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Jagged AGI: o3, Gemini 2.5, and everything after
Ethan Mollick
Amid todays AI boom, its disconcerting that we still dont know how to measure how smart, creative, or empathetic these systems are. Our tests for these traits, never great in the first place, were ma ...[Continue Reading]
Oneusefulthing.org
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Kandinsky on the Spiritual Element in Art and the Three Responsibilities of Artists
Maria Popova
Art is a form of nourishment (of consciousness, the spirit), 31-year-old Susan Sontag wrote in her diary in 1964. Art holds out the promise of inner wholeness, wrote Alain de Botton half a century l ...[Continue Reading]
Themarginalian.org
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New Yorks CEOs Are Gearing Up for a Fight With Mamdani
David Freedlander
When Kathy Wylde stood onstage at her retirement party on a frigid Tuesday night in late January, looking out over the Rainbow Room and the glittering lights of the city below, she had a simple messa ...[Continue Reading]
New York Magazine
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Anthropic's latest AI tool was seen by the legal software industry as a 'shot across the bow.' Here's what it means.
Melia Russell
Anthropic CEO Dario AmodeiMichael M. Santiago/Getty Images <ul><li>Anthropic is taking a bite out of the legal software market with a new AI tool.</li><li>That sent legal software stocks tumbling. T ...[Continue Reading]
Business Insider
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The Dramatic Rise of Farm Labor Contractors Has Led to Rampant Abuses. Heres Why Regulators Have Failed to Stop Them.
Max Blau
In the summer of 2019, a crew leader tasked with overseeing farm laborers sent them to harvest corn in a field where they werent authorized to work and where there wasnt adequate protection from the ...[Continue Reading]
ProPublica
1 day ago
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Unpublished memoir, stalled Parliament: General M M Naravane, the soldier at the centre of a political face-off
Amrita Nayak Dutta
With Parliament continuing to remain in a gridlock the Lok Sabha on Thursday adopted the Motion of Thanks to the Presidents Address without the Prime Ministers reply the focus throughout this week ha ...[Continue Reading]
The Indian Express
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