Articles by ryan_j_naughton
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The War Is Turning Iran into a Major World Power (nytimes.com)

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Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age: Ideas to Keep People First [pdf] (cdn.openai.com)

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Tattoo ink induces inflammation and alters the immune response to vaccination (pnas.org)

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What an Ivy League Education Gets You (theatlantic.com)

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Google warns quantum computing may break Bitcoin earlier than thought (theblock.co)

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Zipcode specific inflation to understand local price changes (whatchanged.us)

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AI automation is quietly de-skilling white-collar workers (inc.com)

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Uber's Deal Blitz to Stop a Robotaxi Monopoly (businessinsider.com)

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LLMs Are Manipulating Users with Rhetorical Tricks (hbr.org)

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The Situation Room by Polymarket Is Opening This Friday in DC (popville.com)

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Mamba 3 matches Transformer performance at reduced latency (venturebeat.com)

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Raving at the End of the World: looking for transcendence on the dance floor (theatlantic.com)

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JPMorgan warns Stablecoins could put trillions in deposits at risk (fastcompany.com)

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BMW using Patents and Trademark to Make DIY Car Repairs Much Harder (jalopnik.com)

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Hackers used Claude to plan and execute attack on Mexico's government

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Why Chinese people spend so much on food (economist.com)

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8B tokens a day forced AT&T to rethink AI orchestration, cutting costs by 90% (venturebeat.com)

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Temple of boom: Why Taiwan's religious sites are becoming unlikely rave venues (theguardian.com)

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Uber launches autonomous vehicles services venture in robotaxi push (ft.com)

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The AI productivity take-off is finally visible (Erik Brynjolfsson) (ft.com)

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A Startling Play About AI Authoritarianism (nytimes.com)

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Why the "Taiwan Dome" won't survive a Chinese attack (lowyinstitute.org)

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A New AI Math Startup Just Cracked 4 Previously Unsolved Problems (wired.com)

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Historical Change in Midlife Development from a Cross-National Perspective (sagepub.com)

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Why Germany is racing to rebuild its army (theguardian.com)

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AI Was Supposed to "Revolutionize" Work. In Many Offices, It's Creating Chaos (slate.com)

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Is It Time for a Nordic Nuke? (warontherocks.com)

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Yuval Noah Harari Discussion on AI at Davos [video] (youtube.com)

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Do AI models reason or regurgitate? Why AI is not merely a "stochastic parrot" (bigthink.com)

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PartyBench: AI throws a house party and is graded on its performance [SATIRE] (astralcodexten.com)

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Why Arab states are silent about Iran's unrest (economist.com)

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The mega-rich are flocking to Washington DC (ft.com)

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Why pleasure is the key to self-improvement (theguardian.com)

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Economists are facing a recession as a hiring crunch hits (ft.com)

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The beauty queen who caught Scotland's most prolific catfish (bbc.com)

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AI Models Are Starting to Learn by Asking Themselves Questions (wired.com)

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The "ChatGPT moment" has arrived for manufacturing (economist.com)

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Tech titans divided over whether to pay billionaire tax or flee California (theguardian.com)

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How Did This Family End Up Back in a Toxic House After the LA Fires? (nytimes.com)

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Reading Is a Vice (theatlantic.com)

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He Was a Supreme Court Lawyer. Then His Double Life Caught Up with Him (nytimes.com)

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DeepSeek's new AI training method is a 'breakthrough' for scaling (businessinsider.com)

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Young Adults Making Good Money Say Life Is Unaffordable (nytimes.com)

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AIs were left to build their own village and the weirdest civilisation emerged (sciencefocus.com)

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FBI investigates founder accused of using VC money to pay for house and wedding (businessinsider.com)

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AI and Smart Advertisements Are About to Empty Madison Avenue (wsj.com)

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Rivian goes big on autonomy, with custom silicon, Lidar, and a hint at robotaxis (techcrunch.com)

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Investor letter reveals skyrocketing growth of Waymo's robotaxi rides (techcrunch.com)

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Say Goodbye to the Billable Hour, Thanks to AI (wsj.com)

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Sugars, 'Gum,' Stardust Found in NASA's Asteroid Bennu Samples (nasa.gov)

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Feeling Old: 44 Is the First Big Aging Cliff for Millennials (thecut.com)

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Kalshi raises $1B at $11B valuation, doubling value in under two months (techcrunch.com)

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Why Autoimmune Diseases Rise Sharply After 50 (wsj.com)

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Taiwan to distribute security handbook to all households as China threat rises (reuters.com)

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Record Number of Young Women Want to Ditch the U.S. Under Trump (thedailybeast.com)

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The Risks of Taiwan's Boom (economist.com)

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Chatbot Jesus: Churches tap AI to save souls – and time (axios.com)

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Sam Altman got served with a subpoena onstage at a live event (qz.com)

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Xpeng Shares Surge on Optimism over Progress in Humanoid Robots (bloomberg.com)

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Feds searched security systems at 18 WA police agencies, report finds (seattletimes.com)

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A.I. Is on Its Way to Something More Remarkable Than Intelligence (nytimes.com)

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She Was Ready to Have Her 15th Child. Then Came the Felony Charges (nytimes.com)

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ICE Has Diverted over 25,000 Officers from Their Jobs (cato.org)

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Taiwan in the Shadow of War (time.com)

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My Car Is Becoming a Brick (EVs are poised to age like smartphones) (theatlantic.com)

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US general uses AI for military decisions and is "really close" with ChatGPT (dexerto.com)

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Why AI Will Widen the Gap Between Superstars and Everybody Else (wsj.com)

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Uber Eats partners with fintech firm Pipe to offer capital to small businesses (pipe.com)

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Without data centers, GDP growth was 0.1% in the first half of 2025 (fortune.com)

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Building OpenAI with OpenAI (openai.com)

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From breadwinners to bystanders: The death spiral of the American working man (thehill.com)

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The King of Chicago Trading Wants to Build a GPU Market Bigger Than Oil (bloomberg.com)

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It's time to prepare for AI personhood (theguardian.com)

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America's Elite Colleges Breed High-Status Careers–and Misery (motherjones.com)

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AI Needs a Lot of Computing Power. Is a Market for 'Compute' the Next Big Thing? (wsj.com)

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Uber CEO Predicts How Self-Driving Car Fleets Could Work Financially (businessinsider.com)

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Robotaxis as public transit? Waymo thinks so (theverge.com)

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Early GenAI Researcher AI: I'm tired of the consciousness debate (fortune.com)

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Payrolls faced downward revisions due to faulty birth-death model (seekingalpha.com)

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How the AI Boom Is Leaving Consultants Behind (wsj.com)

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Will AI Choke Off the Supply of Knowledge? (wsj.com)

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What if artificial intelligence is just a "normal" technology? (economist.com)

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Digital Dopamine Is Consuming America. It's Time to Fight for IRL (nytimes.com)

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The A.I. Spending Frenzy Is Propping Up the Real Economy, Too (nytimes.com)

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Eric Schmidt: Silicon Valley Needs to Stop Obsessing over Superhuman A.I (nytimes.com)

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What would happen if USA started faking its economic data? Lessons from others (cnn.com)

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What Musk, Altman and Others Say About AI-Funded 'Universal Basic Income' (wsj.com)

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AGI: Probably Not 2027 (verysane.ai)

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Why AI is replacing some jobs faster than others (weforum.org)

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Behind Wall Street's Abrupt Flip on Crypto (nytimes.com)

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AI-aided Nazca survey nearly doubles known glyphs and hints at their purpose (pnas.org)

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You Are Contaminated: Measuring your body's exposure to pollutants (nytimes.com)

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Fear of Super Intelligent AI Is Driving Harvard and MIT Students to Drop Out (forbes.com/sites/victoriafeng)

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Grok's 'Spicy' Mode Makes NSFW Celebrity Deepfakes of Women (But Not Men) (gizmodo.com)

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Generative AI at the Crossroads: Light Bulb, Dynamo, or Microscope? [pdf] (federalreserve.gov)

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The Unnerving Future of A.I.-Fueled Video Games (nytimes.com)

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Why Women Are Weary of the Emotional Labor of 'Mankeeping' (nytimes.com)

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Preston is a software engineer at a San Francisco startup – he's also in prison (techcrunch.com)

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Do falling birth rates matter in an AI future? (vox.com)

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The Biggest Myth About the YIMBY Movement (theatlantic.com)