In May 2022, I found myself longing for a new life.I had spent the last 20 years rebuilding my life after my husband’s death in the World Trade Center during…
“I’ve got news,” my 22-year-old son said as he sat across the dinner table from my husband and me on a warm summer night.”I accepted a new job in Indiana,…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Grace Mullins, a rising senior and sociology major from Indiana at Berea College, a private liberal arts work college in Kentucky. This story has been edited for length and clarity.I wouldn’t…
You might be waiting longer for your Uber ride to arrive — and paying more for it.The time between when Uber matched a driver with a rider and when the car arrived grew 19% between the first quarter of 2023…
For more than 15 years, our 7,500-square-foot home in Arizona was the center of our family’s life. It’s where we raised four daughters, celebrated birthdays, hosted big family Thanksgivings, and somehow managed to fill every room with memories.My husband and…
The Trump administration is moving forward with its transfer of federal student-loan accounts to the Treasury Department.The Treasury and Education Departments announced on Wednesday, first reported by Business Insider, that they are launching the “Defaulted Loans Support Center.” The new online portal is intended to serve as a centralized hub…
Allow OpenAI to reintroduce itself.After watching an upstart (Instinct) and tech giant’s (Meta) AI agents grab the spotlight, OpenAI has responded. Dots, OpenAI’s “always on” AI agent, got the big reveal at the startup’s annual DevDay conference in San Francisco.It’s the third major AI agent launch over the past few…
Humans have prized precious metals for thousands of years, as money, as jewelry, as a store of wealth and more recently as industrial inputs. Precious metals have had a remarkable…
Marketers have gone all in on AI. Now comes the awkward question: Is it actually paying off yet?The answer is largely “no,” according to new research from the management consulting…
These 20 airlines are the best in the business. Business class, that is.Skytrax, an aviation rating company, conducted the world’s largest airline passenger satisfaction survey to determine the airlines with the best business-class offerings in the world.The airlines were evaluated…
Spooky season is about to get into full swing, so it’s no surprise that Dunkin’ has added Halloween-inspired drinks to its menu. Starting Wednesday, Sept. 30, customers can order several new drinks or add Purple Marshmallow Cold Foam, a spin…
It took Larry and David Ellison two years to assemble a media behemoth.Now that they’ve bought Paramount, and are about to add Warner Bros. Discovery, the hard part starts: First, they have to figure out how to merge the two…
Could Meta’s Muse get even more Jolly?By now, you’ve probably seen plenty of cynical hot takes about Meta’s choice to represent its new AI agent with Jolly, the cuddly mascot. “Surveillance Tamagotchi.” “Don’t believe his lies.” “It’s sinister that Meta’s…
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OpenAI’s new AI agents are meant to help people get work done. Instead, their first job may be to explain that they’re not a Chinese AI lab, a small fashion retailer, or Elon Musk’s Grok.At its DevDay event on Tuesday,…
OpenAI is throwing its hat in tech’s shiniest new ring.On Tuesday, the company unveiled a new product called Dots, its answer to the rise of…
Sam Altman laid out OpenAI’s three-step vision for business dominance.The CEO revealed a slew of updates to ChatGPT and related company products at its developer…
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One of Russia’s Tu-95 strategic bombers crashed during a training flight in the Amur region, killing six crew members, the country’s defense ministry said on Tuesday.The plane was not carrying any ammunition, and a seventh crew member survived the initial…
Another money mistake I made abroad was not looking into a credit card without foreign transaction fees.I relied on my regular card for most of…
President Donald Trump’s seating chart is a who’s who of AI.Trump hosted a “Super Intelligence Luncheon” on Tuesday, dining with the CEOs of most major…
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It seems like every chain wants a piece of the dunkable-chicken craze.McDonald’s launched its McCrispy Strips in May 2025, marking the first time chicken strips had been on its menu since the COVID-19 pandemic.Then, in June 2025, Taco Bell introduced…
I don’t think I would have had the courage to become a freelancer if I hadn’t been laid off.The year was 2014. I was 27, living in a tiny studio on the Upper West Side, conveniently located next to not…
Insurance prices may feel random when two neighbors with similar houses or cars get quoted very different premiums. At its simplest, the calculation starts by grouping you with customers who share your risk characteristics. From there, your individual details and…
Ukraine’s developers are equipping war robots with microphones and speakers to allow them to serve as mobile spies against Russia, to urge Russian soldiers to surrender, and to talk with their own comrades who need help.Ukraine is increasingly using uncrewed…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Parul Somani, a working mother and the author of The Path of Least Regret. It has been edited for length and clarity.After giving birth to my second child in 2014, I…
The first cold snap is weeks away, but your heating bill is already written. The National Energy Assistance Directors Association (NEADA), the group that runs the states’ heating-aid programs, put out its winter forecast in mid-September. The average household will…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Rhiannon Wood, a 26-year-old travel micro influencer who runs a social media business and leads group tours around the world. It has been edited for length and clarity.After graduating from the…
A Ukrainian unit used heavy bomber drones to drop war robots behind Russian lines as part of a secretive operation that it says has helped retake multiple settlements.Ukraine’s Third Army Corps on Sunday announced that Operation Vivaldi, near the eastern…
I’ve been investing in stocks for 45 years. In that time I’ve watched Wall Street repackage the same product about a dozen different ways, always with the same promise: This time it’s faster, cheaper, and finally fair to the little…
Jinyoung Oh, 23, recently received an offer to work as a software engineer after about a year of searching. He lives in Seattle. The following has been edited for brevity and clarity.I started looking for jobs last September, before I…
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If OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stands at the center of the AI boom, what he says about the technology can blaze a trail for the rest of the industry.At OpenAI’s…
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