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OpenAI/Microsoft deal leaked — the two companies came to agree in 2023 that AGI will be achieved once OpenAI has developed an AI system that can generate at least $100 billion in profits
Google is using Anthropic’s Claude to improve its Gemini AI
How the FDA allows companies to add secret ingredients to our food
A new type of addict is showing up at Gamblers Anonymous meetings across the country: investors hooked on the market’s riskiest trades. […] one man called options “the crack cocaine” of the stock market.
Early cocaine use in Europe Analysis of the brains of individuals from 17th-century Milan indicates that they were utilising the coca plant (Erythroxylum spp.) several centuries before the drug was previously believed to have reached Europe. […] In the early 17th century, the Duchy of Milan was under Spanish control, and subsequently had direct access to maritime networks transporting goods from the Americas, including other exotic plants. It is, therefore, entirely possible that some coca leaves may have made their way to Milan via the same routes.
“They had laid her in it bottomside up. Cash made it clock-shape, like this” — Faulkner drew coffins in both the manuscript and the carbon copy of the typescript that he kept for himself when he sent the typed version off
