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  1. Explainer: Europe's pay-as-you-go pensions strain as populations age; France's public debt is 3.6 trillion euros and Britain's welfare bill is forecast at 431.3 billion pounds by 2031-32.01Europe's pension deal unravels
  2. Explainer: yields on Europe's CCC-rated junk debt top 21% and credit fund Arini is down 26% this year.02Riskiest junk debt gets crushed
  3. Explainer: OpenAI and Anthropic claim AI disproved a 27-year-old hypothesis in computer science; researchers are still checking the proofs.03AI topples a computing assumption
  4. Explainer: OpenAI's discounts cut Anthropic's share of Rippling's coding work to 18%; Replit switched after a discount of more than 30%.04OpenAI's discounts bite Anthropic
  5. Explainer: Perplexity's study finds agents cut task time by about 87% and 23% of agent tasks were new to users.05Agents change what we attempt
  6. Explainer: women are 4.4% of US construction and repair workers as firms add perks to recruit them.06Builders go looking for women

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