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Chatbots aren’t just flattering us. They’re helping us decide what’s real.
AI psychosis may be the most visible example of something much bigger and stranger. Excerpt: "LLMs influence our beliefs not just because they agree with us. They influence our beliefs because they are socially participating in reality with us. What makes something feel real isn’t that we say we believe it. Rather, it’s that our experiences exist in a world we share with others. For most of human history, new technologies have extended our cognitive capacities. Now they are p

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Elon Musk Will Turn Kids Into Capitalists
Bank Hapoalim gave shares to customers, many of whom had never invested before.

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The Hidden Signal That Predicts Who Will Become a Future CEO
An analysis of earnings calls over 10 years finds that inviting colleagues to speak makes an executive seem more cooperative and collaborative

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U.S. President Declared War on the Term ‘AI.’ CEOs Are Struggling to Keep Up.
Executives from Nvidia to Microsoft walk linguistic tightrope since decree, sometimes recalibrating in midsentence

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Voters Rejected A.I. in the Midterms. Now Comes an Era of Scrutiny
After two years of little A.I. oversight, voters on Tuesday rejected data center projects and swept into office Democratic candidates who promised to regulate the technology. Related

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$500 Million Bought Elon Nothing
Musk’s unprecedented spending may even have hurt Republicans. Related

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10 perspectives that divide the AI world
AI will likely impact everything from the economy to the battlefield, but exactly how remains to be seen.

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How the ‘Big Three’ Index Fund Managers Really Influence Corporate America
The conventional wisdom is that BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street get their way through voting power. New Wharton research argues persuasion — not pressure — is their real source of influence.

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When AI Makes Unacceptable Decisions Feel Normal
The more we use AI, the more it can start to shape our judgment, warns Wharton’s Cornelia Walther.

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The Good Apology
In this Nano Tool for Leaders, Wharton’s Maurice Schweitzer and Columbia’s Adam Galinsky explain how effective apologies rebuild trust through accountability and action.

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Are Some Things Going to Get Uglier?
Will the U.S. leader redefine the lame-duck presidency? Related

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The Smartest People in AI Believe This Is the World’s Most Important Chart
AI is starting to build better AI. This self-improvement is speeding up research and development—and freaking everyone out.

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Why do so few in the U.S. seem concerned about depleted Social Security funds in 6-8 years?
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Defining and strengthening the built environment workforce
The modern world relies on a range of physical, human-made assets and systems that undergird daily life and make up the built environment. Spanning highways and railways, pipes and power plants, and homes and businesses, the built environment is expansive and foundational to the country’s economy. In turn, these structures rely on an appropriately educated and skilled workforce to design, build, and maintain them. While employers, policymakers, and other leaders widely acknow

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The Time Is Right for a ‘Great Books’ Revival
To build a better world in the age of AI, students need grounding in indispensable ideas. Excerpt: "In 1970, the poet, educator, and architect June Jordan posed the following question during a middle-school graduation speech in Ocean Hill, Brooklyn: “Where are the central, required courses that will teach us our real heritage of heroes and heroines, rebellion, and loving accomplishment?” Questions like this are at the forefront of my mind lately. Like Jordan, I’m a writer who

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The legacy of Milwaukee's Socialist mayors
Beginning in 1910, Milwaukee—a city long associated with beer and bratwurst—elected three Socialist mayors who made parks, public housing and sanitation priorities of city government.

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How Georgia O'Keeffe painted architecture
An exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts is painting a different portrait of Georgia O'Keeffe, best known for her depictions of flowers and desert landscapes.

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A wonderful (& giving) life
During the Second World War, Academy Award-winning actor James Stewart answered his nation's call, serving as a pilot in the Army Air Corps. He flew 20 successful missions, and came home from WWII a different man. Stewart's fight to be able to fight despite his celebrity, and his emotional post-war return to the screen in "It's a Wonderful Life," are the subjects of the film "Jimmy." Lee Cowan talks with actors K.J. Apa (who plays Stewart), and Max Casella (who plays director

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Inside Musk’s plan to upend the wireless phone industry
SpaceX is in talks to buy Boost Mobile or use its network, giving Musk a potential back door into the $235 billion wireless market Related

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The Big Change Coming in U.S.-China Relations in the Age of A.I.
....while the United States and China are still economic and strategic rivals jostling for advantage, they both realize that there is now an intruder into their two-superpower marriage: the superempowered bad actor.

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