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The war in Iran, and the subsequent closure of the Strait of Hormuz, has unfortunately made us all familiar with details of the petroleum supply chain that we could formerly happily ignore.

Antonio G. Di Benedetto for The Verge: I tested three Windows laptops in the MacBook Neo’s price range — there’s no contest Each has an eight-core processor (versus six on the Neo), 16GB of RAM instead of 8GB, and between 256GB and 1TB of storage — the slowest of which

A Crisis Dispatch

They will understand it when it arrives. That will be too late.

Frontier M&A paths diverge, OpenAI pushes policy amid chaos, Mythos proved too dangerous to ship, Meta gets back in the game, Anthropic goes all-in on agents

Driven by labor shortages, Japan is pushing physical AI from pilot projects into real-world deployment.

And yes, I hate consortia too.

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OpenAI brainstorms ways AI can benefit humanity in effort to counter bad vibes.

The OpenAI CEO reportedly confuses basic coding and machine learning terms, numerous insiders have admitted.

An update to More Magic Math from OpenAI The final mad dash to IPO is on for the big AI companies. SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic have all made their intentions clear. And nothing could be more obvi…

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No.397 — Ending the AI arms race ⊗ Insight and future-fit decisions ⊗ Better AI creative collaborators ⊗ Progressive Paris ⊗ The asteroid ryugu and the building blocks of life

The struggle over the Fed is a constitutional conflict: in a representative system, the power over money belongs to the legislature

"I think there's a small but real chance he's eventually remembered as a Bernie Madoff- or Sam Bankman-Fried-level scammer."

The text of the 14th Amendment’s citizenship clause is fairly unambiguous.

On AI agents, grunt work, and the part of science that isn't replaceable.

A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also Jokes

We've been the marks of our own long cons, all the way up

After Donald Trump was elected for a second time, he began to systematically destroy the "rules-based order" that the US had painstaking constructed after World War II. It's elements includedRead More

Part I - The Early Years