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The Supreme Court has a good chance to start fixing a bad law
The Indian Child Welfare Act’s main concern is identity politics, not children’s welfare.
At U.N. Meeting, Syria’s Leader Is Strengthened, but Faces a Difficult Test
President Ahmed al-Sharaa has improved his diplomatic standing since he last addressed the U.N. General Assembly but faces mounting domestic economic and security challenges.
Trump Shrinks Job-Shopping by Unemployed Visa Workers
President Donald Trump's deputies are junking an Obama-era regulation that allows foreign workers to seek a new U.S. job after they lose the specific employment that justified their work-permit visas.
China’s swimming prodigy Yu Zidi bags third gold in Asian Games record
The 13-year-old beat the previous 400m Asian Games record, set by China’s Ye Shiwen in 2014, by about 4.5 seconds.
Trump Meets Venezuela's 'Acting President' Rodriguez for the First Time Since Maduro's Arrest
President Donald Trump met with the "Acting President" of Venezuela Delcy Rodríguez in New York on Tuesday, marking their first encounter since the arrest of Rodríguez's former boss, deposed socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro. The post…
Ro Khanna looks on the bright side
The Silicon Valley congressman firmly believes the government can manage AI — and a lot more.
Powerful El Nino could cause more than 450,000 deaths, scientists say
Heaviest toll expected in poorer countries, already struggling with food insecurity and high energy costs, report says.
The Collapse in the Price of Inference: Why Intelligence Getting Cheap May Matter More Than Intelligence Getting Good
Anthropic and OpenAI are racing to ship more capable models at lower per-token prices. The economic story is not the capability curve — it is the cost curve, and who captures the surplus as the marginal price of machine reasoning falls.
Training the Machine That Replaces You: Toyota, Demonstration Data, and the Economics of Self-Substituting Labor
Toyota is having human workers teach humanoid robots their jobs. The deep question is not robotics but labor economics: when a worker's demonstration data becomes capital that substitutes for their own labor, who should be compensated, and…
Crime at Machine Scale: The Microsoft Disruption and the Industrial Economics of AI-Assisted Account Compromise
Microsoft's disruption of an AI-assisted phishing platform reportedly tied to roughly 12,000 account compromises is a case study in offense-defense economics: when generative models collapse the marginal cost of a convincing lure, the…
Suing the Toolmaker: British Columbia's Case Against OpenAI and the Products-Liability Problem of General-Purpose AI
A Canadian province is suing OpenAI after a school shooter used ChatGPT. The lawsuit forces the oldest question in tort law — who owes a duty to whom — through the newest kind of product: a general-purpose system whose maker cannot…
When the Boom Is the Problem: The RBA, AI Data Centers, and the Return of Investment-Driven Inflation
Australia's central-bank governor says AI data-center construction is adding to demand-driven inflation. The statement is a rare case of a monetary authority naming a specific investment boom as an inflation source — and it opens a harder…
The Accidental Stimulus: AI Infrastructure Spending as De Facto Fiscal Policy
Hundreds of billions in simultaneous AI data-center investment now transmits through the economy the way a legislated stimulus package would — without any legislature voting for it. N43 examines the multiplier mechanics, the evidence that…
Priced for Perfection: How Much AI Productivity Is Already in the Nasdaq
Another record close poses a question asset pricing knows how to ask and nobody can yet answer: if equity value is discounted expected cash flow, then the Nasdaq's AI rally is a claim on future productivity growth. N43 works backward from…
The Margin Migration: Open-Weight AI and the Commoditization of Intelligence
Xiaomi's MiMo models are the latest entry in an increasingly competitive Chinese open-weight ecosystem. N43 examines whether the commoditization of foundation models transfers economic value from the labs that train them to the companies…
A Million Tokens of Working Memory: Substitution, Cost, and What Long Context Actually Solves
DeepSeek's million-token-context architecture prompts a deceptively simple question: do enormous context windows substitute for persistent memory, retrieval systems, and even further training? N43 examines the attention economics of long…
When the Auditor Is an Agent: AI, Accounting, and the New Verification Asymmetry
Agentic AI systems are moving from drafting memos to examining corporate books. The institutions of audit were built on human judgment backed by human liability; the arrival of machine examiners changes the economics of assurance at its…
Machine Triage: Agentic AI and the Remaking of Financial Surveillance
Agentic AI is entering anti-money-laundering operations, where rule-based systems generate enormous alert volumes and compliance costs measured in billions. N43 examines how autonomous triage shifts the surveillance cost curve, and what it…
The Network That Tunes Itself: AI Control Comes to the Radio Access Layer
Samsung reports substantial downlink improvements from AI-assisted virtual radio-access networks. N43 examines the control-theory transformation behind the number — cellular infrastructure shifting from human-planned systems to closed-loop…
From Stochastic Parrots to Stabilization: The Robot That Learned to Fly 450 Percent Faster
MIT researchers report an AI controller making a tiny flying robot roughly 450 percent faster. N43 examines what the result actually demonstrates — real-time physical intelligence as a research frontier distinct from language models — and…
The Mind Off the Leash: AstroForge, Transformers in Orbit, and the Decision Authority of Autonomous Spacecraft
AstroForge plans to fly transformer-based AI aboard a deep-space spacecraft. N43 examines the light-delay economics that force onboard authority, the verification problem of certifying a learned system you cannot reach, and the deep-space…
Cloud Wetware: Biological Computing's First Commercial Beachhead and the Question of a Third Paradigm
A company is making biological neural-system-inspired computing available through AWS. N43 examines what organoid-based systems actually demonstrate, why cloud availability is an institutional milestone rather than a technical one, and…
I’m a Republican senator. America needs more science, not less.
America should invest in NIH medical research, not retreat from it.
Decoding Without Understanding: The Epistemic Limits of Machine Learning in Animal Communication
Machine-learning systems are increasingly detecting patterns in dolphin, elephant, and other animal signals — and scientists are increasingly cautioning that pattern recognition is not translation. N43 examines what would actually count as…
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