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This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Maddie Johnson, a 30-year-old attorney and business affairs executive who’s based in Los Angeles. It’s been edited for length and clarity.Last year, I was entering a new phase of life.I got promoted twice very quickly, and with that came a lot…
To free, or not to free?That is the question for paid streamers like Netflix, as free services, and YouTube in particular, attract TV viewers.Hollywood giants Disney and Paramount Skydance are exploring adding free tiers to their subscription services to build audiences, grow advertising revenue, and turn curious newcomers into customers, Business Insider…
Ukraine’s new drones are letting its soldiers “free hunt” in areas far behind the front lines that Russia long considered safe.The mid-range strike drones are making Russian logistics deep behind the front increasingly vulnerable, giving Ukrainian operators access to target-rich areas with limited defenses. One soldier described attacking Russian targets…
I let an AI startup film every inch of my apartment.That’s a privacy nightmare — and yes, I did suitably hide all my personal items before they arrived. But, as a 23-year-old living in New York on a journalist’s budget, I’m not exactly splurging on house cleaners.These were free, so long…
A new open-source AI model from China is drawing comparisons to DeepSeek, the LLM that shook Silicon Valley.Developers, investors, and AI executives have spent the past week praising GLM-5.2, an open-source model built by Beijing-based Z.ai, for coding and agentic AI tasks. The company says it supports a 1 million-token…
