The (Next) Gulf War Is Coming
By Peter Zeihan
Given the recent conflict in the Middle East, I’m worried that an oil crisis could be brewing. The main players that might kick off the (next) Gulf War are Iran, Israel and Saudi Arabia.
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U.S. Agencies Fund, and Fight With, Elon Musk. A Trump Presidency Could Give Him Power Over Them.
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The AirPods Pro 2 will soon offer more robust hearing protection and a new hearing aid feature. But it’s the hearing test that really hooked me. Apple announced a trio of major new hearing health features for the AirPods Pro 2 in September including clinical-grade hearing aid functionality, a …
Anthropic, the AI vendor second in size only to OpenAI, has a powerful family of generative AI models called Claude. These models can perform a range of tasks, from captioning images and writing emails to solving math and coding challenges. With Anthropic’s model ecosystem growing so quickly, it can …
Tesla WTF
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The most impressive, and unimpressive, product displays of 2024 occurred last week — from companies headed...
Tech executives are setting deadlines for the arrival of superintelligence. They might regret it. Over the past few months, some of the most prominent people in AI have fashioned themselves as modern messiahs and their products as deities. Top executives and respected researchers at the world’s …
Information & Social Order
A Conversation with Yuval Noah Harari
Sam Harris and Yuval Noah Harari discuss Harari's new book "Nexus" and its relevance to current...
Centuries ago, estuaries around the world were teeming with birds and turbulent with schools of fish, their marshlands and endless tracts of channels …