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Can you make it to the end of this column? (economist.com)

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AI Adoption Rate Trending Down for Large Companies – Apollo Academy (apolloacademy.com)

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Polar Unveils Whoop-Like Fitness Band Without a Subscription Fee (bloomberg.com)

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Hopping on an Earlier Flight: Optimal Waiting with Multiple Flights – NBER (nber.org)

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Should you use a standing desk? The benefits are real, but seem to vary with age (economist.com)

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High priests: why scientists gave magic mushrooms to the clergy (economist.com)

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MND left her without a voice. AI and 8 seconds of audio gave it back to her (bbc.com)

3 weeks ago | helsinkiandrew | bbc.com | frontpage

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Why is the yield curve steepening? [pdf] (apolloacademy.com)

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Data Centers Need to Bring Own Power Supply, Grid Watchdog Says (bloomberg.com)

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Airbus A320 Poised to Overtake Boeing 737 as Most-Delivered Commercial Airliner (simpleflying.com)

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The US-Canadian Road Safety Gap Is Getting Wider (bloomberg.com)

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AI could create the first one-person unicorn (economist.com)

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Still want to be a London cabbie? (economist.com)

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The shutdown of ocean currents could freeze Europe (economist.com)

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Gambling Sponsors Took over the UK's Premier Football League (bloomberg.com)

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Tesla Approves Interim 96M Stock Award for Musk (bloomberg.com)

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Fragmentary Latin inscriptions can be completed with AI (economist.com)

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NASA Says Thousands of Employees Set to Resign from Space Agency (bloomberg.com)

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Ozzy Osbourne, Black Sabbath frontman and icon of British heavy metal dies (theguardian.com)

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An unprecedented window into how diseases take hold years before symptoms appear (bloomberg.com)

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Will AI make you stupid? (economist.com)

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London Hydraulic Power Company (wikipedia.org)

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Two men behind 'senseless' felling of Sycamore Gap tree jailed for four years (theguardian.com)

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The Big Beautiful Bill will kill one profession: Gambling (economist.com)

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Which Workers Will A.I. Hurt Most: The Young or the Experienced? (nytimes.com)

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Mattel launches Barbie with Type 1 diabetes and a glucose monitor (nbcnews.com)

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The Robot Sculptors of Italy (bloomberg.com)

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Fired Nomura Trader Turns to 'Toilet Graffiti' to Argue His Case (bloomberg.com)

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Surfing in Sao Paulo: Wave-Pool Memberships Start at $125,000 (bloomberg.com)

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AI 'Upgrades' Would Ruin Kung Fu Classics (bloomberg.com)

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Young Investor Demand for Alternative Assets Is Reshaping Wall Street's Playbook (bloomberg.com)

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UBS Global Wealth Report 2025 (ubs.com)

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Fifty Years Ago Today, President Nixon Declared the War on Drugs (vera.org)

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Electric Cars Are Losing Appeal to New Drivers, Increasing with Existing (bloomberg.com)

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Pentagon pizza monitor predicted 'busy night' ahead of Israel's attack on Iran (theguardian.com)

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German Workers Work Fewer Hours (apolloacademy.com)

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A Checklist for Decision-Making (economist.com)

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Brian Wilson, visionary creative spirit for the Beach Boys, dies aged 82 (theguardian.com)

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Uber, SoftBank-Backed Wayve Plan Trial of Driverless Cars in UK (bloomberg.com)

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Inside the collapse of Microsoft-backed UK tech unicorn Builder.ai (ft.com)

3 months ago | helsinkiandrew | ft.com | frontpage

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A Fatal Tesla Crash Shows the Limits of Full Self-Driving (bloomberg.com)

3 months ago | helsinkiandrew | bloomberg.com | frontpage

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Frothy Tech Returns Helped Mint an Extra 600,000Maires in 2024 (bloomberg.com)

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China's Startups Race to Dominate the Coming AI Robot Boom (bloomberg.com)

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The decoding of ancient Roman scrolls is speeding up (economist.com)

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Fake My Run Is Tricking Strava While Trying to Make a Larger Point (nytimes.com)

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YouTube Is Swallowing TV Whole, and It's Coming for the Sitcom (bloomberg.com)

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Data Center Construction Contributing One Percentage Point to US GDP Growth (apolloacademy.com)

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AI Weather Models Have Shown Promise This Hurricane Season (bloomberg.com)

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Trump administration orders US embassies to stop student visa interviews (theguardian.com)

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Number of Days Working from Home per Week by Country (apolloacademy.com)

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Why AI hasn't taken your job – And any jobs-pocalypse seems a long way off (economist.com)

4 months ago | helsinkiandrew | economist.com | frontpage

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Bookland (wikipedia.org)

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Just how fancy should a plate of pasta be? (ft.com)

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What the failure of a superstar student reveals about economics (economist.com)

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Welcome to the AI Trough of Disillusionment (economist.com)

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Microsoft-Backed Builder.ai to Enter Insolvency Proceedings (bloomberg.com)

4 months ago | helsinkiandrew | bloomberg.com | frontpage

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Britain is now the biggest funder of solar-geoengineering research (economist.com)

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Official Interim Reporting into Foundering of the Mike Lynch's Yacht Bayesian (gov.uk)

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How a Finnish Town Is Harvesting Waste Heat from Data Centers (bloomberg.com)

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Why Prescription Drug Prices in the US Are So High [2024] (bloomberg.com)

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EU unveils $567M push to attract researchers (cnn.com)

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RUKA: Rethinking the Design of Humanoid Hands with Learning (ruka-hand.github.io)

4 months ago | helsinkiandrew | github.io | frontpage

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Rates of bowel cancer are rising among young people (economist.com)

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CIA Chinese Official Source Recruitment Video (youtube.com)

4 months ago | helsinkiandrew | youtube.com | frontpage

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Emergent Misalignment: Narrow Finetuning Can Produce Broadly Misaligned LLMs (emergent-misalignment.com)

4 months ago | helsinkiandrew | emergent-misalignment.com | frontpage

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Elon Musk's SpaceX Is Forming a City Government in Starbase, Texas (bloomberg.com)

4 months ago | helsinkiandrew | bloomberg.com | frontpage

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EU Set to Concede Dependence on US Tech as Tarif Tensions Flare (bloomberg.com)

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Lethal fungi are becoming drug-resistant and spreading (economist.com)

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What Would You Be Willing to Pay for an iPhone? (bloomberg.com)

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We May Have Hit Peak Booze (bloomberg.com)

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How Britain decides which drugs to buy (economist.com)

5 months ago | helsinkiandrew | economist.com | newest

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Plastics are greener than they seem (economist.com)

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HFO: The Monastery Where Founders Meditate on Code and Profit (bloomberg.com)

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Tech's 'Zombie Unicorns' Reach the End of the Road (bloomberg.com)

5 months ago | helsinkiandrew | bloomberg.com | frontpage

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There is a hidden workforce behind AI (economist.com)

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"Adulting" courses in America (economist.com)

5 months ago | helsinkiandrew | economist.com | frontpage

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Amazon Testing Using Delivery Drivers for Defibrillator Emergency Response (pymnts.com)

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UK creating 'murder prediction' tool to identify people most likely to kill (theguardian.com)

5 months ago | helsinkiandrew | theguardian.com | frontpage

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Electricity and the speed of light – lcamtuf's thing (lcamtuf.substack.com)

5 months ago | helsinkiandrew | substack.com | newest

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Why 5G Is an Expensive Flop (bloomberg.com)

6 months ago | helsinkiandrew | bloomberg.com | frontpage

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New data show that the class divide in Britain may not be so wide (economist.com)

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Migrating birds use quantum mechanics to navigate (theguardian.com)

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Can people be persuaded not to believe disinformation? (economist.com)

6 months ago | helsinkiandrew | economist.com | frontpage

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Do viruses trigger Alzheimer's? (economist.com)

6 months ago | helsinkiandrew | economist.com | best

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How to Avoid US-Based Digital Services–and Why You Might Want To (wired.com)

6 months ago | helsinkiandrew | wired.com | newest

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Finland Ranks Happiest Again with US at Worst-Ever Level (bloomberg.com)

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BYD Unveils Battery System That Charges an EV in Five Minutes (bloomberg.com)

6 months ago | helsinkiandrew | bloomberg.com | frontpage

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The ChatGPT Edge: Why Regular People Are Embracing $200 AI Bills (bloomberg.com)

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Work from Home Looks Here to Stay (apolloacademy.com)

6 months ago | helsinkiandrew | apolloacademy.com | newest

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Treasury Introduces Multimillion-Pound Whistleblower Rewards to Tackle Tax Fraud (theglobaltreasurer.com)

6 months ago | helsinkiandrew | theglobaltreasurer.com | newest

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Trump Family Has Held Deal Talks with Binance Following Exchange's Guilty Plea (wsj.com)

6 months ago | helsinkiandrew | wsj.com | frontpage

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Why are sine waves so common? (lcamtuf.substack.com)

6 months ago | helsinkiandrew | substack.com | frontpage

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A New AI Weather Model Is Already Changing How Energy Is Traded (bloomberg.com)

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MAGA Wants to End Capitalism as We Know It (bloomberg.com)

6 months ago | helsinkiandrew | bloomberg.com | frontpage

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USDS Federal Tech Workers Quit in Protest over Musk's DOGE Efforts (bloomberg.com)

7 months ago | helsinkiandrew | bloomberg.com | frontpage

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Can AI Predict the Next Big IPO? Crunchbase Thinks So (wsj.com)

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Apple says it will add 20k jobs, spend $500B, produce AI servers in US (bloomberg.com)

7 months ago | helsinkiandrew | bloomberg.com | best

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Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row (bbc.com)

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Median Age of US Homebuyers: 56 (apolloacademy.com)

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First pharaoh's tomb found in Egypt since Tutankhamun's (bbc.com)

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