Genesis is an AI technology that Google is currently exploring with the intention of enabling corporate media to produce news articles. The only means by which some publishers might inject even more lefty bias into their newsrooms may have been devised by the woke Silicon Valley titan.

According to The NY Times, Google’s Genesis, an experimental AI tool, is being marketed as a sort of personal assistant for journalists. Executives from prestigious news companies, like the NY Times, the Washington Post, as well as News Corp, which is the owner of the Wall Street Journal, have seen the technology in action.

Genesis’s function was defined in a statement by Google representative Jenn Crider. “We’re in the early phases of researching concepts to possibly give AI-enabled tools to support their journalists with their work,” she added, “in conjunction with news publishers, especially smaller publications.” Crider highlighted that the purpose of these technologies is not to take the role of journalists. Simply put, she continued, “these tools can’t replace the crucial role that journalists play in reporting, writing, and fact-checking their pieces.

Genesis’ launch was not without controversy, though. The Google proposal, according to some officials who viewed it, was frightening. They said it appeared to take the work that goes into creating accurate and meaningful news articles for granted.

The potential advantages and disadvantages of such technology were noted by journalism professor and media pundit Jeff Jarvis. “Journalists ought to employ the technology, according to Jarvis, if it can offer true information with any degree of reliability.” But he also cautioned about potential abuse. He said, “On the other hand, it might destroy the credibility of the tool as well as the news organizations that utilize it if it is exploited by journalists and news organizations on themes that call for delicacy and cultural knowledge.”

The accuracy of AI is being questioned just as it tries to enter the newsroom. According to a recent Breitbart News story, a Stanford investigation of ChatGPT revealed that its capacity for math problem-solving appears to be rapidly deteriorating.

Establishment Republicans rejected Representative Mary Miller’s (R-IL) amendment this week that would have revealed that Pete Buttigieg, the secretary of transportation, had taken 18 private, taxpayer-funded flights.

H.R. 3935, the Securing Growth for Robust Leadership within American Aviation Act, a measure intended to address persistent problems in the aviation sector, was the subject of Miller’s amendment proposal.

Miller put out her proposal to deal with the ongoing mystery concerning Buttigieg’s 18 taxpayer-funded private aircraft flights ever since assuming office in 2021 as a part of that. Data collected by Americans for Public Trust (APT) revealed that Buttigieg traveled to Nevada, Florida, Oklahoma, Minnesota, Ohio, and New Hampshire using two taxpayer-funded Cessna 650XL planes operated by the Federal Aviation Admin. In 2022, Buttigieg allegedly flew privately to Montreal, Canada to attend a meeting of the International Civil Aviation Organization.

Former cabinet officials, including former Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, utilized the exact same fleet a total of seven times with a cost to taxpayers of $94,000, according to Politico. Tom Price, the secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), quit in 2017 after taking 26 flights aboard a private plane that cost the tax payers $1.2 million.

Miller commented on Breitbart News, saying, “Taxpayers want to know where Mayor Pete has been flying off to with their money as the train and aviation business crumble in our nation.

“While your trip was postponed or canceled, Mayor Pete took 18 covert flights on an FAA jet that was paid for by taxpayers. Mayor Pete destroyed commercial air travel through his COVID vaccination regulations and racial pilot hiring rules.” She said, “My amendment will compel the FAA to provide the logs for Mayor Pete’s covert private jet trips.”

This week, Miller stated on the House floor that Americans deserved “openness and oversight” about Buttigieg’s personal travel.

However, Miller’s amendment was rejected. The amendment was defeated by ten House Republicans because it lacked the two votes necessary to pass the House. Representatives Yadira Caraveo (D-CO), Katie Porter (D-CA), and Ted Lieu (D-CA) are the three House Democrats that voted in favor of the amendment.

On the latest episode of CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg replied to a question about whether the Biden administration can take credit for lower inflation rates after previously attributing them to other factors such as Russia and “Putin’s cost hike” by saying that “we responded with a description of the things that we had been doing” while recognizing that there are “many things that contribute to this.”

“Inflation, it is coming downward now, and the current administration including President Biden is going to claim credit for it dropping down,” said co-host Joe Kernen. “My main concern is that, whenever we’ve discussed it in the past, nobody has ever claimed responsibility for the country’s high inflation rate. It wasn’t the money spent on COVID. It affected the entire world, it’s all over the place, and there’s nothing we can do about it since it’s global inflation and Putin’s price rise. However, now that it is decreasing, it is like, Look what I did, I reduced inflation. And that is illogical. It is not logically sound.”

“I don’t believe that’s exactly fair for a lot of reasons,” Buttigieg retorted. “First of all, these global comparisons, yeah, we highlighted that inflation in the U.S. wasn’t something that was occurring only in the United States; it was happening throughout the world. But we also highlighted all the ways in which we were outperforming many of our international counterparts. This was especially true when it came to our economy, which recovered from COVID at the fastest rate among wealthy nations, and I believe it is still true today in our fight against inflation.”

“The second point is that anytime we were asked, What are you doing regarding inflation? We answered with a list of the actions we were taking that we believed would have an impact. Therefore, I believe it to be entirely fair game, especially considering that when we announced the Inflation Reduction Act a year ago, some individuals claimed that it would result in higher inflation. Now that inflation is declining, I believe it’s crucial to emphasize the following: We had an inflation issue, we enacted an Inflation Reduction Act, and now inflation is declining. Even while we acknowledge — just as we did before — that there are many factors involved in this, how could we not point to that series of events?”

Kernen interjected to inquire about the Inflation Reduction Act’s real implementation.

“Well, look, it is certainly — you know, individuals were claiming that this will cause markets to instantly react by shifting in directions which are likely to be inflationary,” Buttigieg said in response. “That obviously didn’t take place. The work our government has done in both the short and medium term to deal with issues that we know cause inflation is another item I’d want to highlight. So, for instance, in my field of transportation, we discuss supply chain difficulties a lot, am I correct? Ensuring that we invest for the short, medium, and long terms. You handle supply chain problems, which reduces shipping costs. Inflation was fueled in part by rising shipping costs. And I believe that some of the work we did there is beginning to bear fruit. Regardless of whether we’re discussing supply chains in general or inflation in general, it isn’t a case of mission achieved.”

As part of a suspected cyber-espionage effort, hackers thought to be connected to China have compromised the email systems at over two dozen businesses, including several U.S. government institutions, by taking advantage of flaws in Microsoft software.

According to The Wall Street Journal, the hackers, known as “Storm-0558,” gained access to private computer networks by taking advantage of a security flaw in Microsoft’s cloud computing infrastructure. Officials and security researchers are particularly concerned about this revelation since it is thought to be a component of a wider spying operation that may have jeopardized sensitive U.S. government data.

“U.S. government security measures discovered a breach in Microsoft’s cloud security last month, which had an impact on unclassified systems.” According to Adam Hodge, spokesperson for the White House National Security Council, “officials notified Microsoft right after to identify the issue and vulnerability associated with their cloud service. We continue to hold the federal government’s procurement suppliers to a high-security level,” he continued.

The exact scope and seriousness of the event, as well as the specific institutions and people impacted, are still unknown. The episode has highlighted rising worries among senior Western intel officials concerning Chinese hackers’ capacity to plan sneaky strikes that can go undetected for years.

China, on the other hand, has repeatedly denied hacking American institutions and charged the US and its allies with focusing on Chinese networks. Requests for comment about the event were not answered by the Chinese embassy in Washington.

Microsoft has acknowledged that the hackers exploited a security flaw in its cloud computing system. In a statement, Microsoft revealed that “the hackers broke into the email accounts at approximately twenty-five organizations and struck consumer accounts which were probably linked to these entities.” Since then, the business has reduced the security flaw and is assisting the affected clients.

“Prior to disclosing further information to the public,” Microsoft said “it has been working with the affected users and alerting them.”

In June, Breitbart News reported on another significant breach carried out by the Chinese:

“The latest Chinese cyberattack Mandiant discovered once again took use of email application security holes to infect an undetermined amount of computer systems. The email program in this instance is known as Barracuda Email Security Gateway (ESG).”

“On May 23, Barracuda disclosed that it had found a zero-day vulnerability or a hole in software security that had not yet been noticed by security experts but had been exploited by hackers. By structuring filenames in a way that fooled the ESG system into implementing them without appropriate authentication, attackers were able to obtain unauthorized access to some areas of the email system and install malicious code.”

“The weakness was promptly fixed by Barracuda, but the company issued a warning that hackers may have been abusing it for up to seven months prior to its discovery. Barracuda released an urgent update on June 11 advising users to replace vulnerable ESG devices right away, regardless of the installed patches or even software version level. This is a sobering testament to the seriousness of the flaw and how ruthlessly hackers had already exploited it before security experts were made aware of it.”