Author: robert.adlington
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Capitalism by Sven Beckert review – an extraordinary history of the economic system that controls our lives | History books | The Guardian
If Adam Smith was wrong to see capitalism as human nature manifest, then Beckert overcorrects by presenting it as anti-human: a “rogue artificial intelligence”, an invasive species, an alien force, a supernatural hunger. It is insatiable and unkillable. Beckert calls his book an “actor-centred history” about a phenomenon “made by people”, but it is ultimately…
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Experts warn of threat to democracy from ‘AI bot swarms’ infesting social media | AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian
political leaders could deploy almost limitless numbers of AIs to masquerade as humans online and precisely infiltrate communities, learn their foibles over time and use increasingly convincing and carefully tailored falsehoods, to change population-wide opinions. — Read on www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/22/experts-warn-of-threat-to-democracy-by-ai-bot-swarms-infesting-social-media
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Anthropic’s Strategy
Aakash Gupta on X: “This is Anthropic telling you they stopped competing with OpenAI on chatbots at the end of 2024. Jared Kaplan, their Chief Science Officer, admitted it publicly. They’re building vertical AI infrastructure across five high-margin regulated industries where GPT-4 wrappers can’t” / X — Read on x.com/aakashgupta/status/2013850719858856180
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System Prompts – Claude Docs
See updates to the core system prompts on [Claude.ai](https://www.claude.ai) and the Claude [iOS](http://anthropic.com/ios) and [Android](http://anthropic.com/android) apps. — Read on platform.claude.com/docs/en/release-notes/system-prompts
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Claude’s new constitution \ Anthropic
A new approach to a foundational document that expresses and shapes who Claude is — Read on www.anthropic.com/news/claude-new-constitution
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10 things I learned from burning myself out with AI coding agents – Ars Technica
with LLMs, context is everything, and in language, context changes meaning. Take the word “bank” and add the words “river” or “central” in front of it, and see how the meaning changes. In a way, words act as addresses that unlock the semantic relationships encoded in a neural network. So if you put “checkerboard” and…
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Trump airing Macron’s private message was designed to hurt and intimidate | Donald Trump | The Guardian
No president had ever achieved such omnipresence. In this fractured country, it gives him a singular power. It wasn’t money that propelled him but conversation. The creation of chaos is not an accidental byproduct of Trump, it is the method. Every void is filled with a provocation. He lights more fires than can be put…
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Claude Code and Graphic Design
I asked Claude to tell me what it was good and bad at: What I’m Bad At (Don’t Ask Me) 1. Graphic Design / Visual Aesthetics My SVG logo attempt was a perfect example – technically valid SVG, but visually uninspiring and generic. The “wood grain” is just a gradient that looks nothing like actual…