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Since filing for bankruptcy in 2024 — and closing dozens of restaurants that year — Red Lobster has begun a turnaround: It’s appointed a new CEO, updated its menu, collaborated with celebrities, and exited Chapter 11 protection. The new CEO, Damola Adamolekun, told The Wall Street Journal in February that…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Stacy Lentz, co-owner of the Stonewall Inn and CEO of the Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative. It has been edited for length and clarity.I grew up middle-class, in the middle of a cornfield, in the middle-of-nowhere Kansas. That’s a lot of…
For a brief moment toward the midpoint of the AI-generated film “Hell Grind,” I caught myself experiencing something unexpected: genuine emotion.As the male lead, Roco, gazed at a photo of his recently kidnapped love interest, he flashed back to memories of them growing up together in an orphanage. The sadness…
I was 38 weeks pregnant when I stopped being able to walk, at age 28, with my first child of five. I remember the exact moment, standing in a long hallway, where I couldn’t race back to my class where 30 high school kids sat waiting for instruction. I grabbed…
On a May evening, a calendar invite titled “Project Sandbox Kickoff” popped up in the inbox of some AI training contractors who worked for Uber.It was a surprise for some of them, since they hadn’t heard from the company in months.”I thought, ‘This is the job I had heard back…
The theme was “magical fantasy forest.” Celina Tolbert and a friend spent the day decorating the chateau’s wood-paneled dining rooms and spiral staircase with moss, leaves, and fairy lights to make it feel enchanted.By evening, guests had arrived in corsets and chainmail before heading to a make-your-own-potions station. A playlist…
When I’m craving takeout but want a homemade meal, I make egg-roll bowls. The best part? These only require one pan and take 15 minutes to make.First, I brown ground turkey with Trader Joe’s peeled garlic cloves and a homemade ginger paste.To make the paste, I grate fresh ginger, stir…
SpaceX has added another lucrative deal to its revenue stream just ahead of its anticipated IPO.Google has agreed to pay SpaceX $920 million a month for compute capacity from October 2026 to June 2029, according to a SpaceX filing submitted to the SEC on Friday.The filing said the compute power…
The 2026 World Cup is shaping up to be the most profitable tournament for FIFA and the most expensive for fans in history. Business Insider reporter Pete Syme investigated why ticket prices are so high and compiled five charts that illustrate just how out of reach many of the tournament’s…
Anthropic wants the world’s leading AI labs to come together to consider a potential pause of leading global AI development.”We believe it would be good for the world to have the option to slow or temporarily pause frontier AI development to enable societal structures and alignment research to keep up…
