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The H1-B visa – how to shoot yourself in the foot

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Last week, the Trump administration announced that the H1-B Visa programme would require applicants to make payments of $100,000 per year. There was a fair

If you want to keep your job, get off social media

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For days after the killing of Charlie Kirk, there was nothing in the news but Charlie Kirk. Rightly so – it was a volcanic political

AI in the classroom – the upending of traditional education

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On a recent episode of the New York Times’ Hard Fork podcast, I was startled to hear about an “AI-first” school that has used AI

The immigrant paradox

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If there has been one golden thread which has passed through the political ruptures of many Western polities in the past decade or so, it

Are we any good at measuring how intelligent AI is?

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This is a far more complex question than it seems. Most of us who use AI even cursorily have been impressed by some of the

The Trump–Putin–Zelensky summits: the limits of political abstraction

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Like most people, I was shocked and appalled by the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, and the ensuing brutality meted out to citizens,

The longevity gold rush: adding years, selling dreams

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Remember that once-fresh meme from long ago – “live fast, die young”? It has been put out to pasture. Welcome to the longevity-industrial complex –

Trump − bludgeoning geopolitics with financial weapons

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There have been so many deliberate departures from traditional presidential protocol initiated by Trump that it is difficult to remember how more prudent presidents used

Death, taxes and the thinning of global news

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Like many of my colleagues and friends who have always consumed daily news as a matter of habit and pleasure, there is, of late, a

Artificial Intelligence 1, Copyright 0

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I have written previously about the hot war between creators of content and the “foundation” AI companies like ChatGPT, which hoovered up as much content