“When a joke has to hurt someone or embarrass them, it’s just not that funny,” someone said at the time, while other people called the message “tasteless” and “disrespectful.”
Looking back at the songs I played the most in 2025, I can sense my own hunger for music that felt wounded, carnal, unfamiliar, tactile, and askew—far from the uncanny sheen of A.I., far from the devastated feeling I get when I must scan a QR code to see a menu. I have listed fifteen … Read more
WordPress’s experimental AI development tool, Telex, has already been put to real-world use, only months after its September debut. At the company’s annual “State of the Word” event on Tuesday in San Francisco, WordPress project co-founder and Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg shared several examples where Telex had been used within a working WordPress shop to … Read more
Shares in IREN recovered on Wednesday after the Bitcoin miner said it would raise $3.6 billion through a combination of share sales and a convertible debt offering as it races to deploy computers to meet the demand for artificial intelligence. IREN (IREN) jumped 7.6% to a peak of $44.25 during trading on Wednesday, and settled … Read more
Leo, 51, has a known track record of dating women who are a lot younger than he is — and many people guessed that Hilary subtly dragged him for it on her pointed new track. Leyla Mohammed • 9 days ago 9 days ago
In this outline, “The Chair Company” could be a sketch premise: “guy loses it after embarrassing himself at a big meeting.” This was the problem that bedevilled “Friendship,” an A24 movie starring Robinson, released earlier this year, whose premise is “guy loses it after a neighbor rejects him socially.” It’s harder than it looks to … Read more
The Trump administration announced plans Wednesday to lower fuel economy standards for cars and light trucks sold in the United States. With CEOs from Ford and Stellantis in attendance, President Donald Trump proposed rolling back fleet-wide fuel economy to 34.5 miles per gallon for 2031 model-year cars. The previous fuel economy standard, set under the … Read more
“Enough trees to donate to a family that couldn’t afford one this year,” someone agreed. “It’s just so difficult to see while so many families can’t afford a Christmas tree and food and all the necessities to survive!!!!!!” another user wrote, while one more person simply said, “People are dying, Kim.”
On his return to Frankfurt, he found it: the life of Götz von Berlichingen, an early-sixteenth-century knight with a prosthetic iron hand, whose autobiography Goethe had stumbled upon in the city library. In six weeks, he drafted his first major work: “Götz von Berlichingen,” a sprawling history play in five acts, which staged its hero’s … Read more
Can any company, big or small, really topple Nvidia’s AI chip dominance? Maybe not. But there are hundreds of billions of dollars of revenue for those who can even peel off a chunk of it for themselves, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said this week. As expected, the company revealed at the AWS re:Invent conference the … Read more