Finance
A boardroom exit has two multibillion-dollar AI startups trading accusations
Factory AI and Cognition, two high-profile San Francisco-based AI startups building coding agents, are publicly feuding over the departure of a former Factory board observer and advisor who is joining Cognition as chief revenue officer. Factory CEO Matan Grinberg posted on X on Wednesday that the…
Google launches Gemini 4 Argon to reclaim the AI frontier
The Gemini 4 era has begun. Google on Wednesday announced a new AI model named Gemini 4 Argon — the first of the 4 series — which the company is calling its “next era of frontier intelligence.” Google said the new model offers frontier performance in areas such as coding, cybersecurity defense, and…
At 56, I moved into a single-family home with a woman I’d never met. The setup helps me afford my dream city.
Twenty years ago, I accepted a short-term teaching job at a university in Los Angeles. As a born-and-raised Midwesterner, I hadn’t considered West Coast living, but I was open to the experience. Though I was there for only four years, I grew to love LA: the natural abundance of wildly diverse…
How Ben Shelton uses creatine, protein, and one brutal deep core exercise to build power
For nearly four and a half hours, Ben Shelton battled Spain’s Carlos Alcaraz in a quarterfinals marathon. More than a million viewers tuned in to the late-night match, one of the most-watched at the 2026 US Open. Fans were on the edge of their seats until around 3:30 a.m. on September 9, when the…
I was tired of asking my boss for permission to take my kids to doctors. So I became my own boss.
For most of my 20s, I thought I had a pretty good idea of what my career would look like. I graduated from college with a political science degree, lots of ambition, and very sincere plans to “change the world.” Instead, I ended up working in a small office where I spent a lot less
At 56, I bought a chateau in France. I never imagined I’d spend my midlife creating my dream home and business.
In May 2022, I found myself longing for a new life. I had spent the last 20 years rebuilding my life after my husband’s death in the World Trade Center during the 9/11 attacks — raising a 2-year-old and 6-year-old alone, moving across the country to Seattle, writing books about grief, and…
My adult son has lived with me since graduating from college, but now he’s moved out. I wasn’t expecting to be this upset.
“I’ve got news,” my 22-year-old son said as he sat across the dinner table from my husband and me on a warm summer night. “I accepted a new job in Indiana, and I’ll be moving there in a month.” I froze. I was surprised, not that he was moving out, but that he was leaving
I go to a tuition-free college where every student works part-time. I’m very busy, but I’ll graduate nearly debt-free.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Grace Mullins, a rising senior and sociology major from Indiana at Berea College, a private liberal arts work college in Kentucky. This story has been edited for length and clarity. I wouldn’t have been able to afford college without taking out…
We raised our family in a 7,500-square-foot home. Then, we retired early and sold almost everything to travel the world.
For more than 15 years, our 7,500-square-foot home in Arizona was the center of our family’s life. It’s where we raised four daughters, celebrated birthdays, hosted big family Thanksgivings, and somehow managed to fill every room with memories. My husband and I had good careers, a family we adored…
A flight between Dubai and Tel Aviv dropped 17,000 feet, then sent a hijack warning. Here’s what we know.
A flight to Tel Aviv was forced to divert on Wednesday morning after suddenly dropping more than 15,000 feet. FlyDubai Flight 1073 took off from Dubai just after 7 a.m. local time and was scheduled to land at Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport about three hours later. Around two hours into the flight, the…