Cape Burhan with Shamanka Rock. The rock formation is made of white marble, dolomite, limestone, with inclusions of garnet, quartz and graphite. Olkhon Island, Lake Baikal, Russia.
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When public health bodies contradict each other, the damage comes less from officials lying than from people being handed conflicting claims they have no way to adjudicate.
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Residents of Ypsilanti Township are not just fighting over power bills and water use — part of the computing power in the data center the University of Michigan wants to build with Los Alamos would go toward modernising nuclear weapons.
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Several researchers now building AI have publicly said they genuinely believe the superintelligence they are creating has a substantial chance of wiping out humanity within a decade — and it has not stopped them.
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Construction automation has only ever worked on two kinds of tasks — those you can move into a factory and those repetitive enough to be done factory-style on site — and nearly everything else has failed for 170 years.
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Decades of image-preference surveys show that a large majority of people across age, gender, politics and nationality favour traditional architecture, yet architecture schools and public commissions build almost nothing else.
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Nobody knows how to build superintelligence, but labs that treat it as a faith will cut corners in the real world because they believe they must win the race.
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Long-term interest rates are set by inflation expectations and real growth, and no Fed chair can change that track.
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Winning across time zones may not hinge on jet-lag strategy at all; the better team usually wins anyway.
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A gifted Palestinian surgeon who could have lived comfortably in Saudi Arabia ended up settling his family in a coal-mining town in Appalachia, as the only way out from under occupation.
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AI fiction is easy to spot because it spells everything out — the theme, the emotion, the moral — while human storytellers instinctively reach for complexity and ambiguity.
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Candy prices rose not because candy-makers suddenly turned greedier, but because the supply of cocoa and sugar kept breaking down.
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OpenAI and Anthropic are not poaching researchers in Asia but executives who understand both how a US head office allocates money and how local governments and customers actually work.
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The AI safety warnings never changed; what changed is that the people issuing them now sit at the heart of a trillion-dollar company, and the public and Congress have started taking them seriously.
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The most important thing in investing is not avoiding risk but calculating how much of it you can still absorb — and what survives the maths stops being a big risk.
