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Ken Bianco lets out a brief laugh when he hears the question. Open a factory in California — where most of his customers are? “Absolutely not,” says JCB’s vice president of commercial operations, slicing the air with his hand as if swatting away a bothersome fly. “California has become too…
*Takes a deep breath GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL!Soccer’s Football’s biggest tournament is here. The World Cup kicks off this afternoon, with games taking place across the US, Canada, and Mexico. The US national team’s first game is against Paraguay on Friday at 9 p.m. ET.It might be the beautiful game, but the cost…
Anthropic’s latest AI release is igniting controversy over what its new models will and won’t do.On Tuesday, Anthropic unveiled Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5, its long-awaited “Mythos-class” models.Alongside the launch, the company disclosed two unusual safeguards: the models may secretly provide degraded assistance when they suspect users are working…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Monica Kranner, 56, a nutritionist based in London. It has been edited for length and clarity.Having a 2.5-year-old when you’re 56, and your husband is 60, means everyone has questions and opinions about your life.I’ve heard just about every comment you…
Lovable has become one of AI’s fastest-growing startups.The Swedish vibe coding startup has surpassed $500 million in annual recurring revenue, it said on Tuesday, up by more than 25% from $400 million earlier this year. ARR refers to the predictable revenue a company expects to generate over a year from…
This story is based on an interview with Sasha Sechenova, 28, a Paris-based social media and marketing consultant and the founder of a new dating app for entrepreneurs and digital nomads. It has been edited for length and clarity.As I was wheeled into the operating theater for my rhinoplasty, I…
Although van life is increasingly popular — or at least increasingly visible, as the many people who ask if we “do the YouTube thing” prove — it’s still not well understood.Short-term road trips make more sense to people: Sure, you can handle just about anything for a brief period. But…
Walmart is big, but it wants to be bigger.The retail giant employs more than 2 million people. It serves hundreds of millions of customers each week across thousands of stores in the US and around the world. And it’s not sitting still.Walmart is now working to speed up its business…
For more than two decades, people have walked into my therapy office and told me they were burned out. Most of them weren’t actually burned out.Corporate wellness programs and social media carousels that gloss over the topic are leading to incorrect self-diagnoses. People are using “I’m burned out” the way…
Lots of people have objected to Paramount’s planned purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery.Some of those people are antisemitic, says Paramount’s top lawyer.In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Makan Delrahim, Paramount’s chief legal officer, said that some opposition to the Paramount/WBD deal is coming from people with “antisemitic views.””Let’s…
