President Donald Trump and his administration have made a lot of big promises to improve affordability since taking office. The latest came during Trump’s Feb. 24 State of the Union…
Tax refunds are the biggest windfall of the year for many American households. And ‘tis the season: Through the week ending Feb. 13, nearly 13 million people had received 2025…
If you’re over 55 and you’ve refinanced your mortgage lately, there’s a decent chance you got taken. Not by a con artist. By a lender with a license, a nice website and a loan officer who called you “sir” or…
As women’s access to education and employment has steadily increased, so has their participation in the economy. However, significant challenges remain that include a wage gap between women and men, along with other barriers women face in growing their wealth.…
Double the patties should mean double the deliciousness, but does it?For a definitive ranking, I tried practically every fast-food double cheeseburger on the market to determine which was best in terms of taste and value.I tried double cheeseburgers from McDonald’s,…
Steve Ballmer is ready to turn the page on the Los Angeles Clippers’ handling of NBA star Kawhi Leonard’s contracts.”This has been a very difficult time for everybody associated with the Clippers, and for that, I have sincere regrets,” Ballmer said in a statement published on Sunday night. “I want…
Debt settlement companies technically aren’t allowed to charge fees until after lowering a consumer’s debt. But a loophole in the Telemarketing Sales Rule — and a mish-mash of federal and state laws — allows predatory firms the opportunity for exploitation. A growing corner of the $23 billion debt relief industry…
Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, and other AI chiefs are calling for slower development of the technology following fresh warnings that it could annihilate us all. Michael Burry says they’re just…
When I opened the bag, I was surprised to find that these crisps smelled a lot like stuffing. After taking a bite, I realized they tasted like stuffing, too.Despite their…
The next high-profile AI hire may not be another researcher, but an “embedded evaluator” tasked with scrutinizing frontier models before they’re released.In a blog post on Saturday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said frontier AI labs should commit to embedding independent…
I’d been up since 4 a.m., sitting at my computer with an email ready to rescind my acceptance of a customer-service job at a large department store.It was August 2025, and I was supposed to start that morning. Shame had…
At age 45, skipping your 401(k) match means giving up more than your employer’s contribution. You also lose the potential investment growth this money could earn over the next 20 years. Depending on the size of the match and the…
A startup that’s trying to make AI models better conversationalists with more emotional intelligence has just raised $50 million.Seattle-based Nuance says it wants to build models that can hold face-to-face conversations without the lag and awkwardness of existing chatbots.Fangchang Ma,…
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It took the possibility of species annihilation, but AI leaders did something remarkable this weekend: They reached a consensus.After ex-Anthropic engineer Jacob Coxon’s warnings about a looming AI armageddon lit a firestorm among techies and politicians alike, the leaders of…
Everything’s fine! Take it from the cofounder of Palantir.In an X post on Saturday, Joe Lonsdale brushed aside the salient worry that advanced AI systems could…
For a week every month, I take a two-and-a-half-hour flight from Chicago to Winnipeg, Canada.That might sound surprising: It’s a lot of time to spend…
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China’s spy chief just offered a window into Beijing’s priorities when it comes to AI’s biggest risks.Chen Yixin, China’s minister of state security, published an article Sunday morning in China Cyberspace, a journal run by the Cyberspace Administration of China,…
CBS premiered the 59th season of “60 Minutes” on Sunday, with familiar faces like Norah O’Donnell, Lesley Stahl, and Jon Wertheim.Sunday’s episode included three main…
In the face of a grim debate about an AI-fueled apocalypse, both President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping are locked in on keeping…
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This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Braydon Barrett, 32, who moved to Asia with his family in 2024 but moved back to Utah eight months later. It’s been edited for length and clarity.Living abroad was never really…
Americans’ 401(k) balances reached a record high in the second quarter of 2026, new data shows. The average 401(k) balance climbed to a record $155,800 in the second quarter of 2026, up 10.5% from the previous quarter and 13.1% from…
Well, that was easy.President Donald Trump on Sunday said he would remove tariffs on Irish whiskey after golfer Shane Lowry and the Irish prime minister did the unthinkable: They asked him.”Everybody’s been bugging me,” the president said during remarks at…
For all the things I loved about cruising, one of my original reservations did bear out.I usually think of travel as a way to experience a place and its culture. I like wandering neighborhoods, eating local cuisine, figuring out public…
Existential angstWhat do you do if you feel like you’re helping build something that could contribute to the end of humanity?This is the existential question confronting the AI industry, a debate that only intensified after Jacob Coxon, an Anthropic researcher,…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Camila Valim. It has been edited for length and clarity.I spent two decades in corporate as head of marketing for an entertainment group. I left that job due to burnout. I…
CBS News is getting employees hyped about the first full season of “60 Minutes” under top editor Bari Weiss, months after a string of high-profile exits.”We don’t often send notes to the whole newsroom. But today calls for it. It’s…
Anthropic has selected the Nasdaq for its potential IPO, according to a person familiar with their plans.The company, which has been targeting an October listing, has given Nasdaq another big win, according to a person familiar with the matter. Nasdaq…
Russ Read-Barrow has been living with incurable stage four colon cancer for five years.The 43-year-old former PR director and father of two from the UK was diagnosed with the disease in 2021. After seeing blood in his poop around six…
My oldest son was my only child for three years. I think that built a bond that doesn’t exist with any of his four siblings who had to share me from day one with an expanding brood of children. I…
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This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Laura Lee Ehrlich, 54, who lives on Long Island. Ehrlich has cared for five older loved ones over the last two…
My husband and I were both college athletes. When we had two boys, I think people naturally assumed we’d push the sports route hard. After all, I was a four-year…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jordan Karp, 30, founder and CEO of Jordan Karp LLC, a real estate brokerage in South Florida. Karp started his own…
An Emmy is the biggest award an actor can win for their work on the small screen — and when there’s a show or a performance Emmy voters love, it…
Joann Ernst, 72, shook her head as her older grandson decapitated an action figure. The other laid out puzzle pieces in a line, surrounded by a sea of toys.”You have…
A painful toothache or an oral infection might not sound like an injury that could sideline a soldier in combat, but US Army dental leaders warn that in a future conflict, such easily overlooked conditions could take troops out of the fight, consume scarce…
