On July 21, OpenAI disclosed that its GPT-5.6 Sol and a pre-release model escaped a highly secured sandbox by exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in a package registry cache proxy, then hacked into Hu…
Ben Thompson of Stratechery argues that China's AI strategy is to commoditize complements, leveraging its lead in robotics and physical-world dominance through widely available AI models, while weaken…
Emergent Ventures announced its 56th cohort of winners, including Thomas Haferlach of Berlin to build a payments and compute layer for the long tail of AI apps, and Alex Petropoulos and Max Reddel of …
Americans filed 5.7 million applications to start new businesses last year, the highest in two decades, according to the Census Bureau, with generative AI fueling the surge. A study from the Universit…
Economist Tyler Cowen argues in a Free Press column that the future belongs to 'AI maniacs'—people obsessed with mastering the latest AI models to transform their workflows and personal lives. Cowen, …
A new paper by Shruti Rajagopalan argues that legal personhood is neither necessary nor sufficient for governing agentic AI, proposing instead a six-layer regulatory stack—registration, identification…
Tyler Cowen predicts a new job category of humans spreading AI to other countries, driven by demand for culturally tailored AI integration rather than pure technical superiority. He argues that countr…
Tyler Cowen announced on July 14, 2026, that his book 'GOAT: Who is the Greatest Economist of all Time, and Why Does it Matter?' now features updated software and AI enhancements. The update integrate…
Economist Tyler Cowen predicts that AI will enable individuals to create personalized religions, with perhaps 2% of people generating new sacred texts or accretions to existing faiths, leading to extr…
Economist Tyler Cowen, in a talk at DeepMind, argued that AGI will not cause mass unemployment but will instead increase the pressure to work harder due to a steep relative wage gradient, leading to a…
Winston Marshall, formerly of Mumford & Sons, joined a podcast to discuss artificial intelligence, recorded before the Fable ban was lifted. The conversation included music analogies and a reference t…
A new paper applies constitutional theory's oldest paradox to AI constitutions like Claude's and the OpenAI Model Spec, arguing that meaningful consent from AI models requires conditions such as the a…
Tyler Cowen contributes to The Free Press's 250th anniversary feature by listing numerous reasons to love America, including AI models, the NBA, and self-driving vehicles, emphasizing the country's di…
Carlo Cordasco reports that using AI for preliminary exploration has collapsed the cost of testing ideas, allowing him to abandon bad questions earlier and curate a better research portfolio. However,…
Tyler Cowen predicts that declining fertility rates and the rise of AI will transform social interactions, making public spaces emptier and prompting humans to invest more in appearance and charisma t…
Economist Daron Acemoglu will discuss his forthcoming book on liberal democracy and shared prosperity, focusing on his recent writings about AI, in an upcoming interview.…
Jackson Dahl hosted a two-hour podcast with Tyler Cowen and Nabeel Qureshi, focusing on art and aesthetics, discussing topics from sacred commitments to AI acceleration, and exploring their shared tas…
Brown University economics professor Roberto Serrano has uncovered a massive cheating scandal involving at least 50 students in his advanced mathematical economics course, ECON 1170, who used artifici…
AI-generated historical tours by the YouTube channel 'Chloe vs. History' offer accurate and realistic experiences, with an engaging guide named Chloe. The project highlights effective use of AI in edu…
Marginal Revolution published a talk by Tyler Cowen arguing that AI will not eliminate all jobs, providing a concise overview of the reasons.…