Living With Climate Change: ‘Like unfiltered cigarettes’: Why is wildfire smoke so dangerous for the lungs?

marketwatch.com Wildfire smoke drifting down from Canada has left much of the U.S. Northeast and upper Midwest coughing under a haze of orange skies. Even those limiting their outside…

Thomas W. Sarnoff, NBC and Television Academy Executive, Dies at 96

variety.com Thomas W. Sarnoff, a longtime NBC executive who went on to hold leadership roles at the Television Academy, died on June 4. He was 96. From 1965 to 1977, Sarnoff served as…

Bank of Canada now eyeing 'corporate pricing behaviour' in its inflation fight

bnnbloomberg.ca We are unfairly asking the central bank to cure what ails Canada: Manulife's chief economist More than a year into its interest rate hiking cycle, the Bank of Canada has set…

BlackRock Cannonballs Into the Venture Debt Market With Kreos Acquisition

institutionalinvestor.com The world’s largest asset manager hasn’t done any venture deals in Europe and relatively few in the U.S. Terms of the deal announced Thursday were not disclosed. Since it…

More than 60 million Americans exposed to hazardous levels of wildfire smoke, a new record

axios.com The scope and severity of the Canadian wildfire-induced smoke event that has enveloped the New York to Washington corridor is astonishing even sober-minded meteorologists…

Submit Your Articles to the Journal of Free Speech Law, Before You Circulate Them to the Law Reviews

reason.com Our peer-reviewed Journal of Free Speech Law, which is now two years old, has published over fifty articles, including by Jack Balkin (Yale), Mark Lemley (Stanford), Jeremy…

N.Y. sends firefighters to Canadian wildfires as U.S. records worst smoke day in 20 years

nbcnews.com Most air quality forecasts and alerts will include readings on what’s known as the Air Quality Index — numbers expressed on a scale from 0 to 500. But what do these figures…

19 strategies for cultivating a team committed to company values

newsweek.com Company values are the guiding principles that shape an organization's culture and define its identity. However, only having values in place is not enough. To truly embed…

Meta warned it faces ‘heavy sanctions’ in EU if it fails to fix child protection issues on Instagram

techcrunch.com The European Union has fired a blunt warning at Meta, saying it must quickly clean up its act on child protection or face the risk of “heavy sanctions”. The warning follows…

Wildfire smoke impacts more than our health

cbsnews.com With the smoke from burning Canadian forests enveloping the U.S. Northeast, major cities fell silent this week. Public schools canceled outdoor activities, companies sent…

TV Is Dying, but Decentralization Is the Cure

blockworks.co American television and video heritage are at risk. There’s no reason to believe that your favorite shows or your favorite team’s games will be preserved for future…

Elon Musk Says Instagram Pedophilia Controversy 'Extremely Concerning'

benzinga.com Elon Musk has expressed deep concern regarding the recent pedophilia controversy surrounding Instagram, the social media platform owned by Meta Platforms Inc. META. What…

Changemakers: d.light

youtube.com After meeting his now co-founder, Sam Goldman (MBA '07) at Stanford GSB, Ned Tozun, (MBA '07), realized that access to ...

Is Remote Work Really the Future?

city-journal.org Economic change often happens gradually, and then some big shock comes along—a war, a natural disaster, or a global pandemic—and slow-moving changes already in the works…

US Senators take Meta to task for releasing LLaMA AI model after token safety checks

theregister.com US senators Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Josh Hawley (R-MO) have asked Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to address AI safety concerns after its large language system LLaMA was…

Canada’s wildfire crisis could be a preview of the future

msnbc.com That’s what public health officials and medical experts have been advising tens of millions of people in the U.S. over the last couple of days as smoke from raging wildfires…

Wildfire smoke costs U.S. workers more than $100 billion a year in pay

cbsnews.com How to stay safe as air quality worsens on East Coast from Canadian wildfires With the smoke from burning Canadian forests enveloping much of the U.S. Northeast, public…

Instagram's algorithms are promoting accounts that share child sex abuse content, researchers find

cnbc.com UKRAINE - 2020/11/06: In this photo illustration an Instagram logo is seen displayed on a smartphone. (Photo Illustration by Valera Golovniov/SOPA Images/LightRocket via…

Cheese Pizza? Meta's Instagram Facilitated Massive Pedophile Network

zerohedge.com Cheese Pizza? Meta's Instagram Facilitated Massive Pedophile Network A comprehensive investigation by the Wall Street Journal and the Stanford Internet Observatory reveals…

Instagram’s recommendation algorithms are promoting pedophile networks

theverge.com A joint investigation from The Wall Street Journal and academics at Stanford University and the University of Massachusetts Amherst has revealed the extent to which…

Instagram algorithm boosted ‘vast pedophile network,’ alarming report claims

nypost.com Instagram’s recommendation algorithms linked and even promoted a “vast pedophile network” that advertised the sale of illicit “child-sex material” on the platform, according…

Instagram Algorithm Spreads Underage Sexual Content -- WSJ

thewrap.com Instagram is spreading child pornography due to a lack of oversight and recommendation algorithms that don’t adequately discriminate good from bad, the Wall Street Journal…

Instagram Algorithms Connect ‘Vast’ Network of Pedophiles Seeking Child Pornography, According to Researchers

variety.com Instagram’s recommendation algorithms have enabled a “vast” network of pedophiles seeking illegal underage sexual content and activity, according to a Wall Street Journal…

Meta starts task force in fight against child pornography on Instagram

washingtonpost.com Meta has started a task force to investigate how its photo-sharing app Instagram facilitates the spread and sale of child sexual abuse material. The new effort by the…

US Senators raise concerns about ethical control on Meta’s AI-model LLaMA

cryptoslate.com U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal and Josh Hawley wrote to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on June 6, raising concerns about LLaMA – an artificial intelligence language model…

10 Things in Tech: Apple Vision Pro, Big Tech's big AI salaries, and Marc Andreessen's plan to save the world

businessinsider.com Hello, readers. Nathan Rennolds, an associate editor in London, here. Last week, robot pizza startup Zume reportedly closed down, despite having raised almost $500 million…

Is the Country.... Continuing to Get Better?

danieldrezner.substack.com The most widely read Drezner’s World newsletter to date ran six months ago. Back in December 2022 I suggested, elite commentary notwithstanding, that maybe, just maybe, the…

Money and Love

youtube.com Stanford GSB Professor Emerita Myra Strober and alumna Abby Davisson (MBA/MA '08) discuss the need for systemic change in ...

Six Founders Making Their Debut On The Fintech 50

forbes.com very year for the Fintech 50, our annual list of the most innovative fintech startups, we evaluate hundreds of new companies that have never earned a spot before. Despite…

Senators Question Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg Over LLaMA AI Model “Leak”

decrypt.co Mark Zuckerberg, Meta CEO, is in the crosshairs of two U.S senators. In a letter today, Sens. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), chair of the Senate’s Subcommittee on Privacy,…

Rotten apple

morningbrew.com Digging into money maneuvers that feel sus. Another entrepreneurial maverick with big ideas and bigger ambitions is getting positive press and awarded the coveted (or…

The 'Elon Paradox': He sells Teslas

fortune.com Politics, cars, and the internet collided when Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis officially began his presidential campaign in a Twitter interview with Tesla CEO Elon Musk. While…

Recession outlook: Why plunging labor productivity is bad for economy

businessinsider.com US productivity has fallen off a cliff over the past several quarters. • Even though the economy feels largely fine right now, such a decline has been a leading indicator of…

Wisconsin has quietly become a hotbed of fusion power startups. Will it last?

techcrunch.com Time for some quick word association: When you think of Wisconsin, what comes to mind? Probably not nuclear fusion. And yet in the last few years, America’s Dairyland has…

Inside The Rise Of A Fintech Startup Using AI And Human Insight To Fight Fraud

forbes.com Seven years ago, two twentysomething data scientists spotted a novel phenomenon: synthetic identity fraud. They turned that discovery into fast-growing SentiLink, a member…

3 California universities are in the top 10 for churning out startup founders who have gotten funding since 2022

businessinsider.com Stanford, UCLA and USC are in the top 10 schools with grads who have gotten private startup funding. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Stanford, UCLA and USC are in the top 10…

Transcript: Ramit Sethi

ritholtz.com The transcript from this week’s, Ramit Sethi on Living Richly, is below. You can stream and download our full conversation, including any podcast extras, on Apple Podcasts,…

Housing market going into "very frightening time," investor warns

newsweek.com A billionaire investor is sounding the alarm on the real estate market over a decade after he profited mightily off the housing market crash. "Since we had the dotcom bust…

The “return to the office” won’t save the office

vox.com The weak return to the office won’t solve the office market’s problems. | Amir Hamja/Bloomberg via Getty Images More people are going to offices more of the time. Offices…

How Base10 Investor Ade Ajao Embraced Outsider Status To Deliver Outsized Returns

forbes.com The first-ever Black investor on the Midas List of the world’s top venture capitalists, Ajao is looking to generate big impact — and profits — at Base10 Partners. hen…

Rose Zhang Dominated College Golf---Then Won Her Pro Debut

wsj.com Rose Zhang capped her sterling Stanford golf career last month with a second consecutive NCAA individual title. A few days later she turned 20 years old. Then she turned…

Tech cluster emerges at huge revamped industrial complex in Oakland

siliconvalley.com OAKLAND — A long-time industrial center and former artists’ colony in West Oakland is being reimagined as a bustling hub for tech, advanced manufacturing, biotech and clean…

A company replaced all of its managers with coaches. Employees became 20% more productive

fortune.com There’s a crisis developing in workplaces everywhere. According to an annual survey by Gallup, employee engagement dropped to a seven-year low in 2022. Only a third of…

How AI could save the stock market

markets.businessinsider.com Artificial intelligence is stabilizing the stock market Yuichiro Chino/Getty Images AI is all the rage in the stock market right now. AI-affiliated mega-cap stocks like…

A brief history of zero-knowledge proofs, the buzzy mathematical technique that’s taken crypto by storm

fortune.com These two letters, shorthand for zero-knowledge proofs, are everywhere in the world of crypto. Every new startup seemingly includes some iteration of ZK in its pitch deck.…

Meet The Psychologist Determined To Prove Video Games Are Good, Actually

kotaku.com This article is part of our new women in gaming series Makers of Now. Dr. Rachel Kowert is a busy woman. The video game research psychologist is currently in London, where…

Zhang Makes History, $412,500 With Her Own ‘Hello World’ Moment In First LPGA Tour Start

forbes.com Rose Zhang lived up to the hype in her professional golf debut, creating her own “Hello World,” moment. The game’s most decorated women’s amateur golfer won the inaugural…

Nevada lawmakers consider public financing for Athletics stadium

morningbrew.com That’s the thorny question Nevada’s lawmakers could answer as soon as today, as they decide whether to offer up to $380 million in public funds to help build a baseball…

Ozempic, Wegovy force weight loss companies to upend their approaches

nbcnews.com Create your free profile or log in to save this article Create your free profile or log in to save this article The rise of the popular obesity and diabetes drugs Wegovy and…

Crypto’s Richest Man Is Waiting Out the Chaos

news.yahoo.com There was a moment, late last fall, when Changpeng Zhao seemed like the smartest guy in crypto. The news was sudden and definitive: Binance, Zhao’s international trading…

This 35-Year-Old Man Was Unemployed When He Founded NerdWallet

finance.yahoo.com Tim Chen, CEO and co-founder of NerdWallet Inc., has come a long way since the 2008 financial crisis when he found himself among the unemployed, like many others at that…

Getting into an Ivy League school is all about 'measurable accomplishments,' says a college advisor who charges $150,000

businessinsider.com Blair Hall at Princeton University. Getty Images Ivy Link founder Adam Nguyen helps the well-off get their kids into top US colleges. He charges parents at least $150,000 to…

Does the 14th Amendment permit the president to bypass the debt ceiling?

latimes.com President Biden said last week he has been “considering the 14th Amendment” but remains wary of invoking it as a solution to the debt standoff. The Constitution gives…

What the world’s hottest MBA courses reveal about 21st-century business

economist.com S Graduate School of Business ( ) exhorts its students to dream big. When one of its alumni in the class of 2006, Rishi Sunak, became Britain’s prime minister last year, the…

San Francisco’s “woke maths” experiment

economist.com S school district was in trouble. Only 19% of tenth graders had passed the state maths exam and were not required to repeat a maths course. That number dropped further, to…