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The Present
AI adoption rates look weak — but the data hides a bigger story
Behind the plateau in corporate AI lies a surge in personal and agentic use.
Ross Pomeroy
A man, identified as Andrew Gazdecki, wears a dark hoodie with “Acquire” printed on it, standing against a beige background with multi-colored shadows behind him.
Business
Why “outrageous optimism” is your startup super-skill
Andrew Gazdecki — the founder and CEO of Acquire.com — explores the skillsets and pitfalls of selling a business. And why it’s often crucial to start all over again.
Tim Brinkhof
A split image shows a star field on the left and a COSMOS-Web survey area diagram on the right, with labeled NIRCam and MIRI footprints alongside the moon for scale, highlighting galaxies explored by JWST science.
Starts With A Bang
COSMOS-Web unveils JWST’s newest gravitational lenses
By deeply imaging a large volume of space, COSMOS-Web provides JWST's widest cosmic views. Its gravitational lenses reveal a big surprise.
Ethan Siegel
Starts With A Bang
Ask Ethan: How and when will the Universe die?
As the Universe ages, it continues to gravitate, form stars, and expand. And yet, all this will someday end. Do we finally understand how?
Ethan Siegel
A wooden sailing ship faces rough seas, with waves and dolphins in the foreground; a Dash ghost ship appears mysteriously in the mist behind.
Books
The haunted history of the ghost ship Dash
In this excerpt from "America's Most Gothic," Leanna Hieber and Andrea Janes examine the history and folklore of Maine's vanished schooner.
Leanna Renee Hieber
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Business
The beauty of writing in public
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Eric Markowitz
Starts With A Bang
What do distant observers see when they look at Earth?
From here on Earth, looking farther away in space means looking farther back in time. So what are distant Earth-watchers seeing right now?
Ethan Siegel
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