The second birthday of ChatGPT was only a little over a month ago, and now we have transitioned into the next paradigm of models that can do complex reasoning. New years get people in a reflective...| Sam Altman
Do higher rates really matter after all?| allisonschrager.substack.com
A very broad interpretation of their site reputation abuse spam policy allows Google to penalise affiliate content at will.| www.seoforgooglenews.com
The question for Trump's economic legacy| allisonschrager.substack.com
The latest guidance provided by NIST on the different components to recommended password policy.| Specops Software
Randy Priem reviews the current discussions about fortifying the independence of determination committees deciding whether a credit event took place for single-name credit default swaps. He offers several possible strategies.| ProMarket
Microsoft will pay $7.5B for ZeniMax Media, parent of Bethesda Softworks, whose hit games include "The Elder Scrolls," "Fallout" and "Doom."| Variety
This Week in Cleantech is a new, weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in cleantech and climate in 15 minutes or less.| Renewable Energy World
After seven years of trying, we need to change course on our adventure in the Android galaxy.| iA
The concept of brand equity explained in simple words, as well as how brands can achieve it and why it is important in the long-term.| The Branding Journal
The U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned the popular Ethereum mixer Tornado Cash, adding it to the Specially Designated Nationals List.| Chainalysis
Amazon Alexa bestaat ondertussen 10 jaar, en dat is hét moment voor een beetje kritische evaluatie. Is het verhaal van Alexa er een van succes, of toch vooral een van mislukking?| TechPulse
As BRICS enters a new era after its latest expansion, its members must not let their growing differences impede the group’s work on advancing their shared goal of accelerating financial multipolarity processes.| TheAltWorld
Part 1: Gordon White, Neo-Reactionaries, and Acceleration| codexastarte.substack.com
Recently, speculation has been rife that either China or the U.S. may have aspirations to attempt a moon take-over.| The Debrief
The company's star ethics researcher highlighted the risks of large language models, which are key to Google's business.| MIT Technology Review
LDI entered the lexicon of many people during the last couple of weeks, following the tradition of other acronyms in years past. It made the jump from being a topic mostly discussed by pension plans (and the investment providers who sell things to them) to being the focus of market attention.| The Investment Ecosystem
The ruling party miscalculated by expecting that the leading role that they carved out for Poland in the NATO-Russian proxy war would shield them from Western criticism for persecuting the liberal-globalist opposition.| korybko.substack.com
Discover the latest Temu revenue and usage statistics for 2024. Learn about Temu's monthly active users, downloads, market share, and more.| Backlinko
In an unassuming white and blue office building in Freeport, a few miles into Nassau County, sits the headquarters of American Transit Insurance Co. The| Insurance Journal
Even if Turkey decides to sell S-400 the chance of 100 F-35s returned to Turkey is zero. The reason - Ankara is building a 5G network through the Chinese Huawei| Bulgarian Military Industry Review
We finally are getting a good look at the KC-46's most controversial feature.| The War Zone
I started to cover Norinchukin Bank many months ago already (“WHY IS THE FED PREPARING TO BAIL OUT A JAPANESE BANK? BECAUSE OF THE “NORINCHUKIN” DANGER”) and since then the situation of one of the biggest Japanese banks has become worse and worse: A few weeks ago Norinchukin released its...| JustDario
Explore MetricsCart's review monitoring solutions to get an accurate picture of consumers’ perceptions of your brand.| MetricsCart
“This is a historic moment for California, for our partner states, and for the world.”| Grist
From DeFi and NFTs to Play-to-Earn and DAOs, discover the best cryptocurrency niches and explore the future of finance.| The Niche Guru
Unfortunately, the answer is not| LowEndBox
The Paris Olympics may be over, but who says heated competition in bizarrely mutated sporting events only seen at the Olympics fueled by irrationally intense nationalism should stop? As a lifelong basketball fan, one of the more bizarrely mutated Olympic events is 3x3 basketball. As a full-time observer and occasional| Interconnected
By pushing near the town of Tetkino, Ukraine could place an estimated 3,000 Russian troops in a pincer and clear several hundred more square kilometers of territory.| The War Zone
This morning the Bureau of Labor Statistics released the latest quarterly data for their Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages for the first quarter of 2024. Along with this release is the annou…| Economist Writing Every Day
On 14 October 2008, the BOJ entered the bailout arena in full force with its “Introduction of Measures regarding Money Market Operations to Ensure Stability in Financial Markets.” Among the four “temporary” initiatives announced, the last one was the most crucial one… and remains the most crucial one today. “Expansion...| JustDario
Last week I wrote the provocative, but substantiated, “THIS IS NOT 1987, 2000, 2008 OR 2020, BUT A WHOLE NEW MARKET MONSTER” with the main goal of bringing to everyone’s attention how the current financial market is presented with many “unknown unknowns.” Today it’s worth looking a little deeper in...| JustDario
The tech giants’ products will support mission planning in federal intelligence and defense agencies’ classified networks.| FedScoop
How a second Trump administration could avoid some of the pitfalls of the first.| christopherrufo.com
The Anduril founder has sued the construction company who led a $2.5 million project to turn the property next to his Newport Beach, California, home into a giant garage.| Forbes
The UK's Royal United Services Institute issued a 45 page report on the weaponization of FATF standards and its influence on the repression of watchdog organizations, journalists, critics and opposition groups - including a guide for affected entities.| The Rage
The Shanghai finance educator's call for belief in finance, market, entreprenurs, and rules reverberates across a shaken industry.| www.eastisread.com
The Trump campaign sees a clear path for victory: juicing turnout among white men.| www.thebulwark.com
Two weeks ago, the rumors began to swirl. American Chief Commercial Officer Vasu Raja was out. Or he was at least taking a leave of absence. Or he was working from home. Something was going on, and people in the know began talking. The saga has now ended after a fortnight. Vasu was unceremoniously booted from his job this week. While many of the policies that Vasu drove have not delivered, the ultimate blame has to lie with his boss, CEO Robert Isom.| Cranky Flier
With dollarization discarded in the short run, the world is eagerly watching Milei’s initial steps as the new president of Argentina.| economicorder.substack.com
Last week, the FTC banned non-competes and SCOTUS contemplated giving the US president full immunity. How do we deal with a world of not just policy volatility but institutional volatility?| geolegal.substack.com
Recognizing the unique signs of a possible civilizational collapse, rather than being blindsided by it, requires a bold thesis as to what the core engine of our civilization is. Without a clear and correct theory of what makes our civilization function, signs of decay will go unnoticed or rationalized, rather than recognized.| Palladium Magazine
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Batteries are too big, and our politics are too polarized.| The Verge
Work culture in America looks very different today than it did a decade ago.| Business Insider
To get arms for its Gaza war, Israel is drawing on a U.S. arms stockpile. Joe Biden wants to remove all the restrictions on the arms.| The Intercept
If we want an equal society, we need to get more comfortable with unequal marriages.| www.fullstackeconomics.com
Headlines have overshadowed inconvenient truths about biology and cost. Now, new research suggests the industry may be on a crash course with reality.| The Counter
Star ‘smashed numerous records’ and raised close to 3% of the company’s revenues from recorded music in 2022| the Guardian
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Bankman-Fried doubled down until the end.| The Verge
Rest of World analyzed 3,000 AI images to see how image generators visualize different countries and cultures.| Rest of World
The startup promises a fairly-distributed, cryptocurrency-based universal basic income. So far all it's done is build a biometric database from the bodies of the poor.| MIT Technology Review
The Electric Vehicle Outlook is our annual long-term publication looking at how electrification, shared mobility, autonomous driving and other factors will impact road transport in the coming decades.| BloombergNEF
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Google is a privacy pitfall, says Apple — but essential.| The Verge
Day 12: Microsoft executive Jon Tinter testified as Judge Mehta pushed for more open court testimony.| www.bigtechontrial.com
Here are seven ways that Judge Mehta is allowing Google to hide the Google antitrust trial.| www.bigtechontrial.com
Day 7 and 8: DuckDuckGo CEO takes the stand as controversy over trial's confidentiality continues| www.bigtechontrial.com
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Neeva was faster, simpler, and ad-free. But making something better than Google isn’t enough to beat Google.| The Verge
