Billionaire tech libertarians have long sought “freedom cities” free from government oversight. It increasingly looks like they’re going to get a “freedom country” instead.
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Read more...The popular press is whistling past the graveyard of AI systemic risk even as heavyweight experts warn more needs to be done.
Read more...Cost-effective ways exist to improve your indoor air quality that will reduce your COVID and flu risk, lower your cancer and lung disease risk, and eliminate headaches and sleepiness caused by poor ventilation.
Read more...A Tobin tax is a no-brainer for reducing speculation and financial crisis risk. That is reason enough to keep it from being implemented.
Read more...The magic of the market: a system where your income determines your exposure to climate disasters.
Read more...A big leverage unwind in Bitcoin is accelerating, dragging down other crypto. How much further will the fall go before hitting bottom?
Read more...Heavy metals are a legitimate food safety concern. That has created a mini-industry of conflicted measurement and certification players.
Read more...AI: too big to be regulated?
Read more...More evidence that publicly funded research is disproportionately productive and hence critical to innovation.
Read more...Peeling back another layer of the AI onion, today on datacenter financing.
Read more...Despite years of supposed preparation, the bloc is now scrambling for rare earths. Will the US have any more success?
Read more...The Wall Street Journal does its readers no favors in its whole-hog adoption of the fraud spin in ‘splaining high profile loan losses.
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