What I read this week...

Citadel Vets 69,000 Intern Applicants to Find Next Math Geniuses (Bloomberg)

BRICS is fake (Noah Smith)

How America Got Mean (The Atlantic)

TikTok Shop on Track to Lose More Than $500 Million in U.S. This Year (The Information)

AI Startup Buzz Is Facing a Reality Check (WSJ)

Nvidia is the AI king, but threats to its reign abound (Yahoo Finance)

US curbs AI chip exports from Nvidia and AMD to some Middle East countries (Reuters)

Communist Party Priorities Complicate Plans to Revive China’s Economy (WSJ)

India's first indigenous 700 MWe N-plant starts working at full capacity in Gujarat (Times of India)

There’s a Vast Source of Clean Energy Beneath Our Feet. And a Race to Tap It. (NYT)

Why Britain is so bad at diagnosing cancer (The Economist)

What Your Insurer Is Trying to Tell You About Climate Change (The Atlantic)

How Oil and Tech Giants Came to Rule a Vital Climate Industry (WSJ)

Author Health Nabbed $115M To Serve Medicare Patients. It’s Not The Only One (Crunchbase)

Biden urged to get tough as millions lose Medicaid (The Hill)

Biden administration unveils first 10 drugs subject to Medicare price negotiations (CNBC)

Ex-Meta Researchers Have Raised $40 Million From Lux Capital For An AI Biotech Startup (Forbes)

Scientists Say New Device Can Scrub 99.9% of Microplastics from Water (Futurism)

Clarence Thomas discloses flights on GOP megadonor's private jet (Axios)