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Economy
Google strikes back at OpenAI with “Project Astra” AI agent prototype
Enlarge / A video still of Project Astra demo at the Google I/O conference keynote in Mountain View on May…
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Senate Turns to Credit Cards in Biden’s “War on Junk Fees”
Nicholas Anthony President Biden’s “war on junk fees” is only picking up steam. On May 9, the Senate Committee on…
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New Biden Section 301 Tariffs (Once Again) Put Politics over Good Policy
Clark Packard Today, the Biden administration announced it is quadrupling tariffs on imported electric vehicles (EVs) from China, while also…
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A New Heritage “Backgrounder” Addresses the Mix of Doctors, But Not the Overall Supply
Jeffrey A. Singer Last March, a report from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) projected a shortage of up to 86,000…
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Apple, SpaceX, Microsoft return-to-office mandates drove senior talent away
Enlarge (credit: Getty) A study analyzing Apple, Microsoft, and SpaceX suggests that return to office (RTO) mandates can lead to…
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Economy
The hunt for rare bitcoin is nearing an end
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Andriy Onufriyenko) Billy Restey is a digital artist who runs a studio in Seattle. But…
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Investing
War On Prices Released Today!
Ryan Bourne Today the Cato Institute publishes a new book that I’ve edited, The War on Prices: How Popular Misconceptions about…
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Economy
Before launching, GPT-4o broke records on chatbot leaderboard under a secret name
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) On Monday, OpenAI employee William Fedus confirmed on X that a mysterious chat-topping AI chatbot known…
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Investing
The Myth of the Free-Market US Health Sector
Michael F. Cannon Rena Conti, Richard Frank, and David Cutler recently published a very useful piece in the New England Journal…
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Investing
People v. Armstrong Brief: Marijuana Odor Can’t Be Probable Cause Where It’s Legal
Matthew Cavedon On October 8, 2020, the Detroit police smelled marijuana. That was their reason for ordering Jeffery Armstrong out…
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