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What Is Anthropic Thinking?
An interview with Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark on the specter of AI-fueled mass unemployment, the future of agents, and how to raise children in an…
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We Haven’t Seen the Worst of What Gambling and Prediction Markets Will Do to America
I don’t think people have thought hard enough about how bad this could get.
Mar 26
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‘Yes, AI Is a Bubble. There Is No Question.’
The evidence that artificial intelligence is a big fat bubble has, confusingly, gotten much stronger and much weaker at the exact same time.
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This Is How the AI Bubble Will Pop
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The 25 Most Interesting Ideas I've Found in 2025 (So Far)
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The 26 Most Important Ideas For 2026
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Everything Is Television
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The Death of Partying in the U.S.A.—and Why It Matters
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The Monks in the Casino
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The Most Important Chart in AI Is Also the Most Misunderstood
When a metric becomes a meme, it gains in popularity what it loses in precision.
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Why Can't People Agree on a Shared Set of Facts?
Nir Eyal on the power of belief, the atheist's case for prayer, and the origins of self-confidence
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This War's Economic Crisis Could Get Much Worse—For the U.S. and the Whole World
This isn't just about the price of oil. It's about everything oil becomes—fertilizer, AI chips, plastic—and the cost of snapping the achilles heel of…
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The Economic Crisis of the Iran War Could Get Very Bad, Very Fast
If Donald Trump doesn't end the war by April, "oil prices could get into Scary Land," one expert told me.
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On Being a Dad
A personal reflection on fatherhood
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How Metrics Make Us Miserable
The quantified life has become a modern religion. But many of us are measuring life the wrong way.
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Why AI Is 'Not Particularly Good' at Curing Disease (Plus: The Next GLP-1 Boom and Why America Hates Big Pharma)
A wide-ranging interview with Dave Ricks, the CEO of Eli Lilly, which makes the GLP-1 drugs Mounjaro and Zepbound and recently became the first…
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