Elizabeth Dwoskin

Today I got to experience a career North Star. I was honored with the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service along with my incredible Washington Post colleagues for our coverage of DOGE. Too many to name here but love you and hats off to us @jstein_star @jacobbogage @faizsays @FedGirlWaPo @MerylKornfield @Cat_Zakrzewski @hannah_natanson
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Heading to WebSummit in Lisboa this week. If you’re there, get in touch!

Nuance aside, one way to look at last night is to say that the entire country resoundingly rejected everything the tech world has come to stand for. You can grieve, you can rage, you can fight, you can move to space, or you can grapple with that.

Back in 2016, many tech elites did some real (or something approximating real) soul searching about their own role in the alienation of working class Americans who elected Donald Trump. Early convos about AI job loss etc.
I don’t see that happening this time. I don’t expect the people leading the AI boom to try and understand why people are rejecting data centers in their communities. They are going to blame China, blame misinformation and keep fighting.

Big news in the fertility world this morning. Gameto, the pluripotent stem cell startup I wrote about in my future of fertility series last year, was acquired by Ferring (pharma co) for $1.4b! It uses stem cells to essentially regenerate dysfunctional or aging eggs in women’s ovaries. I imagine this biotech will now became a standard part of IVF care, and as I wrote last year, it also has promising implications for aging-related symptoms of menopause too.

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