Editor's note: The following column was first published in City Journal and on the author's Substack. Elon Musk finds himself at the fulcrum of American life. His companies are leading the field across the automotive, space, robotics, and AI industries. His ownership of the social platform X gives him significant influence over political discourse. And his DOGE initiative represents the single greatest threat to the permanent administrative state.

Campus Reform correspondents Wyatt Eichholz and Kale Ogunbor joined'Fox & Friends First' to discuss the impact of woke culture on college campuses. Liberal media figures and professors mocked and attacked the New York Times Wednesday for publishing a guest essay from a conservative Ivy League student criticizing his campus' progressive attitude. The essay "My Liberal Campus Is Pushing Freethinkers to the Right" came from Princeton University senior Adam S. Hoffman who described his fellow campus conservatives as growing increasingly more right-wing in backlash to their college's more leftist stances. "Today's campus conservatives embrace a less moderate, complacent and institutional approach to politics. Instead of belief in the status quo, many tend toward scorched-earth politics. But these changes aren't solely the consequence of a fractured national politics," Hoffman wrote.

The next wonder is a quick stop at a mall photo booth. The third is an arcade, or to Ellie, the "most beautiful thing" she's ever seen. This is the HBO and Warner Bros. Discovery brand universe at work; Warner also owns the Mortal Kombat franchise. Here we see Riley play as Mileena and successfully pull off her Fatality finishing move (which probably counts as yet another miracle). How the hell did a 17-year-old girl in a fungal post-apocalypse learn this move?

The vast list of artificial intelligence applications continually increases as researchers, technologists, and scientists try to leverage computing power to gain competitive edges over the more slowly adopting set. Today I want to traipse across the American business and tech landscape and present a few of the new and hopefully intriguing upgrades of these mostly familiar devices and services being brought into the 21st century via AI. First a quick overview of the concept of AI and where it's come from over the past years and decades. Earlier writings comingled two phrases to identify the technology: artificial intelligence, which has become the well-known marketable way to talk about the tech, and "computational intelligence," which might be useful amongst a group of AI--err, CI?--subject matter experts, but doesn't carry the cachet of its more widely accepted phrase. For anyone who uses either phrase, it's generally understood to refer to some sort of machine-based intelligence.

It is now the middle of March. I am sitting in the basement of a country house near Kyiv. I haven't been home for three weeks now, maybe more. The calendar has ceased to be of great importance here. Until a few weeks ago, I was living the average life of the so-called creative class.