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‘There’s no plan’: as instability in global bond markets rises, what are the knock-on effects?

When Donald Trump was asked recently about the threat of rising interest rates on US government debt, he told baffled reporters: “The ultimate intervention is our military. And if we have to...

Who Cares if AI Is Conscious—It’s Basically Alive

I spent the waning days of summer grinding away at columns and working on a feature. But I missed a chance at a striking change of scenery—cruising the Galápagos with about a...

US added 162,000 jobs in August, with unemployment rate holding steady

The US economy added 162,000 jobs in August, an uptick after a sluggish summer for the labor market. The unemployment rate held steady at 4.1%, still down from its most recent peak of...

Wikipedia Workers Unionize for the First Time

More than 200 staffers at the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit behind the encyclopedia Wikipedia, have voted 158-14 to join the Communications Workers of America labor union. The US National Labor Relations Board...

Nobody Is Saying Why OpenAI and Anthropic Had Outages Today

Frontier models from Anthropic, OpenAI, and xAI all experienced rare outages on Thursday morning, creating downtime for their corresponding AI chatbots. SpaceX, xAI’s parent company, said on Thursday afternoon that the issues...

Prediction Market Betting Is Getting People Banned and Arrested

Leah Feiger: Surveillance. Brian Barrett: But what kind? What specifically do Flock cameras look at? Leah Feiger: License plates? Brian Barrett: Yeah, they're license plate readers. Yes, this tool is not a license plate reader,...

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