Jerry Neumann on the Problem With Investing in AI Right Now
AI has made a lot of people fabulously wealthy. But sorry, it's probably not going to be the thing that makes you rich. And if history is any guide, we don't even know who the real AI winners are goin...
12 Marras 202548min
How Chinese Real Estate Became the Biggest Bubble in History
Land is a weird asset. We need it to be affordable because everyone needs somewhere to live. But for many people, real estate is also their biggest store of wealth — a kind of national piggybank that ...
10 Marras 202547min
The Viral Milk That Helped Set Off America's Protein Boom
Protein seems to be everywhere these days, with brands from Starbucks to Pepsi jumping on the trend. But the obsession with protein may have started earlier — with a humble dairy product that defied t...
8 Marras 202543min
Lots More on the Worsening State of the US Labor Market
If the government were open, we'd be getting a jobs report today. But as it is, we're in this blackout of official economic data. That's unfortunate, because the economy is already in a very confusing...
7 Marras 202521min
Dmitry Shevelenko on Perplexity's Vision for Reshaping the Internet
The news business isn't a great one these days. At least for a lot of legacy outlets (newspapers, cable networks, print magazines etc.), the Internet has obliterated their business model. And now AI i...
6 Marras 202539min
San Francisco's New Mayor on Homelessness, Unaffordability, and AI
New York City is about to elect a new mayor, and whoever it is will have to address growing challenges like unaffordability, homelessness, and other basic quality-of-life challenges. Very few of these...
3 Marras 202536min
How Hudson River Trading Actually Uses AI
Unfortunately, it doesn't seem as though you can get great stock picks just by going to ChatGPT and asking it to recommend some investments. And yet financial firms of all sorts — including trading fi...
31 Loka 202555min
The Movement That Wants Us to Care About AI Model Welfare
You hear a lot about AI safety, and this idea that sufficiently advanced AI could pose some kind of threat to humans. So people are always talking about and researching "alignment" to ensure that new ...
30 Loka 202550min
