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Investing
Cato Conference in Argentina with President Milei and Leading Classical Liberals
Ian Vásquez For more than 30 years, I and a number of my Cato colleagues have been travelling to Argentina, where we have…
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Investing
Friday Feature: Holy Family Catholic School
Colleen Hroncich Catholic schools are known for many things—quality academics, character formation, a family‐ friendly atmosphere, teaching self‐discipline, and more. They…
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Investing
A Case for Deficit Reduction
Ryan Bourne As I outlined in “Five Fiscal Truths,” the United States faces an alarming fiscal outlook characterized by historically high…
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Economy
Microsoft’s VASA-1 can deepfake a person with one photo and one audio track
Enlarge / A sample image from Microsoft for “VASA-1: Lifelike Audio-Driven Talking Faces Generated in Real Time.” (credit: Microsoft) On…
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LLMs keep leaping with Llama 3, Meta’s newest open-weights AI model
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Benj Edwards) On Thursday, Meta unveiled early versions of its Llama 3 open-weights AI model…
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Economy
LastPass users targeted in phishing attacks good enough to trick even the savvy
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Password-manager LastPass users were recently targeted by a convincing phishing campaign that used a combination of…
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Investing
Instagram Features to Limit Political Content Cause an Uproar, but Giving Users Greater Control on Social Media Presents an Exciting Opportunity
David Inserra Last month, Instagram users took notice of two features that change how much political content users see on…
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Investing
Five Fiscal Truths
Ryan Bourne In a new policy analysis out today, I make the case for a substantial spending‐cut‐led federal deficit reduction effort. Tomorrow I will…
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Economy
OpenAI winds down AI image generator that blew minds and forged friendships in 2022
Enlarge / An AI-generated image from DALL-E 2 created with the prompt “A painting by Grant Wood of an astronaut…
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Investing
WWII’s Impact: The Birth of Europe’s Extensive Welfare System
Romina Boccia and Ivane Nachkebia [T]he European nations’ larger welfare states are the product of the transformative effect of the…
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