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Signs of the Bright Future for Local News
Paul Matzko The Wall Street Journal ran another article about the decline of the local newspaper in what has become its own,…
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New Defending Globalization Content: Trade, Consumption, Fashion, Technology, and Video with Amb. Robert B. Zoellick
Scott Lincicome Today we’ve published three new essays for Cato’s Defending Globalization project: Trade Buys Goods, Services, and Time, by…
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The Perils of Big Sandwich
Thomas A. Firey US antitrust officials have been busy of late. They’re awaiting a ruling in a major case against Google, in…
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AI Doesn’t Change the Economics of Labor, Capital, & Taxes
Adam N. Michel OpenAI released Chat GPT‑3 a year ago this month. The subsequent diffusion of ever more sophisticated artificial intelligence…
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That’s Not How the BRAC Commission Worked: No Up or Down Vote but Silent Approval
Romina Boccia Former Senator Rob Portman (R‑OH). I’ve excitedly been following former Senator Rob Portman’s advocacy for a congressional fiscal commission…
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Hackers spent 2+ years looting secrets of chipmaker NXP before being detected
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) A prolific espionage hacking group with ties to China spent over two years looting the corporate…
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New “Stable Video Diffusion” AI model can animate any still image
Enlarge / Still examples of images animated using Stable Video Diffusion by Stability AI. (credit: Stability AI) On Tuesday, Stability…
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Amazon’s $195 thin clients are repurposed Fire TV Cubes
Enlarge / A blog post from AWS chief evangelist Jeff Barr shows the Workspaces Thin Client setup. (credit: Jeff Barr/Amazon)…
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Cato CEF Friday Feature Marathon
Colleen Hroncich Meh. This seems to be the best way to summarize how people feel about school—they don’t love it,…
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An Ama(i)zing Quote from the US on Mexico’s Corn Ban
Gabriella Beaumont-Smith As I wrote about recently, Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador issued a decree banning genetically engineered (GE) corn for…
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