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Investing
Repeal the Debt Ceiling
Jeffrey Miron This article appeared on SubStack on May 12, 2023. Unless Congress cuts spending or raises taxes in the…
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Economy
Anthropic’s Claude AI can now digest an entire book like The Great Gatsby in seconds
Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a robot reading a book. (credit: Benj Edwards / Stable Diffusion) On Thursday, AI…
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Investing
Friday Feature: Taking Charge of Your Children’s Education
Colleen Hroncich My oldest child is graduating from college tomorrow, so it has me thinking about our educational journey—which could…
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Economy
Microsoft will take nearly a year to finish patching new 0-day Secure Boot bug
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Ars Technica) Earlier this week, Microsoft released a patch to fix a Secure Boot bypass…
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Economy
OpenAI peeks into the “black box” of neural networks with new research
Enlarge / An AI-generated image of robots looking inside an artificial brain. (credit: Stable Diffusion) On Tuesday, OpenAI published a…
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Economy
Google’s top AI model, PaLM 2, hopes to upstage GPT-4 in generative mastery
Enlarge (credit: Google) On Wednesday, Google introduced PaLM 2, a family of foundational language models comparable to OpenAI’s GPT-4. At…
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Investing
Congress Should Protect Americans by Ignoring the FDIC’s “Reform” Options
Norbert Michel In the wake of the March 2023 failures of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and Signature Bank, federal agencies…
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Investing
Turkey’s Election Scenarios: The Good, the Bad, and the Scary
Mustafa Akyol Today, I have new a piece in National Review: “Turkey’s Election Scenarios: The Good, the Bad, and the Scary.” It…
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Economy
Leak of MSI UEFI signing keys stokes fears of “doomsday” supply chain attack
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson) A ransomware intrusion on hardware manufacturer Micro-Star International, better known as MSI, is stoking concerns of…
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Investing
Financial Economists Dismiss Stock Buyback Fury
Ryan Bourne and Sophia Bagley On May 3, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission adopted a rule to update stock buyback…
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