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A.I. job listing calls for someone with a ‘hacker spirit’

Artificial intelligence is moving at warp speed, and it’s creating new jobs for workers across industries. One such job could end up becoming much more commonplace—and extremely lucrative.  San Francisco–based A.I. startup firm Anthropic has posted a listing for a…

Lloyd’s of London CEO wants to ‘get Monday back’

People just like working from home on Mondays—everyone knows it. But one insurance company CEO is sounding the alarm over seeing more traffic in the middle of the week, shrinking the number of days employees get face-time during trading, an…

CoreLogic and KPMG make bold housing market calls

For 124 consecutive months, spanning from the bottom of the housing crash in February 2012 through the top of the Pandemic Housing Boom in June 2022, national home prices as measured by the seasonally adjusted Case-Shiller National Home Price Index rose on…

The strange history of medical cadavers

In 1956, Alma Merrick Helms announced that she was bound for Stanford University. But she would not be attending classes. Upon learning that there was a “special shortage of women’s bodies” for medical students, this semiretired actress had filled out…

Bill Ackman: Government should consider SVB bailout

It’s looking like 2008 for some investors in the private markets.  Venture investors and tech founders are in “sheer panic” after Silicon Valley Bank, a prolific lender and important banking institution for the sector, said that it was taking steps,…

House votes to declassify intelligence on COVID origins

The House voted unanimously on Friday to declassify U.S. intelligence information about the origins of COVID-19, a sweeping show of bipartisan support near the third anniversary of the start of the deadly pandemic. The 419-0 vote was final approval of the bill,…