What we are reading April 17, 2025
More economic news and light reading before the easter holiday.
Why bonds, not stocks, could predict the next economic crisis in the US
A sell-off in US Treasuries has raised fears that investors’ long term confidence in the US economy is waning.
John Power
How People Are Really Using Gen AI in 2025
Last year, HBR published a piece on how people are using gen AI. Much has happened over the past 12 months. We now have Custom GPTs—AI tailored for narrower sets of requirements. New kids are on the block, such as DeepSeek and Grok, providing more competition and choice. Millions of ears pricked up as Google debuted their podcast generator, NotebookLM. OpenAI launched many new models (now along with the promise to consolidate them all into one unified interface). Chain-of-thought reasoning, whereby AI sacrifices speed for depth and better answers, came into play. Voice commands now enable more and different interactions, for example, to allow us to use gen AI while driving. And costs have substantially reduced with access broadened over the past twelve hectic months. With all of these changes, we’ve decided to do an updated version of the article based on data from the past year. Here’s what the data shows about how people are using gen AI now.
Marc Zao-Sanders
Outgrowing Napoleon: How the Space Force can modernize its ranks
As former Secretary of Defense Ash Carter once mused, the current military rank structure “dates back to when Napoleon was invading Europe 200 years ago.”
Todd Harrison
Trump’s trade war is wrecking America’s brand, from Teslas to Treasuries | CNN Business
This is all pretty embarrassing.
Allison Morrow
What is ‘recession pop’ — and why is it making a comeback? New music from Kesha, Lady Gaga signals return to ‘escapist pop bangers.’
Dancing the night away and partying through the pain are characteristics of the “genre marker.”
Neia Balao
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