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AI Regulation Fight Splits the Industry in Two Camps
Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang speaking Tuesday at Dreamforce, the annual Salesforce customer conference, argued that the industry needs no new laws governing artificial intelligence. Mark Zuckerberg landed on the...
Google AI Overviews Will Start Paying for Your Content
Google has begun paying select publishers when their work meaningfully feeds an AI answer, according to a Digiday report surfaced Monday. The pilot covers AI Overviews, AI Mode, Gemini and...
“The History of Concrete” Humanizes the Material World
Wilson’s chain of observations and anecdotes includes plenty of material that is eccentric or funny, yet little of it is there just for humor’s sake; through association and allusion, its...
The Long Doomsday of A.I.
After industry-wide calls for regulation, what’s concerning isn’t that the problems are real. It’s that there are no guaranteed solutions. Source link
Bob Mackie, Who Dressed Carol Burnett and Cher Flamboyantly, Excelled at Old Hollywood Craftsmanship
In 2001, when the fashion designer Bob Mackie was sixty-two years old, he attended the C.F.D.A. Fashion Awards in New York—a swanky annual ceremony put on by the Council of...
Diesel Prices Set a Record and Squeeze Small Budgets
Diesel averaged $6.23 a gallon across the US on Monday, a fresh record, after Saudi Arabia closed its East-West pipeline and Gulf states put off a scheduled discussion about how...
Building Responsibly: How AI Data Centers Are Navigating the Power and Water Crunch
As AI development accelerates, attention is increasingly turning to the physical infrastructure needed to support it. The past few years have been marked by rapid development of AI models and...
AI Regulation Gets a Push From Anthropic and OpenAI
Global AI stocks fell on Monday after Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei published a weekend essay asking rival labs to deliberately slow frontier model development. SoftBank closed Tokyo trading 10.7%...
The 2026 National Book Awards Longlist
This week, The New Yorker is announcing the longlists for the 2025 National Book Awards, including Young People’s Literature, Translated Literature, Poetry, Nonfiction, and Fiction. To receive book recommendations from...
Startup Funding Reaches Founders Who Left Silicon Valley
Furo’s three co-founders are all 28, and they traded the Bay Area for Germany before closing $4 million from mostly American backers, TechCrunch reported on September 10. Lena Sophia Voss,...
