9+ hour, 35+ min ago   (30+ words) Sam Altman and Elon Musk responded with rare agreement to Dario Amodei’s call to action. Sam Altman and Elon Musk responded with rare agreement to Dario Amodei’s call to action....

2+ day, 12+ hour ago   (128+ words) His insistence during an overseas trip on championing democracy in foreign policy is now a relic. Secretary of State Colin Powell was having breakfast with Peru’s president in Lima’s historic center on September 11, 2001, when an aide passed him a note…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (573+ words) What does prosperity mean to you? Earlier this year, the financial services firm Northwestern Mutual asked people in the United States that question. Household income and finances ranked highest, edging out relationships with loved ones, emotional health, and physical health....

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (155+ words) Even so, Anthropic has a habit of landing on ambiguity about the fallout of its technology. In its education report, for instance, Anthropic, the entity best equipped to observe whether students are... The term lends an air of scientific rigor…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (45+ words) The Atlantic Whatever the AI future is, we’re in it right now. One evening in early August, Sam Stowers and several neighbors packed into an apartment near San Francisco’s Alamo Square and pondered the beginning of the end....

2+ week, 12+ hour ago   (138+ words) The Atlantic And why does the president loathe Canada but respect North Korea? In 1999, the creators of South Park were nominated for an Academy Award for their song “Blame Canada.” “South Park, of course, is caustic and anarchic satire. But…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (138+ words) A new plan to lower prices is causing a rift in his own party. Three hundred thousand metric tons of ground beef are on their way to the United States. There’s no easy way to visualize 300,000 metric tons of anything…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (69+ words) Some three-quarters of Americans oppose a data center being built in their area, three-quarters of Americans think AI will hurt their job security, nearly 70 percent think the technology is advancing... A new group is targeting tech companies and the government…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (54+ words) A sheep-crossing-water contest in Turkey, a pilgrimage festival in Portugal, a devastating flood in Nepal, robot racing in China, a tomato-fight fiesta in Spain, and much more... A sheep-crossing-water contest in Turkey, a pilgrimage festival in Portugal, a devastating flood…...