Rapid tech innovation brings AI closer to consciousness

The latest large language models appear to question, display emotion, convey preference, possess independent thought, and even offer wisdom. Is this still algorithms, or something deeper?

Marco Mossad

The Women of the Space Race

Edith Gustan’s name appears in the fourth paragraph of a Seattle Times article from 1970, a skinny strip of text above a nearly full-page ad for Sears’ Mother’s Day sale that advertises, among…

Megan Burbank

Saudi Arabia and the Space Age

In past centuries geo-political scientists agreed that if one wanted to control the world, one had to control the seas. Since the dawn of the 21stcentury, the new frontier of hegemony is space…

Ahmed Taher