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Cost of Living · April 18 · 28 min

How does all the weird food end up at Winners?

The food aisle at Winners is like the land of misfit toys, with egg white spaghetti noodles next to matcha-flavoured protein powder. But is the randomness simply an accident? And, from donuts to chia seeds, we explore why so many products have their own national day on the calendar. Plus, could Anthropic's Mythos give cyber-criminals the tool they need to hack the world's computer systems? We talk to Jaxson Khan, director of the AI Competitiveness Project at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy.

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The food aisle at Winners is like the land of misfit toys, with egg white spaghetti noodles next to matcha-flavoured protein powder. But is the randomness simply an accident? And, from donuts to chia seeds, we explore why so many products have their own national day on the calendar. Plus, could Anthropic's Mythos give cyber-criminals the tool they need to hack the world's computer systems? We talk to Jaxson Khan, director of the AI Competitiveness Project at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy.

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