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Eugene Yiga
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AI Education Specialist | Curriculum Designer | Data Science (Michigan) | International journalist with 1400+ bylines in 100+ publications | Helping organisations navigate AI transformation | Barcelona 🇪🇸 🇪🇺
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If the Gulf, China, and Europe succeed in building their own clusters, we might see very different approaches to #AI development than what's coming out of Silicon Valley today. www.economist.com/finance-and-...
The AI talent war is becoming fiercer
How other countries hope to challenge America
www.economist.com
Stumbled upon Casa Marsans during 48h Open House #Barcelona, an absolute gem hiding in Gràcia that's now a youth hostel. Pictures on Instagram: www.instagram.com/eugene.yiga/... #48hOpenHouseBCN #Modernisme #Architecture #HiddenBarcelona #CasaMarsans #TravelTuesday
The best surgeons and concert pianists have long commanded the highest fees and the patronage of the wealthy. Today, however, the superstar effect is on steroids. www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
The desperate search for superstar talent
Too much potential goes to waste
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Tech leaders keep mentioning the need for a "societal conversation" about economic systems post- #AGI, but it's unclear whether political systems would actually implement whatever emerges from that conversation. www.economist.com/by-invitatio... #TheEconomist #AI
Two scholars ask whether democracy can survive if AI does all the jobs
Without taxation there may be no representation, conclude Raymond Douglas and David Duvenaud
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Economic uncertainty has people spending less on fancy things, like high heels and handbags. Yet the well-off continue to splash out on #luxurytravel: posh #hotels, first-class air fares and once-in-a-lifetime experiences. www.economist.com/business/202... #TravelTuesday
Luxury goods are out, but luxury travel is in
Can hospitality firms avoid the mistakes fashion firms made?
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Reaching new heights at "Strategy Summit", where long-term thinking meets actionable plans! Strategic thinking for humanity's biggest challenge! ⛰️🧭 www.aisafety.com/map #AIStrategy #LongTermism #ExistentialRisk #AISafety #FutureThinking
#TED just announced that that #SalKhan from @khanacademy.org is becoming "vision steward" while Logan McClure Davda steps up as CEO. Chris Anderson stays on for fundraising after 25 years running the organization. www.economist.com/business/202...
TED gets new bosses and changes direction
The event organiser heads into ed tech
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#Wikipedia’s editor team has just released what amounts to a master class in the clichés, strange tropes, obsequious tones of voice, and other assorted oddities of artificial intelligence-generated prose. www.fastcompany.com/91392747/wan... #aiwriting
Want to disguise your AI writing? Start with Wikipedia’s new list
Wikipedia's new Signs of AI Writing is a great tool for detecting prose generated by artificial intelligence.
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#OpenAI just announced a partnership with #Broadcom to deploy 10 gigawatts of custom AI infrastructure starting late next year. Worth listening to if you want to understand the scale of investment behind frontier #AI development: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqAb... #artificialintelligence
OpenAI x Broadcom — The OpenAI Podcast Ep. 8
YouTube video by OpenAI
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This Bartleby column in #TheEconomist captures something I wrestle with constantly in my #AI education work: the gap between what AI enables and what people are actually doing with it. www.economist.com/business/202... #artificialintelligence #chatbot #chatgpt #openai #anthropic #copilot
How AI is changing the office
Did you listen to the new Dwarkesh?
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#TheEconomist's piece on #smalllanguagemodels outcompeting #LLMs for business use cases captures something I see constantly when working with companies on AI adoption: the gap between what sounds impressive and what actually works. www.economist.com/business/202... #artificialintelligence
Faith in God-like large language models is waning
That may be good news for AI laggards like Apple
www.economist.com
This #DataScience Conversations podcast with Chris Parmer and Domenic Ravita of Plotly gets at something I constantly see glossed over in #AI product demos: the gap between what the #LLM does and what actually makes the product work. open.spotify.com/episode/3XsO... #datavizualization #dataviz
How AI is Transforming Data Analytics and Visualisation in the Enterprise
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In recent years #airlines have grown ever more sophisticated in their pricing techniques. American carriers’ latest method of singling out business passengers, though, is strikingly simple and has sparked outrage in the #travel blogosphere. www.economist.com/business/202... #TravelTuesday
Airlines’ favourite new pricing trick
Our analysis shows that some carriers have started charging more for solo travellers
www.economist.com