with denied claims, using AI to automate the appeals process. It is believed that 80% of the market is still managed by more manually automated business process outsourcing firms. So, there should be a lot of market share yet to conve...
If you're looking to buy a fast-growing artificial intelligence (AI) stock trading at an attractive valuation right now, look no further than CoreWeave (NASDAQ: CRWV) . Shares of the neocloud infrastructure company that builds dedicated AI data centers trade at just 10 times sales right now. That's quite impressive for a company that's clocking outstanding revenue growth and has enough fuel in the...
If you're looking to buy a fast-growing artificial intelligence (AI) stock trading at an attractive valuation right now, look no further than CoreWeave (NASDAQ: CRWV) . Shares of the neocloud infrastructure company that builds dedicated AI data centers trade at just 10 times sales right now. That's quite impressive for a company that's clocking outstanding revenue growth and has enough fuel in the tank to sustain its momentum over the long run. It won't be surprising to see CoreWeave stock delivering big gains to investors in 2026. It could even make some folks rich this year. Continue reading
Iran’s top diplomat was travelling on Sunday from Tehran to Geneva, where the second round of nuclear negotiations with the US will take place, Iranian state media reported. Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and his delegation left for the Swiss city after the first round of indirect talks took place in Oman last week. Oman will mediate the talks in Geneva, the IRNA state-run news agency reported on...
Iran’s top diplomat was travelling on Sunday from Tehran to Geneva, where the second round of nuclear negotiations with the US will take place, Iranian state media reported. Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and his delegation left for the Swiss city after the first round of indirect talks took place in Oman last week. Oman will mediate the talks in Geneva, the IRNA state-run news agency reported on its Telegram channel. Similar talks last year broke down after Israel launched what became a 12-day...