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Michael Lewis, the best-selling author of books including “The Big Short,” “Moneyball” and his latest work about decision-making, “The Undoing Project,” has taken on some controversial and sobering ...

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The prize was awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi for the development of an architecture that some ...

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Today in Money: Several big companies - Klarna, Microsoft and Amazon - have replaced human roles with AI, but what could this technology mean for the future of your job? We speak to workers, ...