The shift to artificial intelligence models that can carry out tasks, not just generate content, hasn’t yet taken off in the way the tech industry desperately needs it to.

Salesforce Inc. has struggled to get traction with its nearly two-year-old Agentforce service for businesses. Australia’s Commonwealth Bank reversed plans to cut 45 ...Read more

Scrolling through the news, you might get the impression that mathematics is solved. A Wall Street Journal headline reads, “AI Is Powerful Enough to Crack Our Hardest Math Problems — and Kill Us All.” Science says, “OpenAI breakthrough triggers ‘existential crisis’ in math.” Daniel Litt, a prominent researcher of mathematics at ...Read more

The shift to artificial intelligence models that can carry out tasks, not just generate content, hasn’t yet taken off in the way the tech industry desperately needs it to.

Salesforce Inc. has struggled to get traction with its nearly two-year-old Agentforce service for businesses. Australia’s Commonwealth Bank reversed plans to cut 45 ...Read more

It’s not a stretch of the imagination to say that last week’s midterm election was one the most embarrassing moments of President Donald Trump’s political life. At the time of writing, Democrats have flipped 44 House seats and seven Senate seats, earning a commanding majority in both houses of Congress for the first time since 2020. The ...Read more

The stunning results of last week’s midterm elections hold important lessons for both parties. They should stop crowing and crying and start facing up to them.

Shortly after the Republicans suffered historic losses, Vice President JD Vance issued a postmortem blaming Iran, inflation and Israel. He neglected to mention how much his own ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — When Angelenos chose Nithya Raman as their next mayor, Karen Bass wasn't the only establishment pillar that was resoundingly rebuked.

Here in the country's Latino capital, the metropolis that delivered California its first Latino U.S. senator and pioneered the type of winning political machine that Latinos across the country ...Read more

Make no mistake: Nov. 3 was a change election, driven by widespread dissatisfaction with the economy. What must come next is real change.

Americans have been struggling under the Trump administration’s tariffs, wars and cuts to safety net programs. Higher fuel prices from the Iran war alone are projected to cost U.S. families an extra $170 ...Read more

The newly Democratic Congress faces a lengthy agenda once it's sworn in on Jan. 3 — reversing cuts in Medicare and Medicaid, reestablishing premium subsidies for Affordable Care Act health plans, holding President Donald Trump's incompetent cabinet members to account, investigating the self-dealing and corruption of this White House, etc., etc...Read more

I saw my first picture of a Tesla Cybertruck at the big wooden table of our family’s northern Minnesota hunting shack. Except for myself, a soft-handed writer with a minivan, this was a gathering of men who drove pickup trucks their whole lives.

We passed around someone’s phone displaying the glistening stainless steel prototype while the ...Read more

For years after her sister Polly Klaas was murdered and the killer incarcerated on death row at San Quentin, Annie Nichol viewed the prison with dread, a place that contained the living embodiment of her unimaginable pain and fear.

"Every time I drove by San Quentin, I would kind of get a chill," Nichol told me Sunday. "It felt scary."

Last ...Read more

As I exited my office in downtown Chicago on Election Day, I had to excuse myself to pass through since there was a line of people in front. The line stretched from Wabash Avenue to Monroe Street, on to State Street and all the way to Adams Street.

These were people patiently waiting to vote. This was how I knew a blue wave was coming. In a ...Read more

They appeared like mushrooms after a rain. No announcement of their coming. No explanation. Like Stanley Kubrick’s monolith in the desert. No warning that they would promise to give us the world so they could take our jobs — our soul. Data centers — the home of artificial intelligence.

I’m a television journalist, a narrator. That means...Read more

Although it’s difficult to imagine, the Supreme Court looks poised to eliminate the ability for citizens to bring legal action against U.S. Immigration and Customs agents and other federal officers who violate their constitutional rights. Following a hearing for Nielsen vs. Watanabe on Monday, there is every reason to fear that the court’s ...Read more

Republicans in the House and Senate will be relegated to minority status beginning Jan. 3. They’d be wise to use their last few weeks in the majority productively.

Specifically, there are currently 28 federal judicial vacancies. President Donald Trump has 11 pending nominations for existing openings, with another five awaiting confirmation ...Read more

Now that the dust has settled some after last week’s stunning midterm elections, there are two words the electorate has for President Donald Trump.

No, not those two words.

The two words we’re hearing most are “lame duck.”

As for the other two words, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, the next likely Speaker of the House, covered ...Read more

Are you exhausted? Just can’t shake that weary feeling? If you’re chronically fatigued, you are not alone. Far from it, in fact.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently conducted a national study of fatigue, and researchers found that many Americans admit they are worn out.

Nearly three-fourths of people aged 18 and older ...Read more

It would be wrong to say there wasn’t any federal interference in the midterm elections. The electoral landslide was simply so thorough that the dangers experts had warned about never came to pass.

Some votes are still being counted, and certification deadlines have yet to arrive, but one thing is clear: The nation’s decentralized system of...Read more

The big message from the midterms is that Americans are struggling with the cost of living. In case anyone missed it, they need relief now. This will put even more attention on the Federal Reserve: Will Chair Kevin Warsh do all he can to bring down inflation or placate the White House, which wants lower interest rates?

These are the wrong ...Read more

Kalshi and Polymarket have taken the trading world by storm in recent years, and now Illinois has become a battleground for the future of “prediction markets.”

These newfangled exchanges make it easy for everyday people to trade on simple yes-or-no questions: Will the Chicago Bears win the Super Bowl? Will President Donald Trump be ...Read more

Earlier this fall, sitting in the back of an immigration courtroom in Hyattsville, Maryland, I watched an immigration judge convince an elderly man that he didn’t need an attorney.

The man was facing the threat of deportation to a country where he said he’d experienced attempts on his life in the past. His voice was quiet, but he repeatedly...Read more