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Thank you Varun for always being a great mentor to all the junior folks around you!

The Bay Area bridge that should get a lot more love than it deserves!

Totally. The chair in the sky all over again.

Is Gen AI leading to job loss? I analyzed US labor market data (CPS) from the post-ChatGPT era (Q4 2022 - Q1 2025) to see what's actually happening to employment in AI-exposed jobs. Spoiler: it's nuanced. 🧵

How much information do LLMs really memorize? Now we know, thanks to Paper by AI at Meta, Google DeepMind , NVIDIA AI Developer and Cornell Univ. This paper will be absolutely crucial for ongoing lawsuits between AI Companies and data creators/rights owners/copyright-holders.

Can you train a performant language models without using unlicensed text? We are thrilled to announce the Common Pile v0.1, an 8TB dataset of openly licensed and public domain text. We train 7B models for 1T and 2T tokens and match the performance similar models like LLaMA 1&2

Who’s doing this in San Francisco?

Many are criticizing Apple's "reasoning" (or lack-thereof) paper on two counts: 1) People also memorize and pattern match. 2) People are also inconsistent. I think they're missing the point on both. Here is the picture summarizing why. 1/n

Yonas Bekele is a public high school student in Ethiopia, admitted to the United World Colleges with a 90% scholarship. But the 10% left (+ registration deposit) comes out to roughly 85k RMB (roughly $12k USD). Yonas is a total stranger who emailed me, and I usually ignore such

Anyone interested in AI policy, from Econ and CS perspective, needs to read this thread and the “AI as a Normal Technology” essay. These are critical lessons to learn.

I just listened to this and it was really good! Kyle is one of the best in the biz at applying the economic lens to science. Plus, the story of how his JMP came together is a must-listen for grad students (it's a great tale of grit + luck + initiative)

this essay from Sam Altman is much more nuanced than some of the hyperbole around job loss etc from Dario Amodei - wouldnt put them in the same category eg. this line: From a relativistic perspective, the singularity happens bit by bit, and the merge happens slowly. *chef's kiss*

for those who predict 10% GDP growth with AI in the near future, here are some facts to contend with Chad Jones - 2% --> 3% would be amazing!

🚨 Thrilled to share that our paper, "Sexual Harassment in Public Spaces and Police Patrols: Experimental Evidence from Urban India," is now in print at the QJE! 🇮🇳🚔👩🏽‍🦰 With Sofia Amaral, Girija Borker, Nathan Fiala, Anjani Kumar, & Maria Micaela Sviatschi 🧵👇 Northeastern CSSH NU Economics

Some tasks are painful to do. But some are fulfilling and fun. How do they line up with the tasks that AI agents are set to automate? Not that well, based on our new paper "Future of Work with AI Agents: Auditing Automation and Augmentation Potential across the U.S. Workforce"

This will make Kevin A. Bryan happy politico.com/news/2025/06/0… Imagine the possibilities of every city / regulatory body around the world starting in this journey.

1/ AI doesn’t need a sci-fi upgrade to upend the economy—current models, and the cheaper, more capable versions already in the pipeline, are set to disrupt nearly every corner of the labor market.

Just launched: Interactive charts from our latest paper, updated as new data comes in. Track how tariffs are affecting import and domestic prices, broken down by country of origin. Explore the data → pricinglab.org/tariff-tracker/