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A dangerous heat wave is sweeping parts of the US, but many states set their all-time hottest temperature records decades ago.Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty ImagesGlobal temperatures continue to increase, with 2024 recording the warmest numbers on record.In 2021, Oregon, Utah, and Washington broke heat records.The highest temperature ever recorded in the US…
Luxury retailer Saks Global on Friday announced it will operate with a new name after it exited bankruptcy after cutting its store count and reducing its debt obligations. The company – which is the parent of notable retail brands including Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman – will…
SAN FRANCISCO — Gov. Gavin Newsom has struck a deal with Anthropic to expand the use of Claude products across California’s government at a discounted cost.The agreement, first shared with POLITICO, would make Claude the first artificial intelligence tool available to all state agencies and local governments. It comes amid…
For millions of student-loan borrowers, July 1 is the starting point — not the deadline — to act on repayment changes.After President Donald Trump’s administration eliminated the SAVE repayment plan in March, the Education Department recommended that the 7 million enrolled borrowers switch to a new plan and begin making…
Growing up, my family was whatever the opposite of outdoorsy is. We didn’t camp or go to national parks. Instead, we traveled to cities, ate well, visited museums, and planned our days around dinner reservations.It wasn’t until I had been living in New York City for a long time and…
As a tour guide in Paris, I saw many tourists make the same mistakes.adisa/Getty ImagesI worked as a tour guide in Paris and took hundreds of tourists around the city.I often saw travelers repeat the same mistakes over and over again.In my opinion, staying in a hotel near the Eiffel…
Colorado and Utah are the latest US states to be afflicted with deadly wildfires.Three firefighters recently lost their lives while fighting the fires on the Colorado-Utah border, which have been induced by hot and dry weather paired with windy conditions, PBS News reported. Other states in the region, like Arizona,…
Wouldn’t it be cool if the same company that sold you internet also sold you TV shows and movies?This was an idea lots of people had over the past three decades. Now, almost no one thinks that’s a good idea. Just because someone pays you for broadband doesn’t mean they…
OpenAI set up a “warroom” to investigate a flurry of user reports that its coding agent is hitting usage limits faster than usual.An update on OpenAI’s status page said that some users’ Codex limits are “depleting faster than expected” and that it was related to its “abuse and fraud prevention…
Leonhard Soenke cofounded Throne, a creator economy startup, in 2021 to help influencers create wishlists where fans could buy and send them gifts.Five years later, Soenke and his cofounder Patrice Becker are setting out on a new venture. It’s not in the creator economy. Instead, it’s in the data center…
