Innovation in the news February 11, 2025
Today’s top stories
Anthropic's "index" on the AI economy - by analyzing anonymized data on how people are using Claude, Anthropic claims the study provides the clearest picture yet of how AI is being incorporated into real-world tasks (Axios)
Most countries miss UN deadline for new climate targets (Reuters)
Daron Acemoglu - Institutions, Technology and Prosperity (National Bureau of Economic Research)
EU considers giving countries wiggle room to boost defense spending (Politico)
ITIF updated its Tech Policy To-Do List (Tech Policy To-Do List)
Coverage of the Paris AI Action Summit
Macron pledges to catch up with Trump with €109B AI investment (Politico)
France, tech companies and philanthropies back $400 million foundation to support public interest AI (Fortune)
Regulation goes out of fashion (Euractiv) + France and EU promise to cut red tape on tech (Reuters)
Paris AI Action Summit: From DeepSeek to Europe's path, here’s everything you need to know (Euronews)
Paris AI summit forecast: more talk than action (Axios)
🍁 Regulatory accumulation, business dynamism and economic growth in Canada - the links didn’t work for me but it was in their newsletter… maybe it will work for you because it sounds like an interesting study (Statistics Canada link 1 and link 2)
AI chatbots distort and mislead when asked about current affairs (The Guardian)
Australia establishes two tax incentives for hydrogen and critical minerals (Minister for Resources and Minister for Northern Australia)
OECD Services Trade Restrictiveness Index - Policy Trends up to 2025 (OECD)
U.S. innovation advantage over time - the interactive graph is quite cool (Christian Rutzer on LinkedIn)
Green technological diversification: The role of international linkages in leaders, followers and catching-up countries (Research Policy)
Strategic foresight framework for addressing agency in sustainability transitions: a co-creation approach (Frontiers)
Weak signals from the future - Guide to detection and interpretation (Sitra)
AI and Women's Employment in Europe (National Bureau of Economic Research)
Childbirth and Firm Performance: Evidence from Norwegian Entrepreneurs (National Bureau of Economic Research)
On socialism and capitalism at different stages of economic development - Socialist and capitalist economies have not remotely followed the trajectory Marxism assumes (Institute of Economic Affairs)
Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition “Atrophied and Unprepared” (404 Media)
Trump administration orders consumer protection agency to stop work, closes building (Associated Press)
Elon Musk is trying to buy OpenAI (Axios)