Dario Amodei’s Oppenheimer Moment
It came earlier than expected.
By Ross Andersen, The Atlantic
More than a year before his recent standoff with the Pentagon, Dario Amodei, the chief executive of Anthropic, published a 15,000-word manifesto describing a glorious AI future. Its title, “Machines of Loving Grace,” is...
Why cloud service outages ripple across the internet – and the economy
By Doug Jacobson, Iowa State University
When most people think about the internet, they...
Netanyahu’s Very Useful War
The Israeli leader is trying to make the Iran war work to his political advantage. He may not succeed.
By Yair Rosenberg, The...
Why cloud service outages ripple across the internet – and the economy
By Doug Jacobson, Iowa State University
When most people think about the internet, they...
Oil isn’t just fuel: Iran conflict could disrupt markets for everything from plastics to fertilizers
André O. Hudson, Rochester Institute of Technology
Tensions in the Middle East...
Strait of Hormuz: if the Iran conflict shuts world’s most important oil chokepoint, global economic chaos could follow
By Sarah Schiffling, Hanken School of Economics (originally published...
A Timeline of Trump’s Iran War Timelines
By Chas Danner, at Intelligencer
How long will President Trump’s new war with Iran last? That depends on who you’re asking, how,...
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Operational Excellence, Strategic Incompetence
The president and his advisers are in the grip of “victory disease.”
By Tom Nichols, The Atlantic
The war in Iran has reaffirmed two...
OpenAI on Surveillance and Autonomous Killings: You’re Going to Have to Trust Us
OpenAI says Americans shouldn’t worry about the ethics of its new Pentagon...
Meet the quiet winners of the Supreme Court tariff ruling: hedge funds creating a $100 billion market snapping up rights to importers’ tariff refunds
By...
War in Middle East brings uncertainty and higher energy costs to already weakening US economy
By Michael Klein, Tufts University
The “fog of war” refers to confusion...
Iran: The Russia-Ukraine Angle
From the Middle East to Eastern Europe.
By Garry Kasparov, The Next Move
All eyes are on Iran, but my Soviet upbringing has...
The Economy’s Warning Light Is Flashing Yellow
A soft labor market, persistent inflation, a potential oil crisis—what could go wrong?
By Rogé Karma, The Atlantic
The job market...
‘Ugly’: Trump’s job market shrinks as oil fears mount
The combination of a weakening labor market and higher energy prices poses serious risks to Republicans...
The Glaring Oversight in the U.S. War Plan
The Pentagon failed to adopt Ukraine’s best tools for downing drones.
By Simon Shuster and Nancy A. Youssef, The Atlantic
The United...
The Gulf Countries Can’t Take Much More
Iran is exposing their vulnerabilities.
By Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic
From the moment the first Iranian missiles appeared in the...
America Cannot Withstand the Economic Shock That’s Coming
By Gina Raimondo, NY Times
Ms. Raimondo was the secretary of commerce during the Biden administration and the 75th...
GLP‑1 drugs may fight addiction across every major substance, according to a study of 600,000 people
By Ziyad Al-Aly, Washington University in St. Louis
A patient...
Oil isn’t just fuel: Iran conflict could disrupt markets for everything from plastics to fertilizers
André O. Hudson, Rochester Institute of Technology
Tensions in the Middle East...
GLP‑1 drugs may fight addiction across every major substance, according to a study of 600,000 people
By Ziyad Al-Aly, Washington University in St. Louis
A patient...
Researchers are combining drones and AI to make removing land mines faster and safer
By Sagar Lekhak, Rochester Institute of Technology
At least 57 nations have...
At the beginning of February, the water level in the Baltic Sea dropped sharply. Experts tell Euronews it is a result of climate change. While global …
FDA’s abrupt flip-flop on Moderna’s mRNA flu shot highlights growing risks to drug-makers of investing in vaccines
By Ana Santos Rutschman, Villanova University
The Food and Drug...