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The Verge – no paywall: “Amazon is going on the defensive after a report from The Wall Street Journal revealed that the ecommerce giant plans to slash shipments with the United States Postal Service, which said this week that it’s running out of money. In a lengthy statement published on Wednesday, Amazon says it didn’t …
Wall Street Journal [no paywall] – Finance Bros to Tech Bros: Don’t Mess With My Bloomberg Terminal. “Traders and investment research teams have a sacred bond with the Bloomberg terminal, which they use to track and analyze real-time and historical pricing for a variety of asset classes, execute and record trades, and chat with customers …
“From inside a frontier AI lab, we confront the most significant challenges about how powerful AI will impact the world around us.. The Anthropic Institute exists to understand and shape the consequences of powerful AI systems. We focus on the urgent questions that will determine whether these systems deliver the radical upsides that we believe …
Inside Climate News: Republican lawmakers are advancing legislation that would shield major polluters from legal accountability for climate change harms. Republican lawmakers in multiple states and Congress are advancing proposals to shield polluters from climate accountability and prevent any type of liability for climate change harms—even as these harms and their associated costs continue to …
IEEE Spectrum: “Some of the world’s largest companies with the biggest supply chains—including Walmart, the global shipping giant Maersk, and the telecom servicer Vodafone—are now using bots powered by artificial intelligence to negotiate and maintain supplier contracts. That these sophisticated AI systems were designed and built by a startup in Estonia is interesting; it’s even …
Washingtonian: “Some subscribers recently received a heads-up that they’re on the hook for a new rate “set by an algorithm using your personal data.” We asked a UVA expert what that might mean. If recent events have not compelled you to cancel your Washington Post subscription, then you might have been in for sticker shock …
AI in Finance and Banking, March 15, 2026 – This semi-monthly column by Sabrina I. Pacifici highlights news, government documents, NGO/IGO papers, conferences, industry white papers and reports, academic papers and speeches, and central bank actions on the subject of AI’s fast paced impact on the banking and finance sectors. Seven highlights from this post: How …
Protos – “Polymarket, a prediction market platform owned by New York-based company Blockratize, currently has open assassination markets on its website. They’re easy to find because they’re some of the most heavily traded markets on the platform. Among these markets are: Iran leader by end of 2026? (the current Ayatollah is on the list) Will …
The New Yorker – no paywall – “Memes such as “monitoring the situation” reflect a deluded belief that we can be more than just passive, confused bystanders to a spray of digital shrapnel. On TikTok, the war against Iran began with a series of videos from influencer types in Dubai, Doha, and elsewhere in the …
The Guardian: “…More than a half a dozen current and former Amazon corporate employees, in roles ranging from software engineer to user experience researcher to data analyst, told the Guardian that Amazon is pressing employees to integrate AI across all aspects of their work, even though these workers say this push is hurting productivity. They …
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ProPublica: “…The timing of the drops at TransUnion and Experian coincides with the Trump administration’s dismantling of the CFPB. In February 2025, Russell Vought, a White House official who oversaw sweeping cuts across federal agencies, took control of the CFPB as acting director. He quickly ordered a stop to nearly all agency work. Under his …
