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via The Atlantic:
Something Is Happening to America’s Moral Code
by Graeme Wood
published on April 24, 2026
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There is something deeper about the damage done by the government, too. The Anthropic-DoW skirmish is the first major public debate that is truly about where the proper locus of control over frontier AI should be. Our public institutions behaved erratically, maliciously, and without strategic clarity. Our political leaders conveyed little understanding of their own actions, to say nothing of the technology and its stakes. They got off on an extraordinarily bad footing, and it is hard to imagine them ever recovering, because they do not seem to care about improvement.
~ Dean Ball via Hyperdimensional
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via The Economist:
China’s AI giants are handing out cash to lure in users
published on March 9, 2026
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Here is the Fall 2025 HigherED.zone ranking of the Five Best Business Schools in Wisconsin:
This Top Five List was determined by a ranked choice vote of the HigherED.zone editorial board.
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Dario Amodei, who has a mop of curly hair and perennially askew glasses, gives the impression of a restless savant who has been patiently coached to restrain his spasmodic energy. He was later joined at OpenAI by his younger sister, Daniela, a humanities type partial to Joan Didion.
~ Gideon Lewis-Kraus via The New Yorker
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via The New York Times:
David Leonhardt: ‘By the Time Trump Comes for Your University, It’s Probably Too Late’
by David Leonhardt and Patrick Healy
published on March 27, 2025
Pull Quote:
“American higher education is the strongest higher education sector in the world and it’s not particularly close. You can look at rankings of the world’s top universities — many of which are produced by people outside the United States — and U.S. universities dominate them.”
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