Author: News Room
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…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Hana Elster, a 22-year-old senior at Boston University who founded VYA, an online vintage marketplace. It has been edited for length and clarity.I’m a senior at college studying business law at Boston University, graduating in May.I’ve always loved the idea of…
At 22, heartbroken, depressed, and unsure about my future, I craved novelty and adventure, so I packed up my life in England and moved to Japan.Now, 31, living in Tokyo, and more secure than I’ve ever felt in my adult life, I can’t help but feel that creeping depression, pushing…
An electric vehicle tax that came into force this year inadvertently cost Ukraine thousands of ground drones it needs on the front lines, the CEO of a major defense trade association said.Had the 20% value-added tax, which went into effect in January, not been introduced, Ukraine’s military could likely have…
Lynden Melmed was supposed to be spending part of his Friday with family visiting from Germany. They were touring the Capitol and learning how the American government works during the long holiday weekend.Then, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services released a memo about green card applicants. Melmed, a partner at…
Dear founders: your emails read different. Is it AI?Paul Graham is a titan of the startup space. He cofounded Y Combinator, Silicon Valley’s hottest startup accelerator. He also coined “founder mode,” the management philosophy that’s swept tech in recent years.He’s noticed a trend that worries him: people using AI to…
