Lottery jackpots continue to climb to staggering heights, with the Powerball jackpot for Saturday’s drawing now sitting at an estimated $707 million.Although billion-dollar prizes remain rare, they’ve become far more…
At the end of the Overseas Highway sits one of the most unique places I’ve been to — Key West. There’s no shortage of great food, drink, and spectacle throughout…
In January, our family of five moved from Bright, Australia, to the Gold Coast, where I grew up. With the rising cost of living, my parents generously offered us the downstairs of their house. For the first couple of months,…
President Donald Trump’s repeated calls to acquire Greenland, reiterated most recently at a NATO summit last month in Turkey, have thrust the Arctic into the global political spotlight.The bigger challenge, they say, isn’t acquiring more Arctic territory. It’s that 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 the marked absence of deep sighs and eye rolls in…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Rob Collie, a former Microsoft engineering leader. Collie’s book about organizational AI strategy, “Fair Game,” will be published on August 11. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.I spent 13 years at Microsoft and was one of the founding engineers…
Sotelo Avenue in Forest Hill is the most prestigious street to own a home in San Francisco. I know. Someone on Broadway just spit out their $28 espresso. Stay with…
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…
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 to keep their data, he said; they shouldn’t fork it…
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 sales it didn’t help drive.Phia is working with at least…
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.…
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Scott Cunningham has a fondness for Ferraris. Judging by what else he collects, he also has an affinity for Porsches, superbikes, electric guitars, and wine.For years, he admired his collection from home.Once his children were grown, and he and his…
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…
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…
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As the credits roll, then keep rolling without a mid-credits scene at the end of “Spider-Man: Brand New Day,” your Spidey senses may begin to tingle in a bad way. But rest assured, there is an end-credits scene in “Spider-Man:…
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…
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…
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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…
Kevin O’Leary is pushing back against a common concern in the AI data center boom: that the sprawling facilities consume too much water and put pressure on those local systems.During a recent appearance on Glenn Beck’s radio show, the “Shark…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Max Votek, the cofounder and managing partner of Customertimes, an enterprise consulting firm that helps Fortune 500 companies implement AI. This essay has been edited for length and clarity.Companies are rushing…
A data center goes up in the middle of a California desert oasis, and in return, a nearby community gets a 32,000-square-foot bathhouse where people lounge in pools warmed by subterranean servers.Forma, a New York-based architecture studio, designed the “Pink…
Established in 1918, The Victor Cafe in Philadelphia specializes in Italian food, offering customers ravioli, risotto, and steak.However, the restaurant isn’t known only for its food. Victor Cafe’s claim to fame is its appearances in the “Rocky” franchise: The restaurant…
A major produce supplier is pulling lettuce linked to the Cyclospora outbreak from shelves and kitchens.Taylor Farms said in a statement onFriday that it is voluntarily removing all iceberg lettuce from central Mexico that was for sale in the US. The…
Nolan caught everyone by surprise when this unique whodunit hit the festival circuit.But by the time the movie had its theatrical release, Nolan was already considered a future star. The movie has a great performance by Guy Pearce as a…
The mayor of San Francisco is tired of his city serving as an autonomous vehicle test track.In a letter sent to California transportation regulators on Wednesday, Daniel Lurie called for new statewide standards governing how autonomous vehicles respond during major…
President Donald Trump is using wildfire smoke from Canada to threaten tariffs.Trump blasted Canada in a post on Truth Social on Friday, accusing America’s northern neighbor of mismanaging its forests and causing the current bout of wildfires that are sending…
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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, too.In 2019, we bought an off-grid house on 40 acres in northern New Mexico. Then, in 2021, our son…
