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How authoritarian governments twist AI safety to coerce tech companies to comply

The trap of having to strip away guardrails isn’t an accident of competition; it’s being maintained by the government through incentives.

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Facial recognition is getting better at identifying you with AI. Here’s how it works

Advanced deep learning models have made facial recognition systems more accurate and reliable.

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ChatGPT may be able to diagnose medical issues, but we still need actual doctors. Here’s why

AI does not know what you have been through or what risk trade-offs you are willing to accept.

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Inflation is spreading through the U.S. economy beyond the pump

Fresh inflation data now suggests the challenge may be deeper and longer-lasting than many expected.

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To stay active or to step away: Older Americans face a double standard in the workplace

Society sends increasingly contradictory messages about what aging is supposed to look like.

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Should AI companies be legally obligated to report a human user contemplating violence?

Recent tragedies show AI’s potential role in violent events.

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Why men’s and women’s clothes have buttons and zippers on different sides

Buttons and zippers aren’t just practical. They also follow design traditions that became connected to gender over hundreds of years.

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Why Trump isn’t giving up on his tariffs despite many legal setbacks

Trump is moving from his Liberation Day tariffs to what I call ‘revenge tariffs’ in an attempt to show the high court that it cannot stop him.

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Why incoming Federal Reserve chair Kevin Warsh could be the guy to actually preserve its independence

Counterintuitively, Warsh’s background in finance could help keep the Central Bank free from Trump’s influence.

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This year’s FIFA World Cup is getting a new piece of equipment by Adidas

Adidas is supplying a new ball for the matches, which it has done for every tournament since 1970.

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Bat deaths over the last two decades have cost American taxpayers in lost crops, higher taxes, and pricier bonds

A fungal disease decimating bat colonies is driving up crop losses, shrinking rural tax bases, and raising borrowing costs for county governments.

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False arrests and wrongful convictions: Why AI gets policing wrong

AI policing tools are used in dozens of U.S. cities, and several injustices have already occurred.

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Conspiracy theorists are building AI interfaces to analyze the Epstein files

Whenever Americans are hungry for answers, platforms such as these can more easily masquerade as objective data analysis tools.

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Is an AI agent is your new coworker? Make sure to lean into your humanness

Fight the FOBO (fear of becoming obsolete). Automated work still requires human judgement.

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Workplace stress is giving you bad headaches. These 6 tips from a neurologist can help

There are simple steps you can take to reduce the impact of stress on your nervous system.

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Mythos AI may be a cybersecurity threat, but it follows the rules of the game

When it comes to Mythos, don’t hate the player. Hate the game.

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AI data center boom squeezes consumer tech’s chip supply—even though they use different chips

Chip manufacturing behaves less like a competitive commodity market and more like a layered oligopoly.

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How the race for critical minerals is creating ‘sacrifice zones,’ impacting the world’s poorest people

Without binding regulations, mining for critical minerals will worsen the lives of some of the world’s poorest people.

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The Iran war proves that U.S. economic coercion is weakening

As U.S. power in the world has slowly declined amid the rise of China and an increasingly multipolar world, the country has lost some of its ability...

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You may not notice if an AI chatbot responds with ads. Here’s how to tell

Tech companies have made ads part of nearly every large free web service, video channel, and social media platform. But the latest AI models could...

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Most people can’t tell when a personal text message is written by AI. Here’s why it matters

People usually don’t suspect AI use unless it’s obvious.

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How the government is ramping up mass surveillance with AI-driven tech

As the federal government accelerates the use of and investment in AI-driven spy tech, it’s mandating less oversight around AI technology.

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‘Bouncing back’ is a myth. Here’s what real resilience looks like

Resilience is not forged in the denial of vulnerability, but in its acceptance.

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With GLP‑1 drug ads everywhere, here’s what to know to safely buy them online

What to do—and what not to do.

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How Trump’s federal architecture renovations go against ‘republican simplicity’

They also risk undoing the legacies of presidential wives, influential designers, and the egalitarian ideals that many of these buildings embody.

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AI is rewriting the rules of biological experiments, but safety regulations aren’t keeping up

Current rules governing AI do not specifically address its use in biology.

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How ongoing sterility issues set off a massive eye drop recall

If you purchased an eye drop product since April 2025, you may want to check if it’s recalled.

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What splurging on $22 smoothies in this economy really represents

What explains the success of Erewhon’s $22 smoothie?

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I analyzed 789 ‘Shark Tank’ pitches. This personality trait gets funding

Founders who display narcissistic admiration are more likely to secure an investment.

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Why AI-powered city cameras are sounding new privacy alarms

These camera systems have created a mass location tracking infrastructure knitted together by artificial intelligence.

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Using nuclear explosives to bypass the Strait of Hormuz isn’t a novel idea for the U.S.

The idea for a new canal to move oil from the Middle East had emerged in the mid-1950s.

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A New York Times critic used AI to write a review, but good criticism can’t be outsourced

The role of the critic isn’t to summarize or repackage art, but to actively participate in a conversation about it.

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Newt Gingrich wants to drop a nuke on the Strait of Hormuz. America actually looked at the same thing in 1977 in Latin America

The idea for a new canal to move oil from the Middle East had emerged in the 1950s, in the context of another Middle East conflict, the Suez crisis.

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Artemis II: Why our return to the moon took so long

The story of NASA’s effort to return humans to the moon is long and winding.

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How AI-powered echolocation is giving small drones night vision

Small aerial robots designed to navigate in the dark like bats are very useful for search and rescue.

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How soaring gas prices and disrupted supply chains will make everything you buy more expensive

The Iran war is not a distant geopolitical shock for U.S. households.

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Why employees with chronic pain feel shame—and how they can break free

From warehouse workers to lawyers, people in a recent study described a surprisingly similar pressure to perform despite their pain.

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How strategic oil reserves work and why they matter now

Strategic reserves are a system of national oil stocks intended to replace at least 90 days of each country’s imports.

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More teachers and students are using AI despite potential risks

AI is being introduced to K-12 classrooms faster than evidence and understanding can support.

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Is AI killing the human voice in writing?

Generative AI is accelerating the types of cultural convergence and uniform expression that were already happening.

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This AI tutor helps college students reason without giving them answers

AI can be used to replace thinking, or it can be used to support it.

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3 AI trends in Hollywood to discuss at Oscars parties

‘I’m convinced that the industry will weather this radical disruption,’ a USC cinematic arts professor says.

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AI is being used in war, but it can’t replace human judgment. Here’s why

Success, or failure, in war usually depends not on machines but the people who use them.

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Why the U.S. is now more resilient to oil price shocks

The U.S. economy is much less oil-intensive than it used to be, producing more economic value with far less oil use today than in the past.

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How silicone wristbands can help scientists monitor ‘forever chemicals’

These noninvasive tools absorb chemicals from the surrounding environment over time, showing how people encounter harmful substances in everyday...

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Singles in the workplace are ignored by family-friendly policies. Here’s how employers can fix that

Workers who are single, such as recent graduates widowers, now represent much more of the labor pool than they did a generation ago.

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Daylight saving time starts Sunday. Here’s 11 things you can do to adjust to losing an hour of sleep

Even though it’s just one hour lost, the amount of sleep deprivation due to disrupted sleep rhythm lasts for many days. Here are some quick tips to...

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How the Summers-Epstein scandal further proves that gender bias exists in economics

While Summers’ behavior and the reported dynamics between him and a woman he mentored may appear shocking, they are all too common in economics.

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What AI needs to accelerate the way humans innovate

Technological progress occurs when different forms of expertise are combined.

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How meekness was once considered a virtue—and how it could help us today

Meekness once meant not becoming weak, but subjugating power to reason—not letting anger take control.

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