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Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman on President Trump’s “Jimmy Carter trap.” Interview on YouTube at ms.now/ari
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By Meda Parameswara Reddy In big global supply chains, small errors can compound.
From Nobel Prize-winning research to the Laffer Curve, Scabby the Rat, Veblen's peacock, and more — the economic ideas and inside jokes hiding throughout Planet Money's new board game.
From Nobel Prize-winning research to the Laffer Curve, Scabby the Rat, Veblen's peacock, and more — the economic ideas and inside jokes hiding throughout Planet Money's new board game.Open
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The potential of AI is enormous
Artificial intelligence giant Anthropic announced Thursday that it has appointed former Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke to its Long-Term Benefit Trust. After being appointed by President George W. Bush, Bernanke served as Federal Reserve Chair from 2006 to 2014, presiding over financial crisis of 2008. In his new position Bernanke will be responsible for advising leadership decisions involving artificial intelligence risks and societal impacts as well as appointing Anthropic board members, according to Yahoo Finance. “He [Bernanke] joins an independent body that works to hold Anthropic to its mission: the responsible development of advanced AI for the long-term benefit on humanity,” Anthropic’s Thursday press release stated . …Open
Google DeepMind lost two high-profile researchers in a week marked by a flurry of departures across major AI labs. Why it matters: The talent wars continue and have intensified at the highest levels as many AI developers believe that artificial general intelligence (AGI) is on the horizon. Driving the news: Noam Shazeer announced last week that he was leaving Google DeepMind for OpenAI. Google previously paid more than $2 billion to acqui-hire Shazeer and part of his Character.ai team. - Shazeer co-authored the pivotal 2017 paper "Attention Is All You Need," which introduced the Transformer architecture — the "T" in ChatGPT. - Two days later, John Jumper, who shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for AlphaFold, said he was also…
Google DeepMind lost two high-profile researchers in a week marked by a flurry of departures across major AI labs. Why it matters: The talent wars continue and have intensified at the highest levels as many AI developers believe that artificial general intelligence (AGI) is on the horizon. Driving the news: Noam Shazeer announced last week that he was leaving Google DeepMind for OpenAI. Google previously paid more than $2 billion to acqui-hire Shazeer and part of his Character.ai team. - Shazeer co-authored the pivotal 2017 paper "Attention Is All You Need," which introduced the Transformer architecture — the "T" in ChatGPT. - Two days later, John Jumper, who shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for AlphaFold, said he was also…Open
Photo Credit:Thomas Cole, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Public Domain Like water, culture — if it’s not protected — will flow to the lowest point until equilibrium sets in.
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An expert in human behavior explains how Democrats can change their primary process to improve their chances in 2028.
‘This is not a hoax’
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While hundreds of other journalists fled into exile after Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dmitri A. Muratov stayed. But he did not stay quiet.
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He helped discover cancer-causing genes. Later, as chancellor of the University of California, San Francisco, he led a major expansion.
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