Steve Lohr
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New York Times technology and economics reporter. Mostly tweet worthy reads. [email protected]
New York, NY
Joined August 2009
There are step ladders to the middle class. Just far too few.
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A handful of innovators have developed successful programs to help lift low-income workers into the middle class. Can their model become the norm?
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Smart and illuminating column by @mims As an aside, look at the picture of the American team - immigration at its best. via @WSJ.
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Google DeepMind and OpenAI won gold medals at the math Olympics—but these American teenagers still got higher scores. Will this be the last time humans outperform AI?
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The Silicon Valley evolution explained -- the tech, the culture, the politics. Good read too. @MikeIsaac .
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Goodbye to the age of consumer websites and mobile apps. Artificial intelligence has ushered in an era of what insiders in the nation’s innovation capital call “hard tech.”
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Our obituary of Bill Neukom, Microsoft's antitrust warrior and a lot more.
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In the 1990s, the U.S. called Microsoft a bullying monopoly and sought to rein it in. The company lost in a landmark decision, but emerged intact.
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AI formula for the future: "Hire junior employees who use A.I. to do what was once midlevel work, a handful of senior employees to oversee them and almost no middle-tier employees." @noamscheiber
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Amid layoffs at Microsoft and other large tech companies, experts are debating whose jobs are most likely to be spared.
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A visit to an epicenter of the AI data center building boom. Its staggering size and scale close up. @KYWeise + @CadeMetz .
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On 1,200 acres of cornfield in Indiana, Amazon is building one of the largest computers ever for work with Anthropic, an artificial intelligence start-up.
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RT @Techmeme: Computer science programs at Carnegie Mellon and other US universities are rethinking how to incorporate AI into curricula, i….
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Steve Lohr / New York Times: Carnegie Mellon and other US universities are rethinking CS programs to adapt to generative AI, like focusing more on computational thinking and AI literacy
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The generative AI wave is shaking up all of academia, but computer science is at the forefront. “We’re seeing the tip of the A.I. tsunami.” Jeannette Wing, Columbia University.
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Universities across the country are scrambling to understand the implications of generative A.I.’s transformation of technology.
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The future of computer science: More real-world problem solving and less programming?
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Universities across the country are scrambling to understand the implications of generative A.I.’s transformation of technology.
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ChatEdu. @natashanyt has the story in detail.
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OpenAI, the firm that helped spark chatbot cheating, wants to embed A.I. in every facet of college. First up: 460,000 students at Cal State.
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A federal judge ruled that Google illegally protected its monopoly in internet search. Is court-ordered data sharing the solution?.
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The question is how to fix Google’s monopoly. Is an order to force it to share data the solution?
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“Five years from now, it will be malpractice not to use A.I. But it will be humans and A.I. working together.” - Dr. John Halamka, Mayo Clinic
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Experts predicted that artificial intelligence would steal radiology jobs. But at the Mayo Clinic, the technology has been more friend than foe.
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Their jobs appeared to be in AI’s crosshairs. But it hasn't worked out that way for radiologists. Here's why.
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Experts predicted that artificial intelligence would steal radiology jobs. But at the Mayo Clinic, the technology has been more friend than foe.
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RT @NoContextHumans: A 74-year-old man in Florida pulled his puppy out of an alligator's mouth.
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A second solid antitrust win for the Justice Department – and a second sobering loss for Google. But there’s a long way to go and different paths to an endgame.
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Within a year, two federal judges declared the tech giant a monopoly in search and ad technology. The tide may be turning for antitrust.
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Immigrant Crackdown Inc. A close look at a company cashing in. @paulmozur + @satariano + @Aaron_Krolik
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Geo Group, a private prison firm that makes digital tools to track immigrants, becomes one of the Trump administration’s big business winners as its tech is increasingly used in deportations.
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“Divestiture can be an entirely acceptable remedy, depending on the severity of the harm. But it can be risky surgery.” - William Kovacic, former chairman of the Federal Trade Commission
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For the first time since the late 1990s Microsoft case, federal trials are weighing antitrust breakups, a tactic that harks back to Standard Oil.
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Why breaking up is hard to do – in antitrust.
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For the first time since the late 1990s Microsoft case, federal trials are weighing antitrust breakups, a tactic that harks back to Standard Oil.
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Why American apparel makers aren't rejoicing over tariffs. Trade is complicated, as @lydiadepillis smartly explains.
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Even companies that make clothing in America aren’t feeling great about stiff duties on their overseas competition.
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Thought-provoking, for sure. And representative of an increasingly widespread point of view. @kevinroose presents it nicely.
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The A.I. prediction world is torn between optimism and gloom. A report released on Thursday decidedly lands on the side of gloom.
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Vintage @LiYuan6 column. Thoroughly reported, closely reasoned, powerfully makes its point.
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Generations of Chinese, including our columnist, turned to U.S. government-run outlets for an education in democracy, rights and the English language.
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