This week, Nvidia became the first company in history to be worth $4 trillion. It’s a number so large it’s almost meaningless, more than the entire economy of Germany or the United Kingdom. While Wall Street celebrates, the question for everyone else is simple: So what? The answer, according to Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang, is […]
An AI That Promises to “Solve All Diseases” Is About to Test Its First Human Drugs
Deep inside Alphabet, the parent company of Google, a secretive lab is working on a promise so audacious it sounds like science fiction: to “solve all diseases.” The company, Isomorphic Labs, is now preparing to start its first human clinical trials for cancer drugs designed entirely by artificial intelligence. In a recent interview with Fortune, […]
Elon Musk Says the New York Times Is Lying About His Rampant Drug Use
The New York Times published a new report last Friday that claimed Elon Musk has been using illicit drugs, which led to speculation about why he looked so spaced out during his “farewell” press conference at the Oval Office. But the billionaire spent the weekend denying that he uses drugs, going so far as to […]
Texas Is Gearing Up to Ban THC
Everything is bigger in Texas, except the THC industry, which may disappear entirely. Just six years after the state opened up hemp sales, the Texas House voted this week to outright ban the sale of products containing any amount of THC, according to the Texas Tribune—a prohibition that will upend a major industry within the […]
Psychedelics Allowed Ancient Peruvians to Consolidate Power, Study Says
In a new study, archaeologists uncovered 2,500-year-old psychoactive drug paraphernalia in an archaeological site in the Peruvian highlands. Ancient Peruvians likely used psychedelics during intricate and exclusive rituals, according to the study’s authors. The study, published May 5 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found that the ancient Chavín people, a pre-Incan […]