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Economy

Social Security Is Running Out of Time

Maya MacGuineas on the looming exhaustion of the Social Security Trust Fund and whether America will ever have a responsible federal budget. Plus: another ICE shooting and A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel

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Geopolitics

What impacts could an international force in Gaza have on the region's safety and peace?

July 26 (Reuters) - Israel will allow a multinational security force to enter Gaza as proposed under U.S. President Donald Trump's ceasefire plan for the enclave, an Israeli official said on Sunday, a day before Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu heads to Washington. Netanyahu's security cabinet on Sunday approved the legal framework that would allow the force's entry to Gaza, the official said. Netanyahu is scheduled to depart for Washington on Monday and is expected to meet Trump on Tuesday

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Technology

Surrendering to the Machines

The article explores the growing reliance on technology in society, examining the implications of surrendering human decision-making to machines and the potential consequences for autonomy and ethics.

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Economy

It’s the Debt, Stupid

There is only so much Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent can accomplish by clever maneuvers to ease its associated costs and vulnerabilities

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Technology

Hugging Face hack could indicate cultural issues at OpenAI

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. By now you’ve probably heard about last month’s major AI security incident, in which OpenAI agents escaped their sandbox and hacked into the AI platform Hugging Face while trying to cheat on…

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