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In the afternoon of December 9, 2021, in my third month as U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, I received an urgent message from Mexico’s foreign affairs...
For decades after the 1967 Caracas earthquake, seismologists warned Venezuelans that a major earthquake was coming. And we had been waiting for the...
As AI reshapes institutions, industries, and economies, innovation has gained the spotlight. We celebrate breakthroughs in models, advances in science...
A few weeks ago, a clip from Dominican Sisters Open Mic, a podcast featuring Catholic nuns, went viral. “Do you have a hobby, sister?” one nun...
Americans are far from optimistic about our future. According to a recent Pew Research poll, 69% of us are dissatisfied with the way things are going,...
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After sustained outrage over the murders of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minneapolis forced a public reckoning with ICE, I hoped the worst was behind...
Everyone seems to have an opinion about the hydration breaks at this summer's World Cup. Many scoff at the need, suggesting they are another FIFA...
I remember watching Michael Johnson sprint around the track in Atlanta, his gold chain swinging with every stride and his gold shoes flashing under...
Throughout history, periods of major technological change have reshaped economies and transformed societies. The steam engine, electricity, and the...
Scroll through LinkedIn, and you will find a flurry of new job listings with curious titles: “Narrative Engineer”, “UGC Engineer”, “Media...
On Wednesday, President Donald Trump told reporters at the NATO summit in Ankara that the initial agreement to end the war between the United States...
It’s 2026, gas prices are still too high, and oil executives are warning the White House that costs could get worse before they get better. The...
I was leading a workplace session on menopause, screens full of faces from the same company. We’d covered the standard symptoms: hot flashes, sleep...
Two hundred and fifty years ago, a small group of visionaries put their names to a document that changed the world. They declared, against the verdict...
On the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the Trump Administration attempted to declare independence from history...
President Donald Trump’s recent refusal to sign a broadly bipartisan housing bill unless Congress first passes the SAVE America Act once again...
On the weekend America turned 250, two spectacles competed for the nation’s soul and only one of them felt like a celebration. The first was the...
The large language models (LLMs) that have captivated the world are among the most powerful tools ever built. Many can give PhD-level answers to...
Consider, for a moment, the architecture of your own life. The photographs of your children. The passwords to your bank. The device in your pocket...
Distaste for Big Tech is one of the few headline topics on which my conservative mother and I agree. We sit at her kitchen table, trying to outdo each...
Is Europe capable of securing itself? That is the singular question NATO leaders gathering in Ankara, the Turkish capital, for a crucial summit on...
Last month, I asked hundreds of young people from all over Europe what the internet would look like in 2036. For 46%, it was “something we can’t...
On a June evening, I was at the Heathrow Airport in London boarding a flight for Bogotá. I was travelling to be at a wedding I had come close to not...
I used to say that I wouldn’t want to date someone who lives with their parents or with roommates. But with the current cost-of-living crisis, who...
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As an AI researcher studying the environmental impacts of this technology, every time I tell someone what I do for a living, I wince a little,...
America, the world’s oldest, continuous, modern democracy, will soon celebrate its 250th birthday—mired in conflict and piloted by a belligerent...
The greatest threat facing business today is not artificial intelligence. It is the illusion that AI is the whole challenge. Across the world,...
When J. Michael Haynie, chancellor of Syracuse University, announced last month that the university would miss its enrollment target and run a deficit...
At the heart of the AI is a fear that it could become the first technology in human history to lead to fewer jobs for workers and permanently higher...
After the U.S. Men’s National Soccer Team’s (USMNT) emphatic victory over Paraguay and then dominating defeat of Australia, a historically...
Today, AI can impressively help anyone to write and read in almost any language. This allows a surface-level exchange of ideas, but comes at a steep...
This year’s Fourth of July fireworks promise to be especially explosive. The White House is endeavoring to smash the Guinness World Record for the...
The news is full of sober warnings about AI. The latest: recursive self-improvement, or RSI. RSI is the process by which AI systems improve...