Kentucky’s Bitcoin Boom Has Gone Bust
Her skepticism is rooted in lived experience: In October 2000, a massive coal slurry spill from a mine site upstream poisoned the Coldwater Fork stream, which runs behind her house. People…
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Summer Culture Preview
High-stakes competition makes for high drama in “F1 the Movie” (June 27), directed by Joseph Kosinski, starring Brad Pitt as a Formula One driver who is forced out of action by a grave…
Meet Cathy Tie, Bride of “China’s Frankenstein”
In April, the feed started to change even more drastically. He’s posts became increasingly provocative, with better English and a unique sensibility reflecting online culture. “Stop asking…
The FDA plans to limit access to covid vaccines. Here’s why that’s not all bad.
“Of course there are children with health problems who should definitely have it,” says Dunachie. “But for healthy children in healthy households, the benefits probably are quite…
Fire Breaks Out at a Data Center Leased by Elon Musk’s X
A fire broke out Thursday morning at a data center in Hillsboro, Oregon, leased by Elon Musk’s X, forcing an extended response from emergency crews, according to multiple sources who spoke…
What It’s Like to Root for the Knicks
I’m not always so good at taking notes on basketball games that I plan to write about, especially if my haunted team, the New York Knicks, is among the contestants. It feels like bad luck.…
The Emotional Seesaw of the Knicks’ Playoff Run
I’m not always so good at taking notes on basketball games that I plan to write about, especially if my haunted team, the New York Knicks, is among the contestants. It feels like bad luck.…
Why the U.S. won’t sign the WHO’s new pandemic response treaty
On March 20, members of the World Health Organization adopted the world’s first pandemic agreement, following three years of “intensive negotiations launched by governments in response to…
FDA restricts COVID-19 vaccines to older adults and high-risk groups. Here’s what to know
On May 20, 2025, the Food and Drug Administration announced a new stance on who should receive the COVID-19 vaccine. The agency said it would approve new versions of the vaccine only for…
A United Arab Emirates Lab Announces Frontier AI Projects—and a New Outpost in Silicon Valley
An academic lab in the United Arab Emirates today launched an artificial intelligence world model and agent, two large language models (LLMs), and a new research center in Silicon Valley…
House Republicans just gutted the IRA. What happened to all the supposed holdouts?
Early this morning, the House voted 215-214 to pass a sweeping budget reconciliation bill with provisions that include a cancellation or phaseout for just about everything that was in the…
Anthropic’s new hybrid AI model can work on tasks autonomously for hours at a time
While Claude Opus 4 will be limited to paying Anthropic customers, a second model, Claude Sonnet 4, will be available for both paid and free tiers of users. Opus 4 is being marketed as a…
Anthropic’s New Model Excels at Reasoning and Planning—and Has the Pokémon Skills to Prove It
When Claude 3.7 Sonnet played the game, it ran into some challenges: It spent “dozens of hours” stuck in one city and had trouble identifying nonplayer characters, which drastically…
Crypto investors saw Trump as their champion. Now they’re not so sure
It seems like a triumph for a cryptocurrency industry that has long sought mainstream acceptance: Top investors in one of President Donald Trump’s crypto projects invited to dine with him…
8 indie publishing gems worth your time and money
The LA Art Book Fair returned this weekend with a new venue and a renewed sense of intention. Now in its eighth edition, the fair took over ArtCenter College of Design’s South Campus in…
Politico’s Newsroom Is Starting a Legal Battle With Management Over AI
Politico became one of the first newsrooms last year to win a union contract that included rules on how the media outlet can deploy artificial intelligence. The PEN Guild, which represents…
EV maker BYD’s sales in Europe surpass Tesla for the first time
Chinese automaker BYD sold more electric vehicles in Europe than Tesla for the first time, according to a report by JATO Dynamics, as an aging model lineup and CEO Elon Musk’s politics…
MNTN IPO: Stock price will be closely watched today as Ryan Reynolds-linked ad-tech firm debuts on NYSE
MNTN Inc, the advertising technology company that counts Hollywood actor Ryan Reynolds as its chief creative officer, is expected to make its market debut on Thursday, in a closely watched…
The Download: the desert data center boom, and how to measure Earth’s elevations
In the high desert east of Reno, Nevada, construction crews are flattening the golden foothills of the Virginia Range, laying the foundations of a data center city. Google, Tract, Switch,…
Trump’s 4,000 meme-coins-per-plate crypto dinner is an American embarrassment
On Thursday, President Donald Trump will sit down for an intimate evening at his Northern Virginia golf club with 220 of his favorite people in the world: a group of cryptocurrency…
Forget return-to-office. Hybrid now means human plus AI
For the past few years, “hybrid work” has meant splitting time between home and office. And for the most part, people like it—flexibility, fewer commutes, more balance. But there’s a new…
Who’s to Blame When AI Agents Screw Up?
Over the past year, veteran software engineer Jay Prakash Thakur has spent his nights and weekends prototyping AI agents that could, in the near future, order meals and engineer mobile…
Hugh Jackman and Liev Schreiber Star in a Pair of Psychosexual Slugfests
“The new wine has burst the old bottles,” the playwright August Strindberg wrote, in a bullish preface to his 1888 play “Miss Julie,” setting out a catalogue of revolutionary theatrical…
The Epic Rise and Fall of a Dark-Web Psychedelics Kingpin
In fact, agents were still there, in his cousin’s home, listening in on the call, which she had made at their instruction. Akasha told his cousin not to talk to the cops—not knowing she…