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Buy Now, Pay Later Lenders Pitch Loans For Needs Like Electricity and Rent
Buy now, pay later” loans took off during the pandemic as a way for online shoppers to go on retail splurges without using a credit card. Now, lenders are offering the loans as a means for people to finance basic households needs. The lending apps Flex and Zip allow customers Read more…
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China’s Moon-landing Plans And Why the US Is So Worried
“We are in a 21st century space race,” U.S. Senator Ted Cruz has said. And this week CNN noted a competition that for decades loomed in the background of geopolitics “is now roaring to the forefront,” with China “demonstrating rapid advances in space technology” while the U.S. is “ratcheting up Read more…
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Anthropic CEO Says AI Backlash Is ‘Fundamentally a Crisis of Trust’
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says the growing backlash against AI is less about executives sounding alarms and more about a broader “crisis of trust” in companies, governments, and the tech industry. Amodei’s comments came in response to investor Gavin Baker, who argued — both on the All-In podcast and on Read more…
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Why Europe Keeps Being Pummeled by Heat Waves
Europe is facing its fifth round of dangerously high temperatures this summer. Now climate scientists wonder if global warming is doing more than raise temperatures… The weather patterns that create heat domes aren’t new, but today they arise on top of the warming caused by greenhouse gas emissions. That makes Read more…
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AI Fails to Deliver a 4-Day Work Week – Especially at AI Companies
An engineering director at Google said four years ago that AI would deliver a four-day work week by 2025, and earlier this year OpenAI formally urged companies to start testing out a four-day work week (with no change in pay), claiming that AI will soon be able to speed up Read more…