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What Amodei’s Call for an AI Pause Gets Wrong

Who Will Do the World’s “Most Impossible Job”?

Major Questions, Nondelegation, and the Section 338 Tariffs Against Canada

When Words Are No Longer for Us

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The People Not Worth Replacing

NSF memo implementing Trump’s ‘golden age’ of science unsettles researchers

Meet the Influencers Boosting Zohran Mamdani’s Administration

Prophets of literary doom keep writing books about the death of reading. The genre refutes the thesis 

Can a New Weight Loss Treatment Escape the Legal and Regulatory Thicket?

Nighttime Light May Change the Shape of Your Heart

The Cost of Not Building Data Centers

Why is there controversy around OpenAI’s Millennium Prize maths breakthrough?

After an 8-Year Journey, Orbiters Are About to Give Us a Fresh Look at Mercury

$9.25M Verdict Against N.Y. Times, in Libel Case Brought by Alabama Basketball Player

Anthony Fauci’s Diary Reveals a Human at the Helm

Why Opposition to Data Centers Is Perplexing

Researchers tune into Arctic under-ice sounds and test through-ice communication

Hyena Ethics: When Harming Others Feels Righteous and Pleasing