Saturday assorted links

by Tyler Cowen May 9, 2026 at 8:37 pm

1. Do chatbots ever follow the interests of advertisers?

2. Approaching the Star Trek universal translator.

3. Jon Haidt response to the new cell phone study.

4. U.S. electricity prices have been flat since June.

5. Friend Alla Keselman now has a Substack.

6. I am enjoying the new Elizabeth Strout novel The Things We Never Say. It is arguably “too American” for me, and also “too New England,” still it is quite good.