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Elizabeth Holmes’ greatest invention: ‘Elizabeth Holmes’
They say you never get a second chance to make a first impression. That may be true for everyone but Elizabeth Holmes, who reintroduced herself this weekend in a preview for a new documentary from Nathan Fielder, called “You Can See Everything.” The teaser features 45 seconds of the Theranos…
I used to see countries I’d visited as places I’d ‘done.’ Slow travel changed that.
Earlier this year, as I set foot in country number 50, I expected the milestone to feel significant. Instead, I realized how little the number actually meant. As a teenager, I became obsessed with seeing the world. My first purchase on Amazon was a set of 50 mini flags to study each day. I turned
An Anthropic researcher just quit, saying OpenAI and Anthropic are ‘gambling with our lives’
An Anthropic researcher who previously worked at OpenAI just quit. He’s the latest insider who’s warned that the AI race has become dangerously reckless. Jacob Coxon announced his resignation from Anthropic on Tuesday, saying he had spent the past three years doing pre-training research at the two…
A food-safety expert explains why more recalls aren’t necessarily a bad thing — and how AI plays a role
For a brief period this summer, no fresh produce seemed safe. Lettuce, jalapenos, and blueberries were among a steady stream of recalls and food safety alerts that kept consumers on high alert. Willette M. Crawford, a food science consultant who has spent two decades researching predictive food…
Iran says it captured an ‘advanced’ American underwater drone. The US says it was older, malfunctioning, and ‘dead in the water.’
Iran’s military said it seized an American-made underwater drone near the Strait of Hormuz. The US military said the uncrewed system had malfunctioned and was “dead in the water.” The Navy has employed uncrewed undersea and surface vessels in and around the Middle East for an expanding range of…
The US Navy is applying lessons from USS Abraham Lincoln’s tough deployment to another aircraft carrier preparing to head out
The US Navy’s next aircraft carrier set to deploy will be carrying extra supplies so it can remain self-sufficient for longer, top service officials said on Tuesday, a move intended to address logistics issues that have surfaced on other ships during the Iran war. USS Theodore Roosevelt is…
You should care about the AI math breakthrough drama even if you’re not a nerd
The big drama in AI land today is decidedly nerdy stuff. But the hubbub highlights a concern everyone should care about: Can what you type into AI help train a machine that one day beats you at your own game? On Monday, Tristan Buckmaster, an NYU mathematician, and Levent Alpöge, a mathematician…
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar says ChatGPT’s ads should be like ‘if Google and Meta had a baby’
Congratulations to Google and Meta — they’re expecting. OpenAI’s chief financial officer, Sarah Friar, was describing her company’s ads ambitions on Tuesday when she said that ChatGPT is like “if Google and Meta had a baby.” Friar made the remarks before a full room of investors and analysts at…
The 25 colleges where students graduate with the most debt
It’s back-to-school season — and that means that some bright-eyed college freshmen and their proud families are getting ready to shell out six figures to attend their dream schools. Tuition prices have soared in recent decades, even as Americans have grown more skeptical of the value of a four-year…
We once had to melt snow just to flush our toilet. It was one of several unexpected challenges of living off-grid.
After a couple of years of full-time travel, we decided to plant down some roots in northern New Mexico. We’d gallivanted around the country — north, south, east, and west — and fallen deeply in love with the high desert tucked away in the Rocky Mountains. During our travels, we’d been living in a…