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The 2022 FIFA World Cup that Qatar hosted was the most expensive sporting event in recorded history. The figure most cited, somewhere north of two hundred billion dollars when all …
The brief filed in a federal district court in Manhattan in 2023 contained citations to six cases that did not exist. The lawyer who filed it, using an AI legal research tool that …
The math teacher at a middle school in rural Tennessee taught three different grade levels simultaneously for most of the 2023-2024 school year. The position for a dedicated sevent…
In 1990, the United States produced roughly thirty-seven percent of the world's semiconductors. By 2020, that share had fallen to twelve percent. The decline tracked the broader lo…
The American economy continued to show signs of recovery this week as new reports revealed increased consumer spending and steady job growth across several industries. Economists s…
Somewhere between 2020 and now, the mental geography of American cities shifted. The hierarchy that held for most of the twentieth century, with New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago …
For a decade, the label attached itself to Nairobi the way these labels tend to: enthusiastically, imprecisely, and with just enough truth to stick. Silicon Savannah. The name capt…
Introduction Across the Western Hemisphere, a quiet transformation is underway. From North America’s economic recalibration to South America’s political evolution, the nations…
Cities across the Americas are racing to become leading technology hubs, attracting top talent from around the world. Toronto, São Paulo, and Austin are emerging as focal points f…
The decoupling of American and Chinese supply chains is beginning to show up in the data in ways that are reshaping global commerce. New research documents a significant diversific…
A team of researchers at the University of Chicago and IBM has demonstrated a quantum computing system capable of solving a specific class of optimization problems faster than any …
The Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission are intensifying antitrust scrutiny of leading technology companies over their growing dominance in the artificial intelligen…
Alarming data on adolescent mental health has spurred rare bipartisan agreement in Congress, where lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are advancing legislation that would impose …
The artificial intelligence revolution is accelerating faster than even its architects predicted, and the ripple effects are beginning to reshape the American workforce in ways bot…
