Late last month, we put up a sign. Thirty feet tall, 230 feet wide, with white letters on a hillside along the 101 in Los Angeles. We built it to film a project. Nobody knew that. All Angelenos saw were…
At 9 a.m. Eastern Time today, the price of oil sits at $113.99 per barrel, using Brent as the benchmark (we’ll explain what that means shortly). That’s an increase of $4.03 since yesterday morning and roughly $50 more than at…
When it comes to national debt, the main lesson hawks want to impress on policymakers is the cost of inaction: How much the public will ultimately have to pay if officials don’t address deficits. Jamie Dimon, CEO of J.P. Morgan…
Testifying to Congress, United States Trade Representative Jamieson Greer argued that “President Trump’s trade policy is working.” The data present a different picture: President Trump’s trade agenda is actually holding back the economy. If we want to truly “become an…
Most corporate employees in America have likely signed up for ChatGPT. And Claude. And possibly Cursor. Their employer’s security team has no idea—or even if they do, they can’t keep up. This paradox is why Vanta is having a blockbuster…
As more than two-thirds of U.S. public schools say they already can’t sustain free meals for their students, one economist is sounding the alarms and says the Trump administration’s updated dietary guidelines may make these financial troubles even worse. For the…
Long before the corner office, the IPO, and the billionaire life, several of America’s best-known executives had the same predawn alarm clock and the same stack of newsprint waiting on the curb. They all got their start in newspapers, either…
King Charles III acknowledged “times of great uncertainty” as he expressed gratitude to the American people and marked the 250th anniversary of independence from Britain in a speech to the U.S. Congress that highlighted the bonds between the two countries at a time…
In 1865, English economist William Stanley Jevons observed that the invention of the Watt steam engine — which improved the efficiency of the coal-fired steam engine — made coal a more effective energy source. Jevons called it “a confusion of ideas” to…
Hello and welcome to Eye on AI. In this edition…China blocks Meta’s purchase of Manus…OpenAI falls short of its revenue and growth targets…Anthropic shows AI models can help advance AI safety research…Sen. Bernie Sanders’s decision to invite Chinese AI experts…