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WorkWorkMoodys Slashes US Credit Rating - Forbes (No paywall) Financial ratings firm Moodys Ratings downgraded the U.S. governments credit ratings Friday, citing its rising debt and interest in a move that underscores a ballooning federal budget deficit, making it the last of the big three firms to downgrade the governments credit. WorkDo you trust Mark Zuckerberg to solve your loneliness with an a''AI frienda''' No, me neither | Emma Brockes Mark Zuckerberg has gone on a promotional tour to talk up the potential of AI in human relationships. I know; listening to Zuck on friendship is a bit like taking business advice from Bernie Madoff or lessons in sportsmanship from Tonya Harding. But at recent tech conferences and on podcasts, Zuck has been saying he has seen the future and it's one in which the world's "loneliness epidemic" is alleviated by people finding friendship with "a system that knows them well and that kind of understands them in the way that their feed algorithms do". In essence, we'll be friends with AI, instead of people. The missing air quotes around "knows" and "understands" is a distinction we can assume Zuck neither knows nor understands. Work
WorkWorkWorkThe Baffling Return of Adam Neumann, Megalandlord When Adam Neumann launched Flow, his residential real-estate venture, a little over three years ago, a lot of people were skeptical. The man who had run WeWork into the ground in spectacular fashion was launching another vague, vibe-y real-estate start-up? And people were once again throwing money at him to do it? Like WeWork, Flow seemed overvalued — it had a $1 billion valuation right off the bat, thanks in part to $350 million from Andreessen Horowitz’s a16z venture-capital firm, the largest single investment the firm had made at that point. “If a start-up is worth $1b before it launches a product it’s probably a scam,” Jason Calacanis, a podcaster and angel investor, tweeted at the time. Work
WorkWorkWorkWorkObjective pain score? Here's the problem with that Invitations to rate your pain on some arbitrary scale of numerals, or on a display of smiley faces that range from happy to sad (if you’re a child), remain the standard ways of assessing people’s pain. If a doctor wants to know how much pain their patient is in, that’s how they’ll try to find out. And they do this for good reason: no one knows a person’s pain better than the person whose pain it is. 
WorkWe've Been Thinking About Gun Violence All Wrong A vigil in honor of victims of gun related deaths at Public Square Park in Nashville, Tenn., on September 20, 2024. The vigil includes the picture of 18-year-old Yasser Paz, who was shot and killed outside of a nightclub earlier that month. WorkWorkHow Russias call for peace talks turned into a diplomatic defeat for Putin - WSJ (No paywall) Peace in Ukraine remains as elusive as when Russian tanks first streamed across its borders more than three years ago. This weeks talks in Istanbultalks that Vladimir Putin himself proposedshow he isnt yet ready to do a deal. They might also show President Trump that the Russian leader really is the obstacle to peace that the Ukrainians and their European backers claim he is. Work
WorkWhy Trump's 'Big, Beautiful Bill' May Be in Trouble We dont need GRANDSTANDERS in the Republican Party, the President posted on Truth Social minutes before a handful of GOP hardliners voted against his big, beautiful bill at a key House Budget Committee meeting, effectively stalling the legislation from advancing. WorkNew stem cell model sheds light on human amniotic sac development Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have developed a new stem cell model of the mature human amniotic sac, which replicates development of the tissues supporting the embryo from two to four weeks after fertilisation. This is the first model of amniotic sac development after two weeks. WorkWorkHouse Dems aren't sure DOGE's IT hackathon is a good idea The latest please-explain-this-DOGE-activity letter letter [PDF] landed yesterday on the desk of the Internal Revenue Service's acting inspector general, Heather Hill. It is from Representative Gerry Connolly (D-VA), the ranking member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and perennial DOGE gadfly.
WorkWorkWhy did DeepMind solve protein folding? Why was the protein folding problem solved by a VC-backed company, DeepMind, and not by an academic group? Do you think that this achievement provides a general solution for the future of AI in science? WorkWorkHow A Soviet Refugee Became A Hedge Fund Billionaire It’s a cloudy March morning in Midtown Manhattan and Igor Tulchinsky is explaining from behind his wooden desk, between sips of coffee and long pauses to think, his latest algorithmic vision—the introduction of large language models for his hedge fund WorldQuant. “The first thing that the LLM can do is it can structure data and 80% of data that’s out there is unstructured,” says Tulchinsky, dressed in all black, his piercing blue eyes gleaming with excitement. “It’s like a free lunch.” "
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WorkThe world's five happiest cities for 2025 To find out, researchers at the Institute for the Quality of Life recently released their 2025 Happy City Index, tracking 82 indicators of happiness across six major categories including Citizens, Governance, Environment, Economy, Health and Mobility. The index measured the policies that contribute to the quality of life, as well as their implementation and impact on residents. WorkWorkWork 
WorkWorkWorkIt's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System The AI industry has promised to “disrupt” large parts of society, and you need look no further than the U.S. educational system to see how effectively it’s done that. Education has been “disrupted,” all right. In fact, the disruption is so broad and so shattering that it’s not clear we’re ever going to have a functional society again. WorkTrump accuses former FBI director of calling for his killing through coded picture The post comes as the former FBI director is about to publish FDR Drive, the third installment of a crime series about a fictional New York lawyer, Nora Carleton. Publisher’s Weekly outlined the plot as centering on a US attorney who tries to bring to justice “a far-right media personality with a popular podcast vilifying those he thinks are destroying America: intellectuals, immigrants, and people of color”.
WorkI was on a flight - but British Airways told me I wasn't I ended up at a check-in desk and after checking in my bag, a British Airways staff member handed me a boarding pass. Admittedly I didn't read the pass in any detail, but headed off to get processed in the security area as normal. WorkBetter air quality is the easiest way not to die While most things that clearly improve health are well known, one is insanely underrated: Fixing your air. I suspect this is often the most effective health intervention, period. Nothing else is so important while also being so easy to address. WorkWork
WorkFDA clears first blood test for diagnosing Alzheimer's Adam Feuerstein is a senior writer and biotech columnist, reporting on the crossroads of drug development, business, Wall Street, and biotechnology. He is also a co-host of the weekly biotech podcast The Readout Loud and author of the newsletter Adam’s Biotech Scorecard. You can reach Adam on Signal at stataf.54. WorkWorkJoe Biden's Hur tape could backfire on Kamala Harris Anna Commander is a Newsweek Editor and writer based in Florida. Her focus is reporting on crime, weather and breaking news. She has covered weather, and major breaking news events in South Florida. Anna joined Newsweek in 2022 from The National Desk in Washington, D.C. and had previously worked at CBS12 News in West Palm Beach. She is a graduate of Florida Atlantic University. You can get in touch with Anna by emailing [email protected]. WorkCould Freezing Arctic Sea Ice Combat Climate Change? - Scientific American (No paywall) You dont have to pay much attention to the news to know that climate change is causing Arctic sea ice to meltand to understand that this is a huge problem. Ice reflects sunlight, which helps keep cold places cold. Warmer weather means less ice, but less ice means more heat from the sun, which means it gets warmer, which means theres less iceand the sea level keeps rising and rising. 
WorkWorkMice grow bigger brains when given this stretch of human DNA Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser (or turn off compatibility mode in Internet Explorer). In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles and JavaScript. WorkWork
WorkWorkWorkPutins New Hermit Kingdom - Foreign Affairs (No paywall) Since its founding in 1922, Foreign Affairs has been the leading forum for serious discussion of American foreign policy and global affairs. The magazine has featured contributions from many leading international affairs experts. WorkBuilding Dronesfor the Children? - The New Yorker (No paywall) A couple of months ago, Vice-President J. D. Vance made an appearance in Washington at the American Dynamism summit, an annual event put on by the venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. Members of Congress, startup founders, investors, and Defense Department officials sat in the audience. They gave Vance a standing ovation as he walked onstage, while Alabamas Forty Hour Week (For a Livin) played in the background. (Hello Pittsburgh steel mill worker / Let me thank you for your time / You work a forty hour week for a livin / Just to send it on down the line.) Youre here, I hope, because you love your country, Vance told the crowd. You love its people, the opportunities that its given you, and you recognize that building thingsour capacity to create new innovation in the economycannot be a race to the bottom. The scene was a snapshot of Americas ongoing and sometimes counterintuitive realignment between Silicon Valley and the New Right.
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