This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Leandro Brandão Guimarães. It has been edited for length and clarity.When I first started operating on children as a pediatric ear,…
When one of my most anticipated trips turned out to be one of my most frustrating, it was entirely my own fault.I travel professionally for a living, but I still…
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 common over the past decade.The Christmas Eve Powerball jackpot of…
In one of the best sports movies ever made, Kevin Costner plays Ray, a Iowa farmer who, after hearing voices, decides to destroy his crop and build a baseball field. Eventually, dead ball players from the past populate the field,…
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 stretcher team hoisted up their casualty and sprinted toward the…
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 the quirky city.I love walking Duval Street, which is home to historic bars and restaurants, unique boutiques, and great nightlife.Whenever…
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 US has spent decades underinvesting in the Arctic presence it…
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…
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,…
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.…
Sam Altman taught me how to vibe code.I’ve spent the past several months reading my colleagues’ excellent coverage on vibe coding and the many ways regular people, from firefighters to busy parents, are building creative solutions to simplify their lives.I…
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…
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For the first time in the four-decade fight against HIV, there is a “miracle” drug that can all but eliminate the risk of infection, but in the Latin American countries where it was tested, most people can’t afford it.Trials show…
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Google pulled a new AI image-editing feature from Google Earth less than 24 hours after launch,The company launched the function on Thursday, allowing Gemini’s Nano Banana 2 image model to access Google Earth and transform locations with text prompts.The function,…
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The world’s AI superpowers differ on a key strategy: openness.Chinese leader Xi Jinping shared his philosophy on AI at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai on Friday. He called for both more regulation of the tech — as well…
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