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These Moms Say Travel Teaches Lessons School Can’t. Are They Right?
Some lessons kids just don’t learn in a school curriculum. That’s how Sarah Mann feels. For the past four years, Mann has taken her three children, now 16, 14 and 12, out of school for major trips around the world, believing travel plays an important role in raising smart, well-rounded kids. “I…
Actually, blue-dot fever is amazing
When I noticed that Guns N’ Roses was playing nearby on a random Wednesday in August, I fired off a text to my boyfriend with a screenshot of the ticket map. “Mainly not serious but,” I wrote, followed by, “Is … v cheap.” Less than a week before the show, it seemed Axl, Slash, and
Sam Altman knows people hate data centers
Sam Altman doesn’t need to see the polls. The OpenAI CEO knows how unpopular his industry has become. “Clearly, people hate data centers—right now, at least,” Altman told Time as part of a series of interviews for a cover story published on Wednesday. “People are pretty negative on AI.” Data…
What smart people are saying about Meta’s settlement
Uttara Ananthakrishnan, an associate professor of information systems at the University of Washington, told Business Insider that she wouldn’t be surprised if YouTube and TikTok announce similar restrictions in the coming days. Ananthakrishnan, who has authored several research papers about the…
Tennis star Taylor Fritz says playing video games helps keep his brain ‘working well’ on the court
Taylor Fritz, 28, said playing “League of Legends” is as much a part of his tennis routine as sleep and recovery. Speaking to GQ in an interview published on Wednesday, the tennis star said playing video games helps him decompress. “When you’re training and traveling, you don’t always have the…
Yayoi Kusama never stopped creating until her death at 97. Here’s what she said about productivity and aging.
Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, best known for her colorful, polka-dot-covered artwork and sculptures, has died. She was 97. Kusama’s official website announced her death on Thursday, saying in a statement that the artist had died in a Tokyo hospital on August 14. It did not specify a cause of death…
Canada could use 2 key exports as leverage against Trump. One premier says that’s a bad idea.
Canada is escalating its response to President Donald Trump’s trade war, with another round of retaliatory tariffs set to take effect September 8. But two key Canadian exports — oil and potash, a key fertilizer ingredient — should stay out of the fight, one Canadian premier said Wednesday. “What we…
I visited lesser-known parts of Japan. The trip taught me to say ‘yes’ more.
Some days, life goes your way. Other days, AI steals another client from your content marketing roster while your French bulldog is undergoing a $2,500 corneal ulcer treatment, and rent is due on the first. So when times are tough, I’ve found that saying “no” rolls off the tongue quite smoothly…
The cow comes home: China’s Internet celebrates Z.ai claiming ownership of Ox Alpha
One of China’s leading AI labs has claimed the cow — aka the mysterious Ox Alpha model — and Chinese fans couldn’t be happier. In a Wednesday blog post, Z.ai said Ox Alpha had been a free-to-use preview of its new GLM-5.3-Flash model. The model had appeared on OpenRouter and OpenCode on August 20…
ChatGPT expands its foothold in the nation’s classrooms
Teachers are heading back to school, and ChatGPT is coming with them. OpenAI announced 55 new partnerships with American school districts on Wednesday, roughly doubling the reach of its ChatGPT for Teachers product. The districts signed on represent more than 300,000 staffers and 2 million…