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Help, My Friend Got Me a Dumb AI-Generated Present
“An artist friend of mine got me an AI-generated painting as a gift. I can see she tried to personalize…
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The Game Theory of the Auto Strikes
Everyone involved in the strike should be calculating what’s at stake to figure out what sort of offers they’d be…
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The Auto Strike Threatens a Supply Chain Already Weakened by Covid
In addition to making everyone an epidemiologist, the Covid-19 pandemic schooled the public on the world-spanning network of manufacturers, assemblers,…
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Rebuilding Ukraine Is an Act of Resistance
The museum was damaged by shelling, but most of its exhibits survived. It now also houses items rescued from destroyed…
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Millionaires Are Begging Governments to Tax Them More | WIRED
Why speak up when you’ve won the game? McGough admits that her “hard up” working class background might make her…
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The Seabed Empire Funding Britain’s New King | WIRED
In 2019, a partnership between BP and German energy provider ENBW agreed to pay £231 million ($290 million) in annual option…
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Scams Are Ruining Pakistan’s Digital Economy
The last time Zippy posted to Instagram was in April 2022—a four-paragraph-long apology note saying he was sorry for not…
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Silicon Valley Bank’s Failure Deals a Blow to Europe’s Startups
Silicon Valley Bank’s struggles started with a bad bet on long-dated US bonds. Rising interest rates meant that the value…
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Silicon Valley Will Still Need A Bank
In other words, there is a world in which people took better decisions and SVB continued to chug along quite…
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Adobe Opens a New Office Tower and Promises No Layoffs
Photo: Robert Giroux (Getty Images) Adobe has promised there will be no more layoffs in 2023 as the company opens…
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