Links: Anthropic grows revenue tenfold for third year in a row

Plus: Chinese carbon emissions fall slightly, high blood pressure may soon be treated twice a year, and more

Welcome to The Update. I had a lot of material this week, so here’s a bonus link post.

• High blood pressure may soon be treated twice a year instead of daily

• Prediction markets match or beat expert surveys at economic forecasting in study

• Europe’s early postal networks and the news culture they created

• Making the new suzetrigine painkiller cheap could cut opioid prescriptions

• Price controls don’t just create shortages – they concentrate them

• Rob Wiblin on how predictions of human-level AI went back and forth in 2025

• Chinese carbon emissions are falling slightly

• Most third-generation Latinos in the US can’t speak Spanish

• Greece keeps blocking efforts to tighten restrictions on Russia’s oil trade

• Anthropic’s annualized revenue has grown tenfold three years in a row
  

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