Month: September 2026

News

Who Cares if AI Is Conscious—It’s Basically Alive

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I spent the waning days of summer grinding away at columns and working on a feature. But I missed a chance at a striking change of scenery—cruising the Galápagos with about a dozen prominent philosophers studying consciousness. The invite described morning classroom discussions tackling knotty…

TV

CNBC Veteran Rick Santelli to Exit in October

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Rick Santelli, the longtime CNBC economic-indicators analyst whose plain-spoken but passionate takes on the effects of federal policy on average Americans boosted his profile at the business-news outlet, plans to retire from the Versant Media-backed network on October 2. Santelli’s decision was revealed to CNBC…