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A factory can have a full order book, a skilled workforce, and every intention of opening on Monday morning. Its executives can have secured financing, negotiated shipping contracts, and purchased sophisticated equipment. Yet a missing component can render all that preparation useless. The value of the missing part may be modest. Its power over everything Read More “What does China want in return?”
Kris Silas was driving home from work when he passed an abandoned restaurant in Columbus, Ohio, and noticed something wrong. The door had been removed from an energized, pad-mounted transformer, leaving dangerous equipment exposed. Silas was an electrical technician, so he understood what most drivers would not have recognized. The ordinary-looking box beside the road Read More “The Republic of the Reliable”
I wanted to buy American artificial intelligence. That sentence should not need explaining. My company builds and tests AI systems for a living. A new frontier model comes out, and I want to run it through the same evaluation harness I use for everything else. I don’t need unlimited access. I don’t need another giant Read More “China Is Selling AI the Way Businesses Want to Buy It”
The most consequential financial decision many Americans make before they are old enough to rent a car begins with a form. A student sits across from a financial aid officer, or more often now in front of a laptop, and agrees to borrow money for an education whose value cannot yet be known. The student Read More “Your College Has Great Confidence in Your Future. Just Not Enough to Cosign”
Uber announced this week that it is cutting roughly 3,300 jobs, about 10 percent of its global workforce, while trimming the ranks of managers by 20 percent. The company framed the move as an effort to get “simpler and faster” and redirect resources toward ride-sharing, delivery, and its autonomous-vehicle ambitions. Something was conspicuously missing from Read More ““Simpler and Faster” May Be the New Term for AI Layoffs”