Recent articles from publications based in United States.
Palladium Magazineby Duncan Umphrey6 Jun 2026
Last month, Pope Leo XIV presented the papal encyclical Magnifica humanitas, laying out the Catholic Church’s definitive response to the crisis occasioned by the explosive growth of the AI...
History of MITby Amanda Diehl | MIT Schwarzman College of Computing5 Jun 2026
On April 30, the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing’s Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing (SERC) initiative hosted a full-day research symposium examining how artificial intelligence...
History of MITby Media Lab4 Jun 2026
MIT, in collaboration with Georgia State University and a growing network of educational institutions, has announced expanded work under PATH (Pathways for AI Training and Hiring) — a multiyear...
Asterisk Magazineby Elizabeth Van Nostrand3 Jun 2026
We’re All One Crisis Away From Taking Unlicensed Research Peptides Elizabeth Van Nostrand For health hackers, the risk is not experimenting. “Unfounded and reckless” is how Dr.
Coda Storyby Teona Tsintsadze2 Jun 2026
Donald Trump’s $250 gift to launderers and criminals It has become a theme of this newsletter to lay out what is needed to tackle financial crime, and then to point out how the U.S.
Coda Storyby Teona Tsintsadze27 May 2026
AI is not the answer to AI-enabled fraud A top banker has got in trouble by referring to employees whose jobs will be replaced by AI as “lower-value human capital.” But he’s just saying the quiet...
Asterisk Magazineby Leah Libresco Sargeant27 May 2026
What global financial markets have in common with necromancers. Everything has a price. It’s a warning you might receive from a hedge fund trader, along with your “welcome to the firm” fleece vest.
Palladium Magazineby Snezana Gvozdenovic23 May 2026
In 1633, the year after Galileo Galilei published his Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, a book that made a comparative argument strongly favoring heliocentrism, his work was banned...
The Markupby Colin Lecher22 May 2026
The Markup, now a part of CalMatters, uses investigative reporting, data analysis, and software engineering to challenge technology to serve the public good.
Coda Storyby Teona Tsintsadze20 May 2026
Crypto’s corrupt American dream The United States is inching closer to passing a gigantic piece of legislation to put cryptocurrencies on a secure footing, with the bill emerging unscathed from the...
Asterisk Magazineby Zilan Qian20 May 2026
China’s AI enthusiasm seems real. But for a population that lived through the mass layoffs of the 1990s, optimism and fear can look identical from the outside.
History of MITby Denise Brehm | MIT Center for Real Estate19 May 2026
Urbanization in the Asia-Pacific region of the world is occurring at an alarmingly rapid pace, with more than 2.2 billion people now living in cities in the region, and an additional 1.2 billion...
History of MITby Nancy Wolfe Kotary | MIT Haystack Observatory19 May 2026
The Haystack 37m Telescope has been a landmark in radio astronomy and radar studies of the solar system since its first light in 1964.
Coda Storyby Irina Matchavariani18 May 2026
While much of the media industry focused on the churn of headlines, we became increasingly interested in the undercurrents beneath them: the hidden systems, infrastructures and ideologies shaping...
History of MITby MIT News14 May 2026
This week, MIT launches a new initiative — titled Science Is Curiosity on a Mission — to make the case for the long-horizon, curiosity-driven science that has powered generations of American...
Coda Storyby Irina Matchavariani13 May 2026
Legalize Cocaine to save democracy Nigel Farage, the leader of the UK’s right-wing Reform UK party, has taken millions of pounds from crypto people, including one convicted of financial crimes in...
Coda Storyby Irina Matchavariani13 May 2026
On April 24, Brazil’s competition authority, the Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE) announced it was opening an investigation to assess whether Google’s use of news content amounted...
Asterisk Magazineby Tessa Augsberger; Elan Kluger; Rufus Knuppel13 May 2026
Gen Z are a bunch of cowards…or are they risking it all on crypto? The editors of TheNew Critic report on their generation’s Risk-geist.
History of MITby MIT Sea Grant | Department of Mechanical Engineering12 May 2026
The hallowed history of student pranks (often known as hacks) at MIT includes the annual Baker House Piano Drop and the MIT weather balloon at the Harvard-Yale football game in 1982.
NBC Newsby Mili Godio12 May 2026
After a long, busy day, cooking dinner may be the last thing you want to do. Prepared meal delivery services remove the work with low-effort, ready-to-eat meals that you can pop into your oven or...
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