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Investing
Getting the Word Out On Podcasts
Walter Olson Over the years I’ve appeared as a guest 82 times on everyone’s favorite podcast, Caleb Brown’s Cato Daily Podcast,…
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Economy
1Password detects “suspicious activity” in its internal Okta account
Enlarge (credit: 1Password) 1Password, a password manager used by millions of people and more than 100,000 businesses, said it detected…
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Economy
Stanford researchers challenge OpenAI, others on AI transparency in new report
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images / Benj Edwards) On Wednesday, Stanford University researchers issued a report on major AI models and…
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Investing
The Inflation Reduction Act Could Turn Electricity Markets into Subsidy Clearinghouses
Travis Fisher “There’s been this move afoot in which markets have become something closer to a mechanism by which to harvest…
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Economy
Eureka: With GPT-4 overseeing training, robots can learn much faster
Enlarge / In this still captured from a video provided by Nvidia, a simulated robot hand learns pen tricks, trained…
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Economy
Feel-good story of the week: 2 ransomware gangs meet their demise
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) From the warm-and-fuzzy files comes this feel-good Friday post, chronicling this week’s takedown of two hated…
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Economy
Okta says hackers breached its support system and viewed customer files
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Identity and authentication management provider Okta said hackers managed to view private customer information after gaining…
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Investing
Navigating the Ma(i)ze of Mexico’s GM Corn Ban
Gabriella Beaumont-Smith In December 2020, Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO), issued a decree banning genetically modified (GM) corn for…
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Economy
Thanks to AI, the future of programming may involve YELLING IN ALL CAPS
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Not long after OpenAI first unveiled its DALL-E 3 AI image generator integrated into ChatGPT earlier…
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Investing
Emergency Aid or Budget Trick? Assessing Biden’s $100 Billion Spending Request
Jordan Cohen and Dominik Lett The Biden administration is asking for a $100 billion supplemental spending package for Israel, Ukraine,…
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