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Hegseth Gives Anthropic Until Friday To Back Down on AI SafeguardsPosted by msmash on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @02:00PM from the how-about-that dept.Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei until Friday evening to give the military unfettered access to its AI model or face harsh penalties, Axios has learned. Hegseth told Amodei in a tense meeting on Tuesday that the Pentagon will either cut ties and declare Anthropic a "supply chain risk," or invoke the Defense Production Act to force the company to tailor its model to the military's needs.The Pentagon wants to punish Anthropic as the feud over AI safeguards grows increasingly nasty, but officials are also worried about the consequences of losing access to its industry-leading model, Claude. "The only reason we're still talking to these people is we need them and we need them now. The problem for these guys is they are that good," a Defense official told Axios ahead of the meeting. Anthropic has said it is willing to adapt its usage policies for the Pentagon, but not to allow its model to be used for the mass surveillance of Americans or the development of weapons that fire without human involvement.
Pilar García de la Granja, experta económica, sobre las hipotecas: «Cuestan el doble de lo que suponía a nuestros padres»El mercado de la vivienda en España atraviesa una fase especialmente compleja y llena de aparentes contradiccionesEl mercado de la vivienda en España atraviesa una fase especialmente compleja y llena de aparentes contradicciones. Mientras las hipotecas se sitúan entre las más baratas de la eurozona en términos de tipo de interés, el esfuerzo que deben realizar las familias para pagarlas es cada vez mayor.Sobre este tema han hablado esta semana la economista Pilar García de la Granja junto a Jorge Bustos y Pilar Cisneros en el programa Herrera en COPE. Durante la conversación han analizado las razones detrás de esta paradoja y han contado con el análisis del doctor en Finanzas de la Universidad de Comillas, Luis Garvía, que ha aportado contexto al debate.Hipotecas en máximos históricosEl punto de partida fue el último dato del INE sobre hipotecas firmadas en diciembre, que rondan el medio millón. «Estamos en máximos», destacaba Pilar García de la Granja, pese a que el euríbor sigue sin bajar del 2,2%. La hipoteca media alcanza ya los 170.000 euros, con un tipo del 2,97%, uno de los más bajos de la Unión Europea.Sin embargo, que el tipo sea reducido en comparación con otros países no implica necesariamente que el esfuerzo sea menor. Luis Garvía advertía en de que «debemos meter otras variables, la presión fiscal, la inflación también y sobre todo los salarios». Aunque los intereses y algunos costes sean más bajos en términos comparativos, «un esfuerzo por familias más alto» es el resultado cuando los sueldos son inferiores a los de otros socios europeos.En esa línea, Pilar García de la Granja señalaba que todas esas variables explican que hoy pagar una vivienda suponga ya siete años de salario íntegro. «Esto es el doble de lo que suponía para nuestros padres», apuntaba.
https://archive.is/aQ9Zbhttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-23/uk-graduate-jobs-drop-below-10-000-for-first-time-adzuna-saysCitarUK Graduate Jobs Drop Below 10,000 for First Time, Adzuna SaysBy Philip AldrickFebruary 23, 2026 at 12:01 AM UTCUK job vacancies dropped to their lowest in five years and graduate posts fell to a record low as hiring weakened in January amid mounting concerns about the labor market.Employers advertised 694,940 jobs, a 3.05% fall in the month that continued the downward trend from last year, the online job search site Adzuna said. It was the worst reading since January 2021. Graduate jobs plunged 19.1% to below 10,000 for the first time since Adzuna started tracking the metric in April 2016.“The market remains challenging, with fewer vacancies and intense competition, but continued wage growth suggests employers are still willing to pay for the right skills,” said Andrew Hunter, the firm’s co-founder. The average salary reached £43,289 ($58,300) in January, up 5.98% year-on-year, Adzuna said — above the Bank of England’s 3.25% estimate of non-inflationary stable wage growth.The findings will add to fears that the UK labor market is fast unwinding, with young people hit hardest. Bank of England rate-setters have recently raised concerns about rising unemployment, which has climbed to 5.2% from 4.7% in the past six months.Labour’s hikes to the minimum wage and payroll taxes have been blamed, as well as its plans for stricter employment rights. AI also appears to be replacing entry level jobs, which fell 4.46% on the month, according to Adzuna.[Read More: Startups in Britain Turn to AI Instead of Costly New Hires]Economists are hoping AI and improved business investment spark a recovery in Britain’s feeble productivity, a measure of output per worker that is vital to raising living standards. Research published Monday by the Boston Consulting Group found that Britain’s biggest industries have been responsible for the decades-long decline in productivity that has roughly halved the GDP growth rate since the end of the 1990s.Finance, manufacturing, communications and retail have fallen behind the “productivity frontier” over the past two decades, reversing the catch-up achieved between 1997 and 2007, BCG said. The situation has been made worse by an increase in the number of underperforming small firms despite technological advances.There are more low productivity small companies in the UK today than in 1997 and they are on average less productive than three decades ago. The BCG study highlights the scale of the challenge the UK faces to reverse its productivity trend and close the gap with the US and other economies.alrededor de 900k estudiantes se graduan al año en el RU https://www.futurefit.co.uk/blog/graduation-statistics-and-facts/
UK Graduate Jobs Drop Below 10,000 for First Time, Adzuna SaysBy Philip AldrickFebruary 23, 2026 at 12:01 AM UTCUK job vacancies dropped to their lowest in five years and graduate posts fell to a record low as hiring weakened in January amid mounting concerns about the labor market.Employers advertised 694,940 jobs, a 3.05% fall in the month that continued the downward trend from last year, the online job search site Adzuna said. It was the worst reading since January 2021. Graduate jobs plunged 19.1% to below 10,000 for the first time since Adzuna started tracking the metric in April 2016.“The market remains challenging, with fewer vacancies and intense competition, but continued wage growth suggests employers are still willing to pay for the right skills,” said Andrew Hunter, the firm’s co-founder. The average salary reached £43,289 ($58,300) in January, up 5.98% year-on-year, Adzuna said — above the Bank of England’s 3.25% estimate of non-inflationary stable wage growth.The findings will add to fears that the UK labor market is fast unwinding, with young people hit hardest. Bank of England rate-setters have recently raised concerns about rising unemployment, which has climbed to 5.2% from 4.7% in the past six months.Labour’s hikes to the minimum wage and payroll taxes have been blamed, as well as its plans for stricter employment rights. AI also appears to be replacing entry level jobs, which fell 4.46% on the month, according to Adzuna.[Read More: Startups in Britain Turn to AI Instead of Costly New Hires]Economists are hoping AI and improved business investment spark a recovery in Britain’s feeble productivity, a measure of output per worker that is vital to raising living standards. Research published Monday by the Boston Consulting Group found that Britain’s biggest industries have been responsible for the decades-long decline in productivity that has roughly halved the GDP growth rate since the end of the 1990s.Finance, manufacturing, communications and retail have fallen behind the “productivity frontier” over the past two decades, reversing the catch-up achieved between 1997 and 2007, BCG said. The situation has been made worse by an increase in the number of underperforming small firms despite technological advances.There are more low productivity small companies in the UK today than in 1997 and they are on average less productive than three decades ago. The BCG study highlights the scale of the challenge the UK faces to reverse its productivity trend and close the gap with the US and other economies.
Mientras, el acceso a la vivienda de protección oficial, que debería suministrar ese bien que cubre necesidades básicas, en este país sigue como sigue. La vivienda, como máximo exponente de la acumulacion de riqueza y posición social, es el "moai" de nuestra cultura y se reserva para las "élites" o "casta", que la administran para reservarsela para sí o para usarla como moneda de cambio de favores, dadivas y sinecuras. https://www.larioja.com/logrono/registro-viviendas-proteccion-oficial-vpo-logrono-20260224183904-nt.htmlMás de 2.000 logroñeses se apuntaron al supuesto sorteo público de 136 pisos VPOMuchos solicitantes han cumplido con el trámite de inscribirse en el registro del IRVI desde 2025 hasta enterarse de que las constructoras adjudicarán los pisos por su cuentahttps://www.larioja.com/logrono/joven-inscrito-solicitante-vpo-irvi-rioja-20260224185022-nt.html«Se me ha quedado cara de tonto tras todo un año registrado y esperando»Un joven de 25 años que acudió al IRVI para darse de alta como solicitante de VPO en febrero de 2025 denuncia la «total falta de información»
Jamie Dimon warns of ‘dumb things’ people are doing - similar to pre-2008 financial crashPeople are doing “dumb” things in today’s economy reminiscent of the years before the 2008 financial crash, according to JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon.“Unfortunately, we did see this in ‘05, ‘06 and ‘07, almost the same thing — the rising tide was lifting all boats, everyone was making a lot of money,” Dimon told investors on Monday.“I see a couple people doing some dumb things,” he added, speaking of unnamed institutions making risky bets to earn extra income in this economic climate, which has seen a high, if volatile, stock market responding to ever-changing developments in tariffs and artificial intelligence.The Wall Street exec added that despite encouraging signs, such as the Dow hitting an all-time high earlier this month, there are always economic surprises in store and industries that could suddenly falter.“This time around it might be software because of AI,” he said.“My anxiety is high over it,” he said elsewhere of the overall downturn risk. “I’m not assuaged by the fact that asset prices are high. In fact, I think that adds to the risk.”As if to prove his point, shares in IBM fell 13 percent Monday, their worst single-day drop in a quarter-century, following news that AI tools from Anthropic could compete with one of IBM’s signature programming languages.Dimon has previously warned of other economic risks, including the president’s unpredictable tariff policies, which were recently struck down at the Supreme Court, and friction between the U.S. and its traditional allies.“The other tectonic shift is … the global economy. So the global military umbrella of America, and then the global economy, of which trade is a part,” Dimon said last year. “The other parts are, do people want to partner with you? Do you have your alliances? You have investment agreements and all those various things. And they're changing.”In a survey released this week, credit investors at Bank of America said their biggest concern was an AI bubble, as firms like Google, OpenAI, Meta, and Amazon pour hundreds of billions of dollars into building artificial intelligence data centers and power sources.The so-called Magnificent 7 — Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta Platforms, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Tesla — tech companies that make up a disproportionate share of the stock market’s overall value — are all heavily invested in AI.If the economy is in an investment bubble, and if that bubble pops, the resulting downturn could hurt numerous Main Street investors, too, as their retirement savings and pensions are bound up in the stock market.
John Lewis ditches plan to build 10,000 homesRetail group pulls plug on venture due to changes in UK economic conditions and property market slowdownJohn Lewis has refocused the partnership squarely on retail to simplify its business and strengthen its balance sheet © ReutersThe John Lewis Partnership has scrapped its controversial plans to build 10,000 rental homes in the UK, citing “a fundamental shift in the economic conditions” since it launched the venture five years ago.The owner of John Lewis department stores and Waitrose supermarkets said on Wednesday that higher interest rates and inflation, as well as a “more cautious” property market, meant the build-to-rent business no longer met its investment criteria.“Our rental property ambition was based on a very different financial environment: one with more stable investment returns, lower borrowing costs and more affordable costs to build homes,” the partnership said.The ambitious initiative, launched in 2020, formed the central plank of former chair Dame Sharon White’s efforts to diversify revenue beyond retail as fierce competition on the high street and online eroded the partnership’s profitability.The project, which was seen by some analysts as an unnecessary distraction, aimed to build 10,000 rental homes of varying sizes, mainly located next to or on top of the partnership’s stores and distribution centres.As part of the venture, it entered into a £500mn joint venture with Aberdeen Investments, taking over four buildings owned by the asset manager.But plans for the sites — in Reading and the London suburbs of Bromley, Stratford and Ealing — were controversial with local residents and politicians, who said they were too big and did not set aside enough affordable housing.Jason Tarry, White’s successor, has since refocused the partnership squarely on its traditional retail businesses and sought to restore morale among staff, known as partners, who have gone four years without an annual bonus.The partnership’s plans to attract more customers back include an £800mn upgrade of some of its department stores and reintroducing brands such as Topshop. It has also committed to a £1bn revamp of its 320 Waitrose food stores.The mutual said it would fulfil its management contracts with Aberdeen at all four sites as part of the transition.“John Lewis Partnership are contracted to keep managing our UK build-to-rent properties until 2027, and we are strongly committed to ensuring that they maintain the high standards customers have come to expect as we work with them on an orderly handover,” Aberdeen said.The partnership’s withdrawal from the market comes as developers face increasing obstacles for their ambitious homebuilding projects to help meet the government’s target to build 1.5mn new homes by 2029.Rising construction and financing costs, coupled with regulations introduced in the wake of the Grenfell disaster, are forcing developers to reassess the economic viability of their plans. The Renters’ Rights Act, scheduled to come into effect in May, will also strengthen the rights of tenants and ban ‘rental bidding wars’ in which prospective renters bid beyond the advertised rent.
Fed's Barkin: Fed can't solve AI volatilityFederal Reserve Bank of Richmond President Thomas Barkin addressed the impact of artificial intelligence on the labor market during a panel discussion on Wednesday.The banker stressed that the Fed's monetary policy cannot resolve AI-driven business volatility. Barkin cautioned against the immediate assumption that AI will lead to widespread worker displacement, going on to explain that technology would provide opportunities for workers to move to higher-skilled tasks.