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View MoreChristopher Altman saw it in the same way that most small business owners do: in the quiet of an inbox that used to fill up on its own, rather than all at once. His Oakland tree-trimming crew scheduled three weeks off for years without his involvement. Then, the reservations simply…
The atmosphere changed somewhere between a half-empty diesel station outside Hamburg and the screens of a London trading floor. Like these things often do, it happened quietly. In January, Brent crude was trading at about sixty dollars. It was close to 120 by the second week of March. Ten weeks.…
The parking lot outside Tesla’s Fremont factory is still crowded with familiar-looking vehicles, including Model 3s, Model Ys, and occasionally older Model Ss. However, something is subtly shifting on the inside. Production lines that used to hum with automotive precision are being reconsidered and, in certain situations, repurposed. There’s a…
A researcher looks at a screen full of shapes that don’t quite look familiar in a quiet lab with soft fluorescent light and humming freezers. These are proteins that have been folded, predicted, and simulated by an algorithm that was nonexistent a few years ago. Problems that once required entire…
The conversations don’t sound very dramatic on some afternoons in lower Manhattan. Screens flickering with bond yields, a few traders hunched over desks, someone whispering about inflation expectations. Occasionally, however, a remark goes farther than anticipated—it is picked up by analysts, repeated in newsletters, and amplified on financial television. Markets…