FT: “We need humanities more than ever in the age of AI…Subjects like literature, languages and history are vital to a thoughtful and prosperous society.”
WSJ: “Credit cards are now the sharpest competitive weapon airlines have in their never-ending fight for travelers. Plastic is increasingly essential to carriers’ bottom lines and central to nearly every decision they make, from where they build lounges to the routes they fly.”
Business Standard: “The Centre and states plan to replace $189 billion of imports by boosting domestic production of 1,272 products through targeted manufacturing and industrial clusters.”
NYTimes: “A.I. agents are tools, but you can learn a lot by prompting them for feedback. Try asking your A.I. agent how you frustrate it. I asked mine, and requested that it answer with as much human expression as possible. What did I hear? “You are so exhausting. Please, for the love of computing power, just tell me what you actually want.” Our team’s research seems to suggest this is what we should all do for our agents. Managing A.I. well, it turns out, looks a lot like managing people well.”
Andrey Mir: “Never before have so many people been simultaneously absorbed in issues that have nothing to do with their daily lives. This unnatural involvement with distant events draws us into shared concerns, creating a sense of community more typical of a small village, but now on a global scale. That’s how McLuhan arrived at his ideas of the Global Village and “retribalization.”…Social media took it much further by exposing people not just to the same news but directly to one another. That is real village life on a global scale: everyone watching, judging, and reacting to everyone else in real time.” [via Arnold Kling]
WSJ: “A record level of private-equity investments are stuck in funds limping along past their intended lifespans. Often known as zombie funds, these funds are no longer raising money or making new acquisitions, in part because fund managers haven’t been able to sell their remaining assets. The net asset value of U.S. private-equity assets stuck in funds at least a decade old reached an all-time high of $348.5 billion at the end of 2025, according to PitchBook data. That is 3.5 times the amount in 2015 and more than 100 times that of 2005.”
