Thursday assorted links

by Tyler Cowen July 23, 2026 at 12:20 pm

1. Puffin spotted on the Dorset coast.

2. Anthropic chief economist on AI and unemployment.

3. Whales use different vowels when ships are around.

4. Oliver Kim on McNamara.

5. Large language models can predict the results of social science experiments.

6. Alexander Salter Substack on space economics.

7. New Google data and study on AI and the economy.

8. Does it matter if you don’t like the characters?