Just hours after the Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump’s global tariffs on Friday, he signed an order to impose another package of levies under a different law that wasn’t affected by the court’s decision. But economists and trade…
In a Texas town at the edge of the Rio Grande and a tall metal border wall, rumors swirled that federal immigrationofficials wanted to purchase three hulking warehouses to transform into a detention center. As local officials scrambled to find out what was happening,…
President Donald Trump said he will increase the global 10% tariff he announced one day ago to 15%, in reaction to the US Supreme Court’s ruling that his mechanism for applying tariffs was illegal. “I, as President of the United…
Despite building an increasingly screen-focused world, billionaire tech leaders are keeping their own children away from the tech they helped create. As far back as 2010, Apple cofounder Steve Jobs told a New York Times reporter his kids had never…
Silicon Valley’s artificial intelligence (AI) boom has sparked widespread panic about the future of human labor, a moment summed up by AI executive Matt Shumer’s viral essay likening this moment in white-collar work to February 2020, before the pandemic devastated…
Today, fandom functions as a co-creative, identity-shaping system where fans play a meaningful role in the evolution of both the IP they love and the brands who seek to join in on the action. These fan communities, from StationeryTok to K-pop Discords and fan-fiction servers in AO3, now fulfill…
Phoebe Gates wants to build her AI shopping company while keeping one thing out of her pitch deck: her last name. The 23-year-old youngest daughter of billionaire Microsoft founder Bill Gates and philanthropist Melinda French Gates recently raised $35 million…
In 2002, Maine became the first state to implement a statewide laptop program to some grade levels. Then-Governor Angus King saw the program as a way to put the internet at the fingertips of more children, who would be able…
Plenty of observers already had doubts that, as Donald Trump put it on President’s Day, the U.S. has entered a “new golden age of prosperity.” Now, with the Supreme Court ruling negating a wide swath of the Trump tariffs, an…
Anthropic’s $200 million contract with the Department of Defense is up in the air after Anthropic reportedly raised concerns about the Pentagon’s use of its Claude AI model during the Nicolas Maduro raid in January. “The Department of War’s relationship…