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Grindr is betting big on IRL marketing. There’s a very digital reason.
Grindr became one of the world’s best-known dating brands by helping men meet each other using their phones. Its marketing dollars, on the other hand, are increasingly being deployed in the real world. Grindr CMO Tristan Pineiro told me that there are two pertinent — and digital — business reasons…
Jensen Huang said China isn’t spending time debating the AI apocalypse. We are, the Chinese internet says.
Jensen Huang’s latest comments on China’s approach to artificial intelligence are stirring debate on Chinese social media. Speaking onstage at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles on Monday, Huang said that people in China don’t talk about AI doom in the same way as people in the West. “The narrative…
The things Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg allow — and forbid — their daughter to vibe code
Mark Zuckerberg’s daughter is vibe coding. Her mom isn’t vibing with the open web. The Meta CEO has long set tech restrictions on his children. In 2019, he told Fox News that he liked that his kids could video chat with their extended family, but didn’t want them to sit in front of a computer
Welcome to the blackboard jungle
Elly Dominicis doesn’t consider herself a tiger parent — but the technological jungle of modern-day parenting might turn her into one. She’s inundated by the battery of apps and tools required to handle her sons’ schooling and activities. There’s ClassDojo for communication and behavior management…
We’ve been to 35 countries and countless cities with our kids. There are 4 cities we’d bring them back to.
If your kids love pasta, pizza, and gelato, Italy is an obvious choice. Rome, Florence, and Venice are popular with families, but I’d suggest skipping those hot spots for their less famous, equally impressive cousin: Turin. Turin has excellent food, beautiful piazzas, and enough desserts to satisfy…
Tom Cruise, 64, says he saw himself as the ‘CEO’ of his life early on
Tom Cruise, 64, said it was his childhood dream to make movies, and he worked hard to make that dream a reality. Speaking to GQ in an interview published Tuesday, Cruise said he would map out the skills he needed to make films, breaking each one into actionable tasks. “What I did was write goals,”
OpenAI’s CFO says AI is replacing some jobs, but many are mundane ones
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar said that AI is reducing the need for some workers, but only repetitive ones. In a Tuesday interview with CNBC’s Jim Cramer on “Mad Money,” Friar addressed AI use for efficiency at OpenAI, using her own finance department as an example. “There is no doubt we are doing things…
Apple’s iOS 27 lets parents police more of what kids do on their iPhones
There are new ways to set boundaries on your kids’ iPhones. iOS 27, released Monday, is Apple’s AI-ified update to the software brains inside the iPhone. Some changes are available for models as old as iPhone 11. And, for parents, there are four core changes. Screen Time has a redesigned parental…
The 15 countries with the highest life expectancies — and the 15 with the lowest
Jeanne Calment was the oldest verified person to have ever lived, passing away at 122. Despite Calment’s extraordinary longevity, her home country, France, ranks 19th in the world for average life expectancy. The World Bank Group collected data on life expectancy at birth by country through 2024…
Mark Zuckerberg says AI labs can slow down on their own when safety demands it
Mark Zuckerberg said AI companies don’t need an industry-wide agreement to slow development when safety concerns emerge. In a post on X on Tuesday, the Meta CEO argued that market pressure will make alignment, meaning ensuring that AI systems follow their users’ intentions, a competitive advantage…