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CEO Picks - The best that international journalism has to offer!  S33Apple quietly improves Mac virtualization in macOS 15 Sequoia  We’ve written before about Apple’s handy virtualization framework in recent versions of macOS, which allows users of Apple Silicon Macs with sufficient RAM to easily set up macOS and Linux virtual machines using a number of lightweight third-party apps. This is useful for anyone who needs to test software in multiple macOS versions but doesn’t own a fleet of Mac hardware or multiple boot partitions. (Intel Macs support the virtualization framework, too, but only for Linux VMs, making it less useful.)
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S1Astronomers near a complete picture for how planets form For a species that grew up on life-giving planet Earth, it’s a wonder that we still don’t have an end-to-end scientific picture for how planets actually form in this Universe. Even with our most advanced observatories, like NASA’s Hubble and JWST, we’ve only ever obtained “snapshots” of stellar systems at a variety of ages and stages, including:It’s only in very recent years, since the advent of the infrared-sensitive JWST and the radio capabilities of ALMA combined, that we’ve been able to piece together a complete picture of these various stages, including what happens and when, with extraordinary implications for our own Solar System. Here’s the most complete picture we’ve been able to assemble as of today.
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S2Why L&D teams are mission critical to AI adoption Most leaders get it: genAI is this generation’s new general purpose technology, and if they don’t engage with it, their organization is liable to get left behind. So they run experiments. Invest in new talent, and new functional groups, or lines of business. Buy enterprise licenses for ChatGPT. This applies whether this new form of cognitive automation is existential to their strategy — requiring a deep rethink and dramatic reallocation of precious resources — or merely a potential change in the way they pursue known goals. Most workers get it, too. According to Microsoft’s Annual Work Trend report for 2024, 75% of employees use genAI on work tasks. Never mind the significant pressure not to use the technology: many organizations ban it and many work cultures — organizational, office, occupational — frown on it. Workers are handling that problem by simply keeping their use private. Oh, you say my productivity’s up? Interesting, must be this new espresso roast.
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S3How to handle the toxic stars who can tear teams apart In 2007, Dr. Robert Sutton, a professor of management science at Stanford University School of Engineering wrote the book, The No Asshole Rule. The premise is that bullying behavior in the workplace worsens morale and productivity. Sutton outlines two tests to recognize the asshole:Companies that are deeply focused on short-term performance over long-term health tend to employ and/or promote brilliant assholes — incidentally or intentionally. Brilliant assholes are superstars in their field, but they can tear teams apart from the inside. These leaders are sometimes operating without any empathy because they are incapable of it. Wherever brilliant assholes are at your company, I can almost guarantee employee engagement will be low and teams will be highly dysfunctional and low performing.
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S4How is France dodging the global obesity trend? More than 1 billion people now live with obesity, according to a study published earlier this year in The Lancet. That’s about one in every eight humans on the planet — and twice the number of those suffering from underweight, the other malnutrition.The world’s waistline has been getting wider faster than previously thought. That 1-billion milestone had previously been projected to be surpassed in 2030. In reality, we hit that number in 2022.
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S5Why is the Sun so active right now? In case you thought the momentary absence of the Sun during April’s total eclipse was the biggest solar news of 2024, hold tight. This year is shaping up to be a wild one for our star.The Sun is behaving violently right now, throwing out fiery flares and spewing roiling clouds of plasma. Viewers across much of Earth were treated to an amazing show of the aurora in the last several days, with the northern lights visible as far south as Alabama and Arizona. The Sun’s behavior is something we should all watch this summer—and not just because solar action may continue to bring beautiful curtains of aurora to our night skies. The reliable, ferocious, and disorderly 11-year behavior cycle of the Sun is one of the most bizarre phenomena in our solar system.
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S6OpenAI Hires New CFO, Product Chief, Underlining Its Push For Profits Monday was a big day for OpenAI, the brand at the pointy forefront of the AI tech revolution. It announced a partnership with Apple that will put its chatbot technology into new iPhones, iPads and Macs, and also revealed it had hired a new CFO and chief product officer. Both hires were from outside the company, and both were from well outside the realms of computer science. It looks like after last year's C-suite debacle that saw its CEO ousted, OpenAI is tightening up and focusing on what it really wants--monetizing its products.Friar was previously CEO at Nextdoor--a social network of local nodes that describes itself as an "app for neighborhoods where you can get local tips, buy and sell items, and more." Friar helped take the company public in 2021, and its stock surged some 30 percent immediately, though it now trades at around a quarter of its debut price. Before that, Friar was chief financial officer at Square, a financial services platform that began life as a startup cofounded by Twitter founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey. Friar's own LinkedIn page explains that at Square, she oversaw the company as it "launched its initial public offering in 2015 and added $30 billion in market capitalization." Friar is an Oxford University-educated engineer who holds an MBA from Stanford.
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S7Baltimore Shipping Channel Fully Reopens After Bridge Collapse The main shipping channel into Baltimore's port has fully reopened to its original depth and width following the March 26 collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, which blocked most maritime traffic into the harbor.Officials announced the full reopening in a news release Monday evening. It comes after a massive cleanup effort as crews removed an estimated 50,000 tons of steel and concrete from the Patapsco River.
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S8Gas Prices Fall, but Summer Demand Forecast Is Mild That's down about 9 cents from a week ago--marking the largest one-week drop recorded by the motor club so far in 2024. Monday's average was also more than 19 cents less than it was a month ago and over 14 cents below the level seen this time last year."Demand is just kind of shallow," AAA spokesperson Andrew Gross said, pointing to trends seen last year and potential lingering impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. "Traditionally--pre-pandemic--after Memorial Day, demand would start to pick up in the summertime. And we just don't see it anymore."
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S9What Could Happen With Elon Musk's $56 Billion Pay Package A Tesla shareholder vote on Thursday on whether to reinstate CEO Elon Musk's $56 billion pay package that was shot down by a Delaware judge will not provide a quick resolution, irrespective of the tally's results.Tesla's board is hoping shareholder approval will give the electric vehicle maker the legal ammunition it needs to reinstate the package, though that is far from certain. The company has also said if the compensation plan is rejected by shareholders, it expects Musk would only accept a pay package that is similar in size to the voided one.
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S10UAW President Faces Probe Over Alleged Retaliation Against Other Union Leaders DETROIT (Reuters) -United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain is under investigation by an independent federal monitor over allegations of retaliation against other union leaders, according to a court filing on Monday.Monitor Neil Barofsky opened an investigation in February to review allegations, including that UAW Secretary-Treasurer Margaret Mock said she had faced retaliation for her refusal or reluctance to authorize certain expenditures for Fain's office, according to the filing. Barofsky also opened a probe into Mock's actions.
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S11How a Software Company Rebranded and Raised $35 Million in a Month But it's certainly not impossible. At least, that's what Mazy Dar, co-founder and CEO of the workspace software company Here--formerly OpenFin--says. The New York City-based company started as a banking app in 2010 and evolved into a specialized web browser for finance clients. It aimed to solve inefficiencies by combining tabs into dedicated layouts on one screen, and to offer heightened security because it was a private browser--meaning users would be less at risk of cyberattacks than they would be on a normal web browser.After nearly 15 years, Dar and co-founder Chuck Doerr--who's also the brand's CIO--realized that clients outside of finance might benefit from this technology, too. That's what led the company to rebrand as Here and roll out features that can easily apply to a wider range of other industries; the company will keep the OpenFin name on its existing financial products, according to the company's press release.
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S12Burgum, Vance, Scott, Rubio: Who's Best for Business on Trump's VP Short List? It's the question everyone's wondering: Who's going to be Donald Trump's running mate? Or maybe, who wants to be Trump's second in command, given how well it worked out for the last holder of that office? North Dakota governor Doug Burgum, Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Senator J.D. Vance (R-Ohio), and Senator Tim Scott (R-S.C.) are reportedly the four lawmakers on the shortlist for Trump's VP pick. All four received vetting documents in the past week, according to NBC News.
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S13She Built a Unicorn Startup With Her Brother. Now They Want to Do It All Over Again Suneera Madhani helped lead Stax Payments to a billion-dollar valuation in 2022: unicorn status. Every entrepreneur dreams of this moment says Madhani. It was all press interviews and celebrations, and a week later, it was done, she says, "Now what?" She exited the business in 2023.Madhani returned to the startup scene in March with her brother and Stax co-founder Sal Rehmetullah to launch Worth AI. Worth is an AI-powered credit underwriting and risk management platform for businesses that aims to standardize business credit scores. In this episode of Your Next Move the podcast, Madhani sat down with Aisha Bowe, founder and CEO of STEMboard and Lingo, to discuss how she built a unicorn and what it's going to take to do it again. Here are highlights of their conversation.
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S14Bill Gates's Nuclear Startup Breaks Ground on Wyoming Power Plant Nuclear power company TerraPower broke ground Monday on a nuclear power plant in Kemmerer, Wyoming. If it gets up and running as planned, which could be as soon as 2030, the Natrium plant is expected to generate 345 megawatts of electricity, which can be boosted to 500 to meet demand, powering as many as 400,000 homes.Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, who is also chairman and co-founder of TerraPower, believes nuclear power is the key to the U.S. clean energy transition, and major tech companies view it as an abundant energy source for fueling the tremendous electricity needs of artificial intelligence.
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S15Yum! Brands' Former CEO on Why You Should Never Stop Learning After 15 years leading the parent company of KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell, David Novak wanted to help others become better leaders. He believes the key is to put learning at the center of everything you do, whether you’re an entry-level worker or a multinational executive. Novak outlines three main areas for learning: from your own life experiences, from the people and situations available right now, and from the habit of curiosity. Above all, he says the most effective leaders turn their learnings into action, something that takes insight and practice. Novak’s new book is How Leaders Learn: Master the Habits of the World’s Most Successful People.
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S16Research: How Remote Work Impacts Women at Different Stages of Their Careers While much has been said about the potential benefits of remote work for women, recent research examines how working from home affects the professional development of female software engineers at a Fortune 500 company, revealing that its impact varies by career stage. Junior women engineers benefit significantly from in-person mentorship, receiving 40% more feedback when sitting near colleagues, while senior women face reduced productivity due to increased mentoring duties. Male engineers also benefit from proximity, but less so. The authors suggest that recognizing and rewarding mentorship efforts could mitigate these disparities, ensuring junior women receive adequate support remotely and senior women are properly compensated for their mentoring contributions.
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S17When Your Team Offloads Their Stress onto You Being a leader in today’s evolving workplace is more emotionally demanding than ever — and especially so if you’re quietly sustaining the emotional well-being of your team or others. In this article, the author outlines five strategies to help you perform this vital organizational role without burning yourself out: 1) Seek to understand — not to feel. 2) Install boundaries. 3) Savor your positive impact. 4) Show yourself equal care. 5) Tie your contributions to performance.
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S18Using automation to fight misinformation, starting with a menstrual health chatbot Swapneel Mehta is the founder of the Simppl research collective, a group of students and professional programmers working on automated social media tools. The group’s first product, a WhatsApp chatbot called Sakhi that answers questions about menstrual health in both Bengali and English, is currently in beta mode. It might seem like a strange place to start in the fight against misinformation, but Mehta sees it as a crucial first step in building a system that works for the global majority.We needed to demonstrate that the intervention method works to start with. And we wanted to build for the global majority. What we’ve seen in India and Bangladesh is that even people who might not have access to clean drinking water, they have access to smartphones. We can adapt the same system to teach about public health or about elections — and more importantly, we’ve built out an entire monitoring infrastructure so we can intervene on these conversations down the line. But our first job is to deploy it and test it.
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S19S20S21There's an AI Candidate Running for Parliament in the UK As the United Kingdom heads toward its elections next month, the country is seeing its first instance of a new kind of politician: an AI candidate. AI Steve, an avatar of real-life Steven Endacott, a Brighton-based businessman, is running for Parliament as an Independent.Voters will be able to cast their ballots for AI Steve, as well as ask policy positions or raise issues of their own. AI Steve will then incorporate suggestions and requests into its platform.
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S22Xpeng G6 2024 EV Review: Great Value, But Uninspiring If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. This helps support our journalism. Learn more. Please also consider subscribing to WIREDXpeng is yet another Chinese EV company you likely haven't heard of but ought to know about. Only a decade old, it already produces five different vehicles, employs 15,000 people, and has the capacity to ramp up to 600,000 cars per year. It began its expansion from China into Europe in 2021.
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S23S24The Top New Features in Apple's iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 Apple executives always describe new hardware and software as the âÂÂbestâ or âÂÂbiggestâ ever, but the delivery doesnâÂÂt usually live up to the hype (see the recent iPads). However, the announcements Apple made at its annual developer conferenceâÂÂWWDCâÂÂmight be deserving of a few of those adjectives. iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 have the usual degree of year-over-year quality-of-life improvements, but Apple Intelligence stole the show.This is Apple's implementation of the types of artificial-intelligence-powered tasks that have been sweeping through the tech industry over the past year. Even Siri is getting a much-needed upgradeâÂÂthe biggest since the voice assistantâÂÂs debut 13 years ago.
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S25US Leaders Dodge Questions About Israel's Influence Campaign Federal lawmakers in the US have dodged repeated inquiries over the past week about a covert operation ordered by the Israeli government to artificially boost support among Americans for its war in Gaza. At the same time, senior White House officials charged with advising President Joe Biden on matters of national security are claiming to have no knowledge of the operationâÂÂfirst disclosed publicly more than four months ago.The operation, formally tied to the Israeli government by a New York Times reporter last week, kicked off in October 2023 following the surprise attack by Hamas in southern Israel. Researchers internationally began work to expose the campaign in February, identifying a flood of âÂÂsuspicious accountsâ on US-based social networking apps, most masquerading as Americans avowing support for the Israeli military response.
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S26Behind That Viral LA Billboard That Trolled Microsoft and Other Game Companies Last week, while Summer Game Fest attendees shuffled between game reveals and demos in Los Angeles, an unusual digital billboard captured the attention of millions of people online and off. "Gone but not forgotten," it read, listing shuttered studios like Arkane Austin, Tango Gameworks, and Volition, "+ everyone laid off, downsized, & 'made redundant.' Thank you for great games." When the sign flashed to its second message to downtown LA, it was equally direct: "We love you. We miss you. We hate money."The message was signed "your friends at New Blood," and as soon as Game File reporter Stephen Totilo posted a video of the billboard to X on Thursday, it went viral, eventually racking up more than 3 million views and making headlines on gaming news sites. New Blood Interactive cofounder Dave Oshry, who paid for the viral ad, says he wanted people in the gaming industry to "see it and go 'Hell yeah, good shout' and pour one out for those studios and just remember the games they made." But what he ultimately did was troll an industry that's squeezing developers right as its bigwigs were headed to LA to show off their glitzy new releases.
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S27S28All the Top New Features Coming to MacOS Apple has officially unveiled the latest version of its operating system for Mac. This time around, Apple stuck to its âÂÂCalifornia placesâ naming convention and went with macOS Sequoia. (Yes, a sequoia is a type of tree, but it's also a national park in northern California.)Also known as macOS 15, the new OS packs a ton of new capabilities onto the desktop, including a password management app, videoconferencing tools, and updates to Safari, as well as all the features that come with Apple IntelligenceâÂÂthe company's new artificial-intelligence-powered system. Below, we break down all these new features that will become available in macOS Sequoia when it ships this fall.
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S29Geostrategy by Design | Witold Henisz With political instability rising around the world, now is the time for business leaders to develop a comprehensive strategy to mitigate risk. Wharton’s Witold Henisz explains how in his new book, Geostrategy by Design. This episode is part of the “Meet the Authors” series.Dan Loney: We’re talking with Witold Henisz about his co-authored book, Geostrategy By Design: How to Manage Geopolitical Risk in the New Era of Globalization. It’s guide for executives seeking to thrive and create long-term value in the next global competition. With the growing concerns over geopolitical risk, it’s becoming more evident that companies need to have a strategy to deal with the impacts.
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S30Even healthy couples fight -- the difference is how Can conflict actually bring you and your partner closer? It depends on how you fight, say Julie and John Gottman, the world's leading relationship scientists. They share why the way couples fight can predict the future of their relationships — and show how anybody can transform conflict into an opportunity for deeper connection and understanding.
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S31S32Google's Pixel 8 series gets USB-C to DisplayPort; desktop mode rumors heat up Google's June Android update is out, and it's bringing a few notable changes for Pixel phones. The most interesting is that the Pixel 8a, Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro are all getting DisplayPort Alt Mode capabilities via their USB-C ports. This means you can go from USB-C to DisplayPort and plug right into a TV or monitor. This has been rumored forever and landed in some of the Android Betas earlier, but now it's finally shipping out to production.
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S34Elephants may refer to each other by name Lots of animals communicate with each other, from tiny mice to enormous whales. But none of those forms of communication share all but a small fraction of the richness of human language. Still, finding new examples of complex communications can tell us things about the evolution of language and what cognitive capabilities are needed for it.
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S35S36S37S38S39S40S41In Wildness Is the Preservation of the World Loyal readers of this magazine know that we are preoccupied with matters of climate change, and that we worry about the future of our home planet. I appreciate (I really do) Elon Musk's notion that humans, as a species, ought to pursue an extraplanetary solution to our environmental crisis, but I believe in exploration for exploration's sake, not as a pathway to a time share on Mars.So we at The Atlantic are focused intensely on, among other things, the relationship between humans and the natural world they currently inhabit. We have a long history of interest here. The great conservationist John Muir more or less invented the national-parks system in The Atlantic. John Burroughs defended Charles Darwin in our pages. Rachel Carson wrote her earliest essays, about the sea, for us. And, of course, The Atlantic published much of Thoreau's finest and most enduring writing.
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S42The U.S. Economy Reaches Superstar Status If the United States' economy were an athlete, right now it would be peak LeBron James. If it were a pop star, it would be peak Taylor Swift. Four years ago, the pandemic temporarily brought much of the world economy to a halt. Since then, America's economic performance has left other countries in the dust and even broken some of its own records. The growth rate is high, the unemployment rate is at historic lows, household wealth is surging, and wages are rising faster than costs, especially for the working class. There are many ways to define a good economy. America is in tremendous shape according to just about any of them.The American public doesn't feel that wayâa dynamic that many people, including me, have recently tried to explain. But if, instead of asking how people feel about the economy, we ask how it's objectively performing, we get a very different answer.
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S43The Father-Son Talk I Never Expected to Have I can still remember the street corner in Brooklyn where we were standing, waiting for the light to change, when my wife told me she wanted to have kids. It was a warm weekend day in the summer of 2007: bass rattling the passing cars, sun scumbling the trees, bacon-smell wafting from the wide-open door of the Bona Fide II, our local deli. We were on our way home, but from where? The movies? A museum? Someone's rooftop? A walk across the bridge? The possibilities facing a childless couple on a day off (even a couple barely making rent on the far side of the BQE) now appear to me so lavish as to be unrecognizable. Still, I must have been aware even then of the fragility of our good fortuneâmust have felt on some level that we were getting away with somethingâbecause my first thought was Life is heaven, honey, why change it?My second, probably, was that whenever we'd discussed this stuff before, she'd sworn off becoming a mother ⦠a fact I might have turned to my advantage, had I not then turned to see her face. The set of her chin, as if afraid of being hurt. The terrible vulnerability of a person changing her mind. Her ravenousness for change was something I'd loved in her from the very beginning. It was also, incidentally, near the heart of my love for New York: a place not of perfection but of heedless motion, what E. B. White called "growth against odds, sap-rise in the midst of concrete, and the steady reaching for the sun." And in the time it took the signal to go green, something in me changed too. I reached for her hand and said: Okay, then, let's try something different.
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S44Why Dining Rooms Are Disappearing From American Homes The dining room is the closest thing the American home has to an appendixâa dispensable feature that served some more important function at an earlier stage of architectural evolution. Many of them sit gathering dust, patiently awaiting the next "dinner holiday" on Easter or Thanksgiving.That's why the classic, walled-off dining room is getting harder to find in new single-family houses. It won't be missed by many. Americans now tend to eat in spaces that double as kitchens or living roomsâa small price to pay for making the most of their square footage.
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S45The Atlantic's July/August Issue on Climate Change: With Reporting From George Packer, Vann R. Newkirk II, Ross Andersen, and Katherine J. Wu George Packer's cover story offers a sweeping and kaleidoscopic look at the rise and possible fall of Phoenix, Arizona, and what it means for the future of American civilization.For its July/August issue, The Atlantic has made climate change its focus, leading with today's cover story by staff writer George Packer on the rise and possible fall of Phoenix, Arizona. Packer's piece will be followed by features from staff writers Ross Andersen, who reports from Greenland, and Katherine J. Wu, who reports from Australia, along with senior editor Vann R. Newkirk II, who writes on the need for climate reparations. In an editor's note for the issue, editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg writes: "Loyal readers of this magazine know that we are preoccupied with matters of climate change, and that we worry about the future of our home planet ⦠We have a long history of interest here. The great conservationist John Muir more or less invented the national-parks system in The Atlantic. John Burroughs defended Charles Darwin in our pages. Rachel Carson wrote her earliest essays, about the sea, for us. And, of course, The Atlantic published much of Thoreau's finest and most enduring writing." In his cover story, "The Valley"âthe second-longest that The Atlantic has published in the past 40 yearsâPacker provides a sweeping, kaleidoscopic look at the precarious political and physical ecology of Phoenix, demonstrating that the country's fastest-growing and most dynamic region contains, in microcosm, all of America's most contentious and dangerous issues: climate change and election denialism, education and immigration, homelessness and zoning, the future of the working class and of a multiethnic democracy. Phoenix's contradictions are so greatâexplosive population and economic growth paired with existential political and environmental challengesâthey raise questions about the city's sustainability, and about the sustainability of the American political project. Phoenix, Packer argues, makes you keenly aware of human artificeâits ingenuity and its fragility; growth keeps coming at a furious pace, despite decades of drought, and despite political extremism that makes every election a crisis threatening violence. "Democracy is also a fragile artifice," Packer concludes, after spending eight months reporting in Phoenix. "It depends less on tradition and law than on the shifting contents of individual skullsâbelief, virtue, restraint. Its durability under natural and human stress is being put to an intense test in the Valley. And because a vision of vanishing now haunts the whole country, Phoenix is a guide to our future." Additional stories in the issue will address climate change from a variety of perspectives and regions of the globe. In a piece publishing on June 11, Newkirk argues that America owes a debt to other nations for its role in accelerating climate change, and that paying this debt may be the best way for the world to save itself. Coming June 12 is the feature by Andersen, who traveled to Greenland to report on new technological interventions that could save otherwise-doomed glaciers. In her piece publishing on June 17, Wu reports from Australia on the difficulties the country faces in protecting its most prized and adorable species, the koala, as these animals fight to survive not just climate change but other outside threats, such as chlamydia. George Packer's "The Valley" is published today at TheAtlantic.com. Please reach out with any questions or requests to interview Packer or any of the issue's contributors.Press Contacts: Anna Bross and Paul Jackson | The Atlantic [email protected]
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S46The Far Right's New 'Badge of Honor' The far-right publisher known as "Lomez" kept his identity private, and for good reason. His company, Passage Publishing, has printed books from a German nationalist, anti-democracy monarchists, and white supremacists promoting "human biodiversity." On X, where he has more than 70,000 followers, Lomez has suggested that journalists be killed, praised Kyle Rittenhouse, and tweeted a homophobic slur on at least one occasion.Last month, The Guardian revealed his true identity: Jonathan Keeperman, a former lecturer at UC Irvine. This made Keeperman very upset. On X, he called the behavior of Jason Wilson, who wrote the Guardian story, "obsessive" and "delusional." "They want to harass [me], they want to discredit our ideas," he said during an appearance on a conservative podcast. Lomez's fans and followers joined in the outrage. The conservative activist Christopher Rufo posted on X that Wilson is "a human worm," adding, "Even the mafia has a greater sense of decency." A conservative Substack author wrote that the Lomez's identity reveal would bring the "threat of violence" from "antifa goons."
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S47Biden Saw What Was Wrong With Democrats' Immigration Policy President Joe Biden's recent executive actions on asylum and other border-security issues mark more than a shift to a more restrictive immigration policy. They're also a rejection of the narrative that progressive advocacy groups and Latino Democrats have been pushing for years: that the best way to woo voters in the nation's largest ethnic minority is to push for a permissive immigration system.The fear of offending Latino voters with significantly tighter border measures has hampered Democrats' ability to forge a coherent immigration policyâeven though recent polling shows more and more Latino voters expressing concerns about the current level of undocumented immigration and backing stricter controls. According to an Axios/Ipsos survey conducted in late March, nearly two-thirds of Latino respondents favored giving the president the authority to shut down the border. Only about 40 percent agreed with hard-line measuresâa border wall, the deportation of all undocumented immigrantsâbut support for those ideas has jumped by about 10 points since late 2021.
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S48The Mid-year Best-of List Is a Travesty If you've been alive between Christmas and New Years, you've probably read a Best of the Year list. Best movies of the year. Best albums. Art. Social-media trends. Anything, really. Last year, according to The New York Times, VÃkingur Ãlafsson's recording of Bach's "Goldberg Variations," the actor Bella Ramsey, and a sushi-and-scuba video game called Dave the Diver were worthy of your time and attention. These annual rundowns arrive during a period of reflection, when a full year's worth of human art and industry is about to recede into history.A new take on this list has now emerged: the Best So Far list. The best books of the year so far. The best movies so far, best songs so far, best anime series so far. The best wristwatches so far, even. What does it mean to offer an account of the best culture of ⦠the first five months of 2024? So-farness makes for arbitrary timing, and endless repetition. You and I and everyone else live in the present, and we may wonder what television show, comic book, or quick-service-restaurant bowl has become the most worthy of our limited attention in all the time that has elapsed since the last best-of list came outâwhether that happened in December, on a day in early spring, or just last Tuesday afternoon. A Best So Far list can arrive at any moment. A Best So Far culture has no lower limit to its attention span.
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S49Trump Is Lying to the U.S. Military He demonstrates contempt for Americans in uniform while claiming to adore themâbut wants service members to "revolt" for him at the ballot box.This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.
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S50The iPhone Is Now an AI Trojan Horse Today, at Apple's annual developers conferenceâwhere new software products are previewed in slick video presentationsâthe company finally joined the generative-AI race. The company introduced Apple Intelligence, a suite of AI features that will be rolled out to the tech giant's latest operating systems starting this fall. New generative-AI models will help Apple users write work memos and highly personalized text; create images and emoji; connect and organize photos, calendar events, and emails.The tools supposedly rely on the context of what's happening on your device: They'll be able to identify which contacts you are referencing and pull information from a range of apps. Apple offered a quintessentially Apple example in its marketing video: The senior vice president of software engineering, Craig Federighi, plays a busy dad who uses Apple Intelligence to figure out whether a last-minute meeting will conflict with his daughter's play. The tool pulls information from his calendar, scans a PDF his daughter sent him, and looks at the traffic on Apple Maps to figure out if he can make it on time. This, Apple stresses, is not some wonky enterprise-software solutionâ"This is AI for the rest of us," Federighi declares.
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