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Elon Musk sat down with The Economist’s editor in chief Zanny Minton Beddoes on Thursday for a wide-ranging interview, covering everything from superintelligent AI to his controversial stint in government.Musk, the world’s richest person, is the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX and owns the social media platform X, where he…
Scouring the office for an empty conference room. Spending lunch on an outdoor bench for a few minutes of quiet. Stacking meetings into one part of the day so you can spend the rest uninterrupted.If you identify as an introvert, these habits may sound familiar.Introverts make up roughly 40 to…
New York City landlords are pushing back against Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s rent freeze.A coalition of seven NYC landlords filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the long-promised freeze for rent-stabilized apartments in the city, passed on a 7—1 vote by the city’s Rent Guidelines Board in late June. The decision blocks rent…
On a Thursday afternoon, about 70 people gathered around a nearly six-foot-tall humanoid robot outside an unassuming office building.Employees, executives, and board members of Agility Robotics, along with local officials, had come to christen the humanoid startup’s new engineering hub: a 60,000-square-foot facility where nearly 200 existing and new employees…
Progress Software agreed to buy Domo’s AI and data business for $400 million, ending a tumultuous chapter for tech executive Josh James. It’s not the end, though.Progress, a public software company with a $1.5 billion valuation, will buy almost all of Domo’s operations and employees and assume some of its…
A bipartisan House bill slated to be introduced on Thursday would give the Department of Homeland Security the authority to order top artificial intelligence firms to shut down or slow AI models that the government deems too dangerous, according to legislative text viewed first by POLITICO.The proposal, dubbed the “AI…
My partner and I fell in love with our first home — a two-story 1980s residence in Edinburgh — before we’d even gone inside.Sitting in a network of courtyards, each with a shared, central garden, we stepped through the wrought-iron gates to see its huge, floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking a patch…
Something has to change, right?Instagram, Snapchat, and TikTok have dominated the social media landscape for years. As AI infiltrates every platform — and many corners of our lives — new social media founders, apps, and internet behaviors are emerging.From vibe coding to cultural shifts shaping how people want to connect,…
Italy stole my heart over a decade ago, when I spent a semester of college studying abroad there.This beautiful country is where I cliff-jumped into the Mediterranean Sea, toured wineries throughout Tuscany’s rolling hills, tossed coins into the Trevi Fountain in Rome, and perused chic boutiques in Milan.Although I was…
AMD is making a bet about the future of AI: one chip shouldn’t rule them all.CEO Lisa Su announced Thursday that AMD is teaming up with chip startup Cerebras on a new approach to AI inference, which is the process of generating responses from AI models.Increasingly, chipmakers are pursuing “disaggregated…
