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For her 35th birthday, Deja Monet decided she wanted to break something. So on a Tuesday afternoon in March, she and her boyfriend headed to The Ragery, a “rage room” on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, grabbed a helmet and a pair of googles, and picked up a sledgehammer.What was so…
He hit a tech trifecta, working at Google, Meta, and OpenAI. He has some advice for finding success in Big Tech. Loading audio narration… Michael Bolin is the tech lead on Codex, OpenAI’s coding assistant. Before joining Sam Altman’s AI giant in 2024, Bolin spent almost 12 years at Meta,…
Iran has wielded its missiles and drones to strike most neighboring states in this ongoing war that’s raged for 10 days. However, their destructive scale has so far been blunted by the advanced defenses of Israel, the US and their regional Arab partners. Iran’s powerful regime armed forces, utilizing a…
Yann LeCun’s AI startup has raised more than $1 billion in seed funding and appointed a new CEO.In a post on X on Tuesday, entrepreneur and former Facebook researcher Alex LeBrun said he is joining LeCun and the founding team of Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI) Labs, also known as AMI…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Lucy Rieger, 37, the cofounder of distillery J. Rieger & Co. It has been edited for length and clarity.I originally wanted to be a doctor, until I figured out I don’t really do math or science. Once I ruled those out,…
The great vibe coding war of 2026 isn’t the bloodbath it appears, says a venture capitalist whose firm backed Cursor.On an episode of the “20VC” podcast released on Monday, Miles Clements, a partner at VC firm Accel, said that the AI-assisted coding industry is big enough for Anthropic’s Claude Code…
Four years after Ukraine was thrust into a war many feared would be lost in days, Kyiv has found itself fielding nearly a dozen inquiries from militaries scrambling to learn how it fights. Loading audio narration… Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Monday that his government had received 11 requests…
Susanna Lau, 70, squinted at her screen, then laughed.The AI chatbot she was playing with had just generated a dish she described as “an extravagant Hokkien mee,” a Singapore dish of stir-fried noodles in a seafood broth.Around her, 15 retirees in their 60s and 70s were hunched over laptops, tinkering…
Employees at rival companies — including OpenAI — are rallying behind Anthropic as the startup warns its escalating dispute with the Pentagon could cost $5 billion in lost business. Loading audio narration… More than 30 researchers from OpenAI and Google, including Jeff Dean, the chief scientist of Google DeepMind, filed…
Free housing. Discounted office space. Cash subsidies worth up to $720,000. Loading audio narration… These are some of the perks local governments in China would offer to lure startups and developers building on OpenClaw.In the high-tech zone of Wuxi in Eastern China, Chinese officials announced in a policy draft published…
