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Tech leaders may have backed Trump in 2024, but the majority of the community still leans left -- and has a big opportunity ahead.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Handled right, AI has potential to bring back middle-skill jobs lost to the rise of computers, economists argue. Or, like the mechanized mills of the past, it could toss whole sectors out of work.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
The Department of Energy's newest mission seeks to make a unified AI platform across all national labs. Will it help US science, or kill it?
As technology advances, more opportunities for cheating arise. Large language models aren't posing a new problem; they're how students cheat themselves.
In “Rewiring Democracy,” Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders explore how AI could strengthen democracy or undermine it.
As we crank up our search for more powerful AI, maybe we should slow down and reimagine the shape and language of intelligence itself.
The HuffPost co-founder is now focusing on AI and health — but she’s keeping an eye on agency and human nature.
Researcher and Google CTO Blaise Agüera y Arcas joins us to discuss his new book, "What Is Intelligence?"
Conversations about an imminent "AI bubble" tend to miss the big picture.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Real progress demands rules built for uncertainty — not for the few innovations dominating today’s tech landscape.
Barriers to energy abundance — and how to overcome them — were front and center at Progress Conference 2025.
With new labs, funding models, and institutions, metascience is reinventing the machinery of discovery.
The case that a bipartisan movement structured around progress and reform may be reaching critical mass.
Leaders in China hope that AI and robotics can finally resolve the flaws of a centralized planned economy. But US technoculture has an edge.
Do aliens speak the same physics that we do, with similar laws, observables, and underlying mathematics. Maybe not, argues Daniel Whiteson.
In this excerpt from "The Shortest History of AI," Toby Walsh explores the history of the Logic Theorist, the first AI to prove mathematical theorems.
A look at how criminals are using unrestricted chatbots and how cyber defenders are fighting back.
A preview of the latest novel by the Hugo- and Nebula-winning author.
"What’s happening now has, in fact, been happening since the very invention of language and writing."
Early warning signs show AI is eating into the entry-level job market — a potential harbinger of things to come.
If AI is modeled only on human intelligence, will it inherit only human ways of seeing the world?
Companies are pouring resources into AI, yet capability gaps hold employees back from using it effectively.
In this excerpt from "Governing Babel," John Wihbey explores how AI is reshaping online moderation by offering tools that can help human moderators, but also raises the risk of disinformation and digital chaos.
Behind the plateau in corporate AI lies a surge in personal and agentic use.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
The incredible story of how the US Army began the march toward generative AI in 1943 — and what it means for your business today.