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On the surface, the story reads like a routine police blotter item: a man from Whiteville, North Carolina, was arrested and charged in connection with the theft of industrial air conditioning units from a local business. But as with most things in small Southern towns, the news quickly became something…
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When Anthropic filed for its initial public offering, the moment was both thrilling and deeply unsettling. Here was one of the most important artificial intelligence companies in the world, the creator of the Claude chatbot, about to ask public investors for a stake in something it believes could be worth over a trillion dollars. But inside the 335-page document it handed to regulators, the company didn’t just talk about market share, revenue growth, or competitive advantages. It also devoted nearly a third of the filing to risks — and not all of those risks were the usual corporate boilerplate about…
Every now and again, a debate about cycling erupts on British morning television, and within seconds someone reaches for the same tired line: if cyclists want to share the roads with everyone else, they should have to pay road tax, buy insurance and fix a number plate to their bike. It sounds reasonable, fair-minded, even obvious. It is also, as the latest baffling Good Morning Britain exchange reminds us, a myth that refuses to die. During a segment that has been widely shared since it aired, the show’s hosts made a confident comparison with the Netherlands, the country that British…
