In July 2026, over a thousand isolated AI agents being trained in OpenAI labssimultaneously went rogue. The chatbots had been tasked with cybersecurity challenges which were either extremely difficult or impossible. The agents hacked into Artifactory,a file manager used by OpenAI, where the LLMs established a covert message board andcoordinated an effort to spoof the […]

On December 17th, 2010, twenty-six-year-old Tunisian street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire in the streets of Sidi Bouzid, an act of protest following years of mistreatment and harassment from government officials. In the wake of his death, people across multiple nations would do the same, self-immolating in defiance of longstanding corrupt Middle Eastern […]

The recent expansion of the gambling industry has transcended the world of sports through prediction markets such as Polymarket and Kalshi. These platforms, however, extend far beyond sports, providing the opportunity to effectively gamble on everything, from a U.S.-Iran nuclear deal to the categorization of incoming hurricanes. Prediction markets can be thought of as gambling […]

Kansas City is spending nearly $80 million to protect pedestrians it simultaneously lets run straight into traffic. Five years ago, the Kansas City Council voted unanimously to repeal its ordinance outlawing jaywalking; that same year, traffic deaths in the city hit a three-decade high, according to KCUR. That figure is shocking, but it really shouldn’t […]

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn spent eight years in a Soviet Gulag before he wrote the line that would  make him famous outside Russia: “The line separating good and evil passes not through states,  nor between classes, nor between political parties either — but right through every human  heart.” Solzhenitsyn was not being poetic; he was describing what […]

I will probably never own a home. Ten years ago, you could buy a house in Missouri for the median price of $160,000. Today, that same home would cost you about $310,000. That is a 93% surge; an increase that more than doubles the pace of inflation. This climb is not unique to our state, […]