Oct. 22: Michelle Obama ’85 Helps Kamala Harris Make Final Pitch to Voters

Mathematician Terrence Tao *96 gave his thoughts on the new OpenAI program (o1) intended to tackle math: “For a lot of tasks, having both AIs and humans doing different things will be most promising.” — The Atlantic
 
Michelle Obama ’85 is helping Kamala Harris make her final pitches to voters in the weeks left before the election, with an appearance scheduled Oct. 26 in Michigan. — U.S. News & World Report
 
Journalist Bob Woodward’s new book reports that Gen. Mark Milley ’80 in 2023 called Donald Trump a “fascist to the core” and “the most dangerous person to this country.” — The Washington Post
 
ER doctor and health-care researcher Renee Hsia ’99 argued that policy proposals to erase medical debt don’t do enough to fix the greater problem. — Forbes
 
Ryan Anderson ’04, president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, penned a roadmap for how the pro-life movement can continue toward its goal “to protect every unborn child in this nation” in the wake of the Dobbs decision. — First Things
 
New Yorker editor David Remnick ’81 talked with Planned Parenthood CEO Alexis McGill Johnson ’93 about how the abortion debate is shaping the election and what we should expect from a second Trump presidency. — The New Yorker Radio Hour
 
In allowing a case brought against Meta by more than 30 attorneys general to move forward, U.S. District Court Judge Yvonne Gonzalez ’87 slammed the social media behemoth for using addictive, deceptive, and unfair practices in targeting teenagers on Instagram. — Law.com
 
Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell ’04 is among the state attorneys general suing TikTok, arguing the short video app was designed “to be addictive and harmful to young users.” — WBUR
 
Carrie Lukas ’95, president of the Independent Women’s Forum, wrote in an op-ed that the State Department should consider creating an au-pair-type program to address the dearth of affordable care for both children and elders. — The Hill
 
Ralph Nader ’55 got The New York Times’ consumer product department, Wirecutter, to investigate why his favorite pens dry out quicker these days than they used to. — Wirecutter

“For me, journaling has been a life-altering and even a life-saving practice — it’s how I make sense of this wild ride that is being human. The Book of Alchemy contains everything I’ve learned about how journaling can help us transform life’s interruptions and tap into that mystical trait that exists in every human: creativity.”

— Author Suleika Jaouad ’10, quoted in People magazine about her new book, due out April 22.

Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg has surpassed Amazon’s Jeff Bezos ’86 as the world’s second-richest man; the two are worth $206.2 billion and $205.1 billion, respectively, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. — CNBC
 
Former Google executive Eric Schmidt ’76 doubled down on his support for the future of artificial intelligence while also pushing back against prohibitive AI regulation, saying the industry needs both control and creativity. — Axios
 
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor ’76 said she was “deeply touched” that a Yonkers school just miles away from her home borough, the Bronx, was named in her honor. — Rockland/Westchester Journal News
 
After the death of a former star of the boy band One Direction, novelist Jennifer Weiner ’91 slammed both the pro football and entertainment industries for making money off the destruction of young people. — The New York Times
 
Model, actress, and entrepreneur Brooke Shields ’87 is working on a new book, due out in January, titled, Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old: Thoughts on Aging as a Woman. — USA Today
 
Epidemiologist Celine Gounder ’97 explained a study showing that Ozempic and similar drugs could help treat drug and alcohol addiction. — Good Morning America
 
Journalist Marc Fisher ’80 examined the boom in shoplifting, concluding it’s part of the “larger collapse of the social forces that once restrained wayward behavior… trust, guilt, and shame.” — The Atlantic
 
In an op-ed, science writer Lydia Denworth ’88 explained the differences between childhood and adult ADHD and how diagnosis and treatment of the latter is improving. — Scientific American

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