Steve Lohr

@SteveLohr

New York Times technology and economics reporter. Mostly tweet worthy reads. [email protected]

New York, NY

Joined August 2009

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Steve Lohr@SteveLohr · Oct 3, 2022

There are step ladders to the middle class. Just far too few. nytimes.com/2022/10/03/bus…

SteveLohr's tweet card. A handful of innovators have developed successful programs to help lift low-income workers into the middle class. Can their model become the norm?

Steve Lohr@SteveLohr · Jul 22

Our obituary of Bill Neukom, Microsoft's antitrust warrior and a lot more. nytimes.com/2025/07/22/bus…

SteveLohr's tweet card. In the 1990s, the U.S. called Microsoft a bullying monopoly and sought to rein it in. The company lost in a landmark decision, but emerged intact.

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Steve Lohr@SteveLohr · Jul 9

AI formula for the future: "Hire junior employees who use A.I. to do what was once midlevel work, a handful of senior employees to oversee them and almost no middle-tier employees." @noamscheiber nytimes.com/2025/07/07/bus…

SteveLohr's tweet card. Amid layoffs at Microsoft and other large tech companies, experts are debating whose jobs are most likely to be spared.

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Steve Lohr@SteveLohr · Jul 3

A visit to an epicenter of the AI data center building boom. Its staggering size and scale close up. @KYWeise + @CadeMetz nytimes.com/2025/06/24/tec…

SteveLohr's tweet card. On 1,200 acres of cornfield in Indiana, Amazon is building one of the largest computers ever for work with Anthropic, an artificial intelligence start-up.

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Steve Lohr@SteveLohr · Jul 2

Computer science programs at Carnegie Mellon and other US universities are rethinking how to incorporate AI into curricula, including a focus on AI literacy (@stevelohr / New York Times) nytimes.com/2025/06/30/tec… techmeme.com/250701/p29#a25… x.com/Techmeme/statu…

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Steve Lohr@SteveLohr · Jul 1

The generative AI wave is shaking up all of academia, but computer science is at the forefront. “We’re seeing the tip of the A.I. tsunami.” Jeannette Wing, Columbia University. nytimes.com/2025/06/30/tec…

SteveLohr's tweet card. Universities across the country are scrambling to understand the implications of generative A.I.’s transformation of technology.

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Steve Lohr@SteveLohr · Jun 30

The future of computer science: More real-world problem solving and less programming? nytimes.com/2025/06/30/tec…

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Steve Lohr@SteveLohr · Jun 13

ChatEdu. @natashanyt has the story in detail. nytimes.com/2025/06/07/tec…

SteveLohr's tweet card. OpenAI, the firm that helped spark chatbot cheating, wants to embed A.I. in every facet of college. First up: 460,000 students at Cal State.

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Steve Lohr@SteveLohr · May 30

A federal judge ruled that Google illegally protected its monopoly in internet search. Is court-ordered data sharing the solution? nytimes.com/2025/05/30/bus…

SteveLohr's tweet card. The question is how to fix Google’s monopoly. Is an order to force it to share data the solution?

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Steve Lohr@SteveLohr · May 14

“Five years from now, it will be malpractice not to use A.I. But it will be humans and A.I. working together.” - Dr. John Halamka, Mayo Clinic nytimes.com/2025/05/14/tec…

SteveLohr's tweet card. Experts predicted that artificial intelligence would steal radiology jobs. But at the Mayo Clinic, the technology has been more friend than foe.

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Steve Lohr@SteveLohr · May 14

Their jobs appeared to be in AI’s crosshairs. But it hasn't worked out that way for radiologists. Here's why. nytimes.com/2025/05/14/tec…

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Out of Context Human Race@NoContextHumans · Apr 23

A 74-year-old man in Florida pulled his puppy out of an alligator's mouth.

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Steve Lohr@SteveLohr · Apr 18

A second solid antitrust win for the Justice Department – and a second sobering loss for Google. But there’s a long way to go and different paths to an endgame. nytimes.com/2025/04/18/tec…

SteveLohr's tweet card. Within a year, two federal judges declared the tech giant a monopoly in search and ad technology. The tide may be turning for antitrust.

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Steve Lohr@SteveLohr · Apr 16

Immigrant Crackdown Inc. A close look at a company cashing in. @paulmozur + @satariano + @Aaron_Krolik nytimes.com/2025/04/14/tec…

SteveLohr's tweet card. Geo Group, a private prison firm that makes digital tools to track immigrants, becomes one of the Trump administration’s big business winners as its tech is increasingly used in deportations.

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Steve Lohr@SteveLohr · Apr 15

“Divestiture can be an entirely acceptable remedy, depending on the severity of the harm. But it can be risky surgery.” - William Kovacic, former chairman of the Federal Trade Commission nytimes.com/2025/04/15/bus…

SteveLohr's tweet card. For the first time since the late 1990s Microsoft case, federal trials are weighing antitrust breakups, a tactic that harks back to Standard Oil.

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Steve Lohr@SteveLohr · Apr 15

Why breaking up is hard to do – in antitrust. nytimes.com/2025/04/15/bus…

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Steve Lohr@SteveLohr · Apr 15

Why American apparel makers aren't rejoicing over tariffs. Trade is complicated, as @lydiadepillis smartly explains. nytimes.com/2025/04/10/bus…

SteveLohr's tweet card. Even companies that make clothing in America aren’t feeling great about stiff duties on their overseas competition.

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Steve Lohr@SteveLohr · Apr 6

Thought-provoking, for sure. And representative of an increasingly widespread point of view. @kevinroose presents it nicely. nytimes.com/2025/04/03/tec…

SteveLohr's tweet card. The A.I. prediction world is torn between optimism and gloom. A report released on Thursday decidedly lands on the side of gloom.

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Steve Lohr@SteveLohr · Mar 30

Vintage @LiYuan6 column. Thoroughly reported, closely reasoned, powerfully makes its point. nytimes.com/2025/03/28/bus…

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Steve Lohr@SteveLohr · Mar 10

“A.I. will power the next revolution of this most valuable thing humans ever stumbled across – the scientific method.” – Geoffrey von Maltzahn, chief executive of Lila Sciences nytimes.com/2025/03/10/tec…

SteveLohr's tweet card. An ambitious start-up embodies new optimism that artificial intelligence can turbocharge scientific discovery.

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Steve Lohr@SteveLohr · Mar 10

Harnessing AI in the quest for “scientific superintelligence.” How far can it go? nytimes.com/2025/03/10/tec…

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