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“I would say this is the best run of wage increases won by labor since the period right after the end of World War II,” said Art Wheaton, director of labor studies at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations in Buffalo.

Associated Press

Sarah Kreps, professor of government, says, “If the architects and vision and brains behind these products have now left, the company will be a shell of what it once was. All of that brain trust going to Microsoft will then mean that these impressive tools will be coming out of Microsoft. It will be hard to see OpenAI continue to thrive as a company.”

The New York Times

Adrienne Bitar, lecturer in American studies, says, “I’d be hard-pressed to find another occasion in which someone’s eating habits are so on display in a setting that is often marked by a lot of family tension and fraught family dynamics.”

The Guardian

Ishion Hutchinson, professor of literatures in English and 2023 TS Eliot prize nominee, is interviewed by The Guardian in advance of the release of his new collection of poetry, School of Instructions.

Business Insider

Article includes comments made earlier this year by Steve Reiners, professor of horticulture.

Time

Vanessa Bohns, professor of organizational behavior, points out the reasons why people have trouble saying no to others.

Newsweek

Anna Ho, assistant professor of astronomy, discusses several bright flashes seen after a huge stellar explosion known as a luminous fast blue optical transient.

The Atlantic

Michael Dorf, professor of law, comments on the Supreme Court justices' behaviors.

Yahoo Finance

Alexander Kowalski, assistant professor of human resource studies, says, “I've talked to warehouse workers who say that they themselves feel like robots. Now you're basically moving a couple of inches back and forth, and maybe standing up and down a little bit. That's your entire day.”

Bloomberg

Saule Omarova, professor of law, discusses the similarities between the Bankman-Fried trial and the financial crisis of 2008.

The New York Times

Peter Robinson, assistant professor at AAP, discusses “design justice practitioners” who preserve spaces that Black people have fashioned for themselves.

Politico

Katherine Saunders, assistant professor of clinical medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, hopes that more competition in the weight-loss drug market will help reduce costs.