Author: News Room
This spring, I saw a TikTok that intrigued me. Befuddled me, maybe I should say. A woman sat on her bed and screamed into a pillow. The text across the middle of the screen read, “this feels worse than texting your ex.” A pinned comment said “She def doesn’t know…
Splitting the differenceMost people settle their taxes in April. I used to do a bit of accounting every Sunday morning.My weekly routine wasn’t with the IRS. Instead, I’d settle up with a hodgepodge of friends I crossed paths with over the weekend. From Uber rides to rounds of drinks to…
Consumers are trying to save money — just not on $30 delivery burritos.DoorDash, Uber Eats, and Instacart all posted strong sales growth in their quarterly results earlier this month, showing that consumers are still willing to shell out for groceries and restaurant food delivered to their homes.Diners’ willingness to pay…
Shane Arthur, an executive coach in Raleigh, North Carolina, advises clients to avoid working on Sundays — and to start their workweeks by avoiding meetings on Monday mornings. The following has been edited for brevity and clarity.I believe in startup and shutdown routines for your week. On Monday mornings, I…
Molly and Sean Morse agree that they want their 5-year-old daughter to be ready for the AI future. By night they’re tech-free, telling stories with her, building fantasy worlds and characters and letting her imagination roam. Then in the morning, she uses an AI image generator like Midourney to visualize…
Phillip Grant is feeling optimistic. He thinks he’s the best man to operate Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s city-run supermarkets. Along with being a former city economic development executive and construction entrepreneur, he’s a New Yorker who’s shocked that an orange costs $2 at his local gas station.We’re walking the perimeter of…
A mysterious new AI model is making the rounds among developers — and nobody is saying who built it.Ox Alpha appeared on OpenRouter on Thursday as a “stealth model” from an anonymous third-party provider. OpenRouter describes it as a “reasoning model designed for coding, sustained agentic work, and production workloads.…
America’s largest trade association of cattle producers says President Donald Trump’s plan to lower beef prices is political theater.The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, which represents more than 175,000 cattle producers and feeders, said on Friday that the strategy would do more harm than good for the industry. Earlier that day,…
The robot uprising may have to wait. For now, the machines are still running headfirst into walls, both literal and metaphorical.That reality was on grand display at the second iteration of the World Humanoid Robot Games, a five-day competition held in China where robots compete in Olympic-style events, which kicked…
What do the terms Zone 2 and VO2 max have in common? According to the celebrity personal trainer Harley Pasternak, they are irrelevant to the majority of people, the health-conscious among us included.If your goal is to be healthy physically and mentally, you are far better off focusing on a…
