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The buzzword of the past couple of weeks is Abundance, Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson’s new book about why we stopped being able to build things in...
In the first few months of the Covid-19 pandemic, the media did not exactly cover itself in glory. To quote myself from an early February 2020 piece,...
Modern large language models are really good at a lot of tasks, like coding, essay writing, translation, and research. But there are still a lot of...
A lot has happened in the last six weeks, to put it mildly, and it can be hard to see through the dust and tell what’s actually ongoing. The...
One of the big challenges of reporting on the new administration is that it’s hard to figure out who’s really calling the shots. Take AI. In his...
It’s been a busy week for Elon Musk. He says he’s saving taxpayers billions of dollars (though outlays from the Treasury Department are public and...
Over the last few years, I’ve written a lot about degrowth ideology, the view that the only way to save the planet is to abandon economic growth as...
Last week I told you about the Chinese AI company DeepSeek’s recent model releases and why they’re such a technical achievement. The DeepSeek...
On Tuesday, I was thinking I might write a story about the implications of the Trump administration’s repeal of the Biden executive order on AI....
Wildfires are on the mind here in California. It’s still not clear exactly to what degree the devastating Los Angeles fires were the product of...
The wildfires engulfing the Los Angeles area might reshape what Southern California will look like for years to come. Within a week, approximately...
Toward the end of 2024, I offered a take on all the talk about whether AI’s “scaling laws” were hitting a real-life technical wall. I argued...
We’re all inured to sensationalist headlines about some disaster or another on the horizon. So I don’t blame anyone who was exhausted when they saw...
At the end of every year, journalists like to look back and see where our predictions held up or fell flat, what were the year’s biggest events,...