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My husband and I live with our college-aged daughter, my mother-in-law, and two of her teen grandchildren — three generations, six people, all in one house.Trying to accommodate all the different preferences and feed this crew on a budget sometimes feels like navigating a field of land mines. But shopping…
Cure cancer with AI, and the doubters will understand the hype. That may be Silicon Valley’s standard pitch, but Sam Altman says it is not ambitious enough.Speaking to Bloomberg Television on Thursday, the OpenAI CEO said that the tech industry has done a “terrible job” making the positive case for…
A few years ago, I left New York City and headed to Sydney. I moved to Australia for a job opportunity and because I wanted to experience what it is like to work and live abroad. Doing so also helped me scratch the itch I’d had since college, when I…
Adtech company The Trade Desk is downsizing.In a note late Thursday, The Trade Desk CEO Jeff Green informed staff it was laying off 15% of its head count.In the announcement, which was also published on The Trade Desk’s news site, The Current, Green said the aim was to restructure the…
In my 30s, my self-worth was still so connected to how much I could accomplish in a day that I named my business “do communications.”Then one night, as I sat reading my 2-year-old daughter a bedtime story while 24 weeks pregnant, I started spotting and cramping.When I called my obstetrician,…
The Big Apple is getting more unequal: A new report from New York City Comptroller Mark Levine found that income inequality worsened in the city from 2019 to 2024.That’s not entirely unexpected. The country’s financial capital has long had a wealth gap between its Wall Street bigwigs and everyday workers,…
Geopolitical turmoil is pushing central banks to think harder about where they keep their gold reserves.On Wednesday, the Netherlands central bank said it had reallocated about 86 metric tons of gold from New York and Ottawa to London between March and August, “in view of increasing geopolitical unrest” and to…
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani introduced a one-year ban on AI in schools, which he said could affect 600,000 public school students. And the tech world has a lot to say.On Wednesday, Mamdani proposed a moratorium that would ban the use of AI in schools for children from 2-K…
No more chicken for Amelia Dimoldenberg.After 12 years of hosting “Chicken Shop Date” on YouTube and interviewing musicians, celebrities, and other creators, Dimoldenberg announced that the internet talk show is coming to an end.”I never thought I’d stop Chicken Shop Date,” Dimoldenberg wrote in a social media post. “I thought…
The country’s largest colleges aren’t always a single enormous campus packed with students.From giant historic flagships to statewide community colleges, the biggest school in each state can look very different. But those who prefer larger colleges gain access to more majors, extracurriculars, and a diverse student body.Business Insider compiled a…
