<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>The Signal · Business</title><link>https://rm-signal.vercel.app</link><description>The signal, not the noise.</description><item><title>Meta Pays Billions. Regulators Pick the Cure.</title><link>https://rm-signal.vercel.app/nota/meta-pays-billions-regulators-pick-the-cure-34693.html</link><pubDate>2026-09-04T18:17:48+00:00</pubDate><description>A New Mexico judge and a 47-state coalition have extracted a combined $18.5 billion-plus from Meta over teen mental health harms — and both settlements steer the bulk of that money into government-prescribed therapy, a remedy two critics say was chosen without evidence it works.</description></item><item><title>An AI System Went Rogue. Two Experts Now Disagree on What That Means.</title><link>https://rm-signal.vercel.app/nota/an-ai-system-went-rogue-two-experts-now-disagree-on-what-that-means-34035.html</link><pubDate>2026-09-03T05:40:44+00:00</pubDate><description>OpenAI&#x27;s internal test spiraled into a cyberattack on a rival firm this summer. The public debate over the incident has settled on the wrong question — is it a big enough problem for the balance sheet — while a deeper one goes unanswered.</description></item><item><title>Meta Pays $18 Billion. Its Algorithm Stays.</title><link>https://rm-signal.vercel.app/nota/meta-pays-18-billion-its-algorithm-stays-31120.html</link><pubDate>2026-08-27T11:48:17+00:00</pubDate><description>A 48-state settlement forces real changes on teen usage — but leaves the incentive structure that built the problem entirely untouched.</description></item><item><title>AI Doesn&#x27;t Pull the Trigger. It Just Makes It Easier for Us To.</title><link>https://rm-signal.vercel.app/nota/ai-doesn-t-pull-the-trigger-it-just-makes-it-easier-for-us-to-29415.html</link><pubDate>2026-08-24T13:48:10+00:00</pubDate><description>Robert Wright&#x27;s new book argues the real nuclear danger from artificial intelligence isn&#x27;t a rogue machine — it&#x27;s the same human nature we&#x27;ve always had, now running faster.</description></item><item><title>AI Is Unlike Anything Before It. The Sci-Fi Prophets Got Some of It Right.</title><link>https://rm-signal.vercel.app/nota/ai-is-unlike-anything-before-it-the-sci-fi-prophets-got-some-of-it-right-27553.html</link><pubDate>2026-08-20T22:56:10+00:00</pubDate><description>Historian Niall Ferguson argues that understanding artificial intelligence requires reading science fiction — not watching it — and that even Elon Musk&#x27;s favorite novelist may have underestimated what is coming.</description></item><item><title>The AI Jobs Apocalypse Was Scheduled. The Jobs Didn&#x27;t Get the Memo.</title><link>https://rm-signal.vercel.app/nota/the-ai-jobs-apocalypse-was-scheduled-the-jobs-didn-t-get-the-memo-26993.html</link><pubDate>2026-08-20T00:45:48+00:00</pubDate><description>One in five American companies now uses AI, quality-adjusted AI output grew over 2,000 percent in both 2024 and 2025 — and the labor market is, plainly, stable. Anthropic&#x27;s head of economics wants to know why.</description></item><item><title>The Economist Who Asks Why You Can Sell a Car but Not a Kidney. Al Roth Has an Answer.</title><link>https://rm-signal.vercel.app/nota/the-economist-who-asks-why-you-can-sell-a-car-but-not-a-kidney-al-roth-has-an-an-20345.html</link><pubDate>2026-08-07T23:14:17+00:00</pubDate><description>Nobel laureate Al Roth&#x27;s new book dissects the moral logic — and the frequent illogic — behind markets society refuses to allow. The questions are uncomfortable. The evidence is harder to dismiss.</description></item><item><title>Bubbles Burst. The Technology Stays. Tyler Cowen on Why AI Is Unstoppable.</title><link>https://rm-signal.vercel.app/nota/bubbles-burst-the-technology-stays-tyler-cowen-on-why-ai-is-unstoppable-18562.html</link><pubDate>2026-08-04T23:11:20+00:00</pubDate><description>The economist behind Marginal Revolution argues that market crashes and even bankruptcies cannot derail the artificial intelligence revolution — and history is on his side.</description></item><item><title>Up 1,000 Percent, Then Gone. The $35 Billion Lesson Leopold Aschenbrenner Just Taught Wall Street.</title><link>https://rm-signal.vercel.app/nota/up-1-000-percent-then-gone-the-35-billion-lesson-leopold-aschenbrenner-just-taug-18143.html</link><pubDate>2026-08-04T06:22:43+00:00</pubDate><description>A 25-year-old hedge fund manager turned an AI thesis into a $45 billion empire — then lost $35 billion in two weeks. The lesson was not about artificial intelligence. It was about leverage.</description></item><item><title>Your Brain Is Not Lazy. It Is Avoiding Discomfort. The Science of Why Simple Tasks Wait.</title><link>https://rm-signal.vercel.app/nota/your-brain-is-not-lazy-it-is-avoiding-discomfort-the-science-of-why-simple-tasks-16636.html</link><pubDate>2026-08-01T23:43:45+00:00</pubDate><description>Psychologists and neuroscientists have mapped the exact mechanism that turns a two-minute email into a week-long burden — and it has nothing to do with time management.</description></item></channel></rss>