Author: David Brooks
Imagine a Tuesday morning on a trading floor, with screens flickering green, analysts updating tickers, and a person in the corner using their phone to open…
On a Tuesday afternoon, when someone is refreshing their brokerage account for the third or fourth time, an unexpected thought occurs: what if a computer could…
In Illinois, something subtly predictable occurs every spring. After filing their state income tax returns and making a few bank account checks, people begin to wonder.…
These stories start in a way that is almost predictable. Ransomware attacks a business. Employee data that is sensitive is swept up. A class action is…
Every year, around the end of January, American homes experience the same silent panic. season of taxes. When the W-2s arrive in the mail and the…
Imagine a Tuesday afternoon in early 2021 at a GameStop store. There are rows of used game cartridges in plastic cases, fluorescent lighting, and a few…
The water doesn’t feel like January when you stand on a Philippine beach in January. It hasn’t in a long time. It’s a little off; it’s…
Portfolio managers have been staring at the same question written on a whiteboard for the better part of the past year in a conference room located…
You enter Malheur National Forest by driving east from Prairie City, Oregon, a small town with about 800 residents that is peacefully situated in the high…
The story truly begins in April 2024, but the background goes much further back. At the age of 23, Leopold Aschenbrenner was employed by OpenAI’s Superalignment…