A selection of what I've read this past week.

Vendors rolling out AI have an "incentive to deny as many claims as possible."

Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.

A look at genAI's (mostly negative) impact on labor and the workplace. How did we get here, and how do we get out?

A selection of what I've read this past week.

One year on Liz Truss's and Kwasi Kwarteng's economic policies cast a big shadow still.

Discover how Long-Term Capital Management’s controversial strategies led to its 1998 collapse and a historic U.S. government bailout, impacting global financial markets.

A selection of what I've read this past week.

He said AI is helping workers produce more output, but the quality of it is so bad that their colleagues have to spend more time fixing it

The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war

RAND wants better data to price machine-made mishaps, apocalypse not included

The technology’s advances have not yet translated into big improvements in real-life care

A selection of what I've read this past week.

AI agents in a simulated environment lied, stole and voted to “kill” one of their own, according to Emergence, a startup that helps small businesses build applications using artificial intelligence.

There are plenty of laws on the books to hold companies, and potentially their execs, accountable

AI doomerism broke containment last week with an Anthropic researcher’s proclamation that there’s a >10% chance AI could kill all humans within the decade. The Vergecast is recording an all-AI hotline...

What if developers eliminate the middleman?