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Lebanon: Israel Unlawfully Destroying Reconstruction Equipment

Human Rights Watch

(Beirut) The Israeli militarys repeated attacks on reconstruction-related equipment and other civilian facilities in southern Lebanon throughout 2025 violate the laws of war and are apparent war cr ...[Continue Reading]

Human Rights Watch

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The great AI hype correction of 2025

Will Douglas Heaven

That number also does not include the use of LLMs by employees outside of official pilots. The MIT researchers found that around 90% of the companies they surveyed had a kind of AI shadow economy whe ...[Continue Reading]

MIT Technology Review

1 day ago

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The AI doomers feel undeterred

Garrison Lovely

There have been people overselling the idea that AGI is tomorrow morning, which commercially could make sense. But if you look at the various benchmarks, GPT-5 is just where you would expect the mode ...[Continue Reading]

MIT Technology Review

1 day ago


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What even is the AI bubble?

Alex Heath

Still, given the level of spending on AI, it still needs a viable business model beyond subscriptions, which wont be able to drive profits from billions of peoples eyeballs like the ad-driven busine ...[Continue Reading]

MIT Technology Review

1 day ago


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How Walmart became a go-to store for wealthy Americans

Catherine Baab

On Walmarts most recent earnings call, executives described a value proposition so powerful it literally altered store architecture. We reduced our incredible, very big lot box of croissants that are ...[Continue Reading]

Quartz India

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For Americans, the love for chain restaurants runs deep

Jaclyn Diaz

Affordable, familiar and reassuring are the features that make American chain restaurants a near-ubiquitous presence throughout the country; it is almost as if they are baked into our roadside cultur ...[Continue Reading]

NPR

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