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Hedge funds take on private equity in battle for distressed companies (ft.com)

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Private equity piling on debt like never before (pionline.com)

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AI discovers that not every fingerprint is unique (columbia.edu)

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Steve Wozniak case cues test of internet liability shield limit (bloomberglaw.com)

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ChatGPT 'memorizes' and spits out entire poems (cornell.edu)

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Sony teased a 'spatial' VR headset with a smart control ring (theverge.com)

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Labor Department cements rule change on gig worker status (bloomberglaw.com)

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Robert Solow was an intellectual giant: his criticisms were energetic and witty (economist.com)

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Buffett once bet $1M that he could beat a group of hedge funds over 10 years (yahoo.com)

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The missing conversation: scientists & historians don't engage with one another (aeon.co)

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OpenAI does not want to pay as much as Apple for licensing news articles (9to5mac.com)

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Are intellectual property rights neoliberal? Yes and no (2021) (promarket.org)

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A few financial firms now own a significant portion of the American economy (hls.harvard.edu)

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Hedge funds like Citadel & Point72 lagged the stock market in 2023 (nypost.com)

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The way the brain learns is different from the way AI systems learn: study (ox.ac.uk)

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Book review: 'Bystander Society' (historytoday.com)

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Banks, fintechs battle over customer data in open banking plan (bloomberglaw.com)

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OpenAI offering media outlets between $1M-$5M to use news articles for AI models (nypost.com)

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"The eye that never sleeps": Pinkerton's National Detective Agency Records (loc.gov)

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Job ads with wide pay ranges can deter applicants (wsu.edu)

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Ants recognise infected wounds and treat them with antibiotics (uni-wuerzburg.de)

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Book review: The paradox of debt (cfainstitute.org)

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Noble cause corruption (wikipedia.org)

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Effective altruism faces an uncertain future (ft.com)

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McKinsey to pay $78M in US opioid settlement with health plans (reuters.com)

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Steve Wozniak's startup Privateer develops ride-share spacecraft to cut clutter (space.com)

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Who are you going to call when your private jet breaks? (forbes.com/sites/douggollan)

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US scrutinizing airline frequent flyer programs (reuters.com)

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The Supreme Court takes on (anti)social media (hls.harvard.edu)

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Project SCUM (wikipedia.org)

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Carmakers fight massive air bag recall that may cost $10B (bloomberg.com)

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GPT and other AI models can't analyze an SEC filing, researchers find (cnbc.com)

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Universal may build a new theme park in the U.K. (deadline.com)

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The Data Nutrition Project (datanutrition.org)

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Fix the lack of transparency around the data used to train foundation models (mitpress.mit.edu)

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Dissolution-service providers are in demand as more young companies fold (wsj.com)

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What was the corporation? (duke.edu)

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Bang&Olufsen says it will defy luxury slowdown as 'rich will only become richer' (ft.com)

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Chobani buys coffee company La Colombe (reuters.com)

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Ken Griffin to pay cathedral up to $164M for air rights to build NY skyscraper (businessinsider.com)

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Republicans against inequality (nytimes.com)

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The secretive Judicial Conference is tasked with self-governance (propublica.org)

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OpenAI to pay Politico parent for using its content (wsj.com)

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Smoking causes brain shrinkage: study (wustl.edu)

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Interact Home Computer (wikipedia.org)

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Operation Berkshire (wikipedia.org)

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Book review: Yesterday (ft.com)

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Bryan Cantrill on AI doomerism: Intelligence is not enough (thenewstack.io)

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AI & Law: AI will find legal loopholes that ultimately spurs more laws (lance-eliot.medium.com)

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Does Section 230 cover generative AI? (cato.org)

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How social media's fading archives are erasing our digital history (joanwestenberg.medium.com)

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Can't you take a joke? (lrb.co.uk)

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Seeking a higher intelligence (avi-loeb.medium.com)

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Lessons for auditing AI, from avoiding model groupthink to revealing blind spots (iqt.org)

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Citizens DisUnited (2013) (law.harvard.edu)

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Ross Perot clashed with General Motors' insular, bureaucratic culture (2019) (jalopnik.com)

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The human brain has a dizzying array of mystery cells (nytimes.com)

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Is your AI a "Clever Hans"? (iqt.org)

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Evaluating LLM reasoning via debate (arxiv.org)

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Book review: 'The Peer Effect' (wsj.com)

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Services across England now lag far behind East Germany (cam.ac.uk)

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The March of Intellect: Newspaper cartoons and satire in 1820s England (openculture.com)

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How the fortunes of the Fortune 500 have changed since 1996 (pymnts.com)

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How Jessica Lessin's The Information has survived a decade of media tumult (vanityfair.com)

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Technological progress and rent seeking (2022) [pdf] (upenn.edu)

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Only 52 US companies have been on the Fortune 500 since 1955 (2021) (aei.org)

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Book review: The Corporation and the Twentieth Century (ft.com)

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The lost world of MSN Messenger (spectator.co.uk)

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Google, IBM make strides toward quantum computers (cbsnews.com)

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Confronting America's crisis in trust (hoover.org)

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Uninhibited campaign donations risks creating oligarchy (promarket.org)

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How a Canadian company became the world's best acquirer of tech firms (economist.com)

4 months ago | hhs | economist.com | frontpage

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The Babbage of the web (2000) (economist.com)

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ZigZag (software) (wikipedia.org)

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John Naughton: Preserving our digital content is vital (theguardian.com)

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Beijing Internet Court recognizes copyright in AI-generated images (natlawreview.com)

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Charlie Munger on Lollapalooza effect (wikipedia.org)

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Elon Musk: OpenAI is lying when it says it is not using copyrighted data (cnbc.com)

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Maker of Wegovy, Ozempic showers money on U.S. obesity doctors (reuters.com)

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You may be entitled to financial compensation... for your data (politico.com)

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Powershare (tesla.com)

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In a drag race, the Cybertruck beat a Porsche 911 – while towing another 911 (theverge.com)

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Tim Berners-Lee startup seeks disruption of the Web 2.0 big data paradigm (datanami.com)

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Insurers' AI use for coverage decisions targeted by blue states (bloomberglaw.com)

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The Submarine (2005) (paulgraham.com)

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Article spinning (wikipedia.org)

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News Corp. expects 'significant' revenue from AI companies that license content (hollywoodreporter.com)

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Corporations, ancient and modern (claremontreviewofbooks.com)

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Select space concepts for the new space era (rand.org)

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The real aerial battles that inspired Star Wars (2020) (smithsonianmag.com)

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Once the cutting edge of cool, Portland is now taking lessons from Milwaukee (wsj.com)

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Special economic zone (wikipedia.org)

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Driverless cars in search of Edison lightbulb moment (ft.com)

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FCC Chairwoman proposes ban on cable and satellite early termination fees (deadline.com)

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Fringe theories stack (2022) (aeon.co)

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The Earth is not covered by a dome or 'firmament' (2022) (reuters.com)

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The ambiguities of Section 230 (brookings.edu)

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How social media is turning into old-fashioned broadcast media (wsj.com)

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Google Meet (wikipedia.org)

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Delhi turns to artificial rain to ease air pollution crisis (ft.com)

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