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Several years ago, Suzanne Berger was visiting a manufacturing facility in Ohio, talking to workers on the shop floor, when a machinist offered a thought that could serve as her current credo. “Technology takes a step forward—workers take a step forward too,” the employee said. Berger, to explain, is an MIT political scientist who for […]
The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority moves hundreds of thousands of people across Greater Boston each day—thanks to a vast system of buses, trains, and ferries that depends on coordination among thousands of employees. In this storied transit system, history runs deep: The Green Line still passes through the country’s oldest subway tunnels, built beneath the
A photogenic green-eyed Russian Blue named Petra might just be the world’s most sequenced cat. Petra was rescued from an animal shelter in Reno, Nevada, by Charlie Lieu, MBA ’05, SM ’05, a data whiz, serial entrepreneur, investor, and cofounder of Darwin’s Ark, a community science nonprofit focused on pet genetics. Since becoming Lieu’s furry
AI doesn’t just add work; it changes work in ways that are now empirically undeniable. The HBR article “AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It” validates what I called the “AI Tax” nearly a year ago: AI increases the volume, velocity, […] The post The AI Tax Is Real. Use Design to Get Your Refund. appeared
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Four years into Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Moscow has redoubled its efforts in disinformation warfare. Its methods have evolved, with more generative AI, more targeting of Ukraine’s allies, and increasing manipulation of real news stories. It’s therefore fitting that disinformation watchdog NewsGuard named a Russian tech bro, Yevgeny Shevchenko, its 2025 “Disinformer of the
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The Department of War is currently playing a high-stakes game of chicken with Anthropic, the San Francisco AI darling known for its “safety-first” mantra. As of February 17, 2026, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is reportedly “close” to designating Anthropic a […] The post The Blacklist Paradox: Why the Pentagon is Threatening its Only Working AI
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Anthropic presents itself as most safety-forward AI firm and Pentagon has threatened penalties if it does not yieldUS military leaders including Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary, met with executives from the artificial intelligence firm Anthropic on Tuesday to hash out a dispute over what the government will be able to do with the company’s powerful
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What does it mean that A.I. systems like Claude seem, like many humans, to dislike violence and love cute animals? Ezra asks the Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark this week on “The Ezra Klein Show.”
Arvind KC appointed Chief People Officer OpenAI
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Oh, give my props to the writer. Price’s at an all-time low in the future
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