"We were fortunate to occupy one of the four private rooms in maternity, with running water, electricity and two beds - luxuries the 20 other NICU families did not have. Every 2 hours as we moved to the NICU to feed him, we tiptoed through and over mothers and families who lined the corridor. I was overwhelmed with guilt from two angles. First that we paid $30 a day without thought for a private room while others slept on the floor."
I am not sure if you should feel particularly guilty about this. By paying more for the private room, you probably helped the hospital fund the care for the other 20 families there, who could not pay as much.
I am not sure if the OPEC exit is directly connected with the AI stuff. Sure, leaving OPEC might give UAE more cash (because they can now sell more barrels of oil), and they could use some of that money to invest in AI data centers etc. But I really do not think that they left OPEC simply because they needed more money for AI.
The article ends by saying: "It still holds a big chunk of harder-to-sell positions in privately held companies such as Anthropic. It remains to be seen if those companies will live up to their lofty valuations if and when they hit the public markets."
I wonder if this means that the fund did not get wiped out completely - otherwise Citadel (who bought all of their publicly traded stock positions) would have also taken their Anthropic shares?
I am not sure I understand your UAE example. Are you saying that there is some delay / difference / gap between what policies / goals the UAE has set for AI and what it is really doing?
I assume that the money moved by GiveWell excludes money they received from Coefficient Giving, is that correct?
The 100% growth for GiveWell in 2025 coincided with the aid cuts. Not sure if aid cuts are the only reason for the increase in donations, but I do assume those news motivated at least some new donors to come in or existing donors to increase donation sizes. It will be interesting to see how this will change in 2026 and going forward: will these donors keep donating at the same level or higher level or will they pull back somewhat?
Thanks for putting this overview together, this is highly valuable.
Despite the real risk from hantavirus being low, it is getting covered a lot in media right now. I think this is actually good. A lot of people had already forgotten about the pandemic that we had not that long ago and moved on to worrying about other problems currently dominating the news cycle. Hopefully this serves as a (small) reminder to people that pandemic preparedness / biosecurity really does matter.
Gambling interventions could be cost-effective, in some situations. Especially for larger countries yet to liberalize gambling/betting (like Brazil, India)? Also, now might be a window to lobby for stricter regulations on prediction markets.
Random fun fact: Indonesia has banned gambling, but is the only country where tobacco advertising is still legal.
Wytham Abbey was listed on the market in May 2024 and sold in November 2025, so it took 18 months to sell. I do not know whether 18 months is slow or fast to sell a property like this. Would waiting another year have helped get a higher price? Maybe. But I guess waiting has costs too, like not being able to use the money right now and paying for property maintenance.
"We were fortunate to occupy one of the four private rooms in maternity, with running water, electricity and two beds - luxuries the 20 other NICU families did not have. Every 2 hours as we moved to the NICU to feed him, we tiptoed through and over mothers and families who lined the corridor. I was overwhelmed with guilt from two angles. First that we paid $30 a day without thought for a private room while others slept on the floor."
I am not sure if you should feel particularly guilty about this. By paying more for the private room, you probably helped the hospital fund the care for the other 20 families there, who could not pay as much.
I am not sure if the OPEC exit is directly connected with the AI stuff. Sure, leaving OPEC might give UAE more cash (because they can now sell more barrels of oil), and they could use some of that money to invest in AI data centers etc. But I really do not think that they left OPEC simply because they needed more money for AI.
The article ends by saying: "It still holds a big chunk of harder-to-sell positions in privately held companies such as Anthropic. It remains to be seen if those companies will live up to their lofty valuations if and when they hit the public markets." I wonder if this means that the fund did not get wiped out completely - otherwise Citadel (who bought all of their publicly traded stock positions) would have also taken their Anthropic shares?
I am not sure I understand your UAE example. Are you saying that there is some delay / difference / gap between what policies / goals the UAE has set for AI and what it is really doing?
cG has written about this: https://coefficientgiving.org/research/worldview-diversification/
Despite the real risk from hantavirus being low, it is getting covered a lot in media right now. I think this is actually good. A lot of people had already forgotten about the pandemic that we had not that long ago and moved on to worrying about other problems currently dominating the news cycle. Hopefully this serves as a (small) reminder to people that pandemic preparedness / biosecurity really does matter.
WHO does not seem too worried about it: "WHO currently assesses the risk to the global population from this event as low".
BOTEC: 4.2 percent of suicides in the state of Victoria in Australia were gambling-related. 19.4 percent of suicides in Hong Kong were gambling-related. 720,000 suicides happen every year. Let's say 10 percent of all suicides globally are related to gambling. That would be 72,000 gambling-related suicides.
Tobacco causes over 7 million deaths per year, while alcohol kills 2.6 million people per year.
Gambling interventions could be cost-effective, in some situations. Especially for larger countries yet to liberalize gambling/betting (like Brazil, India)? Also, now might be a window to lobby for stricter regulations on prediction markets.
Random fun fact: Indonesia has banned gambling, but is the only country where tobacco advertising is still legal.
Wytham Abbey was listed on the market in May 2024 and sold in November 2025, so it took 18 months to sell. I do not know whether 18 months is slow or fast to sell a property like this. Would waiting another year have helped get a higher price? Maybe. But I guess waiting has costs too, like not being able to use the money right now and paying for property maintenance.