There’s no such thing as a truly pristine landscape — humans have, over millennia, shaped every environment on Earth — but the Boundary Waters wilderness of northeastern Minnesota comes pretty darn close.  Stretching across more than a million acres near the Canadian border, about four hours north of Minneapolis, the Boundary Waters is a messy […]

There’s no such a thing as a truly pristine landscape — humans have, over millennia, shaped every environment on Earth — but the Boundary Waters wilderness of northeastern Minnesota comes pretty darn close.  Stretching across more than a million acres near the Canadian border, about four hours north of Minneapolis, the Boundary Waters is a […]

AI company CEOs Sam Altman (OpenAI), Demis Hassabis (Google DeepMind), and Dario Amodei (Anthropic) disagree on a lot, like how fast the technology should develop, the best way to regulate it, and how to prepare society for smarter-than-human AI, among other things.  That makes it all the more remarkable that they — along with 85 […]

A new, bipartisan idea is taking Washington by storm: collective ownership of the means of production.  Sort of, anyway. Last Friday, President Donald Trump announced that he would soon be meeting with the executives of top AI companies to discuss a financial “partnership.”  “There are concepts where pieces [of these companies] could be given to […]

This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: Donald Trump has a new pick for director of national intelligence.  Who’s the new guy? Jay Clayton, currently the US attorney for the Southern District […]