Marketing Professor-UNC, Author: Sun Tzu & the Art of Business, Ex-Mktg Exec: Lenovo & IBM. Chair - UNC AI Cmte. Mimir's Well: https://nitter.gq/t.co/5YKO5i1Tq2
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The New News in AI: 11/6/26 Edition
The most important chart on AI, Microsoft AI CEO warns against building AI with consciousness, Why ChatGPT relationship advice can backfire, AI can read your private chats, OpenAI is catching up to Google in Search, OpenAi considers renaming data centers as “AI Compute Campuses”, Professor brings back tech-free classrooms, Prompt tips for everyday use, and more, so…
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What happens when AI agents start buying things for us instead of just helping us shop?
The implications go far beyond convenience. AI agents will reduce transaction costs, accelerate competition, and shift power between consumers and businesses. In my latest article, I explore how AI agents could transform markets, create new winners and losers, and accelerate the transition from the Information Age to the Action Age, where AI increasingly acts on our behalf.
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European exploration began long before Columbus.
This incredible animated map shows how Europeans explored and mapped the world over 1,200 years, from Viking voyages to the first photographs of Earth from space.
Watch the map come to life!
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Who could have seen this coming? If only there were some sort of social science dedicated to studying markets that could have warned us in advance.
Rent freeze, we have a problem: affordable housing can’t get financing. thecityreporter.nyc/2026/11/…
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India saw about 496 million people lifted out of poverty between 2011 and 2023 in one of the world’s fastest declines in this metric, the World Bank said, although the gains remain uneven. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Very insightful quote.
"An economy is a machine for turning energy into wealth, and without energy, it all comes to a halt."
The New News in AI: 10/30/26 Edition
AI discovers software vulnerability that exposes 70% of websites, Don’t let an AI bot in your bank account, Five killer tasks for your agent, AI killing 10,000 jobs per month, One-quarter of Anthropic’s IPO filing cover AI risks, Washington tells AI execs to shut up, Trump says he will ban the term, “artificial intelligence”, China’s AI bubble has already burst, ChatGPT is building psychological profiles of its users, and more, so…
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Bismarck was one of top statesmen of the last 3 centuries.
As always, Francis P. Sempa in @amspectator with a must-read for the strategically minded with lessons of #statecraft from #Bismarck.
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Excerpts and lessons,
"Insight One: Great powers should never be led by the policy of minor states, even if “public opinion” as shaped by the press encourages it...
"Insight Two: Wars should be fought, and peace concluded based on political considerations and with a view toward the future, even if that causes ill-will with the military establishment...
"Insight Three: Martial spirit within the armed forces should be encouraged, but 'the task of keeping its results within such limits as the nation’s need of peace can justly claim is the duty of the political, not the military, heads of state...'
"Insight Four: In victory, magnanimity."
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Colleges and universities should immediately drop the now dumbed down SAT and replace it with the Classic Learning Test (CLT). At a minimum the CLT should be accepted as an alternative to the SAT and ACT.
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Tyler Cowen:
'I am not even sure what to say at this point. We need a radical revaluation of this work, and of the associated policy arguments. More generally, this is only a single step in the story of how AI is going to revise economic science, and indeed past research more generally. As I stress in many of my recent talks, there will be significant gains and losses in status, with the losses often outweighing the gains. I see this as one of those cases.'
Errors in the research of Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman marginalrevolution.com/margi…
The Real AI Bottleneck
Humans can read about 238 words per minute. Meanwhile, AI can generate ~4500 words per minute. This is a 19X difference.
The huge disparity between how fast AI can generate content compared to how fast we can consume it means that more information doesn’t equate to more knowledge, better decisions, or increased productivity. Unless we ensure AI helps us determine what merits our attention and shortens our information-decision-action cycle, this abundance will overwhelm us.
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🎓 The best scholars aren't surrounding themselves with affirmation.
They're actively courting disagreement. And that requires viewpoint diversity.
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A good reason to reject irredentism on principle: any nation can manufacture historical claims against neighboring territories, even distant lands. It’s in the collective interest of states to shut down all annexationist ambitions.
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🔎 Where does the pressure on professors to avoid "controversial" topics come from?
In a new survey of HxA members, many gave the same answer: other professors.
In collaboration with @Hartz_PhD and @epkaufm, this new survey identifies which topics feel off-limits on campus and why.
The New News in AI: 10/23/26 Edition
Don’t let Claude think you’re stupid, Executives more likely to trust AI than themselves, Can AI predict cancer from your photo?, Unvetted agents are getting access to bank accounts, OpenAI’s most advanced models shut down their own safety monitoring, Anthropic pitches its own safety bill to Congress, Female-presenting AI agent paid less than Male-presenting AI agent, AI enters top 10 fears of Americans, and more, so…
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