Artificial intelligence stocks are on a historic bull run, but the so far rally owes more to spreadsheets than science fiction. The run-up in valuations is still grounded in strong profits and ...

History suggests diffusion matters as much as invention. Unlike earlier ”general-purpose technologies” that took decades to lift growth, early evidence suggests AI’s lag may be shorter. If so, Walmart ...

France, whose public finances have become unsustainable and whose politics have become dysfunctional, could pose an existential threat to the Euro. Being the Eurozone’s second-largest economy and ...

If universities hope to reclaim their essential role, they must lead again: speaking when silence tempts, teaching when slogans seduce, and remembering that genuine neutrality isn't the absence of ...

The US Supreme Court’s June ruling in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton wasn’t the first in which the Court avoided applying strict scrutiny to uphold regulations affecting non-obscene, lawful sexual ...

The adoption of AI in property tax assessment represents more than just a technological upgrade: It offers a path to reversing decades of regressive taxation that has unfairly burdened working-class ...

Claims that a race to artificial general intelligence (AGI) will prove deeply destabilizing are common among technologists and parts of the public policy community, even if it remains debatable ...

Yesterday morning, U.S. President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth behaved reprehensibly. Their speeches before several hundred assembled military commanders and their senior ...

Rather than asking, "What's your p(doom)?" we should be asking, "Under what conditions does AI risk increase or decrease?" ...

Australia previous set and missed impossible targets for emissions reduction. The outcome for the 2035 emissions reduction targets will inevitably be the same as for the 2020 targets — a big miss. As ...