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October 24, 2026The countries most threatened by turbulent bond markets
October 24, 2026https://www.economist.com/briefing/2026/10/08/the-countries-most-threatened-by-turbulent-bond-markets +
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/10/08/will-bonds-blow-up
QT{{” Central banks have responded with higher rates. In September the Federal Reserve raised them for the first time since 2023. Kevin Warsh, the Fed’s chair, cited “geopolitical developments”. The European Central Bank has raised rates twice in recent months and the Bank of Japan has lifted its main rate to a 31-year high.
That marks a dramatic shift. Before the war markets expected three cuts from the Fed by March 2027, taking its target range to 2.75-3%. They now expect rates to reach 4.25-4.5% by then—a swing of 1.5 percentage points in barely seven months. Europe has seen a similar U-turn. Investors had expected the ECB to hold rates steady. But even after its two recent increases, they now foresee at least two more by mid-2027.
Short-term bond yields, which closely track expectations for central-bank rates, have moved sharply higher as a result. Across the rich world, two-year yields are up by over a percentage point on average from the start of the year. Longer-term yields have followed, though less swiftly. “}}
Exclusive: Sham scientific societies are misleading star researchers | Nature
October 24, 2026https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02980-w
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Julia Hirschberg thought that she had reason to celebrate. In July, she had been elected to become a member of the European Academy of Engineering (EAE), an organization billed on its website as the “premier institution representing the highest professional distinction in engineering” with 35 Nobel laureates among its more than 400 elected members.
The accolade arrived just days after another unexpected honour: election to the Austrian Academy of Engineering. And in 2025, she had been elected to the National Academy of Artificial Intelligence (NAAI).
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And that’s when things started to get weird. When Hirschberg checked the EAE’s website, her name was already prominently displayed atop the leadership masthead. But she had never agreed to take the post; she also had never been asked for references, nor had she attended a single meeting. “}}
NYTimes: ‘Breathtaking,’ ‘Devastating’: Mathematics Reels After New OpenAI Release
October 24, 2026I wrote the following paragraph in response to this:
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I read with great interest the article about the profound disruptions new developments in AI are bringing to mathematics, and the anxiety is this causing mathematicians (see reference below). However, I don’t see this disruption as qualitatively different from the many technological upheavals that have come before. Is this a bigger deal than the advent of digital computers and calculators, which replaced legions of people doing long arithmetic by hand? Is it bigger than computers surpassing the best human chess players? Or GPS eliminating the need for map reading skills? One could go back further, to the advent of the printing press, which displaced a longer verbal tradition where people stored knowledge through interaction and conversation. These technologies displaced particular human skills, but they did not eliminate the larger intellectual traditions in which those skills existed. However remarkable the new AI capabilities in mathematics are, I suspect mathematics will adapt to them, just as it has in the past.
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NYTimes: ‘Breathtaking,’ ‘Devastating’: Mathematics Reels After New OpenAI Release
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/science/mathematicians-respond-openai-release.html By Siobhan Roberts
Oct. 8, 2026
It’s Sliced Cheese on Bread. And It’s Rocking Copenhagen’s World.
October 24, 2026It’s Sliced Cheese on Bread. And It’s Rocking Copenhagen’s World. – The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/19/dining/copenhagen-denmark-bread-bmo.html QT{{”
It’s called a bolle med ost (bun with cheese), shortened by many to BMO, an abbreviation that was entered into the biggest Danish dictionary this year.
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Decode the Brain. Reinvent Drug Discovery.
October 24, 2026https://bexorg.com/
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As Private Equity Scales Up Small Restaurants, Customers Push Back
October 24, 2026As Private Equity Scales Up Small Restaurants, Customers Push Back – The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/dining/private-equity-restaurant-deals.html mentions Levain Bakery
