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I quit my Google software engineering job and became a watercolor artist. Here’s how I’m using — and not using — AI.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Sara Wilczynska, a 41-year-old watercolor artist and founder of Swil Arts who lives in San Diego. Prior to her art career, she worked as a software engineer in the finance and tech industries before quitting her job at Google in 2022. The…
The things Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg allow — and forbid — their daughter to vibe code
Mark Zuckerberg’s daughter is vibe coding. Her mom isn’t vibing with the open web. The Meta CEO has long set tech restrictions on his children. In 2019, he told Fox News that he liked that his kids could video chat with their extended family, but didn’t want them to sit in front of a computer
Welcome to the blackboard jungle
Elly Dominicis doesn’t consider herself a tiger parent — but the technological jungle of modern-day parenting might turn her into one. She’s inundated by the battery of apps and tools required to handle her sons’ schooling and activities. There’s ClassDojo for communication and behavior management…
We’ve been to 35 countries and countless cities with our kids. There are 4 cities we’d bring them back to.
If your kids love pasta, pizza, and gelato, Italy is an obvious choice. Rome, Florence, and Venice are popular with families, but I’d suggest skipping those hot spots for their less famous, equally impressive cousin: Turin. Turin has excellent food, beautiful piazzas, and enough desserts to satisfy…
Tom Cruise, 64, says he saw himself as the ‘CEO’ of his life early on
Tom Cruise, 64, said it was his childhood dream to make movies, and he worked hard to make that dream a reality. Speaking to GQ in an interview published Tuesday, Cruise said he would map out the skills he needed to make films, breaking each one into actionable tasks. “What I did was write goals,”
OpenAI’s CFO says AI is replacing some jobs, but many are mundane ones
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar said that AI is reducing the need for some workers, but only repetitive ones. In a Tuesday interview with CNBC’s Jim Cramer on “Mad Money,” Friar addressed AI use for efficiency at OpenAI, using her own finance department as an example. “There is no doubt we are doing things…
Apple’s iOS 27 lets parents police more of what kids do on their iPhones
There are new ways to set boundaries on your kids’ iPhones. iOS 27, released Monday, is Apple’s AI-ified update to the software brains inside the iPhone. Some changes are available for models as old as iPhone 11. And, for parents, there are four core changes. Screen Time has a redesigned parental…
The 15 countries with the highest life expectancies — and the 15 with the lowest
Jeanne Calment was the oldest verified person to have ever lived, passing away at 122. Despite Calment’s extraordinary longevity, her home country, France, ranks 19th in the world for average life expectancy. The World Bank Group collected data on life expectancy at birth by country through 2024…
Mark Zuckerberg says AI labs can slow down on their own when safety demands it
Mark Zuckerberg said AI companies don’t need an industry-wide agreement to slow development when safety concerns emerge. In a post on X on Tuesday, the Meta CEO argued that market pressure will make alignment, meaning ensuring that AI systems follow their users’ intentions, a competitive advantage…
This startup tried to take on Carta. It just announced it’s shutting down.
Pulley, a software that startups rely on to track their funding, is shutting down after seven years. The company said in a statement published on its website on Tuesday that it will cease operations after December 8. Pulley had raised more than $50 million from investors, including Founders Fund…