A few weeks ago, a small and previously obscure Chinese startup called Deepseek released R1, a reasoning model it said was on par with the best models from competitors like OpenAI, Anthropic, and ...

This first appeared in the Planet Money newsletter. You can sign up here. Last week, news spread that a Chinese AI company, DeepSeek, had built a cutting-edge chatbot at a fraction of the cost of its ...

Jevons paradox may remain somewhat obscure, but over the last few decades, it has been cited as a reason why more energy-efficient cars, appliances and light bulbs may fail to reduce our consumption ...

Jevons paradox and AI All of a sudden, it seems like a lot of people are talking about the potential for a Jevons paradox in the market for artificial intelligence. This wouldn't be the first time the ...