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Macklemore fans are asking for refunds as Ed Sheeran’s Loop Tour falls into disarray. Here’s what happened.
Ed Sheeran and Macklemore are all over the headlines this week — and no, you didn’t somehow wake up in 2013, listening to “Thrift Shop” and “The A Team” on the radio. The two millennial musicians are now at odds after Macklemore was dropped from Ed Sheeran’s Loop Tour on September 14, a little over
Elon Musk’s companies ordered to explain why they dropped antitrust claims against Apple
The federal judge overseeing an antitrust case by Elon Musk’s companies against Apple and OpenAI is demanding to see any settlement agreements that may have led X Corp and SpaceXAI on Tuesday to drop their claims against Apple, POLITICO reported. Judge Mark Pittman, a conservative Trump appointee…
Meta is learning a lesson about camera glasses that Google learned more than 10 years ago
Meta is cooking up camera-free glasses, according to a new report. And why shouldn’t they? After all, wearing a camera on your face has always been a tough sell — just ask Google. Remember when Sergey Brin jumped out of a plane wearing Google Glass, recording grainy video of his sky dive? That was…
Trump calls for slashing interest rates to ‘1% or less’ after the Fed’s first hike in 3 years
The Fed hiked interest rates for the first time in three years — and President Donald Trump isn’t thrilled. “Interest Rates in the United States should be 1%, or less, because we are the Best Credit in the World — BY FAR,” he wrote on Truth Social. “Our Country is BOOMING with new Investment!” While
A detailed look at the ’60 Minutes’ ratings drop shows the problem facing Bari Weiss
What does the drop in viewers for the “60 Minutes” season premiere mean for CBS News’ top editor, Bari Weiss? A look at the granular ratings data provides some clues. Viewership for the first “60 Minutes” episode led by new producer Nick Bilton, who was handpicked by Weiss in May, fell 20% from…
OpenAI launches a new framework to track and investigate rogue AI agents
OpenAI is putting its misbehaving models on the record. The AI company announced a new framework on Wednesday for tracking, investigating, and publicly disclosing cases of model misalignment, alongside six reports detailing concerning behavior observed during training or evaluation over the past…
I’m an American mom raising 2 kids in Italy. Parenting here is completely different.
I was born and raised in New York City and moved to Italy when I was 24 years old. For a little over twelve years, Italy has been my home, and I’ve built a life here. I have two children, an 8-year-old daughter and a 3-year-old son. Both of them have spent their entire lives
What smart people in business and economics are saying about the Fed interest rate hike
Markets and analysts are abuzz over the first Fed interest-rate hike since the second Trump administration. On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve raised rates by a quarter point, its first hike in three years, as officials sought to curb inflation. Kevin Warsh, the Federal Reserve Chair, said that the…
Our London house swap saved us money. The bigger payoff was watching my teenager grow up.
I was enjoying lunch with a friend during my summer vacation in London when she asked about the whereabouts of the rest of the family. My husband and tween son were at a museum, I told her. I said I wasn’t sure about my daughter, then 15. I explained that we’d parted ways earlier that
What people at SF’s largest tech conference are actually worried about (Hint: Not an AI takeover)
I decided to hit the pavement at Salesforce’s gigantic Dreamforce conference to ask tech-minded people about AI’s catastrophic risk. Turns out, it’s not all AI gloom and doom — that’s only if you’re looking online. Last week, Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon announced he was resigning from the…