IllustrationEssay 01
Buyers of Disruption: Little Evidence That Serial Acquisitions Kill Ideas
Policymakers have spent years hunting for “killer acquisitions”: deals in which a large technology firm buys a startup only to shelve its product and snuff out a future rival.
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IllustrationEssay 02
Price the Risk, Don’t Panic: Liability for Dual-Use AI Is a Dial, Not a Switch
Frontier AI is dual-use by construction: the model that helps a defender find and fix a software flaw can also help an attacker exploit it.
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IllustrationEssay 03
Collusion Without a Smoke-Filled Room: How Repricer Dashboards Teach Soft Prices
Competition authorities have worried for years that pricing algorithms could facilitate collusion, and much research has focused on self-learning bots.
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