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Born into the Athenian elite, Pericles was a committed democrat. His eccentricities, political and personal, set him apart. https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/pericles-the-eccentric/ more ›
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On God, hacking, and the morality of private sins. https://newsletter.drorpoleg.com/p/under-the-eye-of-ai?open=false more ›
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They use artificial intelligence to analyze climate data, track forest fires and count endangered wildlife while warning that the technology is raising electricity demand and water use while emitting greenhouse… more ›
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A longstanding hypothesis held that some problems would always be hard for computers to solve quickly. But OpenAI disproved it — raising the possibility of radical new efficiencies. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/06/science/ai-exponential-time-hypothesis.html?unlocked_article_code=1.OlE.47kX.eivz6u8UMHXN&smid=url-share more ›
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The real question in my mind is whether Democrats will take advantage of the new age of populism https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/nov/04/democrats-elected-us-awakening?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other more ›
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Chinese banking giants piled loans onto the debt-ridden country, then adopted a hardball stance when it came time to repay, documents show. https://www.icij.org/investigations/china-capital/how-beijings-africa-ambitions-financed-by-chinas-mega-banks-triggered-a-crisis-in-zambia/ more ›
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The coding interview is dead, at least for my team at Anthropic. I’ve seen enough to know that it no longer provides signal. I have a spicily optimistic take: I… more ›
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A new study reveals that AI models require up to 17 times more tokens for less dominant languages, inflating costs, increasing latency, and penalizing startups in places like Bengaluru. https://restofworld.org/2026/ai-tokenizer-tax-non-english-languages-cost-inequity/ more ›