Bytes and Bullets: Global Rivalries, Private Tech, and the Future of Modern Warfare Steve Feldstein Monoray (2026) Valley of Death: How Big Tech is Fueling the Future of War Sharon Weinberger Little, Brown and Company (2026) States have been competing to gain a technological advantage over others for millennia. More than 3,500 years ago, ancient
BOSTON — Two Massachusetts men avoided jail time on Thursday after they earlier had pleaded guilty to setting off fireworks at an empty Harvard Medical School building, an incident that sparked a huge law enforcement response and increased anxiety on the college campus. Federal officials say 19-year-old Logan David Patterson and 21-year-old Dominick Frank Cardoza
WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve’s internal watchdog said Wednesday that the central bank has broadly mismanaged an expansive building renovation project but did not find any criminal violations, as alleged by Trump administration prosecutors. A variety of missteps by the Fed’s Board of Governors and staff inflated the cost of the $2.4 billion renovation, the
Meta’s new personal AI agent, Muse, gives Mark Zuckerberg another chance to build the kind of technology platform he has chased for years. Muse jumped to the top of the App Store last week and remained the most downloaded free app on Monday, beating ChatGPT. If enough people use Muse as their main way to
The digital age has bred a new type of philanthropist: online content creators with huge followings and platforms to share issues they care about. YouTuber MrBeast, whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson, has the biggest subscriber count on the site. This weekend, Donaldson—reportedly worth $2.6 billion—posted a video sharing the process of building a village
There’s a simple solution for AI companies that feel like their models are developing at a frightening speed: Hit the brakes. That’s the advice Michael Kratsios, the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, gave during an interview with Fox News Sunday. “It’s very interesting that they talk about these issues,
