The AI boom began unassumingly, with a 2017 research paper titled “Attention Is All You Need” about how to translate text between languages. At the time, the findings did not look like the start of a ...

For much of the past year, alarm about the credit taken on to fund the boom in artificial intelligence has centered on software—a concern I examined in June. The focus is understandable.

Corporate leaders are facing a convergence of forces exposing serious weaknesses in their artificial-intelligence strategy. Employees are losing trust in leadership, returns on AI investment are ...

When a 99-point wine appears at $40, you pay attention.” That’s how Anthropic’s Claude opened a promotional email for customers of online wine retailer Wine Access. The company’s writers took a ...

US federal spending during the COVID-19 pandemic was enormous even by Uncle Sam’s standards. With the economy and job market in a free fall, and the severity of the health crisis uncertain, ...

For the better part of a year, private credit has been the object of many sideways glances and concerned mumbles from financial analysts, who worry the industry may be precariously balanced on the ...

In a rural area of Honduras where maize, cattle, and dairy farms are abundant, a small-business owner makes his living by raising and selling pigs. Recently, he was considering accessing credit to ...

Hiring is, more and more, dominated by artificial intelligence. Standard AI-powered tools can sift through résumés, saving companies time and resources. Newer AI voice agents can also collect ...

One day last spring, I came back to my office from a lunch meeting and found a high-school student camping outside. He was a prospective University of Chicago undergrad, and he said he was passionate ...

Demis Hassabis is not a chemist, yet he was one of three recipients of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The prize recognized major contributions to the study of protein structures. Hassabis, a ...

Generative artificial intelligence has set off a tremendous amount of excitement, speculation, and anxiety thanks to its ability to convincingly mimic human work, including human writing. Although a ...

Thirty years ago, job seekers paged through newspaper ads, made cold calls, or approached strangers at corporate networking events. Today, online applications and social networking platforms like ...