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2 U.S. Academics Among Winners of Nobel Prize in Economics

Joel Mokyr, Peter Howitt, and Philippe Aghion won the Nobel Prize in Economics for explaining innovation-driven growth and creative destruction driving sustained technological progress.

fromwww.dw.com

3 days ago

Nobel economics prize awarded for innovation-growth theory DW 10/13/2025

Economists from the US, Canada and France were awarded this year's Nobel Memorial Prize in economics on Monday, the final award of this year's Nobel week. Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt won the 2025 Nobel economics prize for "having explained innovation-driven economic growth", the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said. The prize was awarded at a ceremony in Stockholm and is the final Nobel of this year's prize season, with prizes for peace, medicine, physics, chemistry and literature revealed last week.

World news

Artificial intelligence

fromAdvocate.com

2 weeks ago

Gay Trump ally Peter Thiel: Fear of technology will bring on the Antichrist

Opposing or fearing technological progress can enable a charismatic, deceptive Antichrist-like power by prompting calls for regulatory authority over existential technologies.

Artificial intelligence

fromTheregister

4 months ago

Folks in the 2010s would think ChatGPT was AGI, says Altman

Sam Altman suggests that ChatGPT might have been perceived as AGI if shown before its release in 2020.

Film

fromKqed

5 months ago

'Caught by the Tides' Brilliantly Reflects Time's Relentless March Forward

Jia Zhangke's 'Caught by the Tides' effectively captures 25 years of Chinese social and technological evolution within a two-hour narrative.