POLITICO1 day ago5 questions for Christopher SnyderPOLITICO - By DEREK ROBERTSON Hello, and welcome to this week’s edition of the Future in Five Questions. Today we feature Dartmouth University economics professor Christopher Snyder. He is the co-director of the University of Chicago’s Market Shaping Accelerator, which aims to create market incentives to solve social problems …
POLITICO2 days agoQuantum's big numbers gamePOLITICO - By DEREK ROBERTSON With potentially billions of dollars of government funding (and profit) at stake in the race to build functional quantum computers, there’s a massive hype machine to match. Last week Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont.) introduced legislation that would pump $2.5 …
POLITICO3 days agoBitcoin's looming identity crisisPOLITICO - By DEREK ROBERTSON Top Republicans are falling in love with bitcoin. Sometimes, to hear them tell it, literally: “I have truly fallen in love with Crypto / DeFi,” Eric Trump wrote on X Tuesday teasing a “big announcement” (echoed this morning by his older brother). Trump paterfamilias appeared at the Bitcoin 2024 …
POLITICO4 days agoNASA's Boeing-sized headachePOLITICO - By DEREK ROBERTSON The return to Earth of two astronauts is unexpectedly up in the air (no pun intended) — and so is the future of NASA’s game-changing partnership with private industry. In June, two astronauts successfully reached the International Space Station in Boeing’s Starliner capsule after its maiden crewed …
POLITICO5 days agoHow to stop Musk's disinfo on X? Try beggingPOLITICO - By CHRISTINE MUI With help from Derek Robertson Elon Musk, who has pledged his support to Republican former President Donald Trump, does not seem to face any limit to how much he can use social media to tilt the political field. He is facing accusations in the U.K. that he’s fanning the flames of anti-immigrant riots …
POLITICO5 questions for Nvidia's Josh ParkerPOLITICO - By STEVEN OVERLY With help from Derek Robertson Hello, and welcome to today’s edition of the Future in Five Questions. Steven interviewed Josh Parker, the senior director of corporate sustainability at Nvidia, the artificial intelligence juggernaut and third-largest company in the U.S. Parker argues that AI and …
POLITICOCrypto shifts the political playing fieldPOLITICO - By DEREK ROBERTSON Cryptocurrency appears to be the star of a political bidding war that’s roiling the Democratic Party while top Republicans embrace it. Crypto-friendly Democrats are cautioning Vice President Kamala Harris against ceding the still-growing technology to the GOP, as consumer protection-minded …
