Economist Tyler Cowen proposes in a Free Press column that AI labs regulate themselves through a private not-for-profit body modeled on FINRA, overseen by Washington, to avoid stifling progress while …
Emergent Ventures, a fellowship program by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, announced its 58th cohort of winners, including Jethro Elsden to study the UK's regulatory structure using AI…
Scott Jenkins, in an email to Tyler Cowen, warns that Anthropic's proposed common-law approach to AI governance for Claude, while adaptive, faces structural risks including a throughput bottleneck whe…
Tyler Cowen, an economist and professor at George Mason University, participated in a two-day session at Anthropic to advise on rewriting the constitution for Claude, the company's AI assistant. He pr…
Sharma, 27, is forgoing a regular sleep schedule to be available around the clock for AI agents that require guidance or additional context as they move through their tasks, and until recently he coul…
U.S. tariff rates in 2025 reached levels not seen since the Great Depression, yet imports increased, according to a new open-economy New Keynesian model that accounts for the missing trade collapse by…
In a Free Press piece, economist Tyler Cowen argues that liberal immigration policies are essential for American competitiveness, citing that 38 percent of published AI researchers received their unde…
A critic argues that AI safety advocates who predict catastrophic AI takeover are inconsistent, noting that if they foresee the danger, markets and others would also react, and that extreme views shou…
Economist Tyler Cowen criticizes AI pessimists for failing to back their beliefs with market positions, noting that while his median expectation is that AI boosts the economy enormously, there is non-…
A new estimate from governance.ai suggests the UK could face an additional $100 billion in annual cybercrime costs, a 20% increase, as AI-related threats rise. The figure is one of several projections…
In a benchmark by Paul Litvak of the Dawes Institute, AI systems caught up to 71 of 100 deliberately planted errors in psychology papers, with the best single system being Refine.ink, while pooling al…
Tyler Cowen, an economist at George Mason University, urges those worried about AI-related cybersecurity risks to adopt scientific methods, asking for specific cost estimates and stock short positions…
John F. Kennedy's iconic speeches, including his 1961 inaugural address and 1962 moon speech at Rice University, exhibit rhetorical techniques—symmetry, parallelism, antithesis, repetition, and revers…
A study by French economists, including Nobel laureate Philippe Aghion, found that a predictive machine-learning model for aeration control in French wastewater treatment plants reduced electricity co…
Refine, an AI-assisted technical verification platform, has signed partnerships with the American Economic Association and the Econometric Society, which now use its services in their publication proc…
Emergent Ventures, a fellowship program by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, announced its 57th cohort of winners, including 15-year-old Oisin O'Gorman from Dublin for work on misinforma…
Mexico has become a cornerstone of the AI boom, providing 40% of US imports of computer servers used in AI data centres this year, with sales reaching $46.9bn, making it the second-largest provider be…
OpenAI's Noam Brown announced that GPT models generated proofs for 10 mathematical breakthroughs at a combined cost of under $2,000 at Sol API prices, highlighting the potential of upcoming Astra mode…
Emergent Ventures India announced its 18th cohort of grants, awarding funding to 16 individuals and teams including 14-year-old Adithyan Madhu for computational linguistics research on the Indus Valle…
Economist Tyler Cowen argues in a Free Press article that people will eventually accept AI-generated writing, comparing it to musical borrowing. He notes that Paul Simon's 'American Tune' borrows from…