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Michael Dell: Why I’m Giving $6 Billion to America’s Kids
I started my company with $1,000. I know what a financial foundation can mean.
Michael Dell
I Got Surgery to Restore My Hearing. I Regret It.
Speech-to-text and AI-assisted hearing aids are erasing the line between deaf and hearing.
Richard Vigilante
A Fed Chair the Markets Will Love
They say the job of the Fed is to take the punch bowl away when the market gets crazy. But if Kevin Hassett replaces Jerome Powell next year, expect him…
Mark Gimein
Will AI Erotica Make Us Less Lonely, or More?
‘Our community is amazing,’ says the founder of Janitor AI, where 15 million users can build erotic fantasy worlds with AI companions.
Evan Gardner
The Valley of Death: Why $100,000 Is the New Poverty
The poverty line, a six-decade-old benchmark, claims to define the threshold to the middle class. The number is a lie.
Michael W. Green
I Might Be the Only American on X
There’s an ‘America First’ account that’s based in Bangladesh. There’s an Ivanka Trump stan account with a million followers that’s based in Nigeria.
River Page
Niall Ferguson: OpenAI’s House of Cards
AI may be driving markets and GDP growth. But Sam Altman’s hype is pure Roaring ’20s.
Niall Ferguson
Why America’s Trains Suck—and Japan’s Don’t
A year in Japan ruined the Acela for me. Once you’ve seen real high-speed rail, Amtrak’s version feels like a parody.
Quico Toro
Will the Aliens Be Here by Christmas?
Is 3I/ATLAS a rock or an alien mother ship? Harvard professor Avi Loeb talks to Will Rahn about an interstellar visitor that has confounded astronomers…
Will Rahn
Scientists Want to Make Real-Life Zombies
Researchers say growing brainless human bodies could help save lives. But is it ethical?
Aaron Kheriaty
America Needs to Make Its Own Chips. James Proud Says He Knows How.
A Silicon Valley start-up that was a closely kept secret until today claims it has found a way to make semiconductors faster and more cheaply in the…
Sean Fischer
Palantir Has Lots of Enemies. Do They Even Know What It Does?
It’s hard to explain something that can put chicken nuggets in Walmart and kill Osama bin Laden. Palantir can do both.
Maya Sulkin
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