Search for Nancy Guthrie descends onto rugged desert terrain
FBI agents fanned out across a neighborhood about a mile from Guthrie’s home on Wednesday morning, knocking on doors and searching through the dense desert terrain filled with cactus, bushes…
Google’s Nobel-winning AI leader sees a ‘renaissance’ ahead—after a 10- or 15-year shakeout
“In 10, 15 years’ time, we’ll be in a kind of new golden era of discovery that a kind of new renaissance,” Hassabis predicted. In this near future, he predicted…
Trump’s immigration curbs will help take 2.4 million people out of the workforce, but he’s betting AI can pick up the slack
The U.S. working-age population is headed for a cliff, one that has become much steeper over the past year due, in part, to the Trump administration’s strict immigration policies.The CBO…
Move over, ‘Merkron.’ Europe’s new power couple is ‘Merzoni’
“Merzoni” isn’t a neologism that easily trips off the tongue, and it hasn’t fully taken hold in the world of European politics.But times have changed.Into this vacuum stepped Merz and…
At 22, Olympic skier Eileen Gu is worth over $20 million. She’s juggling brand deals and sports with school. And she urges Gen Z not to wait until they’re ‘older’ to start
“I’m a full-time student who’s really athletic,” she said. “I can have a conversation with a physicist and stand my ground, and I can also walk a runway show the…
‘I’m not the dad, and I’m not the coach’: Meet the 54-year-old personal injury attorney stealing America’s hearts at the Olympics
A two-time U.S. champion and longtime fixture in American curling, Ruohonen has finally reached the Games after more than four decades in a sport he first learned on Saturday mornings…
‘Nothing short of self-sabotage’: Watchdog warns about national debt setting new record in just 4 years
The United States is on a collision course with its own history, and about to break fiscal records in the worst possible way. With current policies and spending, the country’s…
Big Oil embraces global exploration again as Chevron returns to Libya
For context, that decision proved to be wise: The shale boom—with its horizontal drilling coupled with hydraulic fracturing, or fracking—turned the U.S. from a country that pumped out 5 million…
America’s national debt borrowing binge means interest payments will rocket to $2 trillion a year by 2036, CBO says
While the income of the U.S. government will grow steadily, so too will its outgoings. By 2036, mandatory outlays such as Social Security and major health care programs such as…
Something big is happening in AI — and most people will be blindsided
Think back to February 2020.A few people were talking about a virus spreading overseas. If someone told you they were stockpiling toilet paper you would have thought they’d been spending…
