Scarcity is Driving AI Innovation Outside Silicon Valley
by Ilman Shazhaev
How do you build serious AI infrastructure when you don't have abundant resources?
0:00 / 6:39 · Narrator Algieba
Daily edition
2026-06-05
Today's Crosscut
Human Purpose
Some philosophers argue that humans should step aside for smarter machines, but that idea hits a wall in the labs where scientists fight to stop diseases that politics might let back in.
The People Who Actually Want AI to Replace Humanity × The Cancer Research Machine Trump is Gutting Just Delivered a Big Breakthrough
0:00 / 56:32 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
Future-gazing →
Behind the news →
What Everyone is Missing About North Korea’s Reunification Strategy
by Hyunseung Lee
When Kim Jong-un rewrites reunification, what kind of future is he actually building?
0:00 / 16:14 · Narrator Gacrux
Why We Need a Memorial Day for Civilian Victims of War
by Bryan Walsh
What does it mean to mourn those who died without a uniform?
0:00 / 11:13 · Narrator Charon
PFAS Leave Fingerprints in Your Blood – Researchers Are Figuring Out How Forever Chemicals Transform in Your Body to Read These Clues
by Carrie McDonough, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University
If forever chemicals transform inside us, how can we ever trace their true origins?
0:00 / 9:17 · Narrator Sulafat
For the curious →
Scientists Made Sourdough Bread with Yeast Found on Ötzi the Iceman’s Mummified Body
Can yeast that survived 5,300 years on Ötzi the Iceman still make bread?
0:00 / 6:10 · Narrator Vindemiatrix
How Japan Stopped Civil War
by Samuel Hughes
Could a city’s very design be the key to centuries of peace?
0:00 / 13:24 · Narrator Rasalgethi