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The U.S. Is on Track to Lose a War With China
Modern warfare is decided by production capacity and technological mastery, not by individual valor. Related More Related
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Oct 28, 20251 min read
The Economy That’s Great for Parents, Lousy for Their Grown-Up Kids
Many older Americans are financially comfortable, but they worry their adult children won’t achieve the same kind of economic stability
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Oct 27, 20251 min read
The Innovation That’s Killing Restaurant Culture
Delivery has turned America into a nation of order-inners.
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Oct 27, 20251 min read
The Age of De-Skilling
Will AI stretch our minds—or stunt them?
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Oct 26, 20251 min read
It’s PR, not the ER’: Gen Z is resisting the workplace emergency
As the workforce evolves, younger generations are rejecting a frenetic approach to work that can create undue stress and cross work-life balance boundaries
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Oct 26, 20251 min read
The consequences of U.S. moral drift
Consumerism and the addiction economy are undermining the republic. Related More
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Oct 26, 20251 min read
Women’s Pay Is Falling Behind. Is the Return to the Office to Blame?
Women make workforce gains, but their pay growth isn’t keeping pace with men’s Quick Summary By last year, women working full time made 81 cents on the dollar compared with men, the widest pay gap since 2016. Economists suggest that return-to-office mandates contribute to women opting for lower-paying, flexible jobs or leaving the workforce. Labor-force participation for women with a Bachelor’s degree and a child up to five years old has declined 2.3 percentage points since e
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Oct 26, 20251 min read
363 miles that transformed America
The Erie Canal, dug by human muscle, aided by improvised cleverness, helped build a nation.
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Oct 26, 20251 min read
My Car Is Becoming a Brick
EVs are poised to age like smartphones.
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Oct 26, 20251 min read
A TOOL THAT CRUSHES CREATIVITY
AI slop is winning.
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Oct 26, 20251 min read
How TikTok keeps its users scrolling for hours a day
More than 800 U.S. TikTok users shared their data with The Washington Post. We used it to find out why some people become power users, spending hours per day scrolling.
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Oct 25, 20251 min read
A data center that doesn’t even exist can raise your electricity bill
Consumers are finally pushing back on AI-driven data expansion. Will it matter?
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Oct 25, 20251 min read
‘WE’RE DEFINITELY GOING TO BUILD A BUNKER BEFORE WE RELEASE AGI’
The true story behind the chaos at OpenA I
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Oct 25, 20251 min read
GM Aims to Deliver Eyes-Off Autonomous Driving by 2028
The Cadillac Escalade IQ electric SUV will be the Detroit automaker’s first vehicle to have the feature
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Oct 23, 20251 min read
AI Destroys the Old Learning Curve
Wright’s Law is being rewritten, and leaders who don’t adapt to this new world will be replaced.
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Oct 23, 20251 min read
The Average U.S. Cost of a Family Health Insurance Plan Is Now $27,000
Higher spending on chronic diseases, weight-loss drugs and hospital bills help drive the increase
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Oct 23, 20251 min read
U.S. government seeks to acquire more ownership in U.S. businesses
Discussions signal Washington’s wider involvement in key parts of the economy Quick Summary Several quantum-computing companies are negotiating with the Commerce Department for federal funding in exchange for equity stakes. The Trump administration is expanding its strategy of taking equity in companies receiving taxpayer funds, following a nearly 10% stake in Intel. The funding, potentially $10 million minimum per company, would support quantum computing, a critical next-gen
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Oct 23, 20251 min read
More robots entering Amazon's workplaces
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Oct 23, 20251 min read
AI Workers Are Putting In 100-Hour Workweeks to Win the New Tech Arms Race
Workers in Silicon Valley are pushing themselves to extremes day after day Quick Summary Top AI researchers and executives are working 80 to 100 hours weekly, driven by intense competition. Corporate credit-card transaction data from the expense-management startup Ramp shows a surge in Saturday orders from San Francisco-area restaurants for delivery and takeout from noon to midnight. The pace of AI development has compressed the time from research breakthroughs to product lau
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Oct 23, 20251 min read
The war on whimsy
America is facing a war on whimsy, and we are losing ground daily. A monster pervades this nation, stealing sleep from schoolkids, tearing down national treasures and locking us in our homes to toil behind computer screens: efficiency. We have marched to the anthem of productivity since the Industrial Revolution; we think of children working away with coal-slathered faces in factories and believe we have evolved as a society. But I posit that as soon as we pilfered the chisel
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Oct 22, 20251 min read
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