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一个人工智能客服顶了七百个人，平均满意度和人一样：一年后公司把人招了回来，因为平均值把最糟的那批客户藏起来了 — One AI Did the Work of Seven Hundred Agents and Scored the Same on Average — a Year Later the Company Hired the Humans Back, Because the Average Was Hiding the Worst Customers (opens the original)
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Klarna launched an OpenAI-powered customer service assistant globally in February 2024; in its first month it handled 2.3 million conversations, which the company said was equivalent to about 700 full-time agents, cutting average resolution time from 11 minutes to 2 and repeat inquiries by 25%, with $40m of added profit projected. By mid-2025 Klarna was rehiring human agents; founder Sebastian Siemiatkowski told Bloomberg the company had gone too far and that focusing on cost had driven down qua
他已经下到安全的楼层了，然后他转身又上去了：二十五年后，「红头巾的人」拿到了总统自由勋章 — He Had Already Reached a Safe Floor, and He Turned Round and Went Back Up: Twenty-Five Years On, the Man in the Red Bandana Received the Medal of Freedom (opens the original)
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Welles Crowther, a 24-year-old equities trader on the 104th floor of the World Trade Center South Tower, tied the red bandana his father gave him at six over his face and led survivors down the one passable stairwell above the impact zone on 11 September 2001, carrying one woman seventeen floors on his back and returning upstairs repeatedly until the tower collapsed. Survivors knew him only as the man in the red bandana; his mother identified him from a May 2002 New York Times account. He is cre
「如果明天世界完了，第二天全球的货币就是宝可梦卡」：一个手握五十万张卡的投资人是认真的，而他说错的地方比说对的地方更有意思 — "If the World Ended Tomorrow, the Global Currency Would Be Pokemon Cards": an Investor Holding Half a Million of Them Means It, and Where He Is Wrong Is More Interesting Than Where He Is Right (opens the original)
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Peter Levin, co-founder of Griffin Gaming Partners and a collector who owns well north of half a million Pokemon cards, told The Hollywood Reporter in September 2026 that if the world suffered an apocalypse tomorrow, the following day the global currency would be Pokemon cards, citing card prices beating the S&P 500 by 3,000 percent. The episode tests the claim against the standard three conditions for money - scarcity, portability and consensus - finds the cross-border price consensus argument
「一个没有科学部门的科学馆，还能叫科学馆吗？」安大略科学馆裁掉三十人，整个科学部门一个不留 — "How Can You Have a Science Centre With No Science Unit?" The Ontario Science Centre Cut Thirty Jobs and Eliminated Its Entire Science Department (opens the original)
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On 10 September 2026 the Ontario Science Centre laid off 30 workers including its entire science department, along with the live exhibits team, business development and security. The union said the cuts eliminate over 540 combined years of service, and OPSEU Local 549 president Raluca Ellis asked how you can have an Ontario Science Centre with no science unit. The province abruptly closed the Toronto building in summer 2024 over an engineering report on roof deficiencies, and is building a $1-bi
两亿四千五百万美元，一分钱都不是抢来的：一个二十二岁的人打了两年电话，每一笔都是对方自己交出去的 — Not One Cent of the $245 Million Was Taken by Force: a 22-Year-Old Spent Two Years on the Phone, and Every Victim Handed It Over Themselves (opens the original)
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A 22-year-old pleaded guilty in September 2026 to a racketeering conspiracy that stole and laundered more than $245 million in cryptocurrency between October 2023 and May 2025 - one of the largest crypto thefts in US history. The method was social engineering: members impersonated customer support from a major search company and a crypto exchange, manufactured trust and urgency, and had victims read out their own security codes. One victim lost over 4,100 bitcoin. Proceeds went on 30+ cars, a $2
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