Against renationalising British utilities despite acknowledging mixed privatization outcomes and data showing state-owned utilities can be as efficient as private ones. They contend that massive restr…
Tyler Cowen, in collaboration with OpenAI, published a guide on using GPT Pro for travel, including tips for visiting art museums like the Detroit Institute of Arts. The piece highlights how AI can en…
Azeem Azhar and others released a detailed report on the state of the AI economy, receiving positive reviews for its analysis of the sector's current dynamics and future trajectory.…
Aaron Levie argues that de facto AI regulation has arrived, with powerful models likely requiring government review before release. He warns this could slow innovation, create release backlogs, and in…
Stanford REAP team's CoPaper.AI generates complete empirical papers with code and charts from raw data in 30 minutes, threatening manual labor in social sciences. The tool automates EDA, variable defi…
Emergent Ventures announced its 55th cohort of winners, supporting projects ranging from AI policy and longevity research to drone-acquired synthetic aperture radar for archaeology and science educati…
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…