The corpsman strapped his patient onto the litter as the sound of swirling helicopter blades roared from a watchful instructor’s hand-held speaker. Double-checking his IVs were secure, he and a…
“Do you want caviar?”Servers floated around a renovated pencil factory in Brooklyn with holsters carrying caviar and crackers around their waists, while internet stars mingled.The soiree, hosted by Time magazine, celebrated the…
Ty Geri always tells ChatGPT: “Please impress me.””You shouldn’t have to,” said Geri, a product manager at OpenAI. “The models should try to impress you regardless.”Geri joined OpenAI last year after working at Google on AI search products, like its…
My two youngest kids are entering 11th grade. The recurring theme in my head is, How did we get here so fast?I have misty memories of their younger years: soft, pudgy baby hands, “Doc McStuffins” playing in the background, and…
In tech’s hardcore era, some execs are facing an obstacle they can’t outsmart: the limits of their own bodies.On Monday, Lilian Weng, the cofounder of Thinking Machines Lab, became at least the fourth high-profile figure at tech’s cutting edge to…
The world’s newest private jet is breaking speed records, but the manufacturer’s CEO and chief engineer say going supersonic isn’t worth the time.Bombardier’s Global 8000 is the fastest civil aircraft since Concorde and costs at least $78 million to buy. It entered service in December and made its airshow debut…
In my opinion, Glacier Bay National Park in Alaska is one of the most jaw-droppingly beautiful places on earth. That’s why some may find it surprising that I don’t see myself going back anytime soon.Although I loved experiencing Glacier Bay on a Norwegian Bliss cruise, visiting can be both costly…
Alex Karp continue to drag the AI labs — while defending one of their leaders, Dario Amodei.The Palantir CEO spent July outlining his thesis for “sovereign AI.” Firms should want…
Clean up on aisle Phia.The shopping startup cofounded by Bill Gates’ 23-year-old daughter, Phoebe, is doing damage control after a bombshell Bloomberg report revealed it had been earning commissions on…
In May 2024, Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker delivered a commencement speech at Benedictine College, a small private Catholic liberal arts college in Atchison, Kansas.In his address, Butker told women in the audience they’d been told “the most diabolical lies” about…
The Washington Post’s opinion editor is leaving after about a year.Adam O’Neal was hired as part of owner Jeff Bezos’s push to champion “personal liberties and free markets” in the opinion section. O’Neal had been a correspondent at The Economist.…
Goodwill handles over 4.4 billion pounds of donations every year. Most of it gets cleaned, priced, and sold at a retail store. Now, Goodwill is using AI listing tools to sell the best items online before they ever reach the…
QualityHD / Shutterstock.comThe expense of decorating your place can come as a shock. A couple of throw pillows, an area rug and some curtains could total up to more than a month’s rent. But you shouldn’t have to drain your…
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The US Army is preparing to test autonomous Ford F-250 pickup trucks in a training exercise, part of a broader effort to determine whether familiar commercial vehicles can perform dangerous battlefield jobs without soldiers.Forterra, the defense-technology company supplying the trucks’…
United Airlines’ newest Airbus jet is easily the airline’s fanciest narrowbody yet.Adorned in a special blue-and-white livery and packed with 150 luxe new seats, the…
More and more families are choosing to move to semi-rural communities and developments outside the suburbs, according to 2025 Census data. My family almost did,…
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A new rival to Wall Street officially debuted on Friday as the Texas Stock Exchange went fully live for the first time with trading available for all of its listed tickers. The Texas Stock Exchange, which is based in Dallas,…
I’d seen it all over Instagram — backpackers posing in otherwise empty cityscapes and epic natural scenes, with inspirational captions about life being an adventure.I…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jennifer Lemcke, CEO of Weed Man. It has been edited for length and clarity.I was not…
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There’s no good time to discover you’ve misread your cinema ticket, but 3:20 a.m. on a Saturday outside the Imax in central London is a particularly bad one.The film began at 4:15 a.m., not 4 a.m., as I’d previously thought.…
My 19-year-old daughter, Cameran, has been in a relationship for several years, and it has helped her grow into who she wants to be. She met her boyfriend, Casey, when they were 16 at a campground during the summer, and…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Rick Neuhoff, 65, a homeowner in Portland, Oregon, who rents out his indoor pool using Swimply. The following has been edited for length and clarity.Before COVID got bad, I was doing…
I’ve sent four kids — my son and three stepchildren — to college, so I thought I’d experienced almost everything in this process: campus visits, move-in and move-out, loans, roommate issues, and family weekends.As my youngest kid prepares for college,…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with 23-year-old Careb Bien-Aime, who is attending New York University. The following has been edited for length and clarity.I’m an information systems management major at NYU, after studying at a community college.I…
Over the course of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, countless fans have come together to support their favorite teams in the energetic matchups.Those who weren’t fortunate enough to nab tickets to one of the stadiums across Canada, the US, and…
Ukrainian special operators are learning to keep a close watch on the skies when they move in to assault Russian-held trenches, as the surge in drones on the battlefield forces soldiers to constantly change how they fight.”Our training has changed,”…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Hamza Mostafa, 21, who lives in San Francisco. The following has been edited for length and clarity.Growing up, I wanted to work in the medical field like most of my family…
Two miles north of Philadelphia’s World Cup games sits a small but mighty mecca of small businesses attempting to reap the benefits of international soccer fandom.In East Passyunk, dozens of independently owned businesses — trinket shops, dive bars, cafés, pizza…
Warren Buffett is worried.The legendary investor called out reckless speculation in markets and the massive cost of the AI buildout during a rare interview with CNBC on Wednesday.”It’s tough to find values when everybody is preferring gambling,” the famously disciplined bargain hunter…
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