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Photographer and art director Bukunmi Grace was between work trips when she booked a stay at Soho Warehouse in Downtown LA. That’s when she realized she could take Pilates classes at the hotel. Grace — who jokingly refers to herself as a “fake workout girlie” — says having access to…
The National Park Service is heading into peak summer with fewer permanent staff and looser crowd-control rules at some of its most popular parks.Advocacy groups say that the combination has already led to longer lines, crowded parking lots, and less predictable trips, so if you’re planning to visit a national…
Maria Sharapova, 39, says she used injuries and time off from tennis to prepare for life after retirement.In an interview with the WSJ Leadership Institute published Tuesday, Sharapova said she began planning her next chapter years before stepping away from the sport.”I recognized from an early age that as a…
They seem like any other tech company: cracked founders, sky-high valuations, and minimalistic Silicon Valley offices.But getting into this group of AI startups is no easy feat.As competition for top engineers reaches a fever pitch, the buzziest AI coding startups are flipping the script on recruiting and finding unconventional ways…
Meta is making significant progress in the AI model race, its superintelligence chief Alexandr Wang told employees today.In an internal town hall, Wang said that Meta’s upcoming AI model — which is codenamed Watermelon — has caught up with OpenAI’s flagship GPT-5.5 model, he said, according to two sources familiar…
It’s been a drought of a summer for romance. Finally, just a few days before the glorious 250th birthday of this nation, we got a hot and confusingly romantic love story with the couple that climbed the Empire State Building.I’ve been spending the last four weeks watching the least romantic…
A Texas man who drove a Tesla into a home, killing a 76-year-old woman, was pressing the accelerator pedal “all the way down” before the crash, according to an arrest affidavit filed in Harris County District Court.On June 19, Michael David Butler, 44, crashed a Tesla Model 3 into a…
Get ready for another Meta app.Meta is rolling out Pocket, a new social AI app, Business Insider has learned. Meta describes the Pocket as a platform to “create, share, and discover gizmos with friends.”The app is listed on Meta’s Help Center and in the Google Play Store. The timeline and…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says his industry is already like something out of a work of fiction.”Evidence of AI’s economic value, importance to national security and acceleration of scientific discovery is becoming clear,” Altman wrote in an op-ed published by the Financial Times. “In another year or two, we expect…
On Christmas Eve, December 24, 2025, at 41 years old, I found myself in bed, lying to men about where I lived.Well, sort of.Earlier that night, while my teenage kids were getting ready for bed, I scrolled through TikTok, pausing on a video from a woman who manually changed her…
