Yesterday, Vice President Kamala Harris and her campaign announced Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate. William A. Galston analyzes the pick and writes that “[Harris] will have to hope that Walz’s midwestern appeal will end up putting Pennsylvania as well as Michigan and Wisconsin in her column. But if she loses Pennsylvania by a hair, and with it her Electoral College majority, she will have cause to regret her decision.”
Large language models level up. The landscape of large language models (LLMs) and other generative AI has evolved rapidly since the beginning of 2024. A recent paper from Anton Korinek summarizes key developments in the field and outlines various ways LLMs can be used in research.
What Project 2025 says about media and tech. Project 2025 is a 900-page document that outlines a comprehensive remaking of American policy on a range of different topics. On the TechTank podcast, Darrell M. West and Roxana Muenster dig into what it says about media and tech, and unpack its potential impact on industry, politics, and the general electorate.
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