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The rise of the fancy freelancer

Getty Images / Vox Amid tech layoffs, contract work isn’t looking so bad. Christine Ruiz left her 9-to-5 job last summer to do the same work as a contractor instead. In both places, she’s a compliance manager, the person...

Are we racing toward AI catastrophe?

Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, speaks during an event at the company’s headquarters in Redmond, Washington, on Tuesday, February 7, 2023. | Chona Kasinger/Bloomberg via Getty Images As tech giants like Microsoft and Go...

Oil company profits are at a record high. It won’t last.

ExxonMobil netted its biggest year ever of $56 billion profits after oil and gas price spikes from the war in Ukraine. | David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images Exxon, BP, and the rest of the oil industry aren’t pre...

What really happened to AP African American studies

A student takes notes during an AP African American studies class on November 1, 2022, in Colorado. The course is part of a national pilot class that about 60 schools nationwide are participating in. | RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Grou...

Google is scrambling to catch up to Bing, of all things

Microsoft chair and CEO Satya Nadella introduces Bing, now with AI. | Courtesy of Dan DeLong/Microsoft Google bookended Microsoft’s big AI search announcement with underwhelming AI news of its own. Microsoft has official...

Is the economy kind of good now?

It might be time to feel a little less bad about the economy. | Daniel Grizelj/Getty Images If this is a recession, it is a weird one. It might be time to open up a perhaps surprising possibility here, at least if you’ve...

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