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How do you solve a branding problem like AI?Marketers have some ideas, like borrowing from P&G’s marketing playbook or creating a think tank.It’s no secret that AI is getting a bad rap. Boos at college graduation speeches. AI-related layoffs. Pope Leo XIV has even gotten in the ring, calling for…
Here’s something I’ve noticed: the loudest voices arguing against life insurance after financial independence almost always come from people who aren’t financially independent yet. They’re still grinding toward FIRE, optimizing every dollar, cutting costs to close the gap. Makes sense for them. But once you actually get there, the calculus…
The US isn’t ready to detect and defend against hostile drone attacks, a detection company warned, echoing concerns raised by others about a growing threat.Drones have become a defining weapon in Ukraine and a growing threat in the Middle East, underscoring how cheap, accessible systems can create serious security challenges…
The American Cancer Society is adding three new colon cancer screening tests to its recommendations.The move is designed to get more people tested more regularly as rates of young people diagnosed with colorectal cancer tick up.”People should be getting screening as soon as they are eligible,” epidemiologist Robert Smith, senior…
The average price of both new and used cars are approaching record highs, and a lot of car shoppers are searching high and low for deals. The typical price of a three-year-old used car was $31,548 in the first quarter of 2026 — the second-highest quarter average price on record,…
After delivering the closing speech at his bar mitzvah, marking the spiritual journey from boy to man, Byron Lazaroff-Puck turned to America’s most famous celebrity chef with a promise.”Don’t worry,” the 13-year-old told his father, Wolfgang Puck. “In a few years, you’ll be sipping mai tais in Malibu, and I’ll…
AI startups need testers and trainers. At this company, that work is X-rated.Joi AI, an AI companion startup that markets itself as providing “AI-lationships that satisfy you emotionally, intellectually, and intimately,” is hiring 10 “masturbation consultants.” The position lasts for four weeks and requires participants who are 18 or older…
A nearly new Spirit Airlines jet was shredded by the claws of a heavy-duty excavator in a video that transfixed audiences this weekend.The four-year-old A320neo met an end as ugly as the iconic budget carrier that collapsed three weeks before, and N950NK isn’t the only former Spirit aircraft being dismantled…
Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman says the AI industry has done a poor job of selling data centers to the public. He has a different message in mind, modeled after Microsoft President Brad Smith.”These can be clean, they can make jobs, they can be good for communities,” Feldman said during a…
Perched on the side of a hill near the Himalayas is a whimsical house made of mud, stone, and straw that two brothers built by hand.Ansh and Raghav Kumar, a pair of architect siblings from New Delhi, moved to a remote town in India to escape the noise and chaos…
