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- RIP, neoliberalism. Its ghosts live on
Are Americans closet socialists or closet neoliberals? Economic swingers, perhaps?
- Anthropic’s IPO could be the biggest ever. Your AI budget helps explain why
An early Anthropic backer predicts the stock will trade at up to $2.4 trillion, Fortune reports.
- I believe in AI. But my AI assistant gave me more work than it could finish
My to-do-list has a to-do list.
- Glassdoor President: finding the right job shouldn’t feel like winning the lottery
Nobody designed a process this broken on purpose. The assumption that more is better—apply to more jobs and the odds improve—is laughable in the AI age.
- Samsung Electronics exec: The investments that last build more than factories
A factory is only the beginning. Lasting investment builds the workforce, suppliers and institutions that help a community thrive.
Technology
- The Download: failed social media bans, and extending pets’ lives
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Kids are outsmarting social media bans. That’s not a problem we need to solve. —Michal Luria, Aliya Bhatia, and Danah Boyd Social media bans are stacking up. In July, France joined…
- The Surface Laptop Ultra delivers on most of Microsoft's promises
Microsoft promises one machine for dev, AI, and gaming, and mostly gets there.
- Rocket Report: FAA eyes more Starbase traffic; India's Skyroot snares US customer
The pioneering reusable upper stage for Stoke Space's Nova rocket ships out for testing.
- Blue Origin is going all in on the New Glenn rocket
The infrastructure is designed to support multiple flights per week by the end of the decade.
- Googlebook review: Android on a laptop is still Android
Android laptops are here, but Google has a lot of work ahead to make them good.
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