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Economy
New secret math benchmark stumps AI models and PhDs alike
On Friday, research organization Epoch AI released FrontierMath, a new mathematics benchmark that has been turning heads in the AI…
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Investing
An Idea Whose Time Should Never Come: Using Special Forces Against the Cartels Would Be a Colossal Mistake
Brandan P. Buck A perennial yet fanciful idea, the notion of sending US Special Forces into Mexico, has once again…
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Green Energy Trash
Chris Edwards President-elect Trump is moving quickly to choose cabinet members and announce his priorities for next year. Tax policy…
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Misinformation Is Not the Election Boogeyman
David Inserra The election is over and the losing side is scrambling to justify its defeat. An emerging narrative is…
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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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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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