Links: South Korea’s fertility rate edges up

Plus: Hegseth threatens Anthropic over military use of its AI, the gender gap in attitudes to tech may be overstated, and more

Welcome to The Update. Here’s a bonus link post:

• South Korea’s fertility rate edges up to 0.80

  • How did it fall so low? Phoebe Arslanagić-Little in Works in Progress

• US defense secretary Pete Hegseth threatens to force Anthropic to give the military full access to its AI

• The gender gap in attitudes to tech may be overstated

• Aria Schrecker on the British marriage crisis in The Spectator

• Regulations that could be cut to lower US childcare, healthcare, and housing costs

• Economists forecast the impact of AI on growth (see the replies and quote tweets)

• How the history of science went from celebrating scientists to deconstructing them

• Plagiarizing students are more likely to become public servants in China

• Trump will not pardon Sam Bankman-Fried, says White House spokesperson

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