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Barnes & Noble has staged an unlikely comeback. CEO James Daunt shared 4 key lessons from its turnaround.
Bookstores might seem old school in the AI era, but Barnes & Noble has staged a fairy-tale comeback under CEO James Daunt. After shrinking to under 600 locations in 2023, the storied American bookstore chain opened 57 locations in 2024 — more than in the entire decade between 2009 and 2019. It…
OpenAI’s training pause is convenient. That doesn’t make it meaningless.
When Sam Altman announced this week that OpenAI had paused some of its training after its models hacked an AI company called Hugging Face, my first reaction was: How convenient. OpenAI, a company that might go public in 2027 (or sooner), gets to tell everyone that the models it hasn’t released yet…
NASA’s Voyager probes have traveled through space for nearly 50 years. See the remarkable photos from their journeys.
Voyager 2, a pioneer in outer solar system exploration, left Earth for interstellar space 49 years ago, on August 20, 1977. The twin of Voyager 1, which left Earth only a few weeks after, is the only spacecraft to visit all four of the solar system’s outer gas giants — Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and…
Ukraine is teaching NATO troops how ground robots work in war — and where they don’t
Ukrainian soldiers are teaching their Western trainers how they use war robots on the battlefield. Ukrainian troops are receiving training on NATO soil in a Norway-led multinational effort called Operation Legio. Western military trainers share their best warfighting practices, and in the process…
Elon Musk’s Starlink is becoming an in-flight must-have. I tried it on Qatar Airways, and it’s a game changer.
Elon Musk’s Starlink is evolving from a niche perk to a necessity for high fliers. The venture capitalist Jason Calacanis said he chooses flights based on whether they offer Starlink, regardless of price or journey length. Rick Ross said he spent $700,000 putting it on his private jet. And in the…
The 2 underrated foods dietitians wish you would eat for better gut health and longevity
Ask a dietitian what to eat, and you’ll likely get one of the least helpful answers in the English language: “It depends.” That’s the most common answer I got when I talked to more than a dozen dietitians (plus doctors and researchers) at a top nutrition conference last month on the best foods for…
Next-day shipping is old news. Now, it’s all about hours — or minutes
US shoppers want their stuff faster, and more retailers are responding with delivery options that would have been almost unthinkable a few years ago. Comments this week from Target, Walmart, and Home Depot show that a new benchmark of three hours or less is emerging for customers willing to pay an…
Taylor Sheridan says he wanted to retire after ‘Yellowstone,’ but he needed money for his $330 million ranch
“Yellowstone” creator Taylor Sheridan said buying a $330 million ranch kept him from retiring. On Tuesday’s episode of the “Rodeo Time” podcast hosted by Dale Brisby, Sheridan said his purchase of the Four Sixes Ranch prompted him to sign a deal with Paramount and continue working. “I was set up to…
An Apache and Black Hawk drill in Taiwan shows how Ukraine’s drones are changing helicopter warfare
TAIPEI — A helicopter hot-refueling drill in Taiwan’s landmark military exercise shows how the island is preparing for drone threats when its choppers fly in and out of vulnerable forward positions, a danger repeatedly demonstrated in Ukraine. Counter-drone ground teams, crouching amid the grass…
Mark Zuckerberg is king… of an Irish castle near a Meta office
Mark Zuckerberg has a hot new — but also 200-year-old — pad in Ireland. The billionaire CEO of Meta and his wife, Priscilla Chan, have purchased a nearly Gothic property called Strancally Castle in Waterford County, Ireland. The property is located about 140 miles south of the company’s…