Who’s keeping carbon-rich fuels the mainstay of global energy usage? Not consumers
Follow the money, and you will see precisely the opposite picture. The share of private energy investment going into oil, gas and coal has slumped…
The US bond market thinks SpaceX is junk but rating agencies don’t. Who’s got it right?
The bond market has other ideas. There, quality is judged by a bond’s credit spread or the additional yield it offers above Treasury bonds of…
Why America's AI policy mustn’t be opaque—we should know what the administration’s Anthropic story is
The US government's secrecy over what got restrictions lifted on AI company's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models is not a good sign at all…
With AI, never forget, never remember
Now, AI-powered smart glasses are taking personal recording to a new level. With Meta’s new smart glasses, you can literally say, "Hey Meta, remember this,"…
Understanding consciousness: think of it like a neuro-hologram, one that AI can’t mimic
This theory has tons of implications. One is that consciousness is “private” and leaves an inevitable “explanatory gap,” Kirkeby-Hinrup told me, “because there’s no way…
America’s 250 years of freedom: pluralism is still fundamental to the country’s pursuit of happiness
Religious affiliation is dropping in a country founded on freedom. However, its people do not need a shared faith or religion-based code of morality to…
Bosses who oppose employees working from home tend to be narcissistic—so says a study in the US
If you want the best odds of maintaining a remote or hybrid work arrangement, make sure you’re not working for a narcissist. In the post-pandemic…
Are India's AI goals tongue tied? How linguistic diversity complicates this technology’s diffusion
India’s AI diffusion bet relies on voice interaction. But with numerous languages, dialects and multilingual speakers across the country, adapting AI tools for variation in…
America is shutting its doors to people who may need refuge—and its Supreme Court is okay with that
Indulge me in belabouring the linguistic arguments of both sides for a moment. Alito, writing for the six conservative judges, insisted that, “in ordinary speech,…
Securities Markets Code: how a single word could criminalize every informed investor in India
On a literal reading, an institutional fund manager who trades after studying a company’s publicly released quarterly results possesses information that is, beyond argument, material.…