1+ hour, 58+ min ago  (537+ words) I recently asked Robbins about how she came to this conclusion, and what, exactly, those surviving institutions might look like. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. You've written a lot about how the modern university has primed…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago  (125+ words) Personally, I feel that thinking about the future is interesting and useful. I also believe that it's necessary'and that "wishful" prediction isn't so bad. (We take the work of prediction more seriously when we have skin in the game.) Still,…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago  (1690+ words) Alex Bores, a New York Democratic candidate for Congress, has put forward a platform to regulate A. I. In recent months, his campaign has become an arena of proxy battle between Open AI and Anthropic. Bores grew up on the Upper East…...

5+ day, 13+ hour ago  (287+ words) The New Yorker Visual perfection is easy to come by these days: just type whatever you're envisioning into a text box on Chat GPT, Gemini, or Midjourney, and back comes a glossy, detailed digital rendering of, say, your living room…...

1+ week, 1+ hour ago  (1075+ words) The New Yorker Nonetheless, it seems a bit odd that, when it comes to predictions about our A. I. future, which typically range from friendly revolution to organ-harvesting apocalypse, declarations about higher education have been relatively mellow. Granted, many of the commentators…...

1+ week, 21+ hour ago  (1436+ words) The New Yorker It remains to be seen whether Musk, who is worth six hundred and fifty-one billion dollars, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, will be able to persuade the jury to rule in his favor and award him…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (603+ words) The New Yorker My high-school years were spent much like theirs. On weekends, I put on a button-up shirt and my dad's tie and rode in a van to debate tournaments in Greensboro and Raleigh. These were held at high…...

9+ mon, 5+ day ago  (405+ words) The app Tea is a kind of digital whisper network for women. No men are allowed to join. Those who wish to be members must submit evidence, including selfies, in order to prove that they are women. It is up…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (1767+ words) Chang Che writes about micro-dramas: social-first scripted vertical videos, often produced in China, that are disrupting the legacy film-and-TV industry. "Three, two, one, action!" an assistant director shouted in English. The actors sprang to life, staging a lurid scene in…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (400+ words) Hello, I would like to get the results of a recent routine test. Have you logged in to your patient portal? It's literally the last thing I want to do. Log in to the portal. I don't want to have…...