One of the most counterintuitive findings from the first wave of AI productivity…
Early workplace studies suggest generative AI can sharply steepen the learning curve for novices, while offering much smaller gains to experts.
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The claim that people’s welfare matters more than profit tangles two very…
When profits and worker welfare clash, the real debate begins—the first one about facts, the second about values.
Across 37,073 European Research Council applications, the same proposal scored…
Two economists contracted by the ERC's own executive agency compared how a single proposal was scored by reviewers who matched the applicant and reviewers who did not. Sharing both citizenship and country of work moved the first-stage project score by 0.164 of a point on a five-point scale. The link to actual funding decisions is weaker, and correlational.
An Espoo robotics startup just raised €6.4 million to put “physical AI” into…
Hyperion Robotics' €6.4 million round will scale robotic concrete factories, while its carbon-negative printable mix remains an EU-backed development target.
For decades, automation fears focused on factory workers while knowledge workers…
Generative AI is compressing parts of software, finance and legal work before general-purpose factory robots have reached broad, economic deployment.
Cambridge Aerospace was just valued at $3.4 billion, less than two years after it…
Investors marked the British interceptor maker up 2.6 times in four months. The Ministry of Defence has described the deal three times, once as an intention and twice as a signed contract, without ever attaching a figure to it, and the company has never said what one costs, only that it costs tens of thousands of dollars.
Google’s ATLAS study analyzed nearly 15 million AI interactions across more than…
Google’s ATLAS dataset suggests most observed cognitive work with AI is collaborative, but its scope and enterprise exclusions limit what the finding proves.
Migrants founded 59% of US billion-dollar startups in one 2026 analysis, while…
Migration can add entrepreneurship, labour and tax revenue, but fiscal effects are usually small in aggregate and vary with age, employment, migration category, country and accounting method.
Psychology says the trait we most admire as “confidence” in leaders overlaps…
The charisma we mistake for leadership capability may be indistinguishable from the grandiosity that derails organizations from within.
A Coldcard holder drained on 30 July kept backups in multiple safes and a…
Jonathan Goodman’s precautions protected copies of the same underlying secret; they could not protect against a flaw in how that secret had been generated.
The bootlace worm found washed up on Scottish beaches can stretch to more than 55…
The bootlace worm Lineus longissimus, a strand of black tissue only millimetres wide, was measured at 55 metres on a Scottish beach in 1864 — longer than any blue whale. Its mucus can kill crabs and cockroaches.
When ByteDance moved to end its fortnightly six-day rota in 2021, a large share of…
In China's tech industry, overtime pay has become so integral to worker compensation that reducing grueling schedules threatens to shrink paychecks, forcing companies into an uncomfortable choice between labor reform and staff retention.