Many AI leaders have turned their ire to effective altruism. Peter Thiel isn’t a fan himself, but he thinks the movement got “one big thing” right.Thiel spoke to Walter Isaacson…
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Factory AI and Cognition, two high-profile San Francisco-based AI startups building coding agents, are publicly feuding over the departure of a former Factory board observer and advisor who is joining Cognition as chief revenue officer.Factory CEO Matan Grinberg posted on…
Paramount Skydance’s David Ellison just introduced his new co-CEO ahead of the company’s merger with Warner Bros. Discovery.Ynon Kreiz, who’d been the CEO at toy maker Mattel since 2018, is joining Paramount on Monday as it finalizes its $110 billion…
The Gemini 4 era has begun.Google on Wednesday announced a new AI model named Gemini 4 Argon — the first of the 4 series — which the company is calling its “next era of frontier intelligence.”Google said the new model offers frontier performance in areas such as coding, cybersecurity defense,…
Twenty years ago, I accepted a short-term teaching job at a university in Los Angeles. As a born-and-raised Midwesterner, I hadn’t considered West Coast living, but I was open to the experience.Though I was there for only four years, I grew to love LA: the natural abundance of wildly diverse…
She was photographed in Tribeca this June while wearing a red jumpsuit from the New York fashion label Ashlyn.The long-sleeved piece had a peplum waist, flowing capris, and a scoop…
For most Americans, their house is the most valuable asset they will ever own. Yet, of nearly 5,000 homeowners who filed claims after Colorado’s Marshall Fire, 74% lacked enough insurance…
For nearly four and a half hours, Ben Shelton battled Spain’s Carlos Alcaraz in a quarterfinals marathon.More than a million viewers tuned in to the late-night match, one of the most-watched at the 2026 US Open. Fans were on the…
Rebecca Yarros’ next “Fourth Wing” book is out, but it’s not the fourth novel in the “Empyrean” series.It’s been over a year since Yarros released “Onyx Storm,” which continues the story of Violet Sorrengail’s journey to become a dragon rider…
Krakenimages.com / Shutterstock.comMost people would agree that cooking from scratch yields tastier results than cooking with premixed ingredients — or ordering fast food. And magazines, books, TV channels and Pinterest are dying to make Martha Stewarts of us all. Few…
For most of my 20s, I thought I had a pretty good idea of what my career would look like. I graduated from college with a political science degree, lots of ambition, and very sincere plans to “change the world.”…
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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…
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,…
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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…
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…
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”…
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The US has proposed a direct channel with China to notify both governments of major AI-related national security incidents even as their AI rivalry intensifies.Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the proposal was made during talks in New York on Sunday…
This interview is based on a conversation with Nina Ottevanger, 31, a surf instructor and co-owner of Ilyana Surfhouse, a small business in Rabat, Morocco. It has been edited for length and clarity.Eleven years ago, I was traveling in Morocco…
Alexis Ohanian says he and Serena Williams have one rule for letting their daughters chart their own paths.”The one rule in the house is we don’t care what you want to do when you grow up, as long as you…
Moving to a new country comes with plenty of adjustments, from language to social rules, but I didn’t expect to feel out of place in my own body.Before moving to Japan from New Zealand, I was mostly content with how…
I don’t think of myself as an overprotective parent. I began letting my kids stay home alone for short stints when they were around 10. I let them wander our neighborhood alone starting when they were 11 or 12. I…
Don’t let the black leather jacket fool you, Jensen Huang isn’t a doomer.Nvidia’s CEO said as much in an interview with CBS News aired on Sunday. He accused the leaders of the frontier AI labs of being disingenuous in their…
Osahon Aburime opened his Lyft app on Mother’s Day last year to make some money.That day, the North Carolina driver had made about $80 to put toward taking his wife out to dinner and getting a gift for his mom.…
There’s a simple solution for AI companies that feel like their models are developing at a frightening speed: Hit the brakes.That’s the advice Michael Kratsios, the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, gave during an…
At least once a year, Twilio CEO Khozema Shipchandler’s right hand cramps up from a few hours of writing. He’s not signing copies of a book.The pain, instead, comes from penning personalized notes to every member of the technology company’s…
The next shiny new AI thing has arrived: The personal AI agent.Once mostly the domain of Silicon Valley coders who used them to amp up their efficiency at work (and anxiety levels), the AI agent is now being welcomed into…
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