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Tech That Will Change Your Life in 2026
Folding iPhones, home robots, mind-reading tech and EV supercars are all heading your way—along with AI-induced challenges in healthcare and cybersecurity
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Dec 27, 20251 min read
The terrifying ways that social media is altering teenage brains
“Social media is the perfect recipe for kids to become addicted to their smartphones.”
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Dec 27, 20251 min read
How the World of Work Will Change Over the Next 20 Years
Five experts look ahead and imagine a future that looks totally different Quick Summary Artificial intelligence could transform workplace performance measurement by analyzing real-time employee data to optimize workflows and collaboration. A shrinking workforce in Europe, Japan and the U.S. could necessitate increased investment in vocational training and skill-based employee development. The future workplace will integrate AI and human collaboration, potentially reducing mid
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Dec 23, 20251 min read
These Teenagers Are Already Running Their Own AI Companies
They might not yet drive, but they’re getting an early start in business by leveraging vibe-coding and social media
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Dec 22, 20251 min read
The Shape of AI: Jaggedness, Bottlenecks and Salients
And why Nano Banana Pro is such a big deal
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Dec 20, 20251 min read
Remote work: 'We are seeing more cases of dismissals under technological surveillance, especially in the US'
As working from home has become a permanent fixture for companies since the pandemic, Vincent Meyer, a labor sociologist, analyzes how this new way of working is transforming trust-based relationships and the role of young people in the professional world.
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Dec 20, 20251 min read
This Is What the World’s Smartest Minds Really Think About AI
At a meeting that’s become the center of the tech universe, nerdy researchers partied on yachts and gathered on rooftops to trade gossip and compare notes. Everyone was feeling bubbly.
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Dec 20, 20251 min read
Supersized data centers are coming. See how they will transform America
Rising from the dust in Homer City will be a colossal artificial intelligence data center campus that will include seven 30-acre gas generating stations on-site, fueled by Pennsylvania’s natural gas boom.
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Dec 20, 20251 min read
What happens when intelligence outgrows its creators
We built genius machines, and gave them our blind spots.
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Dec 20, 20251 min read
Why Fusion Is Considered Energy’s Elusive Holy Grail
Betting a breakthrough is imminent
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Dec 20, 20251 min read
Are We Getting AI All Wrong? with Sangeet Choudary
Business strategist and best-selling author Sangeet Paul Choudary joins Greg to discuss why AI is such a big deal for corporate structures and platforms. Thanks Kimberly!
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Dec 19, 20251 min read
We Let AI Run Our Office Vending Machine. It Lost Hundreds of Dollars.
Anthropic’s Claude ran a snack operation in the WSJ newsroom. It gave away a free PlayStation, ordered a live fish—and taught us lessons about the future of AI agents. Thanks Kimberly!
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Dec 18, 20251 min read
The boomer-doomer divide within AI
Here are two sides to the AI debate, and both are perpetuating the idea that AI is “inevitable, all-powerful, and deserves to be controlled by a tiny group of people,” says the Empire of AI author.
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Dec 18, 20251 min read
Will Creative Work Survive A.I.?
It’s a perilous moment for creative life in America. While supporting oneself as an artist has never been easy, the power of generative A.I. is pushing creative workers to confront an uncomfortable question: Is there a place for paid creative work within late capitalism? And what will happen to our cultural landscape if the answer turns out to be no?
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Dec 16, 20251 min read
‘Imperfect Oracle’ Review: A Question of Autonomy
Humans tend to trust their intuitions over rational calculation. Can artificial intelligence help us overcome cognitive biases?
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Dec 16, 20251 min read
Archaeologists Find Oldest Evidence of Fire-Making
Neanderthals 400,000 years ago were striking flints to make fires, researchers have found.
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Dec 16, 20251 min read
Ideas Aren’t Getting Harder to Find
For half a decade we’ve been worrying that ideas are getting harder to find. In fact, they might just be harder to sell. Excerpt : "However if ideas remain as discoverable as ever, but their economic impact is fading, then we need to look downstream from the laboratory. The decline in allocative efficiency should be more of a main focus — we need to throw more of our intellectual capital at understanding how to increase competitiveness and the market potential for innovative
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Dec 15, 20251 min read
Four New Work Roles That May Be in Our AI Future
There will be, no doubt, many occupations that we can’t even imagine today. But here are four that seem possible.
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Dec 15, 20251 min read
The Eerie Parallels Between AI Mania and the Dot-Com Bubble
Bulls deny that there’s a 1990s-style bubble in AI. There are a few striking similarities, and some notable differences. Related: CEOs to Keep Spending on AI, Despite Spotty Returns Somewhat related: A.I. admits "being designed for hubris "
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Dec 15, 20251 min read
AI Is No Substitute for Liberal-Arts Education
For all its promise, tech risks instilling in students an unthinking yet false understanding of themselves, writes University of Dallas President Jonathan J. Sanford.
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Dec 15, 20251 min read
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