What we are reading November 26, 2025
It's a short week, so enjoy some of the stories that caught our attention. Make sure you have plenty of leftovers for the weekend. Happy Thanksgiving.
Jerome Powell’s era of consensus at the Fed is over | CNN Business
Federal Reserve policymakers are split over whether they should continue cutting interest rates, ending the long stretch of consensus that has defined Chair Jerome Powell’s leadership of the central bank.
Bryan Mena
The Job Hunt Feels Broken. These 6 Charts Show It’s Not Just You | Bankrate
Workers with jobs still have relatively more stability and security, but job seekers face a recession-like market, a new Bankrate analysis finds.
Sarah Foster
The Coming Humanist Renaissance
We need a cultural and philosophical movement to meet the rise of artificial superintelligence.
Adrienne LaFrance
The Human-AI Alignment Problem
“To align AI with human values, we ourselves need to be clear about the universal values we ascribe to.”
Arianna Huffington
DOGE Disbanded: Elon Musk’s Cost-Cutting Project Quietly Ended
Musk said the initiative would save at least $1 trillion. But its website claims to have reached only $214 billion.
Rebecca Schneid
What happens if the Supreme Court strikes down Trump’s tariffs? More tariffs | CNN Business
President Donald Trump told reporters Thursday it would be “devastating for our country” if he lost a Supreme Court case that could invalidate his administration’s most far-reaching tariffs.
Elisabeth Buchwald
The Marketplace of Ideas Isn’t Working
Americans’ freedom of speech is predicated on the theory of a marketplace of ideas. But this model needs to be updated.
Richard Stengel
Why Context Is the New Currency in AI: From RAG to Context Engineering | Towards Data Science
Context, not computation, is the real currency of intelligent systems
Sudheer Singamsetty
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