#Commentary

As breakthrough drugs offer critical hope to patients, lawmakers should focus on shoring up the social safety net

This article was originally published on Addy Osmani’s blog. It’s being reposted here with the author’s permission. Roughly: Anytime you find an agent makes a mistake, you take the time to engineer a solution such that the agent never makes that mistake…

"Michael" and the Potterverse are booming. Apparently, we're done feeling bad about what that means.

The president, smarting from setbacks in war and tariffs, visits Ji Xinping ready to make deals

A rival Advanced Placement curriculum is offering a dangerous view of the Constitution and America's founders

‘I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation,’ Donald Trump told reporters while defending his Iran strategy

I just sat in a room full of data engineers the other week who were worrying about AI automating them out of work the same way auto manufacturing in Detroit was upended half a century ago. All AI. All the time.…

Savannah Guthrie will host the NBC prime-time game show as the Times expands Wordle beyond the internet

Steve Yegge’s article about programmer burnout (“The AI Vampire”) along with Margaret Storey’s article about Cognitive Debt started an ongoing conversation about programmer fatigue and software quality—two topics that should be linked, but often aren’t.…

As U.S. surveillance flights over the island increase, the president could be betting on action to regain his mojo

Personal AI doesn’t have to run your life to change it. It just must see you clearly and feed your behavior back to you in a way you can’t dodge.…

Human-in-the-Loop becomes an operational bottleneck In my previous article, ”The Missing Layer in Agentic AI,” I argued that AI agents need a deterministic execution kernel—a privileged “Kernel Space” that validates every proposed action before it touches…

The battle over NFL streaming rights now involves broadcasters, billionaires, antitrust scrutiny and President Donald Trump

Only the acronyms have changed in the fight to purge the National Endowment for the Humanities and "woke" education

The Dutch cruise ship incident probably isn’t the next pandemic. That doesn’t mean we’re risk-free from outbreaks

"Mother" escaped its ballroom roots and proliferated Hollywood over the last 10 years. Time to pump the brakes.

As moms are driving the growth in America's labor market, it's time for major investments in early childcare