Anthropic finds GLM-5.3 spreads advanced cyber capabilities; DraftKings uses AI to target problem gamblers; AI data centres need $6T annually by 2031

Engineering

EFF

DraftKings Is Using AI to Supercharge the Harms of Online Behavioral Advertising

DraftKings uses artificial intelligence to find customers who lose money and sends them personalized advertisements. AI amplifies the harms of behavioral advertising by making it more precise. The EFF advocates for a complete ban on behavioral advertising to stop companies from collecting personal data.

The National News

AI Industry Must Generate $6 Trillion Annually by 2031, Bain Report Shows

The AI industry must generate 6 trillion dollars annually by 2031 to justify data center investments. Revenue comes from product development (4.2 trillion), enterprise productivity (1-1.4 trillion), and consumer services (0.2-0.4 trillion). Infrastructure costs may reach 1.5 trillion per year, with data center expenses doubling every 12 to 16 months.

Armin Ronacher

Deser: Rethinking Rust Serialization

Deser is a new Rust serialization library that changes how deserialization works. Instead of types driving the process, the format sends events to a sink. This solves Serde problems with number precision, flattening, and adapter composition.

Nicholas Nethercote

How to Speed Up the Rust Compiler in September 2026

Rust compiler optimizations in September 2026 achieved a 4.57% mean wall-time reduction. Key improvements include LLVM 23 upgrade, Clippy PGO which delivers 18% gains, and CFG traversal optimization that reduces fixpoint iterations by 97%. New trait solver and Polonius Alpha borrow checker received targeted performance work.

Social Sciences

Marginal Revolution

Don't let AI make you dumber

Tyler Cowen argues that AI will not make people intellectually passive. People can use AI as a tool to deepen knowledge and skills. AI increases leisure time and lets people explore interests without competing with machines.

Marginal Revolution

Shipping to America

Researchers analyzed shipping disruptions to the United States from 2016 to 2025 using satellite vessel-tracking data. A 2021 shipping disruption cost the U.S. economy 0.69 percent of output. Red Sea attacks in 2023-2024 cost 0.35 percent of output. The study finds that military protection of shipping routes provides net economic benefits. Research shows that tariffs reduce route congestion and offset their conventional economic costs.

Crooked Timber

Is philosophy of migration biased by methodological nationalism?

Philosophy of migration shows bias from methodological nationalism. Philosophers debate whether to exclude immigrants instead of exploring fair hiring practices. This bias constrains the range of philosophical questions about migration ethics.

Humanities

JSTOR Daily

Can We Recover a Worldview Lost to Colonialism?

Anthropologist Tiatemsu Longkumer studies how the Ao Naga people of northeast India understood their world before colonialism displaced their spiritual traditions. Early colonial records misunderstood their beliefs through a Western religious lens. Longkumer uses the concept of animism to understand Ao spirituality as a sophisticated worldview. The Ao Naga believed that humans possessed multiple spiritual dimensions called tanüla. While complete recovery of pre-colonial knowledge remains impossible, animism provides a framework to appreciate their different worldview.