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The Great Progression

America is going through its every-80-year reinvention

Futurist Peter Leyden finds parallels between America in 2025 and at three pivotal points in its history, each 80 years before the last.

Peter Leyden

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AI

How technology has transformed private espionage

Combining AI and a deluge of open data has enabled some intelligence vendors to surpass the capabilities of government agencies.

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AI

Will LLMs lead to an artificial general intelligence?

An exclusive excerpt from AI podcaster Dwarkesh Patel’s first book, The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI 2019-2025.

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