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The internet’s favorite programming is back on: #RushTok season is officially upon us. If this is your first time tuning in, “rush” is the informal name for the recruitment process in…
The latest generative AI models are not just stand-alone text-generating chatbots—instead, they can easily be hooked up to your data to give personalized answers to your questions.…
Location sharing among friends, family, and significant others has quietly become the norm in recent years. Now Instagram is looking for a piece of the action with the launch of Map, a new…
At least one company’s bet on AI appears to be paying off—for now. Language-learning platform Duolingo reported earnings results for the second quarter of 2025 on Wednesday after the…
Each of the novellas that make up André Aciman’s new book, “Room on the Sea,” picks apart the intricacies of how people comprehend the feelings of others—or fail to. In this, they share…
The White House was preparing to act against banks for allegedly dropping customers for political reasons, as President Donald Trump said he believes that banks, including JPMorgan and…
Mickey Mouse and Love Island will soon live under the same roof. The Walt Disney Co. announced Wednesday its plans to sunset the stand-alone Hulu streaming app and integrate that content…
In recent months, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has used its social media platforms to promote its vision of an ideal country. In between posts celebrating mass deportations…
WhatsApp has taken down 6.8 million accounts that were “linked to criminal scam centers” targeting people online around the world, its parent company Meta said this week. The account…
Samsung is one of many companies that have been pushing for employees to return to the office full-time. But now the brand is taking RTO efforts in the U.S. one step further with a tool…
Denver has a sidewalk problem. About 40% of its sidewalks are missing or don’t meet the standards of the Americans With Disabilities Act. Remarkably, the city’s own plan recommended a fix…
McDonald’s golden arches are gleaming again. The ubiquitous fast-food chain reported perkier sales in its most recent quarter, buoyed by deals and other promotions designed to bring…
“Claiming to offer the Tornado Cash service as a ‘privacy service,’ the defendants in fact knew that it was a haven for criminals to engage in large-scale money laundering and sanctions…
ChatGPT will tell 13-year-olds how to get drunk and high, instruct them on how to conceal eating disorders and even compose a heartbreaking suicide letter to their parents if asked,…
At a computer security conference in Arlington, Virginia, last October, a few dozen AI researchers took part in a first-of-its-kind exercise in “red teaming,” or stress-testing a…
Want more housing market stories from Lance Lambert’s ResiClub in your inbox? Subscribe to the ResiClub newsletter. Homeowners are slowly coming to terms with the likely reality that…
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday to place an additional 25% tariff on India for its purchases of Russian oil, bringing the combined tariffs imposed by the United…
President Donald Trump on Wednesday is expected to celebrate at the White House a commitment by Apple to increase its U.S. investments by an additional $100 billion over the next four…
For more than a decade, enterprise teams bought into the promise of business intelligence platforms delivering “decision-making at the speed of thought.” But most discovered the opposite:…
OpenAI is partnering with the US government to make its leading frontier models available to federal employees. Under the agreement, federal agencies can access OpenAI’s models for $1 for…
ESPN will continue to broadcast the NFL Draft as well as obtain new digital rights for its upcoming direct-to-consumer service. The two agreements were announced Wednesday morning, two…
That’s why Mirhoseini has been using AI to optimize AI chips. Back in 2021, she and her collaborators at Google built a non-LLM AI system that could decide where to place various…
Peptide cocktails, plasma exchange therapy, infrared sauna sessions, and methylene blue drips. These are just a few of the biohacks that keep Peter Phillips feeling invincible. For the…
“Most of my work starts in Lagos, but it doesn’t stay there for long,” says Anita Ashiru. She’s one of the sole production designers working in Nigeria, where her team builds multi-scale…
