There was a time when Iulia Po barely gave a thought to her daily commute over the vast bridges connecting the left and right banks of the Dnipro river in Kyiv.

Not a day goes by without a new story about the coming dangers of artificial intelligence. In the past week, we've had Bill Gates warn that AI is "the most dangerous technology humans ever invented," the publication the Lancet write that AI could have "extinction potential" and Bloomberg publish an interview titled "Nate Soares on How AI Really Could Kill Us All."

When a member of Congress opens a legal defense fund, it usually makes national news. Reporters dig into the donors, and ethics experts ask whether federal rules allow the lawmaker to spend donor money to fight specific types of legal battles.