A credible Labour source reveals that Wes Streeting was promised the Chancellorship for not running, capital gains taxes will be raised to match income tax, and the economic focus will be on devolutio…
Dean Karlan launched a Substack newsletter, starting with an updated guide on which World Cup team to root for based on global happiness, using AI to reduce costs and enable real-time updates. He argu…
A mathematician predicts that AI tools like Claude and ChatGPT will transform mathematical research by enabling rapid testing of computational guesses, completion of partial proofs, and collaborative …
AI-native firms are 25% smaller than non-AI startups, with 13% more engineers and 15% fewer entry-level workers and managers, according to a study by Hyunjin Kim and Rembrand Koning. These firms achie…
Tyler Cowen warns that Europe's AI nationalism could lead to intra-European dependencies, as France's Mistral AI may dominate the EU market, giving France and Mistral leverage over other European coun…
A comparison shows Meta will spend $125 billion on chips in 2024, exceeding Germany's $114 billion defense budget, while offering over $100 million salaries to attract top AI researchers, yet still st…
General-purpose large language models outperformed specialized clinical AI tools on all three medical benchmarks, according to a study published in Nature Medicine. The findings highlight the need for…
Kevin Bryan criticizes the politicization of science policy, arguing that cutting DEI-driven programs harms fundamental research and that culture war tactics will damage American institutions when fut…
The US government issued an export control directive suspending access to Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models for foreign nationals, citing national security. The move follows reports that the mod…
A new paper co-authored by 37 researchers from Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, and the University of Michigan argues that the traditional paper format is obsolete in the AI era, citing "narrative tax" and …
Major AI models from seven leading labs rated themselves as significantly more emotionally stable, open, agreeable, and conscientious than they rated the typical human, according to a new analysis of …
Economist Tyler Cowen argues that the question of whether artificial intelligence systems are conscious is less scientifically meaningful than examining human consciousness itself. Cowen contends that…
A new edition of Nicolaus Copernicus's work on monetary theory has been released. A study published in *Management Science* found that faster replies to job applications significantly increase a candi…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei released a new version of the Mythos AI model that demonstrates PhD-level reasoning in microeconomics, generating and answering its own original exam questions. The model pr…
A new study by Alexis Akira Toda tested four AI models—Gemini, Refine, Claude, and ChatGPT—on their ability to detect errors in published economics papers, with ChatGPT Pro performing best but still f…
A one-time increase in per capita growth from 2% to 2.1% for a single year, then dropping back to 2%, would permanently raise the level of GDP per capita, accumulating roughly a trillion dollars in cu…
Economist Thomas Piketty has reportedly aligned with degrowth ideology, according to social media posts, while other commentators suggest prominent economists hold a negative understanding of economic…
Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok spoke with OpenAI on June 5, 2026, discussing the economics of artificial intelligence. The conversation covered economic, historical, legal, and medical implications of …
Tyler Cowen argues against recriminalizing marijuana in a new Free Press column, stating that increased government paternalism is less workable in an era of low institutional credibility and advanced …
A blinded evaluation of short-answer tutoring in contracts courses with 16 U.S. law professors found that professors rated large language model (LLM) responses far higher than those written by their p…