“Why should I work for you? And what good are you doing for society?”
When I graduated from university in 1992, I wouldn’t have dared to ask such questions at an interview, I was just happy to get a job! But today it is usually one of the first things we hear from people at the start of their careers. The new generations are putting these challenges to employers and voting with the…
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Patient privacy has been inviolable since the time of Hippocrates, in 400 BC. That may be about to end. Last week Amazon announced it is going to acquire One Medical, a health care provider with over 700,000 patients.
Big Tech has flirted with health care for years. Amazon’s direct entry into primary health care is a turning point. It will increase the perils of surveillance capital…
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Tesla’s dominance not just of the electric vehicle market but also for anything and everything EV-related seems to be growing yet again. Last week, GM announced that users of its EVs would, by next year, be able utilize Tesla chargers. Ford had made a similar announcement just a …
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At its September meeting, the Federal Reserve again sharply increased its target interest rate by three-quarters of a percent. Asked his thoughts about what effect this tightening will on the overall economy, Chairman Jerome Powell remarked, “I wish there were a painless way…There isn’t.” Actually, there is a painless way: stop raising rates.
The Fed is hardly alo…
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Ed Newton-Rex publicly resigned from his executive job at a prominent AI company last year, following a disagreement with his bosses over their approach to copyright.
Stability AI, the makers of the popular AI image generation model Stable Diffusion, had trained the model by feeding it with millions of images that had been “scraped” from the internet, without the consent of their crea…
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Sara Menker runs a private company, Gro Intelligence, that uses data and AI to make predictions about climate change and food security, but when she appeared before the U.N. Security Council on May 19, she sounded more like an advocate. Gro’s data has found that, because of rising food prices around the world, 400 million people have become food insecure in the last 5 months alone. (Food …
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The U.S. economy of the 1970s was, in certain ways, quite similar to the U.S. economy today: rising inflation, a population broadly pessimistic about the future of the market, and persistent declines in overall productivity. There was also, back then, a growing economic threat from across the Pacific. Only, in the 1970s, the threat came from Japan, which was the subject of dozens …
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Cryptocurrency king Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) founded two companies, crypto-exchange FTX and Almeda Research. The thirty-year old billionaire’s house of cards recently came tumbling down when investors and customers lost confidence in FTX, pulled out their money, forcing SBF to file for bankruptcy. On December 12, 2022, SBF was arrested in the Bahamas after criminal charges were filed by U.…
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It was the middle of the night when Arthur Lavrinovich started seeing the bright flares from the windows of his apartment in Nova Kakhovka, Ukraine. He saw the orange flashes, felt the rumble of shaking foundations, saw “shining darts like shooting stars” fly over his city and erupt into pillars of smoke. He grabbed his important documents, got in his car, and picked up his mom from…
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After a federal judge in Florida struck down the Biden Administration’s transportation mask mandate on Monday, several major U.S. airlines and transit systems began to ditch their mask requirements nationwide, giving travelers and airline employees their first break from COVID-19 safety restrictions in nearly two years.
A viral video showed the rollback was met with a chorus of che…
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