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After a string of security-related incidents involving AI agents and a high-profile resignation, AI industry leaders appear poised to slow down the pace of development to make sure it stays safe.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with bourbon expert Fred Minnick on what Jim Beam's halting distillation at main distillery reveals about the challenges facing the bourbon industry and the year ahead.

Kevin Roose's Young Money follows a group of new college graduates trying to make it on Wall Street in the era after the 2008 financial crash. What motivated them to give up their lives, to work 100-hour weeks and endure sneers when the reputation of big finance was at its lowest? And, most importantly, how did the experience change them?

Fewer Americans applied for unemployment insurance last week. But Friday's much-anticipated report on payroll growth and unemployment in January may not offer particularly good news, economists say.

OLYMPIA, Wash. – Washington’s jobless rate has dropped below 8 percent for the first time in nearly four years. The November jobs numbers out Wednesday peg Washington’s unemployment rate at 7.8 percent. That’s down from 8.2 percent in October – the largest one month drop since 1977. But chief labor economist Joe Elling cautions the state is still far from what he would consider full employment. “You know the Fed has said they’re waiting to see 6.5 percent," he says. "I think the other thing though too that again we have to consider is what the unemployment rate be if we had not had so many people dropping out of the labor force?” That includes discouraged workers and students who are delaying entry into the job market. Elling says if you factor them in, the jobless rate in Washington is more like 10 percent. Over the past three months, the biggest job gains in Washington have been in leisure hospitality, construction and retail. The economy is benefiting from a quirk of the calendar which means a longer than normal holiday shopping season. On the Web: November employment report (Washington Employment Security Department)

After the Dow shed 4.6 percent on Monday, Japan's Nikkei and Hong Kong's Hang Seng both dipped by about 5 percent. European shares were also down sharply in early trading.