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The designer of China's Great Firewall sees new A.I. tech as a concern for public authorities.

With the introduction of GPT-4 and Claude, AI has taken another big step forward. GPT-4 is human-level or better at many hard tasks, a huge improvement over GPT-3.5, which was released only a few months ago. Yet amid the debate over these advances, there has been very little discussion of…

Amazon.com Inc.’s pause of its plans to expand its second headquarters in Northern Virginia reflects some deep underlying trends — not just for metropolitan Washington, where I live, but for regional development more generally.

For conservatives, current high rates of inflation should not be too upsetting — and not because they might help Republican candidates in the next election. Rather, there are intrinsic reasons that higher inflation, at least for a while, might not be as bad as it looks.

Across the intellectual heavens, the cry is heard: "Wokeness is dead."

About 100 million people used ChatGPT in the month of January, according to one estimate, which would be the fastest-growing user base ever. Yet I often speak to people who are less than impressed with ChatGPT, citing its mistakes and banalities, and they suggest it is a passing fad.

We’d all be better off if politicians spared us their experiments in subsidies, wages, and trade.

How happy are Americans, really? This country has its troubles, surely, but a new study suggests things may be better than they seem.

The research is clear: Americans are becoming less generous over the holidays. Not to sound too much like a Scrooge, but this is not necessarily a bad thing.

Despite Tyler Cowen's argument for the elite theory, the real divisions have much more to do with the New Right's nationalism.

SBF and Elon Musk's coin-flipping approach to business can work–until it doesn't. Here's why, according to cognitive scientist Gleb Tsipursky.