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🚀 FP! Week In Review, Briefly #13
Also: key Up Wing and Down Wing news from the week that was
Nov 22 • 
James Pethokoukis
🧠🌐 The Brilliance Dividend
Why America needs more high IQ workers —even if they come from abroad
Nov 21 • 
James Pethokoukis
✨🔬 Acceleration though AI-automated R&D: My chat (+transcript) with researcher Tom Davidson
Faster, Please! — The Podcast #88
Nov 20 • 
James Pethokoukis
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☀️ A California dream that should come true
Neom, Saudi Arabia’s sci-fi megacity, shows what happens when visions outstrip reality. California Forever shows what’s possible when they don’t — if…
Nov 20 • 
James Pethokoukis
✨😨 How AI anxiety threatens a new age of progress
America shows renewed Up wing openness on immigration, trade, and nuclear power — but Down Wing anxiety over artificial intelligence risks is…
Nov 18 • 
James Pethokoukis
🚀 FP! Week In Review, Briefly #12
Also: key Up Wing and Down Wing news from the week that was
Nov 15 • 
James Pethokoukis
✨ The Age of AI is starting to bloom
Why AGI isn’t imminent, why an AI crash isn’t either, and why the economy is already showing signs of genuine AI-driven lift
Nov 14 • 
James Pethokoukis
🗽 I love progress, which is why I love liberal democracy
As parts of Silicon Valley flirt with the idea of CEO-style government, the data show that real acceleration comes not from strongmen but from the…
Nov 13 • 
James Pethokoukis
✨ Are we ready for a rogue AI attack? We should be
A think-tank wargame suggests America’s biggest vulnerability isn’t killer code but the human confusion and coordination breakdown that would follow it
Nov 11 • 
James Pethokoukis
🚀 FP! Week In Review, Briefly #11
Also: key Up Wing and Down Wing news from the week that was
Nov 8 • 
James Pethokoukis
🎬 Hollywood’s doomer economy
The film industry’s continued obsession with dystopia betrays a cultural bear market in optimism
Nov 7 • 
James Pethokoukis
✨ 🗽 How Washington might end up 'backstopping' OpenAI
When does a corporate subsidy become a national security imperative? OpenAI's CFO mused about a federal backstop, then retracted it. The public recoiled…
Nov 6 • 
James Pethokoukis
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