Month: August 2025

AI Transforming San Francisco’s Economy Back in the Gold Rush days, prospectors flooded San Francisco, dreaming of overnight fortunes. Today, another kind of rush electrifies the city: the race to

AI Rights and the Legal Future In 1872, Charles Darwin wrote to a colleague expressing sympathy toward animals, questioning whether the pain suffered by a dog or an ape is

Workers Secretly Use Banned AI When Henry Ford installed the first moving assembly line in 1913, workers quickly found creative ways to speed up—or hack—their routine. Today’s employees are no

    Uncovering the Human Side of AI In the early days of computing, behind every blinking machine sat a group of women known as “computers”—human beings manually calculating complex

AI Agents Save 1000 Days Annually Just a few years ago, processing thousands of insurance claims or scheduling patient appointments could easily swallow weeks, even months of man-hours. Today, innovations

European Tech Stocks Lag AI Boom When the dotcom bubble burst at the turn of the century, American markets may have reeled, but Europe never quite achieved lift-off in the

Duolingo Faces Backlash After AI Shift In 2013, Duolingo was hailed as a revolutionary tool in language learning, democratizing education with bite-sized lessons, gamified progress, and friendly owl reminders. Fast

AI Personal Trainers vs Human Coaches In 2018, a world-class marathoner shocked the fitness world—not by winning a race, but by publicly announcing that most of his training was planned

Embracing AI in Education Through Sci-Fi In 1995, I sat wide-eyed in front of a VHS copy of Star Trek: The Next Generation, mesmerized as the android Data effortlessly calculated

AI and Religion: Exploring Machine Faith In 2017, a robot in Japan was appointed as a Buddhist priest. Named “Mindar,” this AI-powered android delivers sermons on the Heart Sutra in