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| Jan 20, 2026 | Can You Trust Mark Meador? | The FTC remains politicized. One commissioner is leading the way—when it suits him.
The Federal Trade Commission under Lina Khan was not a well-run institution. I wrote about this at the time, often and at length, and I regret nothing. But ... |
| Feb 12, 2025 | OpenAI CEO Sam Altman shares plans to bring o3 Deep Research agent to free and ChatGPT Plus users | Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More
Earlier this month, OpenAI debuted a new AI agent powered by its upcoming full o3 reasoning AI model called “Deep... |
| Nov 20, 2023 | ¿ Worldcoin necesita una reevaluación? Comprender el experimento Crypto-AI-UBI de Sam Altman | Se está produciendo una reestructuración en la tecnología y las criptomonedas son parte de ella. El viernes, el cofundador y director ejecutivo de OpenAI, Sam Altman, fue depuesto sin ceremonias . La junta directiva de la organización, que ... |
| Jun 28, 2023 | It’s past time to address the problem of indoor air quality. A new technology can help | Until the early 20th century, America regularly experienced brutally destructive urban fires. Conflagrations like the 1871 Great Chicago Fire, which destroyed more than 17,000 buildings and left 100,000 people homeless, were thought to be u... |
| Apr 14, 2023 | Should We Create An ‘Island’ For God-Like Artificial Intelligence? | Welcome to Fantasy Island, the future location for artificial intelligence research if some AI ... [+] skeptics get their way.getty |
| Jan 23, 2023 | Нейросеть-конкурент ChatGPT сдала университетский экзамен по праву и экономике | Отдел новостей 23 января 2023, 11:30 Нейросеть-конкурент ChatGPT сдала университетский экзамен по праву и экономике
Искусственный интеллект сдал экзамен университетского уровня по праву и экономике. Об этом в своём блоге рассказал профессор... |
| Jan 19, 2023 | An AI rival to ChatGPT passed a university level law and economics exam, and did better than many humans, professor says | An AI financed by Sam Bankman-Fried just passed a law and economics exam. Kilito Chan/Getty Images
An AI received a marginal pass in a law and economics exam, economics professor Alex Tabarrok said.
Tabarrok, a professor at George Mason Uni... |
| Jan 19, 2023 | An AI rival to ChatGPT passed a university level law and economics exam, and did better than many humans, professor says | An AI received a marginal pass in a law and economics exam, economics professor Alex Tabarrok said.
Tabarrok, a professor at George Mason University, said the AI's answer was "better than many human responses."
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| Dec 11, 2022 | FS Weekly #51: Links and Commentary | Entrepreneurship, Technology, and Society | 11 December 2022 | No. 51
If you enjoy reading Future Startup, I would be grateful if you share it with other people who might find it inspirational and educational — post it on Facebook/LinkedIn... |
| Dec 9, 2022 | ChatGPT Will Kill Search and Open a Path to Web3 | It has been a long time since a software release has consumed the tech community as much as ChatGPT, the latest offering from OpenAI, the AI startup founded by Elon Musk.
This chatbot, trained on massive pools of data and now able to answer... |
| Nov 27, 2022 | Future Startup Weekly 50: Links and Commentary | Entrepreneurship, Technology and Society | 27 November 2022 | No. 49
If you enjoy reading Future Startup, I would be grateful if you share it with other people who might find it inspirational and educational — post it on Facebook/LinkedIn,... |
| Mar 7, 2022 | Smart Cities, Smarter Currencies | Maybe Nation-States Aren’t The Best Way To Organise Money. So What Is The Alternative? |
| Feb 11, 2022 | What does a real economist think of cryptocurrencies? | Tyler Cowen is an economist and writer who co-founded the popular blog, MarginalRevolution. A professor at George Mason University, Cowen was named one of the Economist’s top 36 economists who were most influential over the past decade. He’... |
| Jan 11, 2022 | 7 советов, как читать больше книг | Известный американский экономист и философ Тайлер Коуэн утверждает, что в хорошие вечера может прочитать целых пять книг. Это кажется невозможным, но если вы знакомы с блогом Коуэна Marginal Revolution, в котором он комментирует и рекоменду... |
| Nov 22, 2021 | Yuppiechef's '4 for 3' Black Friday deals aren't as impressive as they sound – here's why | Price review
Kitchen and homeware retailer Yuppiechef is running a "4 for 3" pre-Black Friday sale.
It purports to gift shoppers the cheapest of four qualifying items in their shopping cart.
But it's an old sales tactic that ... |
| Oct 22, 2021 | Welcome to the new excruciating world of waiting for everything | Subscribe to Fortune Daily to get essential business stories straight to your inbox each morning.
Ben Dreyfuss needed a comforter. And the actor and writer (and son of Oscar-winner Richard), who had recently moved to Sun Valley, Idaho, expe... |
| Apr 16, 2021 | Growing Startups: M&A, Go Public Or Stay Private? | CEO at Advanced Intelligent Systems, a practical autonomous robotics company with software and hardware modules. |
| Mar 15, 2021 | This Isn't the Revolution I Signed Up For | In social networks, online chat rooms and blogs, there is an ugly alignment taking shape between disparate, radical groups that hold all sorts of distorted and misinformed views on the issues of the day.
What is emerging as a common thread ... |
| Feb 11, 2021 | Blockchain Bites: Mastercard, BNY Mellon Embrace Crypto; Amazon Floats 'Digital Currency' Project | Three trends
1. Crypto infrastructure is being laid down across the banking, tech and financial sectors.
BNY Mellon, the world’s biggest custodian bank, will allow customers to custody crypto by the end of the year. It’s working with unname... |
| Feb 4, 2021 | Crypto Is the Libertarian Cheat Code in the Final Battle Over State Coercion | In the great game of the world economy, the final boss victory for crypto would be to rob nation-states of the ability to issue legitimate money – at least, that would be the libertarian win condition.
"Everyone who has been around lon... |
| Oct 13, 2020 | 15 Finance Pros Share Their Favorite Industry Info Resources | The finance industry is highly competitive and fast-changing. Finance professionals are expected to quickly adapt to new trends and developments in the field, and the pressure can be overwhelming. Thankfully, there are many ways to stay inf... |
| Mar 26, 2020 | Bitcoin Is a Safe Haven for a Worse Storm Than This | Byrne Hobart, a CoinDesk columnist, is an investor, consultant and writer in New York. His newsletter, The Diff (diff.substack.com) covers inflection points in finance and technology.
Bitcoin (BTC) was designed for many reasons, but one of ... |
| Mar 24, 2020 | Picking an endgame: Why Australia must shut everything down, and restart when COVID-19 is gone | Prime Minister Scott Morrison. Source: AAP/Joel Carrett.
Nobody likes talking about the COVID-19 endgame, but we need to choose one. The appropriate interventions — public health, government spending, and freedom of movement — all depend on... |
| Mar 23, 2020 | Cover Coronavirus Treatments, Don’t Expand Medicaid | We need to be smart about how we use public resources to respond to the coronavirus outbreak. Two major crises are facing the country right now: 1) the negative health impact and associated deaths from the virus, and 2) the enormous economi... |
| Jun 19, 2019 | Will Facebook's Libra Be an On-Ramp or Dead End for Crypto? | Facebook's announcement that it would create a stablecoin on a blockchain means more as a competitive answer to WeChat and Alipay's payment services than it does to the crypto industry, according to AngelList co-founder Naval Ravi... |
| Sep 13, 2018 | Economist Tyler Cowen launches a fellowship and grant program for moon shot ideas | Tyler Cowen, who I interviewed here, is a fascinating economist. Part pragmatist and part dreamer, he has been researching and writing about the future for a long time in books and his blog, Marginal Revolution. Now he and his university, G... |
| Feb 21, 2018 | Research Paper Links Police Unions To Increased Officer Misconduct | Some research [PDF] has emerged indicating handing officers extra rights results in more citizen complaints. This may seem to be of the “water is wet” research variety, but there’s no reason to shrug this off. While most of us can infer tha... |
| Dec 1, 2017 | Economist Tyler Cowen talks about the value of despair | In this episode of Technotopia I talk to Tyler Cowen, a professor of Economics at George Mason University and an editor at one of my favorite sites, MarginalRevolution. Cowen is one of the smartest people I’ve spoken and to and his assessme... |
| Sep 22, 2017 | Music and Muzak | We are facing a firehose. Data spews at us from all angles, inundating us with ideas, culture, and creativity. We produce terabytes of information a year, changing the world as we know it. We are the most culturally aware generations in exi... |
| Nov 15, 2016 | Mike Davis Founder of Purposeful | Website LinkedIn Facebook Twitter Instagram
Mike is the Founding Director of Purposeful, a social impact advisory that empowers businesses to form stronger community connections and embark on social impact programs, strategies and initiativ... |
| Sep 10, 2016 | Why A.I. and humans are better together | Steam rolled out of the pot, and my kitchen was filled with an intoxicating blend of scents.
I’d cooked a turkey ragu before, but as soon as I opened the pot, I knew this would be an entirely different experience.
There were the familiar, c... |
| Jun 21, 2015 | The Fundamental Fallacy of Modern Recruiting | Think the hiring process is tedious and a waste of time? You are not alone. Lately, there has been growing concern among policymakers and journalists about the increasing time gap between the posting of a job listing and the actual hiring o... |
| Nov 24, 2014 | Bitcoin Needs an Aggressive Legal Defense | Across the board, bitcoin requires forceful and aggressive legal defense, not complicity with governments in crafting policy and regulations. It's going to get a lot rougher for bitcoin in the months and years ahead. We have to be prep... |
| Aug 4, 2014 | Скрытое падение ВВП, волевое принуждение к патриотизму, кто оплатит «Силу Сибири», вековой застой в глобальной экономике | Андрей Нальгин:
О новостях и думах
Будучи последние пару дней несколько занят личными делами, не очень внимательно следил за новостями. Читал, но не вникал. Так, слышал краем уха, что один анонимный идиот якобы заявил журналистам, дескать, ... |
| May 29, 2014 | Economist Thomas Piketty has a housing problem | Thomas Piketty’s book, "Capital in the Twenty-First Century," continues to delight American economic dilettantes who marinate in Keynesian confirmation bias, but there’s a reason even socialists in his native France don’t think th... |
| Apr 25, 2014 | Economist Explains How Copyright Just Isn't Working | Alex Tabarrock, one of the contributors to Marginal Revolution (and associate professor of Economics at George Mason University) has often dealt with the subject of intellectual property from an economist’s perspective. Recently, he changed... |
| Mar 8, 2014 | Software Patents Are Bullshit | Jon Evans Contributor
Jon Evans is the CTO of the engineering consultancy HappyFunCorp; the award-winning author of six novels, one graphic novel, and a book of travel writing; and TechCrunch's weekend columnist since 2010.
More posts ... |
| Feb 26, 2014 | Outrage Porn: How the Need For 'Perpetual Indignation' Manufactures Phony Offense | Imagine this was your job: you had to wake up every morning, read and watch what was going on in the world, and then, even if you didn’t actually feel this way — in fact, in spite of the fact that you didn’t feel this way—react with outrage... |
| Dec 30, 2013 | Облигации Запорожской сечи, работать до самой смерти, Европа не может восстановиться, что будет в 2014 году | Николай Кащеев:
Бонды from outerspace
Новость такая: «Парламент Украины одобрил выпуск евробондов на $3 млрд. в пользу России. Верховная Рада Украины внесла изменения в закон о госбюджете на текущий год, разрешив увеличить размер государств... |
| Dec 16, 2013 | Кто пролоббировал банковский кризис, рубль укрепит новый графический символ, безработица по-европейски – 50 человек на место | Максим Авербух:
Про подлость
Отказ в разгар банковского кризиса от запланированного именно на этот период повышения суммы госгарантий по вкладам до 1 млн. рублей имеет целью загнать вкладчиков в Сбербанк и в соответствии с бритвой Оккама им... |
| Nov 23, 2013 | Let’s Kill The Aid Industry | Jon Evans Contributor
Jon Evans is the CTO of the engineering consultancy HappyFunCorp; the award-winning author of six novels, one graphic novel, and a book of travel writing; and TechCrunch's weekend columnist since 2010.
More posts ... |
| Nov 1, 2013 | HealthCare.gov costs show that feds have literally no idea how to build a big web site | Could you build a working website for $300 million?
Apparently, the U.S. government is having difficulty doing that. HealthCare.gov, the website meant to help people find insurance under the Affordable Care Act, has cost hundreds of million... |
| Oct 28, 2013 | Чего боятся в Кремле, урожайный Россельхозбанк, в стране нет безработных, болевой порог долга | Максим Авербух:
Чего боятся в Кремле
Судя по курсу на искусственное увеличение внутрироссийское потребление газа и сокращению вдвое планов добычи в 2015 году на новом Бованенковском месторждениии (с 86 млрд. кубов до 45 млрд. кубов) – резко... |
| Oct 21, 2013 | Деньги в России не задерживаются, кого выбирает «национальное достояние», правительство США снова в строю | Анатолий Гавриленко:
Кто куда
Так как мы теперь конкурируем с Лондоном, то для нас должны быть интересны и важны последние лондонские инициативы по привлечению китайских финансов.
Благодаря последней пятидневной поездке министра Осборна в К... |
| Sep 30, 2013 | Правительство нас обсчитывает, кредитное ярмо, Америка находится в заложниках, рынки умнее политиков | Сергей Алексашенко:
Кто кого обманывает?
Выступая в Совете Федерации, премьер-министр Дмитрий Медведев следующим образом объяснил пятипроцентный секвестр бюджетных обязательств в бюджете 2014 года: «…мы все затраты с учетом текущей экономич... |
| Sep 16, 2013 | Женская доля в Центральном банке, Россия догоняет Турцию, верим, пока есть деньги, кризис самоограничения | Константин Сонин:
Фронт науки
Отличная новость. Ксения Юдаева, выпускница экономического факультета МГУ, магистратуры РЭШ и аспирантуры MIT, стала первым заместителем председателя ЦБ, ответственным за денежно-кредитную политику. Это – одна ... |
| Jul 29, 2013 | Рост в рамках погрешности, Улюкаев поменял взгляды, почему мы богаче, чем думаем, гиперинфляции не будет | Николай Кащеев:
Trivia: что-то с экономикой, однако, весьма не так
В Российской Федерации роста нет. Что есть – в рамках, с позволения сказать, погрешности. От слова «грех». Ну, да это ладно: светим отраженным светом, привыкли.
Китай тормоз... |
| Jun 24, 2013 | Причины валютной паники, малый бизнес оплатил переезд судей, зачем Бернанке сделал это | Сергей Журавлев:
Новый порядок пополнения Резервного фонда как причина валютной паники
Широка, как известно, страна моя родная… Поэтому, наверное, только в ней главы ЦБ и Минфина могут публично спорить, приведет или не приведет намеченное в... |
| Jun 17, 2013 | Хуже, чем в 2008 году, пиррова победа над бизнесом, европейцы переезжают | Максим Авербух:
Причины сокращения темпов роста экономики
1. Началось сокращение количества работающих (и рост числа пенсионеров) – в условиях скромного роста производительности труда это приводит к сокращению темпов роста экономики и сокра... |
| Jun 10, 2013 | Загадочное пике рубля, новая модель роста средней зарплаты, медвежий рынок, троянский миллион страхования вкладов | Анатолий Гавриленко, председатель наблюдательного совета группы компаний «Алор», президент Российского биржевого союза:
Невозвращение
Россия среди развивающихся рынков остается одним из самых дешевых: дисконт российских компаний к MSCI EM (... |
| May 20, 2013 | Центробанки как порноиндустрия, почему у Путина не получилось, евросоюз впадает в дефляцию, гастарбайтеры вредят Америке | Анатолий Гавриленко, председатель наблюдательного совета группы компаний «Алор», президент Российского биржевого союза:
Куда два часа
«Вчера правительство утвердило сценарные условия развития экономики на 2014–2016 годы. За основу при форми... |
| May 7, 2013 | WordPress’ Share Of The World’s Top Blogs Increases | The majority of the world’s top 100 blogs are using WordPress, according to a new report from Pingdom, and the content management system’s share of these blogs is on the rise.
According to the firm, 52% of these blogs are using WordPress, u... |
| Jan 21, 2013 | Валютные войны в пользу золота, газопроводы в никуда, жить одним днем, кризис поможет, непривычный оптимизм | Вальтер Курц:
Валютные войны окажут поддержку рынку драгметаллов
Япония делает успехи в ослаблении йены. В прошлом только развивающиеся страны пытались девальвировать свои валюты, чтобы повысить конкурентоспособность своей экономики. Теперь... |
| Dec 12, 2012 | A Couple Videos About Our Crazy Patent System | We’re hearing more and more talk about how broken the patent system is, and recently came across a pair of videos we figured some of you might enjoy. The first is a comedic riff on Apple’s recent page turn design patent, leading Ron Charles... |
| Nov 19, 2012 | Рынок знает свое место, Банк России экспериментирует, американцы боятся распродажи трежерис, Ленин всегда с тобой | Анатолий Гавриленко, председатель наблюдательного совета группы компаний «АЛОР», президент Российского биржевого союза:
Мнение сверчка
Вчера прошло очередное заседание по вопросу мегарегулятора в рамках работы Открытого Правительства. Из пр... |
| Oct 29, 2012 | Doing business in Russia, BP дождалась, Тимченко ищет убежище, банкротство Европы, новое экономическое чудо | Анатолий Гавриленко, председатель наблюдательного совета группы компаний «АЛОР», президент Российского биржевого союза:
Такси или уехать
Мы в рейтинге doing business перескочили на 8 позиций вверх. Искренне поздравляю наших чиновников. Это ... |
| Sep 22, 2012 | Google Granted Pseudonym Patent (You’re Welcome. And, What Is Wrong With You) | This week Google was granted a patent for “Social computing personas for protecting identity in online social interactions”; in other words, “a pseudonym could be presented as someone’s name based upon their choices of who would see that na... |
| Apr 28, 2012 | They Ain’t Making Any More of Them: The Great Engineering Shortage of 2012 | Editor’s note: This post is authored by guest contributor Jon Bischke. Jon is a founder of Entelo and is an advisor to several startups. You can follow Jon on Twitter here.
Corner any up-and-coming Kevin Systrom wanna-be and have a heart-to... |
| Apr 4, 2012 | Freakonomics Obsession With Patents Strikes Again: Says If More Women Got Patents The Economy Would Grow | While the Freakonomics guys have shown a willingness in the past to be skeptical about the traditional claims concerning copyright, they often seem to have a blindness to similar criticisms of patents. In fact, in the Freakonomics book sequ... |
| Nov 12, 2011 | What If Technology Is Destroying Jobs Faster Than It Creates Them? | The New Luddites are back, and they’re packing heat. The mighty Economist writes of “the disturbing thought” that “America’s current employment woes stem from a precipitous and permanent change caused by not too little technological progres... |
| Jul 14, 2011 | Swedish Occupational Psychologist First To Recognize The Debilitating Effects Of Heavy Metal Music | Sweden, home of an unofficial pirate religion, an official Pirate Party and shockingly reasonable infringement fines has upped the ante on every country wishing to fill the local papers with ONLY “weird news” features. Via Marginal Revoluti... |
| Jan 29, 2011 | JohnJac's Favorite Posts Of The Weeks | Last week JohnJac totally dominated the favorite comments, so we figured we might as well let him do the favorite posts of the week this week. |
| Sep 14, 2010 | Does Open Data Help The Rich Exploit The Poor? | JNomics points us to a Marshall Kirkpatrick post on ReadWriteWeb about “How Open Data is Used Against the Poor,” in which Kirkpatrick discusses an article and research about the effects of the digitization of land records in Bangalore. Appa... |
| May 17, 2010 | The Statistic Behind a Mortgage Meltdown | Whether you know it or not, you’re looking at a formula that set Wall Street – and global investors, too – up for one of the single largest financial asset bubbles and crashes in world history. But it’s not quite the villain that some have ... |
| May 7, 2010 | Facebook’s Disconnect: Open Doors, Closed Exits | This guest post was written by Rohit Khare, an expert in internet standards, he is the co-founder of Ångströ and KnowNow.
Several of my friends recently quit using Facebook, drawing a line at the latest in a long line of changes to their pr... |
| Oct 15, 2009 | Three Economic Nobel Laureates In A Row Recognizing Power Of Infinite Goods | With the Nobel Prize in Economics being awarded to Elinor Ostrom (as well as Oliver Williamson) this year, plenty of people are noting that Ostrom’s seminal work has to do with how the concept of “the tragedy of the commons” isn’t really tr... |
| Dec 29, 2008 | The End of Studio Recordings? | Tyler Cowen points us to an interesting post on the future of the classical music market. Bill Stensrud predicts that the major record labels will soon exit the classical music business, leaving behind Naxos, a label that saves money by pay... |
| Dec 2, 2008 | It's Not Liquidity Or Solvency That's The Problem: It's Transparency | Last month, in writing about the financial crisis, I tried walking through the root causes of how the financial crisis happened and how to prevent it from happening again — and the point I kept coming back to was the lack of transparency. I... |
| Jul 9, 2008 | Too Much Ownership Can Be Bad For The Economy | When we talk about intellectual property around here, one of the popular responses from those who disagree with what we say is that “property rights are a central tenant of capitalist economies, and you’re trying to take away property right... |
| Feb 28, 2008 | How 'Free' Has Even More Value Than People Think It Should | Earlier this year, we pointed to some of the psychological reasoning for those in the RIAA/MPAA’s of the world (and their supporters) for arguing against giving stuff away for free, even when there was evidence that they could make more mon... |
| Oct 8, 2007 | Musicians Don't Need Venture Capitalists Any More | I just heard Tyler Cowen, one of my favorite econobloggers, on the public radio program On the Media discussing Radiohead's name-your-own-price model for its latest album. (The segment starts around 38:20 in this MP3) He makes a number... |
| Sep 28, 2007 | Report Suggests RIAA's Lawsuit-Happy Strategy Still Not Working | Marginal Revolution links to a new paper by economist Stan Liebowitz on the economic effects of file sharing on the recording industry. It's a response to an earlier paper that argued peer-to-peer file sharing has had little impact on ... |
| Sep 4, 2007 | Prize Insurance Puts A Price On Conventional Wisdom | Since the first X-Prize competition, we’ve seen more and more interest in this model as a way to spur innovation. However, there are still a lot of questions about the competition model, in terms of efficacy and utility for private industry... |
| Aug 8, 2007 | Personalized medicine takes a (tiny) step forward | (UPDATED: See below.)
For at least a decade, biotech futurists have been predicting that the genomics revolution will lead to medical treatments tailored to the genetic quirks of individuals. And for at least as long, we’ve all been waiting... |
| Jul 12, 2007 | French Drivers Renting Out Their Driving History Online | A few months ago we discussed the practice of renting out one’s credit score to people having trouble getting a loan. There didn’t seem to be much justification for the scheme, as it’s pretty clearly just a way to game the system. A similar... |
| May 16, 2007 | Rethinking The Bubble Of All Bubbles | As long as we’re revisiting our assumptions about the dot com bubble, it might be time to look back at another one of history’s most infamous bubbles. A new book argues that the Dutch tulip bubble of the 17th century was not nearly as big o... |
| Apr 21, 2007 | Health and science roundup: Amgen, generic biologics, the origins of white people and more | (Note: This item has been copied over to the Life Sciences page from its original location on the VentureBeat main page. To view it in its original context, with comments, click here.)
Amgen’s anemia rollercoaster — Biotechnology titan Amge... |
| Apr 21, 2007 | Health and science roundup: Amgen, generic biologics, the origins of white people and more | Amgen’s anemia rollercoaster — Biotechnology titan Amgen may have dodged a bullet when a study released Thursday showed that its anemia drug Aranesp didn’t shorten the lives of patients, after several other studies had suggested the opposit... |
| Dec 1, 2006 | Paging William Shatner: Restaurants To Let You Name Your Own Price | There have been several attempts at selling things using the “name your own price” model, including many failed experiments at Priceline.com alone. Now a company is hoping to try it again, this time for meals at restaurants (via Marginal Re... |
| Jun 30, 2006 | Do Travel Sites Charge More If You Tell Them You're Rich? | One thing that really irritates savvy shoppers is when they discover that somebody else got a better deal than them. This is likely to occur on airplanes, as airline-pricing algorithms tend to be opaque and highly variable. That’s given ris... |
