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[The University of Chicago @UChicago]

UChicago professors Chuan He and Joseph Thornton have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences—one of the highest honors in U.S. research—for their groundbreaking work in biochemistry and biology.

Learn more about their achievements: https://t.co/vZhyyPNlIX

[Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent @SecScottBessent]

It was great to speak again today with President @JMilei and Minister @pabloquirno in Doral, Florida during @POTUS’ Shield of the Americas summit. 

@POTUS’ Peace Through Economic Strength program has been and continues to be a resounding success. Argentina has successfully compressed bond market premiums and is accumulating foreign exchange reserves well ahead of @IMFNews targets.

President Milei’s leadership of Argentina is well-aligned with the Trump Administration’s focus on promoting freedom, security, and prosperity throughout the Western Hemisphere. Under President Trump, America will always work with our allies to achieve these goals.

[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

Our Q4/FY’25 results are in. Thanks to our partners & employees, it was a tremendous quarter, exceeding $400B in annual revenue for the first time. Our full AI stack is fueling our progress, and Gemini 3 adoption has been faster than any other model in our history.

We’re really well positioned and excited going into 2026. Much more to come!

[0221 @0221comar]

INGRESO HISTÓRICO 🎓 Valentín Poggio, un joven de 20 años oriundo de #LaPlata, fue admitido en la Universidad de #Harvard con una beca completa para estudiar Física. Cursó el secundario en la EET N.º 6 Albert Thomas y quedó entre los 2.000 seleccionados sobre más de 60.000 postulantes de todo el mundo.

📚 La beca cubre los 4 años de carrera e incluye alojamiento, comida, pasajes y otros gastos, con un valor estimado de 100.000 dólares anuales. El proceso incluyó exámenes internacionales, ensayos y méritos académicos.

🚀 En 2025, Poggio representó a la Argentina en un programa internacional de la #NASA en Houston. Su ingreso a Harvard lo posiciona como uno de los estudiantes más destacados a nivel global.

[Jose Luis Daza @JoseLuisDazaAR]

I have known @robin_j_brooks as a serious economist for many years. But his recent commentary on Argentina has prompted me to speak up.

Until now, I have refrained from commenting on Robin’s posts about Argentina, as most contained little substantive information.

However, his latest post goes one step too far, as it reveals a serious misunderstanding of Argentina's economic reality.

Argentina is one of the most dollarized economies in the world. Practically all wealth is held in dollars, and the dollar serves as the primary unit of account for iliquid forms of wealth held in the country

The peso plays a very limited role, almost exclusively for transactional purposes. In fact, the monetary base represents less than 4.5% of GDP—one of the lowest ratios globally.

Argentines hold approximately USD 200 billion in physical dollar bills in domestic safe deposit boxes. In addition, it is estimated that they hold more than USD 400 billion abroad.

The wealthiest sectors of society are fully dollarized: they periodically convert dollars into pesos solely to cover day-to-day expenses and hold virtually no peso positions.

Devaluations and peso depreciations generate massive wealth transfers from salaried workers to the rich. They erode real wages and deepen poverty among the most vulnerable.

Devaluations massively benefit the rich at the expense of salaried workers witnout assets.

Robin, in this instance, your interpretation is 100% incorrect. Reality is precisely the opposite of what you claim.

[Fernando Corvaro @LoboArgy]

Esto es un delirio que hay que corregir! 😥
No tiene sentido cobrar IVA, IIBB a un préstamo.
Implica una doble imposición. (te cobro IVA en el crédito primero y nuevamente cuando consumís)

El impacto es sustancial: un préstamo personal con un costo financiero promedio del 106% efectivo anual se eleva hasta el 157% cuando incluimos un 21% de IVA, 9% de IIBB y 1,2% de sellos. Un 49% más de costo efectivo anual dado por el peso de los impuestos.
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[Dilo con perritos @DiloConPerritos]

Un joven conductor de Uber en Río de Janeiro 🇧🇷 recibió un viaje más: de Copacabana a Pavuna.
Antes de subir, la pasajera solo preguntó si podía llevar a su perrita. "Es muy tranquila", dijo. El aceptó sin imaginar lo que estaba por descubrir. Durante el recorrido, el conductor escuchó algunas llamadas de la mujer... y ahí entendió la verdad: la perrita iba cambio a ser sacrificada…

Según contaba, tenía una enfermedad extraña y la cirugía costaba 5 mil reales, más mil en estudios.
Ella había decidido lo más barato: 500 reales por la eutanasia.
El conductor miró a la perrita... alegre, curiosa, llena de vida. Le rompió el alma.

Entonces se armó de valor y preguntó:
—Si no puede cuidarla... ¿me la regalaría?
La respuesta llegó en segundos: "Sí."

Regresaron a la casa de la mujer por su comida y sus platos. Ella los entregó rápido... ni siquiera se despidió.
La pequeña perrita, sin entender nada, solo movía la cola.
El la llevó al veterinario. El diagnóstico real illas soy
un tumor de ovario de apenas 2 cm. La operación costó 600 reales y los estudios, 120te ti Mucho menos que aquel destino injusto que la esperaba.

Hoy, la perrita tiene un nuevo hogar... y un nombre que lo dice
todo: Vida.
Porque fue exactamente eso lo que él decidió darle: una segunda oportunidad y un amor verdadero.

[Olivier Blanchard @ojblanchard1]

Regulating AI. When the effects of a technology are more uncertain, with thicker tails on both sides, do you want to decrease regulation (say, the US way) or tighten regulation (say, the EU way) ?
And if you tighten regulation, and the other does not, how do you remain competitive?

[FT Technology News @fttechnews]

AI doesn’t add up if you neglect the mathematicians https://t.co/RSwdhWA269

[Black Hole @konstructivizm]

In 1969, 32-year-old Margaret Hamilton led the team that wrote the onboard software for Apollo 11. With just 72 KB of memory and punch-card programming, her code had to be https://t.co/0yUoOCL4fG was. Minutes before touchdown, the Apollo Guidance Computer triggered overload alarms. Hamilton’s built-in error-detection and priority system instantly shed non-critical tasks, keeping the lunar module on course. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed safely because her software refused to fail.Hamilton didn’t just help put humans on the Moon—she coined the term “software engineering” and invented many of the resilient coding practices we still use today. A pioneering woman in STEM who literally wrote the code that changed history.

[Carlos Rodriguez @carod2015]

Excelente decisión.
La UCEMA elige a Carola Pessino como su nueva Rectora https://t.co/JNwDjylsLc via @Ambitocom

[The AI Investor @The_AI_Investor]

Unpopular opinion:

There’s no single “winner” in the AGI race. We’re heading toward thousands, eventually millions, of AI use cases.

Different labs will lead in different areas, and there’s more than enough room for many winners.

But with that many use cases, GPUs will remain the dominant engine of AI compute.

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[Pedro Torrijos @Pedro_Torrijos]

A principios de los años treinta, Corina Kavanagh, una rica heredera, compró una parcela frente al Parque de San Martín, junto a Puerto Madero, y mandó construir un rascacielos.

[Bank for International Settlements @BIS_org]

Artificial intelligence excels at imposing mathematical structure on unstructured data. We map central bank speeches into a “space of economic ideas”, allowing visual exploration of central banking topics #AI #Embeddings #TopicModelling
https://t.co/hDigR1FMk7

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[Andrew Ng @AndrewYNg]

Announcing a significant upgrade to Agentic Document Extraction!

LandingAI's new DPT (Document Pre-trained Transformer) accurately extracts even from complex docs. For example, from large, complex tables, which is important for many finance and healthcare applications. And a new SDK makes using it require only 3 simple lines of code. Please see the video for technical details. I hope this unlocks a lot of value from the "dark data" currently stuck in PDF files, and that you'll build something cool with this!

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