From COBOL to chaos: Elon Musk, DOGE, and the Evil Housekeeper Problem
In trying to make sense of the wrecking ball that is Elon Musk and President Trump’s DOGE, it may be
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Opinion
Three reasons Meta will struggle with community fact-checking
Earlier this month, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta will cut back on its content moderation efforts and eliminate fact-checking in
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There can be no winners in a US-China AI arms race
The United States and China are entangled in what many have dubbed an “AI arms race.” In the early days
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Trump’s win is a tragic loss for climate progress
Donald Trump’s decisive victory is a stunning setback for climate change. The Republican President-elect’s return to the White House means
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Sorry, AI won’t “fix” climate change
In an essay last week, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, argued that the accelerating capabilities of AI will usher
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Why a ruling against the Internet Archive threatens the future of America’s libraries
I was raised in the 1980s and ’90s, and for my generation and generations before us, the public library was
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How the US and its allies can rebuild economic security
A country’s economic security—its ability to generate both national security and economic prosperity—is grounded in it having significant technological capabilities
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Why new proposals to restrict geoengineering are misguided
The public debate over whether we should consider intentionally altering the climate system is heating up, as the dangers of
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Let’s not make the same mistakes with AI that we made with social media
Oh, how the mighty have fallen. A decade ago, social media was celebrated for sparking democratic uprisings in the Arab
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