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AI & Tech
Anthropic Tightens Its AGI Safety Rulebook β But Who Is It Really For?
Anthropic's updated safety framework sets harder limits on the path to AGI β but pre-commitment rules only work if no one quietly rewrites them under pressure.

AI & Tech
Gemini 2.0 Arrives, and the Age of AI That Acts Is Now Officially Here
Google's Gemini 2.0 isn't just a smarter chatbot. It's a bet that AI's next chapter belongs to systems that act, not just answer.

AI & Tech
DeepMind at NeurIPS 2024: The Quiet Architecture of a Smarter, Safer AI
DeepMind's NeurIPS 2024 research reveals a quiet but decisive shift: AI is moving from pattern-matching to genuine adaptability, with stakes far beyond the lab.

AI & Tech
Google DeepMind's Genie 2 Can Build Entire Worlds From a Single Image
Google DeepMind's Genie 2 generates interactive 3D worlds from a single image, and it could remove one of AI's most stubborn training bottlenecks.

AI & Tech
Google's Music AI Sandbox Opens Up β and the Industry Holds Its Breath
Google's Music AI Sandbox is opening to more professionals β and the quiet strategy behind that expansion could reshape who gets paid to make music.

Economy
America's K-Shaped Economy Is Held Together by the Spending of the Very Rich
The U.S. economy keeps defying recession calls, but the spending keeping it afloat is concentrated in fewer hands than most realise.
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Economy
The Firm as the Missing Link in Development Economics

Economy
India's GDP Was Smaller Than We Thought β and That Changes Everything

Economy
The Counterintuitive Truth About Who Is Actually Raising Your Electric Bill

Economy
Europe's $30 Trillion Pension Problem and the Dutch Model Nobody Is Copying
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Health
The Ancient Japanese Social Ritual That Six American Towns Are Using to Fight Loneliness
Six American communities are borrowing an ancient Okinawan social ritual to fight a loneliness epidemic that affects more than half of U.S. adults.

Health
The Bobbing Bubbe and What a Viral Toy Reveals About How America Ages
A novelty bobblehead from Stanford's longevity lab encodes a quiet argument about whose stories get told as America ages faster than ever.