I’ve got some happy news to share this week. It involves a young computer science graduate named Kiran Maya Sheikh, who has taught me a lot about grit, determination, and the realities of finding a job in the age of AI. Back in February, I wrote a newsletter arguing that people shouldn’t panic about AI
This summer, investor Katie Jacobs Stanton said her AI assistant, Instinct, sent an email on her behalf without consulting her first, according to TechCrunch. She described the email as innocuous. The breach of trust was not. Next time, it could be the email that costs someone a job, a marriage or a lawsuit. The appeal
When my phone rang during my senior year of high school, it was Florida Atlantic University calling. I didn’t know that answering would change the trajectory of my life. I had 48 hours to decide whether to take a chance on an opportunity that seemed too good to be true: the opportunity to graduate debt-free.
I started following Thomas Miller’s political forecasts during the January 2021 Senate races in Georgia. Just a few days before the election, the polls and pundits anticipated a relatively easy win for both Republican candidates. But Miller—a prominent data scientist and professor at Northwestern University—posited a Democratic sweep, and he was right. He also called
After hackers stole more than $6 billion in cryptocurrency from the exchange platform Binance on Thursday, crypto executives are racing to help the company while blockchain researchers examine the damage and assign blame. Binance initially said one engineer’s compromised laptop was the gateway to the attack, but the company later revised its assessment, saying the
Keeping Southeast Asia open for business is a geopolitical task as much as a commercial one. Its relationships across geopolitical divides give companies access to competing powers’ markets, capital, and technology. In 2025, ASEAN attracted a record $243.9 billion in foreign direct investment. But conflict, U.S.-China strategic competition, and economic nationalism threaten these opportunities. Sustaining
