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Lending weight

The second in our series of articles on the financial crisis looks at the role debt and deleveraging have played in the turmoil

This article appeared in the Schools brief section of the print edition under the headline “Lending weight”

Schools brief September 14th 2013

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AI needs regulation, but what kind, and how much?

Different countries are taking different approaches to regulating artificial intelligence

A toolbox filled with regular tools and speech bubbles.

LLMs will transform medicine, media and more

But not without a helping (human) hand


A flamme under a container diffusing letters turned into a speech bubble.

How AI models are getting smarter

Deep neural networks are learning diffusion and other tricks


The race is on to control the global supply chain for AI chips

The focus is no longer just on faster chips, but on more chips clustered together

A short history of AI

In the first of six weekly briefs, we ask how AI overcame decades of underdelivering