Whereas Americans have spent decades wrestling with the psychology of interrupted ascent, China is only beginning to awaken ...

The latest wave of AI excitement is focused on agents—computational assistants that can automate complex tasks with little or no human supervision. Already, today’s agents can help write code or ...

Despite dramatic shifts in U.S. climate and clean-energy policy and the rapid spread of energy-hungry data centers, the green-economy forecast isn’t all gloom and doom. Join Meghan Busse, an associate ...

Salant decided to buy the warranty. “Why not just have a safety net?” he thought. But when he got home, he wondered if he had made the right choice. He consulted his cousin, who worked in the tech ...

Recent developments suggest that prediction may be more wrong than anyone had imagined. Unveiled last month, a “Fake Drake” song, as just one example, shows that the creative class – artists, ...

Since the 1970s, growth in “real wages” (that is, the value of the dollars paid to employees after being adjusted for inflation) has slowed compared to overall economic productivity. Previous economic ...

For one, scour for details that defy the laws of physics. The process by which diffusion models—AI systems that transform text to images—learn to create images tends to generate what Matt Groh calls ...

But gathering all that information has a cost in time, money, or both. So how do you decide when you have enough information to make an informed decision? New research from the Kellogg School shows ...

Increasing diversity has been a key goal, “but far less attention is paid to what happens after we get people in the door.” To Nicole Stephens, a professor of management and organizations at the ...

Members of the Business Roundtable, a prestigious group that includes the heads of Apple, GM, Walmart, and BlackRock, recently updated their statement on the purpose of a corporation. Most notably, ...

Johnston’s decision was an example of “passing”: identifying as a different race. During the Jim Crow era, when Black people were systematically denied opportunities and lived under the threat of ...