MOScout Sunday6: GOP Yawns At Trump’s Big Government Approach - Cellphone Ban Pros and Cons - LLMs Gambling Patterns and more…

1. GOPers shrug at government stakes in corporations, president’s enemies list, masked police making arrests… Dems are now the party of small government?

Source: Gallup.

2. For American businesses, 2025 has been a year of navigating ever-changing tariff policies.

Source: Brookings.

3. Principals’ view of cellphone bans.

Source: Rand.

4. Missouri is not doing a great job keeping international students.

Source: OPTObservatory.

5. Signs of weakness in commercial real estate.

Source: St. Louis Federal Reserve.

6. AI vulnerable to gambling addiction? “Through systematic experiments on four diverse LLMs (GPT-4o-mini, GPT-4.1-mini, Gemini-2.5-Flash, and Claude-3.5-Haiku), we confirmed that all models consistently reproduce cognitive distortions characteristic of pathological gambling—illusion of control, gambler’s fallacy, and asymmetric chasing behaviors.”

Source: Lee, Shin, Lee, and Kim.