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Eric Adams’ Cryptocurrency Made No Sense. That Was the Point.
Meme coins are supposed to make you feel dumb.
Mark Gimein
China’s Robots vs. America’s Chatbots
The U.S. could spend a trillion dollars on data centers and still lose the real AI war.
Patrick McGee
Two Drinks with . . . the Youngest Female Self-Made Billionaire
Kalshi co-founder Luana Lopes Lara has a net worth of $1.3 billion. She couldn’t care less.
Maya Sulkin
A Flashing Warning for the Economy
As the U.S. becomes a source of disorder, investors turn to silver and gold.
Tyler Cowen
Is Social Media the New Big Tobacco?
A sprawling lawsuit alleges—with revealing internal documents—that the firms behind TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, and other platforms knowingly fueled a…
Maya Sulkin and Frannie Block
Man over Machine: Why AI Firms Are Hiring Writers
AI may eventually render writers obsolete, but for now, tech companies prefer man-made words to chatbots.
Maya Sulkin
My Spare Embryos
I used IVF to start my family. Years later, I’m still wrestling with what to do with the embryos I didn’t use.
Justine El-Khazen
Yes, Blowing Things Up Is How We Build Things
Media attacks on Anduril’s ‘failed’ drone tests ignore America’s storied history of destroying hardware to build the world’s best weapons (and win…
Madeline Hart
Europe’s Censors Put a Price on Dissent
The $140 million fine on X marks a new phase in the EU’s effort to police speech.
The Editors
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
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