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Investing
FDIC Survey Shows 5.6 Million Unbanked Households, But Only 1.6 Million Want Accounts
Nicholas Anthony Millions of Americans do not have a bank account. Known as the “unbanked,” these Americans are often referred…
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Investing
Rethinking Disaster Aid: Promoting Fiscal Responsibility and Risk Management
Romina Boccia and Dominik Lett As Congress reconvenes post-election, a critical agenda item is likely to be an emergency funding…
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Investing
On Inflation Reduction Act Reform, Anything Short of Full Repeal Is Failure
Travis Fisher, Adam N. Michel , and Joshua Loucks Full Republican control of Washington creates an opportunity to repeal many…
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Economy
Ars Live: Our first encounter with manipulative AI
In the short-term, the most dangerous thing about AI language models may be their ability to emotionally manipulate humans if…
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Investing
New Cato Docuseries on the Faces of Globalization
Scott Lincicome One of the main motivations behind Cato’s ongoing Defending Globalization project was that most public discussions of “globalization”…
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Economy
Is “AI welfare” the new frontier in ethics?
A few months ago, Anthropic quietly hired its first dedicated “AI welfare” researcher, Kyle Fish, to explore whether future AI…
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Economy
Claude AI to process secret government data through new Palantir deal
Anthropic has announced a partnership with Palantir and Amazon Web Services to bring its Claude AI models to unspecified US…
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Economy
New SMB-friendly subscription tier may be too late to stop VMware migrations
Broadcom has a new subscription tier for VMware virtualization software that may appease some disgruntled VMware customers, especially small to…
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Investing
Education Was an Important Election Issue, But Not as You Might Think
Neal McCluskey When it comes to the most important issues in the just-completed presidential election, education was not likely among…
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Economy
Matter 1.4 has some solid ideas for the future home—now let’s see the support
Matter, the smart home standard that promises an interoperable future for home automation, even if it’s scattered and a bit…
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