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AI, Asked for Life Advice for Young Adults, Doesn’t Just Echo What Humans Recommend
Left unsaid: The bot wasn’t very confident in its own advice
Diversity Initiatives, Under Political Attack, Need a New Training Regimen
Researchers recommend eliciting and acknowledging the fears some employees have, but no retreat from DEI goals
Who Cares When Foreigners Adopt AI?
AI use in other countries doesn’t inspire domestic adoption, even when those competitors are right next door
Bank Holding Companies Meet Higher Capital Requirements By Weakening Their Nonbank Subsidiaries
Rather than sell stock, they shift capital from other units to banks, satisfying the letter of the law, if not its spirit
How Amazon Can Shape Prices by Responding to Rivals
Dominant online retailer may help sustain higher prices and capture most of the resulting gains
Founding a Substantial Business Builds Wealth, But Those Who Aren’t Born Well-to-Do Seldom Attempt It
The few born into poor families who own an incorporated business see wealth gains similar to entrepreneurs from privileged backgrounds
Large Language Models Are Pushing the Web Toward Zero Clicks
A picture of how chatbot adoption leads to fewer web searches — and how that affects online publishers
The Declining Power of Your Human Capital in the Age of AI
Where AI can do the heavy lifting, choice of freelancers is now driven more by price and less by experience
Why Aren’t More Drugs Already on the Market Repurposed for Other Diseases?
Structuring incentives — extended patent protection, expedited approval — turns out to be remarkably difficult
Providing Paid Parental Leave Typically Costs Employers Less Than Replacing Workers Who Quit
Custom database tracks movement of 5.3 million workers, reveals unappreciated economics of little-offered benefit
Reducing Partisan Hostility Can Be Surprisingly Simple
Megastudy: strategies reduce political animosity, but don’t necessarily improve — and may harm — commitment to democratic principles
Grocery Delivery: Beyond a Gratuity, What Motivates a Gig Driver?
You as a customer can control two factors — time of day and whether you insist on personally accepting the goods — but not the third, route density
A Dangerous Education Divide During Wildfires
Amid toxic smoke, the less educated majority ventures out far more often than college degree holders
All Things in Moderation, Including Rent Control?
A California law seems to avoid worst side effects: rising condo conversions and a slowdown in new home construction
Annuities Turn Savings Into Income – a Must for Retirees – But They’re Unpopular. That Puzzle Now Seems Solvable
Smarter products and policies can connect wary investors to lifetime income
How First-Mover Advantage, Once Unquestioned, Lost Its Grip on Entrepreneurs and Business Researchers
A skeptic asked questions that drove decades of study; plenty of ‘first-movers’ weren’t actually first