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The latest front in the US-Canada trade war isn’t tariffs, it’s an army of Mountie bears playing bagpipes.A new AI-made music video, “Canadian Resistance Army — Trade War,” has become the latest online expression of Canadian defiance toward US tariffs — and an unlikely patriotic anthem.The video, posted Tuesday by…
“I miss him so much,” I sobbed into the phone. “I don’t know if I can do this.” I was surprised my sister could understand me through the tears, but she’d always been good at decoding my words — and what was behind them. I’d been away from home for…
Western trainers are trying to recreate Ukraine’s battlefields on NATO soil to make training for its soldiers as realistic as possible. Ukrainian troops are key to helping them get it right.Western militaries are training Ukrainian soldiers at a purpose-built facility in Poland as part of Norway-led Operation Legio. Its shooting…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Olivia Ferney, chief marketing officer with Top Tier Travel. It has been edited for length and clarity.When I was growing up in Canada, raised by two guidance counselors, hearing “no” was a fact of life. Even for little things, like making…
We all know the quote, “Do one thing every day that scares you.” For plenty of people, that’s posting on LinkedIn.The professional social network is notorious for cringeworthy, performative posts. But those posts also generate a lot of engagement and raise the poster’s profile.With everyone worried about building their “brand,”…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Julie Zhu, a 29-year-old entrepreneur in New York City who left Apple last year to focus on her startup, Odd One In. The following has been edited for length and clarity.A few years ago, I started considering leaving my job at…
Kasra Kyanzadeh missed working with people.”I was like: Where are there smart people?” the 33-year-old engineer told Business Insider. “At OpenAI, there are smart people.”So, Kyanzadeh joined the team building the Codex desktop app in June. By mid-August, he said he was feeling tired and drained. He left to pursue…
Some lessons kids just don’t learn in a school curriculum. That’s how Sarah Mann feels. For the past four years, Mann has taken her three children, now 16, 14 and 12, out of school for major trips around the world, believing travel plays an important role in raising smart, well-rounded…
When I noticed that Guns N’ Roses was playing nearby on a random Wednesday in August, I fired off a text to my boyfriend with a screenshot of the ticket map. “Mainly not serious but,” I wrote, followed by, “Is … v cheap.” Less than a week before the show,…
Sam Altman doesn’t need to see the polls. The OpenAI CEO knows how unpopular his industry has become.”Clearly, people hate data centers—right now, at least,” Altman told Time as part of a series of interviews for a cover story published on Wednesday. “People are pretty negative on AI.”Data centers in…
