Tech Bubbles and New Investments in the US
Internal documents show the company that changed how people shop has a far-reaching plan to automate 75 percent of its operations.
For the first time, I feel driven to speak publicly, because our company is now powering state violence across the globe.
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is set to transform astronomy. Its wide and fast survey will discover billions of dynamic objects while building up a deep map of the universe
Harry Braverman’s arguments in his classic book Labor and Monopoly Capital presciently forecasted much of our present labor regime — and can help us move beyond it.
America’s shores are experiencing a huge sucking sound as one of the biggest brain drains of modern history hits the country’s best, smartest, heading for Europe on grants, as smiles abound across the pond.
Supposedly, this is all going to revive domestic manufacturing. But the evidence for that is slim, and it wouldn’t happen overnight—especially not without other policies. At a basic level, tariffs make stuff more expensive.
Tech for the global majority
When our reporters prompted a large language model to help identify “woke” themes in a database of grants, AI helped them tell a vital accountability story about science funding and Ted Cruz.
An unelected tech billionaire has so much power over the government. Tech titans fell in line behind Trump, MAGA-style populism is giving way to an optimization-oriented vision for the country’s future. Historic parallels help explain Musk’s rampage.
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