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This summary covers The Economist’s June 20th, 2026 Finance & economics article listed in the contents as AI-pilled economists and published under the headline The new-seekers.

Artificial intelligence may reshape work, productivity and economic growth, yet many academic economists have been slow to study it. The article argues that the centre of AI economics is consequently moving away from universities and toward government agencies, think-tanks and the AI labs themselves. That shift gives researchers better data and closer contact with the technology, but it also risks putting important public questions inside institutions with commercial interests and limited incentives to share what they learn.

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Sam Neill, Jurassic Park actor, dies aged 78 (r/news)

• Sportsman180: Rest in Peace, Dr. Grant! Thanks for the memories!
• _Ludovico: His expression upon seeing dinosaurs for the first time still gives me chills
• Jetman54: Devastating news. We obviously can’t know what celebrities are like behind the scenes, but everything I’ve ever seen or heard about him seemed to indicate that he was a lovely human being. He’s leaving behind an impressive legacy, to say the least. RIP

US Senator Lindsey Graham dies (r/news)

• Have_A_Jelly_Baby: “If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed…….and we will deserve it.” - Lindsey Graham, 2016
• LegacyLemur: Not the one I was expecting to see in the headlines
• DazDaSpazz: Everyone is wondering if Mitch McConnell is alive and Lindsey says hold my ladybugs.

Outcry after Atlanta tosses unhoused people’s belongings near World Cup spot | Atlanta (r/news)

• Skin_Floutist: That’s a public park that people couldn’t use because of the homeless.
• leetfists: If I left a bunch of my shit on the ground in a public space, I wouldn’t expect it to be there for long. Everyone is this thread is acting like this is some sort of crime against humanity, but do you really think people should just be allowed to leave their junk lying around in a public park indefinitely without it ever being cleaned up?
• lurpeli: Standard response to the homeless. Make them appear as though they don’t exist and then ignore them.

Women of Reddit, what is your ultimate “I am an adult and no one can stop me” purchase that you are both incredibly proud of and slightly embarrassed by? (r/AskReddit)

• cherrycocktail20: Every time I buy chocolate milk my inner six year old cackles in unrestrained glee. Stop me now, mom!
• OliverTwist123: I remember the life altering moment when I realized I could have birthday cake whenever I wanted. And, for that matter, that cake does not strictly have to be a ‘birthday cake’. I could just bake a cake because I wanted to. And I did. And that’s when I knew I was an adult.
• flugualbinder: I drove 8 hours one way for a specific cheeseburger. Between the cost of the food and the gas to get there and back home, it was the most expensive burger of my life. And it wasn’t even gourmet 😂

What famous person have we suspiciously not heard from for a long time now? (r/AskReddit)

• thebanger71: Fabio. Was everywhere in the 80s and 90s. Gone since that bird and rollercoaster incident
• mugglequeen: Hillary Swank! I just looked her up yesterday to see what she’s been up to. Started a family and was (is?) caring for an ailing parent.
• EducationalStay3365: tbh gotye. he made a song about being someone that we used to know and then actually became someone that we used to know. he really committed to the bit and then just vanished.

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I don’t get it – is Alexandr Wang Actually Smart or an Idiot? (Blind)

• 撒娇🥺 (Amazon): why do you care if hes smart? he has a few billion and you’re a renter. that’s all you need to know. he won life, and you’re still a loser
• stupidswe (Apple): The guy graduated from a top-tier college and founded a 60B company before he turned 30 ofc he’s a genius. He’s not a technical savant and is probably out of his depth as the head of meta ai but you can’t deny he’s brilliant.
• igcih (Uber): He is definitely smart for gaslighting Zuck into paying him billions of dollars.

‘Life there felt simple’: Woman leaves Google after 8 years despite promotions and perks (Blind)

• MenloNarc (Meta): “After being an overpaid SWE for years at Google, I now no longer value salary, and want to chase purpose, because I have already earned enough salary to never work again, and now I am morally superior.” F*** off.
• SabaIsGod (ex-Meta): Tech workers need to realize that 99.9% of their jobs are irrelevant to society. On the other hand artists need to realize this too.
• slackerswe (Microsoft): That’s the irony with west coast hiring. On the one hand people quit due to boredom/lack of impactful work and on the other like 70+ percent of swes would love such opportunities but they won’t get hired

Interviews are insanely difficult now. (Blind)

• pipgod101 (Amazon): Getting laid off could mean being forced out of the industry. Ala 2008 banking. Brace yourselves. Pray Dario/Elon/Altman have mercy on our souls.
• slackerswe (Microsoft): I think big tech wants HC to go back to 2018/2019
• 火锅 (Microsoft): Yep. It’s a goddamn nightmare for junior engineers with 3 YOE. Most companies want senior-level engineers and above.

Peter Thiel and other tech billionaires are publicly shielding their children from the products that made them rich (r/technology)

• Z-Is-Last: They know it’s bad for brains, yet do it for the money.
• tc100292: Just like they and all their kids are off getting humanities degrees while telling the peons first “learn to code” and now “learn a trade.”
• transversegirl: Their children will get a 90s childhood, a classical education devoid of AI and a trust fund.

Ireland’s data centers consumed nearly as much electricity as every home in the country combined in 2025 — server farms gulped 23% of national power despite years of grid restrictions (r/technology)

• Unable_Technology935: It ought to be interesting here in Indiana. They have plans here in N/W Indiana to have at least one every 20 miles.
• RedBoxSquare: Datacenters should be taxed on their electricity usage so they end up paying more.
• ayetees: We also have the highest energy prices here in Europe. Our government needs to wise up.

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Quick facts

• Difficulty: MEDIUM
• Problem: Asteroid Collision
• Topics: Array, Stack, Simulation

Problem gist

The input describes asteroids arranged from left to right. A positive number moves right, a negative number moves left, and the absolute value is the asteroid’s size. When two asteroids meet, the smaller one disappears; if their sizes are equal, both disappear. The goal is to return the asteroids that remain, in their original left-to-right order.

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NVIDIA’s official Technical Blog published Reducing High-Bandwidth Memory Bottlenecks in JAX-Based LLM Training with Host Offloading, a July 10, 2026 post about treating CPU-attached memory as an active tier in the training memory hierarchy rather than leaving scarce GPU high-bandwidth memory to hold every activation needed by backpropagation.

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In Scientific American’s March 2025 article, John Kounios and Yvette Kounios examine the strange instant when a solution arrives whole: the aha! moment. Their central argument is that insight is neither mystical inspiration nor ordinary reasoning performed very quickly. It is a distinct mode of thought in which unconscious processing reorganizes a problem and suddenly delivers a new interpretation to awareness.

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This summary covers The Economist’s June 20th, 2026 Business article listed in the contents as Big bills for tokenmaxxing and published under the headline Token reckoning.

Artificial intelligence is creating a new corporate headache: the more useful AI agents become, the harder their costs are to control. These systems do more than answer a prompt. They reason through several steps, call tools and sometimes create other agents, consuming large numbers of tokens - the units of text that AI companies commonly use for billing. As agents spread across the many software products used by a large company, small charges can compound into an enormous bill.

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The Pragmatic Engineer surfaced this July 9, 2026 story in Gergely Orosz’s The Pulse: What can we learn from Bun’s rapid Rust rewrite with AI?. The concrete source is Bun creator Jarred Sumner’s detailed account, Rewriting Bun in Rust, which explains how one engineer used Claude Code and a prerelease Claude Fable 5 model to port Bun’s JavaScript runtime from Zig to Rust in 11 days.

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New York City to become first in US to ban deceptive subscription practices (r/news)

• vector_search_blue: Perhaps the first US city, but California had this ban for a while.
• Aromatic_Employ3392: Needs to be a national law ASAP
• No_Internal9345: Can we replace all of DC with clones of Mamdani?

Legal fight between Circle K and employee over $12.8 million lottery ticket (r/news)

• g—e: Its not new at all. This has always been procedure for any convenience store that sells lottery tickets where ive worked
• Jjmanks_13: I used to work at QuickChek (New Jersey) in high school and they also had the same policy.
• amateur_mistake: That’s a really evil policy.

Houston ICE shooting witnesses claim driver didn’t try to ram agents, report says (r/news)

• nerfedbeyblade: ICE rarely has actual reasoning behind their attacks.
• ailish: It comes as a shock to no one that ICE lied.
• torcsandantlers: If you told me they told the truth, I’d think you were lying to me.

LGBTQ+ cruise ship refused entry to Egypt days after Turkey turned it away (r/news)

• ClassicHando: Won’t lie, if I was going on a gay cruise I’d want to be stopping in places more friendly
• madogvelkor: Yeah, don’t go to countries that hate gays and have laws against you.
• Vibrantmender20: Did the coordinators of this cruise put in any amount of forethought?

What’s a movie cliche that happened to you in real life, even though they “never happen in real life”? (r/AskReddit)

• CoffeeExtraCream: In college I (male) lived in an apartment my sophomore year. The layout was weird and each floor had 2 apartments. The apartment across the hall from us we noticed was a bunch of girls moving in. So we joked amongst ourselves that we should go over and ask to borrow a cup of sugar to meet them. Almost immediately after we made the joke we hear a knock on our door and it was our neighbors from across the hall asking to borrow a cup of sugar.
• NotTheGreenestThumb: Inherited money from a relative none of us ever heard of before.
• Commander_Cyclops: More of a general comedy cliche, but I once slipped on a banana peel on a public sidewalk. Fell backwards and landed right on my ass, just like Curly.

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do you use claude code? (Blind)

• asdf24234 (Zillow Group): Cursor is more than enough for me for coding. Claude for automating other things.
• badaboooom (Iterable): only real baddies use Claude code
• iPNi13 (Meta): Is this a real question

I joined Microsoft because it was a Day 2 company (Blind)

• bogomip (Meta): I left Microsoft for that reason. If I’m going to work my ass off and risk getting laid off, might as well go elsewhere and make more money.
• richаrdhea (Meta): It has been about two decades since the first Microsoft layoff. Not sure what you were smoking when you decided to go there but it definitely did not keep you close to reality.
• borgen (Microsoft): You only have yourself to blame for accepting the Microsoft role over others. And again for not leaving once you realized everything you were told was all BS.

Anthropic expanding too fast? (Blind)

• estoniasux (TransferWise): You sound jealous
• gem-in-eye (Google): I take one look at their chaotic product landscape and know exactly what it must be like to work there
• ughit (Calendly): I know several people in high level positions there that have only made it to where they are because they’re in the SF bro club and have benefitted by living where they do and riding coat tails and kissing ass.

Only 16 percent of Americans think AI will have a positive impact on society, a new study shows (r/technology)

• ino4x4: that’s less than the amount of Americans that are illiterate.
• tacticalcraptical: Considering most of the the people who own and are steering AI are the same people who gave us the predatory social media and financial systems we are seeing destroy our lives now, yeah, it’s easy to see why most of us don’t think it will have a positive impact.
• 11matt556: Yeah my issues with AI has much more to do with who is pushing it than it does with the technology itself.

Tech Workers Are Fighting Against Silicon Valley’s AI Push (r/technology)

• Melodic_Crow_3409: I feel zero sympathy for Meta employees right now.
• King_Kung: Lack of unionization is the most frustrating part of the tech world. It’s desperately needed.
• Austin1975: No they are not fighting anything. And they didn’t care until their creations actually impacted them. They were perfectly fine with automating the shit out of other roles especially non-tech. They were fine with the social impact of their products too. Go on Blind and you will see many of them still trying to get into these specific companies along with posts like “how long did it take you to reach your first million?”