Anthropic has three very different visions for the impact AI will have on the U.S. economy.

A doomsaying community once on the periphery of the tech industry has gained influence, as AI “agents” perform amazing and alarming feats. From Anthrophic From OpenAI From NBC Nightly News: "could end humanity within this decade" Anthropic Says It Blocked Possible Efforts to Build Biological Weapons "Jumping the shark? Political world erupts

A new book reveals how the infamous lawyer helped shape the U.S. President.

Washington, D.C., is full of cords of connection. By removing a Joel Shapiro work, the Kennedy Center severed one.

Science will never be able to give a completely objective description of the world. That should make us humbler—and wiser. Excerpt: "Objective statements independent of any knower are fictions. Purely objective reality is a useful myth, but only a myth. Anything said about the state of the world comes from someone’s singular perspective. This means that all of our knowledge is intrinsically uncertain. All statements have unavoidable margins of uncertainty. Indeed, we can be w

Why Lonnie Bunch Is Leaving the Smithsonian

One of the hardest things to do is to describe the overall shape, texture and rhythm of a political era. We’ll talk about wokeness, or we’ll talk about Trumpism, but getting at the overall form in which they all take place is really difficult. One idea for this that has taken off a bit recently is hyperpoliticization. Hyperpolitics is a concept from Anton Jäger. He’s a historian, a contributing writer to New York Times Opinion and the author of “Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politic

In the face of escalating White House attacks about how museums present American history, Lonnie G. Bunch III has announced his decision to depart.

The Taiwanese don’t trust Trump, and they don’t believe America will come to their defense. A deal with China is starting to look inevitable.

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This Labor Day, a reason to, or not to, panic about AI unemployment Excerpt: "The reason why the solutions to economic inequality and instability are always the same is because the problems are fundamentally the same. Capitalist economies distribute income by paying people for their labor and paying returns to people who own capital (wealth). Due to certain feedback loops, capital factors — or wealth — end up overwhelmingly concentrated in the hands of a small percentage of p

DM How might embracing the "3 Pillars" of all humans' actual reality: • all-encompassing, • kinetic and • vanishing points, (together known as Pantakinesis...) ...bring about significant advancements in human thought, response and vigilance within these three contextual examples: 1) Financial planning and investments? 2) Business modeling/strategies? 3) Career navigation? The core of what you're asking can't be researched — since the three pillars live within our shared corpu

The AI giant is worried about what all-powerful bots could mean for our constitutional rights. Related: The Research We Need to Understand A.I. Is Falling Apart

Frederick Douglass’s early speeches condemned the U.S. Constitution for embedding slavery in its clauses. Decades later, he saw the document very differently.

Netanyahu maneuvered, with his top rival’s help, as his defense minister urged a dramatically different fight.

The Dutch central bank said shifting the 78 metric tons of gold, worth $11 billion, would improve its ability to trade the metal in a pinch Perhaps somewhat related Another symptom?

What Trump wrought in Venezuela could have come from a Wall Street playbook.

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Those of us who live in relatively stable and well-ordered societies would like to believe, like Voltaire’s absurd Dr. Pangloss, who stumbles from one disaster to another, that “all is for the best.” We might grumble about the economy or the prospect of another far-off war, or listen approvingly to radical voices from either end of the political spectrum, but we don’t expect our world to be turned upside down. Excerpt: "We have arrived in a new age of disorder. We must prepar

The conservative justices have separation of powers exactly backwards.