Nathan Yau

Birth rates are falling nearly everywhere. For Financial Times, John Burn-Murdoch explores why that is , from shifts in education, work, how we interact with others, choices in relationships, and of course, technology that was supposed to make connections easier.

Pope Leo XIV presented his first encyclical Magnifica Humanitas , which translates to Magnificent Humanity in English. It is focused on preserving human life as AI technologies change the way we interact with information and data.

Trump visited China, and then Putin visited a week later. Reuters compared the two visits from various angles. There are more important differences in this piece, such as the airport welcome and the talks, but my eyes perked up on the banquet menus.

For the Washington Post, Jeremy B. Merrill, Jonathan O'Connell, and Luke Connors built an AI tool to estimate the ubiquity of sports gambling ads in broadcasts and in arenas

This is issue No. 390 of the Process , where we look for balance between advancing and the human side of visualization. I'm Nathan Yau.

For the Washington Post, Federica Cocco and Taylor Telford report on the increasing difficulty for recent college graduates to find jobs

Stuart A. Thompson, a New York Times technology journalist, used Google's Gemini chatbot to avoid a realtor fee and sell his house almost completely from start to finish

U.S. voters have historically stuck with two political parties, but that's changing in some states. USAFacts shows the shifts through voter registrations

The U.S. Census Bureau released a names dataset for first names and surnames

Erin Davis calculated the average age of people with a given name to find the oldest name in the United States