The Best Articles of the Week: AI yet agAIn, a cucumber, a kiss and books written by... people

Monday, July 27, 2026What happens when your investing philosophy stops working? (Behind The Balance Sheet).Why traditional career advice is failing Generation Z (The Economist).Are hyperscalers right to invest so much in AI? (MarketScreener).Are you suffering from low total compensation? (Dollars & Sense).Another bubble warning: paying more for the same stock depending on where you buy it (Wall Street Journal).Europe cannot stem the flow of cocaine (Financial Times).The real problem driving tensions between India and China (Noéma).At the Tour de France, one family wins every year (New York Times).Europe is not a museum. It is a theme park. (The Economist).Tuesday, July 28, 2026Trump tries to tout an economy voters do not believe in (Axios).Humans underestimate failure (Klement on Investing).The S&P 500 is closing in on 40% earnings growth. Thanks a lot, Alphabet (MarketScreener). An interview with Elon Musk (The Atlantic).The cost of not building data centers (Project Syndicate).The new luxury product: books written by people (Financial Times).The United Arab Emirates' bold bet on Iran (Financial Times) .Wednesday, July 29, 2026AI revenues are growing fast, but not fast enough (The Economist).Big AI companies are losing the battle to open models (Intelligencer).Waiting in line is anything but trivial (Sheets.works).Maybe memory is so expensive that it is dragging chips down (FT AlphaVille).Claude private chats are showing up in Google and Bing search results (Wired).A big week for AI denialism (Platformer).Trump's crypto empire (Molly White/spotted by Flowingdata).Thursday, July 30, 2026How a few hundred dollars could sway election prediction markets (Bloomberg).The dividends of defense (Phenomenal World).Can French nuclear weapons protect Europe if Donald Trump walks away? (The Economist).Anthropic's desert island (Axios).Uninsurable: mapping the future (The Structural Lens).The meteoric rise of e-spirituality (Persuasion).Britain is a political mess. At least there is the 'hot podium guy' (Wall Street Journal).What the Heritage Foundation's internal crisis reveals about the post-Trump right (New York Times).The war that must not be named (The Atlantic).Friday, July 31, 2026How writers are reacting to Substack's AI-related transparency tools (Substack).What the Big Mac Index reveals about the global 'currency war' (The Economist).What is it like to be a cucumber? (Intelligencer).The AI boom and the future of finance (Project Syndicate).From AI star to forced seller: Aschenbrenner's sudden fall (MarketScreener).The cities that said yes to drugs (The Atlantic).The Fed is in the passenger seat (MarketScreener). Hand-drawn maps of retro video games (Flowingdata).More and more companies are hitting $1m in revenue... with one employee (Wall Street Journal).There has never been a better time to commit financial fraud (The Economist).The terrifying rise of the kiss police (The Atlantic).Boeing's comeback (Financial Times).A US government map of Africa mislabels every country at an international conference (Reuters).