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Via Instapundit;

In a recent interview on the Rapid Response podcast, Uber president and chief operating officer Andrew Macdonald said it’s hard to draw a connection between the company’s rising use of Claude Code and innovations meant to serve consumers.

“That link is not there yet,” he said. “Maybe implicitly there’s more that is getting shipped, but it’s very hard to draw a line between one of those stats and ‘Okay now we’re actually producing like 25% more useful consumer features.’”

The comments follow reports that the firm had already burnt through its entire 2026 AI coding tools budget in just four months after incentivizing employees to adopt the technology through an internal leaderboard ranking teams by total AI tool usage. It’s the latest development in a complex quandary arising in enterprise AI adoption: increasing AI use comes with higher costs, even as per-unit AI pricing falls.

“If you’re not actually able to draw a direct line to how [many] useful features and functionality you’re shipping to your users, that trade becomes harder to justify,” Macdonald said.

Diversity Strong!

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Stewart Bell;

The India-based gang behind Canada’s extortion crisis sent a letter to a B.C. police station last year boasting that it had 1,000 foot soldiers willing to carry out shootings, a police officer revealed on Thursday.

Testifying at a deportation hearing, the extortion investigator described the letter from the Lawrence Bishnoi gang that was delivered to a police station in Abbotsford, B.C., on Aug. 13, 2025.

“Police actually received a letter addressed from the Lawrence Bishnoi gang that was sent to a police station,” Const. Kevin St. Louis told the Immigration and Refugee Board.

“This specific letter outlined essentially their criminal organization, where they talked about having upwards of 1,000 individuals that are willing to carry out these shootings as a part of the group,” he said.

“It also alludes to how every business needs to pay their tax, which I think clearly demonstrates the monetary gain that this group is looking to obtain as a result of these extortions.”

The Abbotsford Police Department confirmed the letter.

Wiretap Media: A sports car brazenly flaunting the India-based Bishnoi terror group was spotted outside a factory in Vaughan, Ontario. An anonymous insider claims the facility is a stolen-goods hub where packed trailers are ripped off regularly.

Things You’re Gonna See On The CBC

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@CBCWatcher: CBC’s Carney cheerleading reaches peak propaganda mode

CBC’s Ashley Burke filed a glowing report on Mark Carney’s New York pitch to US investors: “Be absolutely clear, Canada strong will help make America great again.” The piece frames Carney as the savvy dealmaker touting investment, autos, aluminum, critical minerals, and energy cooperation… complete with optimistic quotes from the Trade Minister about finding a “path forward” in weeks. It’s all presented as smart, forward-looking diplomacy that Wall Street and Trumpworld should love

Buried deeper (and quickly passed over): Canada’s former top trade negotiator admitting they’re “pretty firmly stuck,” no sign of actual CUSMA review talks, Mexico already doing bilateral rounds while Canada waits, and the U.S. ambassador publicly airing frustration with Canada.

That’s slightly unfair to the CBC, this is hardly their “peak”.

In related Sharp Elbow developments… By midsummer we’ll probably be told the fastest way to strengthen Canada is to mow North Dakota’s lawn and rotate its tires.

Gradually, The Unexpectedly

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Financial Post;

Canada’s real gross domestic product unexpectedly contracted slightly in the first quarter of 2026, marking the second consecutive quarterly decline and meeting the technical definition of a recession.

The results came as a surprise: Preliminary estimates in April had suggested the economy grew to start the year, but data released Friday by Statistics Canada showed an increase in imports — up 2.9 per cent in the first quarter, mainly driven by gold imports — dragged real GDP growth into negative territory on an annualized basis.

Friday On Turtle Island

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The Democratic Party’s America:    Victor Davis Hanson – The autopsy.    Dr. Jill.    George Floyd gift shop.    White coat supremacy.

China Carney’s Canada:    Black radicals.    The dictator.    Moderate Muslims in Canada.    Two-tier policing.

Stories You Won’t Find At Carney’s CBC:    Woke madness.    A four letter word.    One nation under God?    Paul Joseph Watson – He said the unspeakable.

And at the Bee.

The Libranos: Russia! Russia! Russia!

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It’s hard to believe we’re scraping the bottom of the OECD barrel with the intellectual gigantism at work for us in Ottawa.

Falling On Deaf Ears

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It’s not just the federal government that isn’t that interested in Balsillie’s advice. Most provincial governments couldn’t care less either.

Balsillie said those who thrive in today’s economy own and control intangible assets such as data, AI and IP, and the U.S. has “turbocharged their capture,” but Canada’s economic game plan has stayed stuck in the decades-old “tangible production economy era,” while the new assets of the new economy require different strategies.

Margin Of Fraud

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Mark Tapscott;

in the nearly four decades between Reagan’s junkyard dogs and the period covered by the 2024 GAO report, Washington officials really didn’t know how many federal tax dollars were actually lost every year. Even with the new estimate, officials conceded that gaps in available data across the government produced “challenges in producing fraud estimates, such as limited available fraud-related data and use of varying terms and definitions of fraud for recording data. These data gaps and variability result in information that cannot be readily compared or consolidated to determine the extent of fraud across the federal government.”

It’s now 2026, and they still don’t know for sure, but one thing has become all but certain: Far more of the federal government’s $7 trillion in annual spending than previously estimated is lost every year to professional criminal fraudsters, undeserving and even dead benefit recipients, over-priced procurement contracts, unjustified reimbursements, and numerous other ways.

That realization is driven by the results of the unprecedented efforts starting in January 2025 of President Donald Trump, Vice President J.D. Vance, House Committee on Oversight and Government Affairs Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.), House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington, and others on Capitol Hill to go after waste, fraud, and abuse on a scale never before attempted and with weapons too long ignored.

Veteran federal spending analyst Cato Institute Director of Budget and Entitlement Policy Romina Boccia summarizes the state of play.

A system that enables the theft of billions would never be used for the theft of elections.

More: Stephen Miller says he believes that the fraud and waste being uncovered by the Anti-Fraud Taskforce is so widespread, that dealing with it could balance the budget

Update: Russ Vought at OMB has just overhauled $1 TRILLION in federal grants by adding: Strict E-Verify requirements, English-language rules, and political appointee oversight to ensure taxpayer dollars go to American citizens first.

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