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Thanks to “The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore,” Taylor Swift has added another rare achievement to her resumé.The deluxe edition of Swift’s 12th album added four new songs to the tracklist, including “Patient Zero,” which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 — becoming the album’s third song to reach the chart’s summit, following “The Fate of Ophelia” and “Opalite.”Since Billboard launched the Hot 100 in 1958 as the definitive all-genre singles chart in the US, only 33 albums have spawned three or more No. 1 hits (not counting greatest-hits compilations).Counting songs that were released later on…
mrbfaust/iStock via Getty ImagesThe Justice Department is investigating whether television networks violated antitrust laws by suspending coverage of President Donald Trump after the White House restricted access for several news organizations, the Associated Press reported. The investigation follows a decision last month by
Ninety-nine percent of international internet traffic flows through cables stretched across the ocean floor. Demand is at an all-time high as the world becomes more dependent on cloud computing and AI. But only one US company can both make and lay them. We visited its 73-year-old factory and went aboard a multimillion-dollar cable-laying ship to see how it is keeping up — and why our data still needs to travel thousands of feet beneath the sea.
Where should you go in California for delicious food, sprawling vineyards, and the satisfying sound of a freshly uncorked wine bottle?Let me guess, you’re thinking of Napa.But what if I told you there’s a hidden gem on the central coast where you can get all of the above with fewer crowds, lower prices, and cooler tasting experiences?Welcome to Paso Robles.A wine for everyone You’ll find the stunning Justin vineyards and winery in Paso Robles. Courtesy of JUSTIN Winery Growing up in the Bay Area, Napa Valley quickly became a special place for my family. With no relatives living in the…
An AI safety timeline since Hugging Face
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Denise Woodard, founder and CEO of Partake Foods. The following has been edited for length and clarity.I spent my career in consumer packaged goods and spent significant time at The Coca-Cola Company. Then my daughter Vivienne came along.She’s 11 now, but right around her first birthday, we had a couple of scary incidents that alerted us to the fact that she had multiple life-threatening food allergies. She was allergic to foods I consider to be super simple: eggs, tree nuts, bananas, and sesame.I started to realize that food allergies were going…
Personal AI agents are coming for one of companies’ most profitable customer behaviors: doing nothing.As personal AI agents make their way into people’s financial lives, early users are using them to lower internet bills, recover airline credits, find cheaper insurance, chase refunds, and unearth money they had forgotten was theirs.Noah Shinn, the CEO of Instinct, one such personal AI agent, touted their saving benefits on an episode of “Invest Like the Best” released last week, saying they can scan users’ bank transactions, identify forgotten subscriptions, and cancel them.”It just sends back the number of what it saved you,” Shinn said.…
This is an as-told-to essay based on a conversation with Jimmy Kibuswa, 32, who lives in Nairobi, Kenya. He works remotely as a healthcare recruiter for a US company and shares what it’s like to work an unconventional shift. The following has been edited for brevity and clarity.I work American time from here in Kenya. In Kenya, when it’s 4 p.m., it’s 8 a.m. in Chicago.I’ve always been cautious about my health and well-being. When I got this job about three months ago, I thought, “How am I going to structure my day so that I can go to the…
Sophie Medlin knows what it takes to keep a gut healthy. At this point, it’s nearly second nature for the longtime colorectal dietitian.”I don’t need to worry about counting because I’m just in the habit of doing things in a way that meets my needs,” Medlin, who is based in London and has worked as a dietitian for 20 years, told Business Insider.Official dietary guidelines recommend eating at least 28 grams of fiber a day, but research suggests the majority of Americans eat around half of that. Fiber is found in plants and feeds the trillions of microbes that live…
Anthropic is banning “sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior” to its AI models. Uh oh. This is bad news for me, a person who is frequently very mean to AI chatbots.Anthropic says the rule is for “extreme cases, where users repeatedly act cruelly toward our models, with no discernible purpose.” Voicing frustration or pushback is still par for the course, according to the new rules.It’s not clear what would constitute these extreme cases (I think I’m afraid to know?), but I hope that my general rudeness to chatbots isn’t quite that extreme. Maybe? I hope?I often find myself being…