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In recent months “neijuan” (内卷), or “involution,” has become one of the most important buzzwords in Chinese policymaking circles. It has come to describe a disruptive process of relentless competition and price cutting among Chinese businesses, and has been increasingly… more ›
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There has been a major pick-up in solar panel imports into Africa over the last 12 months – a shift that is likely to impact almost every country on the continent. https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/the-first-evidence-of-a-take-off-in-solar-in-africa/?utm_source=semafor more ›
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Company argues that independent artist lawsuit fails as a matter of law under unique sound recording copyright rules… https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/suno-argues-none-of-the-millions-of-tracks-made-on-its-platform-contain-anything-like-a-sample/ more ›
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This paper examines changes in the labor market for occupations exposed to generative artificial intelligence using high-frequency administrative data from ADP, the largest payroll software provider in the United States. https://digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/publications/canaries-in-the-coal-mine/ more ›
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An interactive visualization tool showing you how transformer models work in large language models (LLM) like GPT. https://poloclub.github.io/transformer-explainer/ more ›
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1789 Capital invested double-digit millions of dollars into Polymarket https://www.axios.com/2025/08/26/trump-jr-vc-fund-polymarket more ›
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The NFL signaled Monday that it’s concerned about wagering taking place outside of the framework of regulated sports betting. https://www.axios.com/2025/08/25/nfl-sports-betting-prediction-markets more ›
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If they improve further, AI weather models may very well become the gold standard. https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/08/googles-ai-model-just-nailed-the-forecast-for-the-strongest-atlantic-storm-this-year/ more ›