The Threat of AI-Made Bioweapons
In April of 2023, a man carrying a small, black box walked into one of the nation’s most secure buildings, right next to the White House. In the box were ingredients that could be used to create a bio...
2 Aug 202413min
Ghost Jobs Are Haunting the Labor Market
If you’ve applied to a job and never heard back, you may have fallen prey to a ghost job — an online listing for a role that never actually existed. Ghost jobs aren’t just leaving job seekers frustrat...
1 Aug 202416min
How Companies Gamed the H-1B Visa Lottery
Each year in April, the US conducts a lottery that shapes the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. And each year, only around 85,000 are granted an H-1B visa for highly-skilled workers. With skyr...
31 Jul 202417min
Japan’s Small Businesses Have a Problem. They Don’t Know How to Raise Prices
Costs are rising in Japan and small businesses risk being squeezed into oblivion if they don’t figure out how to raise their prices. After decades of deflation, many small Japanese companies are out o...
30 Jul 202417min
Behind Trump's Pledge to Make America the "Crypto Capital"
This past weekend, Donald Trump became the first American president to address a crypto conference, telling an audience in Nashville that “if Bitcoin is going to the moon, I want America to be the nat...
29 Jul 202417min
Wall Street’s Great Rotation
For most of this year, US markets were hitting fresh highs and investors were giddy about the potential of AI to make the world’s biggest tech companies even more profitable. Then, the picture changed...
26 Jul 202416min
Why You’ll Want to Know How Your Nurse Practitioner Was Trained
Americans are more and more likely to get health care not from doctors, but from nurse practitioners. It’s one of the fastest-growing professions in the US — and the number of nurse practitioners in t...
24 Jul 202417min
Are Cheaper Ozempic Knockoffs Safe?
Cheaper, knockoff versions of Ozempic, Wegovy and Zepbound are flooding the market, often promoted by telehealth companies in online ads and by influencers on TikTok and Instagram. These versions of t...
23 Jul 202416min
