The Institutional Risk Analyst

“Private debt” gating retail investors is the whipping boy du jour, but not the canary in the coal mine, nor the real problem, nor the real risk. Over-investment and malinvestment in things like data centers or unprofitable business models that require cheap money and are based on hype and suspension of common sense, excessive government spending, inflation and currency debasement, populism and socialist rhetoric manifesting itself in real policy and tax decisions, these are

Researchers at Apple just released a paper that throws cold water on the "reasoning" capabilities of the latest, most powerful large language AI models. In the paper, a team of machine learning experts makes the case that the AI industry is grossly overstating the ability of its top AI models, including OpenAI's o3, Anthropic's Claude 3.7, and Google's Gemini.