Jesse Jackson turned down a pro baseball contract that paid 6x less than a white player. Here’s how segregation shaped him
His experience of segregation shaped how Jackson viewed his life.Instead, Jackson rejected the contract because the pay would be approximately six times less than a white player’s and went North,…
We looked at 40 years of government data and found the U.S. at a ‘medium level’ of atrocity. Iran is ‘high level’
But should one of those two sets of killings be classified as a government-involved “atrocity” and the other not? The answer may not be as simple as you think, and…
Billionaire Trump supporter blocks sale of Texas warehouse for use as ICE jail
Rumors of an ICE detention center, which have been compared to concentration camps, have prompted a declarative response from a billionaire Trump supporter.Yes, the Department of Homeland Security had approached…
Why your boss loves AI and you hate it:corporate profits are capturing your extra productivity, and your salary isn’t
So maybe it’s time for a quick history lesson about the first couple industrial revolutions, with the labor force going through what leaders such as Nvidia’s Jensen Huang have described…
Trump crackdown drives 80% plunge in immigrant employment, reshaping labor market, Goldman says
A sweeping crackdown on immigration in President Donald Trump’s second term, characterized by elevated deportations and strict new visa bans, has precipitated an 80% collapse in net immigration to the…
Exclusive: Crypto venture firm Dragonfly closes $650 million fourth fund—even as blockchain VCs face ‘mass extinction’
Around the time Rob Hadick signed the paperwork to join Dragonfly Capital in April 2022, he’d also rented a house in the Hamptons. A contract with his former employer, hedge…
Anthropic was supposed to be a ‘safe’ alternative to OpenAI, but CEO Dario Amodei admits his company struggles to balance safety with profits
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei defected from OpenAI partly because he thought it wasn’t focusing enough on safety, but now his own company is fighting to balance its founding mission with…
Thousands of CEOs just admitted AI had no impact on employment or productivity—and it has economists resurrecting a paradox from 40 years ago
However, firms’ expectations of AI’s workplace and economic impact remained substantial: Executives also forecasted AI will increase productivity by 1.4% and increase output by 0.8% over the next three years.…
GoFundMe campaign seeks to buy Bitcoin to help spur Nancy Guthrie’s release
TMZ did not respond to a request for a copy of the letters. In a note to Fortune, the Pima County Sheriff’s Department declined to share any further information about…
AI could spark a new age of learning, but only if governments, tech firms and educators work together
The way we teach students, from classroom structures to teaching methods and standardized instruction, has not changed much over human history. Despite schools, colleges and mass education becoming more important…
