When Amy Lee retired from a four-decade-long career in law and finance in 2020, she felt it might be a chance to relax. Instead, she found herself getting antsy. “For my whole life, I thought I would enjoy retirement,” she…
In 2023, Cognizant researchers made a prediction that, by their own admission, made people think they’d lost their minds: by 2032, 90% of jobs would be affected by generative AI, with roughly 10% facing transformational change. “Everyone thought we were…
Anthropic’s S-1 filing on Monday was confidential, but there’s much we already know about the $965 billion AI juggernaut. The nearly trillion-dollar startup (if it can be called such a thing) has gotten so big that it’s hard to hide…
Of the three companies that have ever installed investor-overriding mission guardians in a for-profit structure, one ended in spectacular failure, one already melted down once, and the third filed confidentially an IPO on Monday. A new Harvard Law paper, AI…
The state of Florida filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman on Monday, claiming the company knowingly released and aggressively marketed ChatGPT to the public while concealing serious risks. Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said during news conference that the…
The global 2025 wildfire season can be summed up with one of two extreme datapoints. It can be strange to think of the good news of wildfires, but for the optimists, last year’s blazes set aflame the second smallest number…
Less than two months after the Trump administration rolled out its electronic tariff refund platform, it is now threatening to bring the operation to a standstill. The administration said on Friday it plans to appeal a federal judge’s order that…
If you’ve been feeling uncertain about the future of the economy, you’re not the only one. As the war in Iran pinches the global energy supply for the foreseeable future, and as AI companies threaten to reshape the entire labor…
Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz remains just a fraction of pre-war levels, but more ships are transiting lately, especially via a lane carved out by the U.S. military, even as fighting heats up. That alternate channel has become even…
When she isn’t working on a novel, Ann Patchett is often thinking of what she can do for others: maybe coming up with a blurb for Douglas Stuart, or recording a video birthday message for fellow author-bookseller Emma Straub, or beginning an interview with…